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heaven forbid you go read about it. You’re weird, man. Takes all of 5 seconds to web search the distro and find what makes it different.

why do I need to explain it to you? I already said I like CachyOS and I want to try the server version. that’s it.

because I like cachyos and want to try their server version?

honestly if they do this I will slap it on my server. I love CachyOS, it’s a great and solid distro and by far the best Arch fork out there. I’ve never had issues with it and while sure the install is probably the longest out of all the distros I’ve used it’s still great. Very solid team behind it.

with some interactions I’ve seen from GNOME fanboys on mastodon…honestly wouldn’t put it past them. /s

it’s because with Archinstall it tells you what to do/setup as opposed to the user having to utilize something like the Arch Wiki to set it up. So it acts almost like any other distro install. It walks you through the process.

I would suggest when you decide to give Arch a go for the first time to start out with something like CachyOS to get your legs under you so you can easily understand it. That being said Arch is painfully easy to install now thanks to Archinstall but going the CachyOS route it’ll install the packages you need and then you can understand what you do and don’t need when it comes time to install regular Arch. Otherwise you might just install Arch and then wonder why some stuff doesn’t work because you didn’t install certain packages.

There are quite a few great linux content creators on youtube. The Black Don, Tony (his tmux config is top notch), typecraft, Diinki, Vimjoyer (who pretty much taught me how to use NixOS completely), and Veronica Explains.

Although Veronica is unfortunately taking time off because of the comments she receives which really sucks as her videos remind me of old episodes of the Screen Savers and Call for Help.

Love her videos. she got me hooked on DWM and ST.

I don’t know a single person that uses MX Linux and yet it’s always at the top of the distrowatch list

regardless if you switch distros or not it’s good practice to backup stuff to either a personal server or even a private git repo.

I distro hop every so often, heck just did it lastnight, and what makes it easy for me is using borg which backs up daily to my server. It backups personal files, ssh stuff, and some dotfiles. I also do a push to my private forgejo before hopping and that will be configs and what have you so when I’m on a new distro it’s just a matter of cloning that private repo and then accessing a recent borg backup and i’m good to go. For Arch based distros I use something called DCLI which backs up a list of packages I have installed so I can pull that down and then merge it to my system and it automatically installs the packages I want. All of this allows me from once spending a couple hours setting up a system to now a few minutes. Doing all this makes distro hoping a non factor for me.

nope it’s a GTX 3050 mobile. so a few years old.

I’ve never had issues with my nvidia gpu on wayland.

I’ve never had to tweak anything to get it to work, it just works, even on a fresh arch install. I don’t get it.

start with Mint, get your legs under you, after a couple weeks or so if you want to explore try something else. it’s as easy as that.

about 1 or 2 times a year, consistently, Windows for whatever reason would kill my wifi on my system. uninstalling and reinstalling drivers wouldn’t work, hard resetting wouldn’t work, nothing. Just randomly disabled my wifi and looking online the ONLY solution was a complete reinstall of the OS. I don’t know why it did this, but it was an annual thing for me to have to reinstall the OS just to get wifi working again.

I had enough. decided to try a live usb of Linux Mint and I liked it so I installed it on my system. after 2 weeks I switched to CachyOS and now i’m on NixOS.

it’s not though. I just tried it and you can’t highlight text and then scroll through fonts. you still need to know specifically what font you want or know all the fonts installed on your system. Unlike photoshop where you can highlight text and then scroll through the fonts you have installed which will change the highlighted text to whatever font on the fly. Gimp still to this day doesn’t do that.

if this improves how gimp handles fonts I’d use it.

now that is one VERY controversial and brave opinion. I admire you for it.

it’s just simple and fast. handles images really well also. I’ve tried pretty much every terminal out there and I always end up back on Foot. works really well also if you use it with tmux. Wezterm is good too but it’s got a lot going on with it and can be a bit slow. The only other terminal I really like is Konsole.

you’re not wrong. A lot of them could simply be flakes or just cloned dotfiles. Just look at Omarchy, that’s basically Arch with in installer and dotfiles.

If I’m looking to use a distro I want something that improves whatever it’s based on, like CachyOS for example that has it’s own repos and kernel. Distros that essentially just tweak GNOME or KDE I’m going to pass on. Like this PearOS. you can just download virtually any distro and install Plasma and make it look the same.