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That depends on your workload. CachyOS uses the RT scheduler which has very high overhead but very low latency. It means that your system will be significantly more responsive, but the raw compute throughput will be lower. For gaming, low latency is more important than high throughput.
Windows yes
AtlasOS
Gaming performance on Cachy is excellent. I tried Nobara but didn't like it. Relatively new into Linux gaming.
Macos
Windows 11 and macOS Tarhoe
Q4oS (after trying 20+ linux distributions for desktop)
debian + alpine for servers
Finally found an EndeavourOS soulmate hahah (although I primarily run Gnome)
That said, i'm considering switching to a different OS for some time, one that's "Reasonably secure"
Better keep EndeavourOS and dual boot whatever you want to test new OS. If feels right, keep it for later
I do this with my Slackware, although im using LMDE now, i have it on dual boot and ready for when i want it.
Hot take: you should rarely use spinoffs of big Linux distros if you're already comfy with the command line, since most of the features they add can easily be done on the distro they're derived from.
The kernel scheduling fanciness can be solved by compiling your own kernel (it's less scary than it sounds, and CachyOS's kernel is literally on GitHub ready to be used for any standard Arch system if you'll just compile it yourself or install from AUR). The packages using new x86 instructions doesn't make a large difference, as the vast majority of code use a small set of instructions that exist on all microarchitectures (and most new x86 instructions are secretly hardware aliases for a combo of simpler instructions anyways as Intel continues to secretly makes the arch RISC). Another optimization it does with disks can trivially be done on stock Arch by enabling zswap/zram and your filesystem of choice on root. Many of CachyOS's custom tools are literally just shell scripts you can copy-paste and use on any distro, and many are even pre-packaged in the AUR for you.
There probably are marginal performance gains to running CachyOS rather than a tweaked stock Arch, but I don't think they're worth giving up the documentation and repos of stock Arch, and the risk of supply chain attack in big distros is much better than the smaller ones (Manjaro is the poster child for why you shouldn't trust random spinoffs for security).
I've been using Cachyos on my gaming desktop but usually I stick to Debian. I still am unsure of why exactly I'm using Cachyos other than the AUR because Arch based but it has been solid.
So honestly curious why do you use gnome over kde on a desktop? I found gnome to be super weird and nuanced compared to other de's like kde, cinnamon, mate, lxde
I've used KDE in the past but got used to using Gnome because I was on Fedora and Ubuntu a lot.
Better support for touchpad gestures and touchscreen support in my case (I think KDE caught up by now but i got accustomed to Gnome).
Also, I like Gnome apps more. KDE ones often feel unnecessarily complicated and often less intuitive for me.
Same as here, I use Fedora and GNOME because they allow me to work smoothly without having to tinker too much—everything works right out of the box.
Customizing the KDE desktop is simply too exhausting for me.
out-and-out.
btw, I don't plan on switching to a custom kernel on Fedora; I simply replaced the default power management with
cpu-autofreq. This has allowed me to achieve an excellent balance between performance and battery life—during my daily usage, there is almost no fan noise at all, which is fantastic.Very much 🫡
Anyone using GhostBSD?
I did tested it on my laptop, got too much freezes and gave up
i use Windows on pc (laptop, desktop)
mostly ubuntu on vps
Many times i wanted to use linux for 15+ years but mostly i go back to windows because of premission issues, bad (g)ui, i fking hate cursor pointer in linux
it feels like i am using some 98/2000 era os.
only used mint for years though not happily.
zorin OS looked good so used for sometime but again went back to windows.
now there are rumors that win 12 gonna be SAAS, lol
so i really want to move to a linux (many other reasons like slow windows etc)
and going through this thread, i really wanna try catchyos and installing q4OS now.
hope i can find a good distro to stick to this time...
Cachyos linux
maybe you should find some time to give Fedora Workstation a try; I find that it works really well—right out of the box.
Try with this: Wait for a week, Fedora 44 will be out. Download Fedora 44 everything iso not workstation. Then install it by selecting only standard packages, you will be booted to a tty console, then just install these packages first: gnome-session gnome-terminal nautilus gnome-software gnome-tweaks firefox, next install other packages according to your needs, this will be cleanest setup, you will never look back into windows again, but give it atleast 1 month time.
thanks @DejavuMoe @buggedout for fedora suggestions, definitely will try.
i just tried q4os as i can install it directly from windows, there was a little obstacle with windows surface but finally solved and able to use it.
scrolling is opposite to what i am used to in windows then i tried installing a theme, errors installing it, wifi in windows gets 3 points and q4os gets 1 or 2 points
overall didn't satisfy so uninstalled it.
atleast it is easy to install n uninstall, without needing a pendrive etc.
will try catcyos too
generally recommended to wait a few weeks—or perhaps a month—after the official release of Fedora; by that time, any initial bugs affecting usability should have been addressed promptly.
Arch on PC
NixOS on Laptop
NixOS on servers
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i just found caelestia which looks much better than even windows
https://github.com/liperium/caelestia-shell
first i found a video for arch, but then googling i can see it is available for cachy + hyprland
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxPorn/comments/1plh6zd/my_first_cachyos_hyprland_ricing_ft_caelestiashell/ definitely worth trying, i am really excited to try this.
linux mint
Still the same Devuan/IceWM/custom-yada-yada setup as for like forever. Still toying with the idea of switching over to NetBSD soonish(tm) as like forever.
While i very much love the BSDs (they kept a lot of what Linux lost long ago) they all suffer from one very crucial drawback: Extremely limited manpower behind them. This is already quite visible with the "big 3". As far as anything even more off the beaten path goes - as much as i hate to say it - chances are you will run into trouble.
Not that this is necessarily the end of the world as long as you are capable and willing to deal/put up with it but it kind of eliminates most of the theoretically possible audience, which in a way is actually a good thing though, since i think it is exactly what contributed a major chunk to what kept the BSDs from getting shittyfied like Linux did.
my work pc use window10, home computer is macos , my vps I prefer use alpine or debian os, like use debian os, but my vps most with very low mem, so must use alpine.