Why isn't CachyOS more popular?

[D. Flame]

It's like Arch with less headache, plus optimizations for gaming that can be installed with a few clicks from the hello screen.

Why isn't it more popular?

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i love suffering

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by ⭐️✨🎀 Stephanie 🎀✨:

i love suffering

Install gentoo.

[NᛁGᚺᛏКᚾᛁGᚺᛏ]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

It's like Arch with less headache, plus optimizations for gaming that can be installed with a few clicks from the hello screen.

Why isn't it more popular?

really BAD NAME. that's why

[grzegorz77]

As far as I'm concerned. These all these distributions of the type, even better, even faster, and even easier. They cumbersome to fix when it turns out that something did not work. But I personally haven't tried cachyos.

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by grzegorz77:

As far as I'm concerned. These all these distributions of the type, even better, even faster, and even easier. They cumbersome to fix when it turns out that something did not work. But I personally haven't tried cachyos.

I mean it is basically arch linux with some easy buttons. Like you hit the install gamer packages and it installs a custom version of proton (think Ge-Proton), Steam, Heroic Launcher, etc. It has an Nvidia installer, so 40 and 50 series GPUs work from the first boot, instead of having to try to fight to install them with nomodeset witchcraft. Just saves you time.

Arch seems pretty stable to me, as long as you stay away from the AUR unless necessary.

[Zyro]

Didn't somebody already asked this like some weeks ago? My answer would be that all those new and shiny distributions with like 3 developers to vanish after at most two releases don't attract me at all. I'm happy with my 1000 developers distribution having been around for decades - and going to be around for decades.

[grzegorz77]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Originally posted by grzegorz77:

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I mean it is basically arch linux with some easy buttons. Like you hit the install gamer packages and it installs a custom version of proton (think Ge-Proton), Steam, Heroic Launcher, etc. It has an Nvidia installer, so 40 and 50 series GPUs work from the first boot, instead of having to try to fight to install them with nomodeset witchcraft. Just saves you time.

Arch seems pretty stable to me, as long as you stay away from the AUR unless necessary.

When they make everything easier, they will get Windows 11

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by grzegorz77:

Originally posted by D. Flame:

I mean it is basically arch linux with some easy buttons. Like you hit the install gamer packages and it installs a custom version of proton (think Ge-Proton), Steam, Heroic Launcher, etc. It has an Nvidia installer, so 40 and 50 series GPUs work from the first boot, instead of having to try to fight to install them with nomodeset witchcraft. Just saves you time.

Arch seems pretty stable to me, as long as you stay away from the AUR unless necessary.

When they make everything easier, they will get Windows 11 :p2chell:

Windows 11 doesn't make things easier. It just takes away your choices and forces you to jump through hoops to do what used to be simple.

[grzegorz77]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Originally posted by grzegorz77:

When they make everything easier, they will get Windows 11

Windows 11 doesn't make things easier. It just takes away your choices and forces you to jump through hoops to do what used to be simple.

This is the way windows went, and now ubuntu is going the same.

Simpler > simpler without asking > simpler without consent > thorough spying to save the security of a vulnerable system from the mistakes of a stupid user. Hide settings, restore default settings, without asking or informing.

[Kepos]

Tried CachyOS once and think it is a good arch distribution. But as @Zyro mentioned before, it is easier to solve issues, when there are more developers and a big community arround to ask for support. Actually I'm using Garuda Linux out of a few arch based distributions, because they do care a lot for the gaming part, including Steam.
From time to time I will check Cachy again to see their progress.

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by Kepos:

Tried CachyOS once and think it is a good arch distribution. But as @Zyro mentioned before, it is easier to solve issues, when there are more developers and a big community arround to ask for support. Actually I'm using Garuda Linux out of a few arch based distributions, because they do care a lot for the gaming part, including Steam.
From time to time I will check Cachy again to see their progress.

Any time you need to fix something in CachyOS, you can use the same fixes from Arch in 99.999% of cases, and Arch has a sizeable community.

[DaMu]

Because every other modern Arch fork claims the exact same thing you said

[Kepos]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Any time you need to fix something in CachyOS, you can use the same fixes from Arch in 99.999% of cases, and Arch has a sizeable community.

Doing exactly that...as second step, when the search in my actual Garuda forum doesn't bring up results. So far not needed though, as they have a quite good community that is quite open to support each other.

[sandokanski]

IDK. Tell the developers of every other Linux distro, except Pop OS and Arch, to fix their installation process, so they don't end with an error. Then I might try them. I definitely don't like what Pop OS is doing with their new COSMIC, so maybe I will need to switch to something else, But the only other distro that I can convince to get installed on my PC is Arch.

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by sandokanski:

IDK. Tell the developers of every other Linux distro, except Pop OS and Arch, to fix their installation process, so they don't end with an error. Then I might try them. I definitely don't like what Pop OS is doing with their new COSMIC, so maybe I will need to switch to something else, But the only other distro that I can convince to get installed on my PC is Arch.

Turn off secure boot.