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
kubuntu 26.04 minimal install: keep the ubuntu and apt you’re familiar with, skip the unnecessary or unwanted junk (including snapd) at install time, and get the option of using btrfs filesystem (which is not possible with the main ubuntu installer).
one note: you won’t even have a web browser out-of-the-box, and snap-powered ‘firefox’ package exists in ubuntu repos. so if adding mozilla’s deb repo, do not forget the step where you adjust your sources priorities so ‘sudo apt install firefox’ pulls from mozilla instead of ubuntu.