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I am a CachyOS acolyte. It's my end boss distro.
If you try the installer, be careful when selecting multiples DE/WM as the conflicts were not listed anywhere for the installation process.
Yeah, they do need to clean up the installer a bit. It's also not quite turnkey for a Windows dual-boot.
I know this is an unpopular opinion at the moment but I currently think Bazzite is still my favorite for the ROG Ally
The RogAlly is not Cachy's objective. It's for regular desktop use.
I believe they have a handheld distro that they use too. I heard it got a big update or something recently.
Totally fine, yeah I use fedora for laptop, the Ally is only for gaming as I don't have a desktop setup
Edit: changed to laptop as desktop was confusing
I use Manjaro on my Ally X 😝
(Also to my fellow ally owners, fingerprint reader support is coming soon I think)
Nobara is my kingdom. Had a pretty bad experience with cachyOS...
Pretty much the same performance but Fedora stability. My only issue is that the major release upgrade path has been janky for some users.
I was going to go with arch on my new linux build but I think I have to RMA the board. I may go with this given the extra time I now have.
CachyOS is awesome. I just switched a few months ago after the praises from SomeOrdinaryGamer. I also wanted to use hyprland again after using plasma for sometime. It's amazing that Cachy lets me use the hyprland DE, but also has libraries to let me run kde software without the need for plasma.
It’s amazing that Cachy lets me use the hyprland DE, but also has libraries to let me run kde software without the need for plasma.
Which distribution doesn't allow to run KDE software on non-KDE desktops? How would this even be possible?
I'm trying a conversion from endeavorOS with CachyOS repositories, it was pretty seamless, I can keep my settings and endeavorOS theming, and allegedly you can switch back at any time. The cachyOS wiki has a short script for converting vanilla arch or endeavorOS to use cachyOS binaries. Been running for about a week and haven't noticed any problems.
Landed on Cachy after Ubuntu> Mint > Bazzite. Wish I had just skipped Mint and Bazzite. A lot of DEs too, so it's kind of however you like it.
Sometimes you gotta know what you don't like to really understand what you do like.
I'm using NixOS and I have had no problems gaming. Getting the kernel from CachyOS is also easy enough, if you want that.