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CachyOS @sopuli.xyz
DonutsRMeh @lemmy.world

Are the CachyOS devs on here? Any of them?

Hi all, I just installed this distro as a part of my experiments to find a good daily driver distro. It's been flying (I'm not used to speed like this. lmfao). Just curious to know if the devs are on Lemmy or are they only on reddit?

Thanks

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  • How is it for you so far? I just learned about CachyOS not long ago and I'm curious about its viability as a daily driver.

    • I JUST installed it today after Nobara made my life hell on earth. I just set it up and have been busy reviving the windows bootloader all day, so I haven't really had much to do on cachy yet. All I know is it is the fastest distro I've ever seen in my entire life. Everything is extremely fucking fast, and I mean everything. Moving 70 GB from the sata drive to the nvme? No problem, 40 seconds. Installing a ton of shit through terminal that normally takes 10 - 15 minutes on other distros? Nooooo problem, that'll be 1 minute a 40 seconds. Reboot your machine? Absolutely, a jiffy. Holy shit, the speed is insane on this thing. That's the only thing I know so far. I will use it for a while and make a post here to report after spending some time with it.

      • FYI my curiosity got the better of me and I tried installing it. So far so good--it's definitely faster than my previous Mint install (still using LightDM and Cinnamon, so a pretty good apples-to-apples comparison) and a lot more things worked out of the box compared to when I tried Manjaro a year or two ago. Looks like this might be where I stay for quite a while.

      • Awesome, sounds promising!

    • I'm not OP, but CachyOS makes almost any system fly.

      On my thinkpad x1 tablet, a 4w tablet, it just runs extremely fast, even with its 1440p screen. On my main computer (xeon e5 2667 v4 with rtx 3050 6gb), i gained a lot of performance, as i set the p-states for the cpu to decide and the power for the kernel to decide, BORE just crushed anything i used before, using the vkd3d, dxvk from the repo (and using the install scripts that comes with them), and wine-cachyos and proton-cachyos.

      Using lzo for btrfs with autodefrag (instead of zstd, which is the default compression) and lz4 for zram, things are instantaneous, on my underpowered linux tablet and on my frankenstein desktop.

      CachyOS gives the best performance on cpus that are compatible with the v3, v4 and up instruction sets.

      It is a very good daily driver, only the fastfetch on opening a terminal and the kde launch icon are not cool in my opinion, but i just disabled fastfetch on the default cachyos fish config and put papirus as the icon theme.

      So i think you should try it, it changes how fast you interact with the computer.

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