I first started using Manjaro after being on Debian/Ubuntu derivatives for years. Mint used to be my daily driver, then LMDE for a while. After struggling with Endeavour OS, through 2 or 3 breaking updates requiring a reinstall I made Manjaro with KDE Plasma my home for several years.

Manjaro was stable and, I thought blazing fast, compared to Mint. Everything just worked and was cutting edge. I thought my distro hopping days were over and I found the one that works for me.

Recently I’ve been reading about Cachy OS and decided to give it a whirl on my test Dell Latitude. Turns out that, I had no idea how fast and lean Linux could be on that off-lease business laptop! I know have it installed on my main Laptop and it’s leaps and bounds faster than Manjaro, has none of the bloat and just works! I know it’s early, but I think I have found a new home! I have timeshift set up just in case, so I’ll see how stable it is over the next few months, but so far I am impressed.

Highly recommend everyone who’s into Arch and rolling release to try it.

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    i love Cachy! The performance tweaks are nice, but what I really like is the Cachy repositories and how quickly they’re updated, and how useful they are!

  • GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’m on Cachy for a long time and I have to tell that it may be unstable at times (up to file system breakage). Be ready for that if you want to use it.

    • Peter G@discuss.onlineOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      It the breakage happens, hopefully Timeshift will save me. That’s the best thing that I learned while running EndeavourOS.

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Out of curiosity, what made Endeavor hard? After distro hopping since the mid-90s, I had been happily running bare Arch for the past couple, with Artix on one laptop; I got a new desktop and installed Endeavor on it, and it’s been great. I mean, it’s Arch, it just wasn’t as fussy to install, but I don’t really notice a difference.

    Of course, I’m not running a desktop; just herbstluftwm, and that smooths out a lot of the differences, but there’s far less difference between raw-dog Arch and EndeavorOS than between Arch and Artix.

    • Peter G@discuss.onlineOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      within 6 months running it as a desktop OS with KDE it broke twice during update to the point that it was easier to reinstall than to fix. it maybe better a a barebones setup, but as a desktop, I had issues with it.