I'm a gamer who recently switched to Cachy and honnestly it is by far my favourite yet. It runs so smoothly without feeling bloated and it's perfect for someone like me who feels too noob to try pure Arch.
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Pure arch is fine, don't let internet idiots scare you. Just archinstall it, you don't have to do a manual install. I reckon have a crack at a manual install for learning purposes if your curious.
I had a look at cachy in a VM it seems very similar to me. I used that Shelly gui thing I kind of like it but every now and then I like to manually install the vulnerabilities directly from AUR and npm.
On servers: Red Hat -> Debian (with a brief detour through Ubuntu Server for a couple of years).
On desktop: Red Hat -> Ubuntu -> Manjaro.
Switched away from Red Hat around 2004 after RHL was discontinued and split into RHEL and Fedora. You may think Fedora would've been a more obvious choice but it was still new in 2004 while Debian had 10 years under its belt. We also migrated the servers at work to Debian around that time and I had used Debian at school in the '90s so it made a lot of sense to use it at home.
Ubuntu on desktop was a fucking revelation when it came out (on CDs shipped free to your home π) in 2004. Early days Ubuntu was soooo good that I stayed with it until 2020, long after the magic was gone.
I mean I would've probably left eventually anyway given the whole snap and privacy and so on debacles but what really put me off was how it would almost never upgrade cleanly once you've added a bunch of 3rd party repos (which you wanted to do all the time on a desktop PC). Eventually I got so sick of it that I was determined to find a rolling distro where upgrades would never be a problem.
Tried a bunch of them during stay at home during the pandemic and settled on Manjaro + XFCE on the desktop and a fresh install of Debian stable + Docker on the server as a happy medium between "hands off" and "up to date". I'm at a point where I like my Linux machines to just work and to need zero maintenance so I can put the time into other things instead.
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Redhat > fedora > Debian > Ubuntu > mint > fedora. Been there for years now.
Went back to Ubuntu after laying off of it for a while. Now that I'm used to not using Windows, I feel like trying either Arch or Cachy though everyone keeps raving about Bazzite.
Man, I don't miss windows. My laptop works better without it. Idk what the hell windows does but my internal wifi works better than it did with windows. A 750mbps USB adapter was needed and my 1200mbps internal wasn't able to capture my 5G internet from 2 rooms away from the router.
I install Ubuntu and I can use my laptop in the shitter/3 rooms away for the router. All or most of the streaming is 720hd or 1080hd and it loads. IT ACTUALLY FUCKIN' LOADS.
Distro hopping sounds like too much work. I went from mint and was happy on that for years, then I went to Debian and I'm happy here. I'm curious about Fedora but not curious enough to be bothered with a new install.
I'll live vicariously through others
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So far my personal favourite is manjaro. I always liked Arch based distros and Manjaro has done a great job at pre configuring everything. Manjaro also came with zsh as the default shell and I really liked that.
i've never used a distro other than arch
Fedora - arch - nixos - arch - Debian - arch - debian
Why settle? Software is a continually evolving ecosystem and grafting yourself to a certain distribution model or distribution team doesn't really make sense when you consider that. Some distribution might have the best things for you, today. Tomorrow, another may come along and do it better, or your current distribution may shift to not be to your liking anymore. Be flexible, but don't change for the sake of change. Change for a good reason.
Open SUSE tumbleweed, KDE plasma.
The update/revert stuff isolated to the os partition is sooooo good. If I hop again it's going to be to another one with similar functionality.
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I keep coming back to Fedora and Fedora-derivatives. Loving Nobara, personally.
The more that "just works" out of the box, the happier I am.
Customizations are gonna be the same no matter what.
Kde is kde. Sway is sway. Ketchup/Catsup.
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I went from Windows to Mint and have been using that for almost a year now. Havenβt run into any issues that would make me want to switch: it does what I want it to now.
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I tend to use macOS on the desktop (I know, booo) so Iβve landed on Alpine Linux for just about everything else.
I love that you can be on the bleeding edge but also not have tons of baggage everywhere. The downside is of course a lot of times I find myself doing things from scratch.
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