Hi everyone, I am using Ubuntu since version 14.04 due to ROS and am therefore mostly familiar with its components, such as Apt, systemd, networking etc. nowadays ROS is mostly handled in docker so I have less reason to stick to Ubuntu. Cachyos sounds fun and I am a big proponent of performance being taken seriously in the sense of UX. Also default BTRFS seems nice. How much pain is it to switch? I tend to tinker a bit and appreciate the large community around Ubuntu. I know arch has a good wiki. This is for my personal main pc and usecases are Steam and Lutris gaming, office work and ROS / c++ coding
I’ve used both, been daily driving Cachy for a year or two now. CachyOS is a bit easier than plain Arch, in my opinion. I’ve been using Octopi (a gui tool that fronts the package manager) because I never fully got the hang of
pacmanyet. And I use Btrfs Assistant (another gui tool) instead of configuringsnapperfrom the CLI.Overall, it’s more involved than something likr Ubuntu or Debian, but it feels manageable.
Pacman has the worst syntax of all package managers.
pacman -Syyurapeapt is fine, and zypper is the friendliest, I think. It’s similar to apt, but has obvious two-letter abbreviations for commands. It also has nice coloring of the output.
I just switched out octopi for Shelly (CachyOs also did on the latest iso) and Shelly is so much more user friendly, although I’ll probably just stick to using terminal myself. You can manage packages from the repos aur flat pack and app image all-in-one GUI application