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Windows is getting worse, while gaming on Linux is getting better. I’m gonna move my desktop to CachyOS. Wish me luck.

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[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 28 points 4 hours ago

To be clear, my desktop works fine on Windows 11. But the general ratio of cool new features to egregious bullshit is low. I do not want to talk to my computer. I do not want to use OneDrive. I’m sure as hell not going to use Recall. I am tired of Windows trying to get me to use Edge, Edge trying to get me to use Bing, and everything trying to get me to use Copilot. I paid for an Office 365 subscription so I could edit Excel files. Then Office 365 turned into Microsoft 365 Copilot, and I tried to use it to open a Word document and it didn’t know how.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[–] determinist@kbin.earth 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Cachyos is fantastic. I installed it 7 months ago and I can never go back (I previously used Mint for years). It's the best distro I've used. Best of luck.

[–] BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 3 points 3 hours ago

I made the transfer couple months back. It's fantastic. Best distro I used so far. Sounds settings took some time but it's the best...

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Why cachy

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 29 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Here’s his reasoning from the article:

an Arch-based distro optimized for gaming on modern hardware, with support for cutting-edge CPUs and GPUs and an allegedly easy setup.

I installed Cachy recently too and I really like it, after using Mint and Arch for several months (and many others previously).

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What really are these magical "optmizations" besides installing the default packages available on every distro?

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I’m not exactly sure, but a few things have worked better out of the box than other distros.

For example, it boots up faster than any of the other “simple” distros I’ve tried in some time. I tend to like lightweight things that seem to install a “bare minimum” to start, and Cachy appears to do that. It was dead simple to install my favorite window manager, even using X11 instead of Xorg.

The equivalent minimal mint installation took considerably longer to boot, using pretty much my same settings.

[–] Emi@ani.social 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

I somewhat broke my Linux mint Debian edition and decided to distro hop a bit. So I wanted to try popos but when trying to install it the windows and everything were broken like when you dragged the windows it left shadows and you couldn't see anything on it. So I ended up with CachyOS and so far that was awesome. Especially like that you can just clone the bottom panel which I struggled with on mint. The only "problem" I have with it is that there's no app manager like on mint just octopi that is too minimalist and doesn't seem to search well and some apps I assume aren't for arch so looking for some app manager to install that would be similar to mint or just more noon friendly, just normal GUI. Well, there's my short story of finding CachyOS is good so far.

[–] Excel@beehaw.org 1 points 2 hours ago

If you want something that hides all of the ugly console garbage, well that’s not an option on Arch because reading the pacman output is mandatory; using something like Discover (which hides it) will break your system eventually.

On the other hand, if you just mean “a small curated list of apps for specific tasks”, there actually is one, it can be launched from CarhyOS Hello.

[–] CubitOom 4 points 4 hours ago

I believe when you say app manager, you mean a package manager GUI. If so, you might like GuiMan

[–] toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org 2 points 5 hours ago

interesting, I'd never heard of it!

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago

I love Cachy, it's the distro I use in my dual boot.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Because Fedora is extra steps for nonfree codecs and firmware, and PopOS has an old kernel that doesn't support the latest AMD GPUs. This was my logic when installing linux on the gaming PC of a windows user who wanted to make the switch, recently

EDIT: genuinely curious about the downvote lol

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You're spreading straight up false info here about Pop_OS. My kernel on Pop_OS is updated quite frequently and it supports my ~2 year old AMD card flawlessly. My current kernel version, 6.17.4, is about two weeks old...

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

No, actually I am not. 2 year old AMD cards are not the latest.

I tried to install PopOS for them first, however the LiveISO does not boot with a 9060 XT, because the PopOS kernel is quite old. If it was compatible with the latest AMD GPUs, they'd be running PopOS right now instead of CachyOS.

Are you on the 24.04 Beta version of PopOS?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You are wrong about the kernel. I'm not on the beta, I'm on a stable release I installed like 2 years ago and have updated many times since. The kernel is exactly what I just said.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Dunno what to tell you lol, maybe it is possible to update an already existing install to a newer kernel version, but the LiveISO hangs when booting on a 9060 XT, and "sorry, it is unsupported by the PopOS kernel" was a common/known issue when I searched for the solution. This was only a few weeks ago.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

It's interesting you say all this because as others have said in the past, pop os pulls upstream updates so often, some say it's practically rolling release at least for many important packages

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Maybe their live iso isn't as maintained?

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

That's my guess based on what you've said

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You’re also a cachy?

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I personally run Gentoo btw, but was not going to subject a first-time Linux user to that lol. So I installed CachyOS on their PC, yeah

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

TIL people still use Gentoo.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

There's really never been a better time to run Gentoo tbh, processors are so fast that compilation does not really take as long as you'd expect anymore. Probably the best hardware support of all Linux distros, and its good for gaming or workstation.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If I wasn’t so intent on going to Nix, I’d give Gentoo a try. Currently an Arch user due to laziness and AUR, but the AUR is not as consistent an experience as memory serves so if it doesn’t fulfill laziness I might as well move on.

And I subjected a first time user to Debian 13 lol

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm currently using NixOS and I constantly switch back to CachyOS every now and again. By far the best Arch based distros and one of the best overall distros available.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Maybe I should do some researching but what do you like about Cachy over plain Arch? That it’s gaming optimized?

[–] alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

Good choice with cachy