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I'm in the process of making a distro that combines the way SteamOS makes Arch Linux stable and user-friendly WITH the performance optimizations of CachyOS (pu-239.org)

submitted 1 week ago by yxc999@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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As the title and the website say, I'm currently making a distro with the goal that you don't have to compromise between ease of use + safety and bleeding-edge + performance optimizations.

As I will likely be able to publish the 0.0.1 source code to the GitHub link and the ISO to the website sometime next week, I would like people to be aware of my project so I can have some feedback for further improvements when I release the first version. I have not posted this anywhere else yet, as I value the opinion of this community more than Reddit or whatever.

If you have any questions or any criticism, please voice it, I would love to hear it, good or bad, in the end I want to make a proper OS. (I'll go to bed now so expect replies to take a few hours from posting.)

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[–] jrgd@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As has been noted in the ArchWiki that is expected to be read by users, one should always check for package-related news before upgrading their Arch system. This is because package changes and breakages that require user intervention do occur, and ignoring them can sometimes leave a broken system. Arch isn't really hard after getting over the bootstrap hurdle, but simply requires more upkeep effort than most point release distros would.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah I just have arch news as my homepage. Haven't seen a breaking change that applies to normal gaming desktop usage in a while.

[–] jrgd@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

I think the biggest one in recent (past year) would have been the upgrade tree to nvidia-open, which would break 10-series and older support without changing package on affected systems. Definitely a lot of the more recent breakages are not large-scale problems, but they do still exist.