I don’t care one bit about all of the supposed performance optimizations in CachyOS.
It is SO DANG EASY. It just works.
Yeah this is the real reason I prefer it. A sane installer, auto installing Nvidia drivers, auto setting up Snapper, a good GUI package manager that actually manages everything.
The customized kernel, and performance boosts that may or may not actually exist are just a bonus.
It has a GUI package manager? :-O
it has something called “Shelly” which is funny because months ago when the dev of Shelly released the thing I said “you should honestly get in contact with the CachyOS folks” and now it does have Shelly.
It’s a pretty great GUI for installing AUR stuff, packages, and flatpaks.
OS tribalism again 🙄
CachyOS
Arch
If I want a Linux box that can function as a home server but also fire up Steam and play using my old 970 if I want to, does cachy fit?
Any popular Linux distro fits. I’d go with mint
I’m not even sure what kind of distro cachy is, some kind of gaming optimised?
It has a customized kernel that supposedly improves performance. Well that, and it actually has a better installer than arch-install imo
It also uses optimization flags for their repositories, which results in better performance as well but drops support for CPUs older than i4?
No, it is separated repos:
- generic which works everywhere and
- v3
- v4
Where’s Manjaro?
Good question, let me check real quick…
Oh. I can’t. They forgot to renew their website’s SSL certificate for the 9th time.
I honestly can’t see a single advantage of Cachy over Endevour, as the performance boosts seem to have no real effect on any if my hardware.
Friendlier defaults, graphical package manager included out of the box, some tasks will benefit from packages that can use the instructions on your cpu. I can’t see a single advantage of Endeavour over Cachy.
That said they are both very similar.
“Graphical package manager included out of the box”, ahh I see, this is not the distro for me.
Nobody is forcing you to use it instead of command line, or preventing you from uninstalling it.
