Hmmm…So I just looked at CachyOS. Interesting, what does everyone think??? I installed it to a spare partition & will be looking at it later today.
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Never used it, but maybe one day I will test it in a VM since I like testing distros sometimes. But for now I like EOS too much 
, still learning Linux currently.
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I have it on my test machine. There’s not really a whole lot to say about it, doesn’t really feel any faster than my EOS machine running the exact same hardware.
Their installer seems kind of buggy, didn’t let me install unless I used their default BTRFS filesystem (selecting ext4 just resulted in my system locking up as soon as I picked the option in the dropdown 
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Otherwise, it’s just Arch in the same way that EOS is just Arch.
Doubt this would be any faster than EOS (especially with zen kernel.)
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It’s kind of a Garuda clone, IIRC. They have their own modifications, though.
I just ran right over it to EOS! 
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Garuda is… something 
I dabbled with it briefly when I was hopping around looking for a permanent home and the aesthetics of the project are just not for me at all
More power to the people who like it because I’m sure they’re out there, but to me it was like having a hyperactive child with a big box of crayons draw up a UI.
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I love what Garuda did with their fork of Arch, but it isn’t for me. The admin and mods are great people and I wish them all the best of luck. It’s all about choice and I choose Arch and EOS.
Guess we are a little off topic here.
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Tried it for a few day’s on my mini-pc. Needs more development and a larger following.Gave it a run for the money. It works but didn’t stop me from reinstalling EOS. Many are ‘picked’ but few are ‘chosen’.
Rich;)
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OK…I was “drawn” to the hype on the webpage…I’ll give it a spin to see what it is all about, but EOS IS my daily driver.
I would be very interested in optimizing for my system, so any pointers, scripts, or info would be very interesting to me…
Arch is the reason I stayed away from Arch so long…I mean it had a notoriety to a new timid user, they didn’t seem interested in calming the all the muddying info and I get it, who has time for that? It was OK to use. But didn’t hook me. It was years later…Endeavour hooked me–I get a charge from it. I like it’s vision, it’s ethos, it’s dedicated legion, it’s transparency, its community but most of all the OS.
I didn’t see Arch in Endeavour so much. Endeavour is its own man (not to be sexist). I didn’t see this same vision and ethos in Garuda even though it is creative in looks. Cachy maybe in my next hopping cycle. I much prefer this Arch fork although I don’t think of Endeavour that way.
I did enjoy my time with maybe 2-3 Debian derivatives but when I went back to see what the hubub was about (Debian 12). Zzz for me. I didn’t see vanilla Debian 12 in any of it’s likeable children.
Moral of the story? Sometimes when people build on stability with their own vision they hit it out of the park. That’s Endeavour to me. Cachy and Garuda may be that exact thing for someone else. That’s the beauty of it.
My nature is always to champion a true independent (I love Solus for instance), but some independents (Deb, Arch) inspired better versions of the original.
That’s just like my opinion man
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Well…CachyOS is dead already…so it was an interesting experience, but EOS is just as fast & in my mind, works better…
nice thought, but not good execution…
NOTE: What I meant was that I tried it & did not really like what I saw—so I removed it…
cachy is distrowatch’s top ten with an astounding (to me) 8.7 rating in reviews. I understand these numbers (especially top 10) have no scientific merit…I mean trying MX Linux was one of the most awful experiences I’ve had and it’s #1. For like 85 weeks.
…but hundreds download it a day. why is it dead? I haven’t followed any chatter about this distro (reddit, reviews, etc) so I have no idea.
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The theming looks kind of cool - but the forums look kinda sucky…
I believe that’s the main factor people tend to distrohop for the most part - the particular’s distro appearance. Especially Garuda has the history of being recommended due to its look and feel, which I don’t really understand. You can really theme your GNU/Linux installation to look like a different distribution than the one you’re using.
As for Cachy, I can recall the hype for the distro itself a few months ago. Not willing to try it out, as my EndeavourOS is working just fine, plus I don’t have a laptop I could use to play with things.
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I boot triple: CachyOS, EndeavourOS and Garuda Linux (alphabetical order).
With CachyOS I have a luxury problem: which kernel do I boot with today?
EnOS looks identical, but with an EnOS wallpaper, of course.
im a gamer its a buggy mess, i was also drawn in by the hype
it lasted 24 hours on my machine and back to eos 
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Well I run it on my laptop, I didn’t encounter bugs other than hardware support(fingerprint, wifi driver, sleep issues), which as far as I can tell is the same under any linux distro. It was really easy to set up btrfs snapshots. I have tried a few games, use windows in a vm and vs code.
The processor in the is similar to what I have in my desktop endeavour+alhp mini pc and cachy does feel snappier with less memory, but that could be because the cpu is one year newer.
I don’t know why people say it’s already dead, but there could be changes when this happens https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org/thread/RIZSKIBDSLY4S5J2E2STNP5DH4XZGJMR/ Probably there still will be cachy with it’s own spin on packages.
The maintainers are very knowledgeable about optimizations, they have a lot of stuff that other arch distros don’t, some feel experimental and some things land faster than in arch, they work with a lot of developers and they try out things that other distros don’t get or get later.
Yeah I’m not sure about the context behind the “already dead” comment, it looks alive and well from where I’m sitting
To be frank my only reservation is, ironically, about the amount of work it seems like the dev team have created for themselves - maintaining multiple versioned repos of specially built packages sounds like quite the headache, and while I don’t doubt their dedication to the project it seems like one of those extra things that could eventually wear people out.
Of course, I’m not a developer, so implementing and maintaining these repos could be absolutely trivial for them and add little to no additional work at all, but as a layman on the outside it seems like heavy-lifting!
