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CachyOS vs arch (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm going to switch to arch for my general-purpose laptop, since I feel like kubuntu is not enough for me, I want to try a tiling WM and do some ricing.

I'm still undecided between plain arch or CachyOS, because that optimisation looks promising and I also game on my laptop.

The fact is that CachyOS seems more "bloated" with some unnecessary packages, so what do you suggest me? A simple arch installation, arch using the cachy-linux kernel and its optimisations or a debloated CachyOS install? Thank you all in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I suggest installing EndeavourOS because it is pretty minimal, you can even select the option to not include EOS's OS theming during the install process, so basically a bare install. Their installer also allows me to choose ext4 instead of the buggy BTRFS file structure. Then, after install and updating, I add the Chaotic-Aur repos. and do an update. Then I get the Garuda Linux repos installed. Why? Because they have lots of handy tools, gaming, power-daemen for both performance and power-savings (laptops) and a handy app for installing kernels, including the CachyOS kernels and their optimizations in the Garuda Settings Manager. If you don't want ext4 file structure you can skip EOS/Chaotic-Aur and just download Garuda KDE light edition.

Else, get Garuda repos on your system by downloading 'Garuda-update' from here, and install with Octopi or CLI command, and then do a system update, then do 'garuda-update' in terminal which should pull in the garuda repos (say 'yes' when prompted to all the options to add repos.) Minimal system with lots of options to choose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't really like endeavourOS, seems like that it points more towards user friendliness than performance, which is not what I'm aiming to. I will probably install base arch, get familiar with it and then select some packages from either cachy or guarda to improve performance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

EndeavourOS doesn't add anything to Arch performance, it is basically a minimal install of arch with their theming included, which you can opt out of during install. But, to each his own.