10 days ago

Trying Out CachyOS

I've been admiring CachyOS from afar for a while now. My thinking has been if I ever change distros, that would probably be the only one I'm interested in trying. I don't have any reason to change distros, so the only way I'm going to get to try it is to just install it on another drive...so that's what I'm doing. I read docs earlier, it looks impressive. I've decided to try to mirror my Tumbleweed setup, so I'm doing KDE with Btrfs, Snapper, and Grub. There are so many other options that Cachy offers, but just for this comparison, I decided to stay the same.

I like that it has a live disk with the installer, so I can write this while it installs :) Tumbleweed doesn't recommend installing from the live disk, but I haven't had to install that too many times anyway. Maybe the last live disk I ran was Garuda? Or maybe one of the 20.04 *buntu versions, when I was doing reviews on those. Possibly the last Debian. I haven't done many installs since moving to Tumbleweed.

Alright. So. It's done installing already. Since I'm dual booting, I'll probably try to work it into my work flow for a while and see how it goes. Not all at once, but over time, however long that may be. I'm not opposed to buying a new NVME just for Cachy, as I'm currently just installing it on an old 2.5" SSD (a really old one), but it has some work to do before I'd be willing to do that.

I'll try to do some blogs about it and I'll probably document my set up in a Page here, for reference. I'm looking to try it for at least a month or maybe longer and just see how well I like it. I'm curious about gaming performance, which is why I picked the same file system, overall system stability, and if it is as unbreakable as Tumbleweed. If it goes well enough, maybe I'll consider making it more permanent and giving it a better home in my system (along side Tumbleweed).

David D.

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