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
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I used Cachy for a long time. It was really stable and dependable, in my experience. The Arch Wiki is also insanely useful. If you know how to troubleshoot, and you don’t mid tinkering, it’ll be fine.
I switched from Mint to CachyOS also as a developer. As I do a lot of piracy I depend on Bottles and flatpak to play pirated games a bit more securely. When flatpak had an issue a few months back with signing their programs bottles didn’t work properly as I had different versions of Nvidia drivers. Up to date native and almost up to date flatpak. I am not sure how others distros handled this, but be prepared that updates might break something. Study a bit about AUR if you decide to go there and try out Cachy for a bit before fully switching on a spare disk or something. I wanted to run a local LLM and virtualbox but I had problems with that likely due to my kernel??? So I am not sure how well it works with docker. All in all, try it out and expect a slight increase in difficulty.
Thanks, yeah dual boot is probably the right call, especially since I should probably not tinker with a project deadline ahead 😅
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.
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.
I started with Debian and am driving Catchy now. Catchy will pull you into the terminal more than Debian will, but you don’t sound like someone put off by that.
The good news is that pacman is easy to learn and Catchy’s default terminal app is superior.
For installing apps and updating, it’s recommended to use the graphical utilities in CachyOS. Sometimes you might need to use pacman but it’s not the default.
The tools are different, but you‘ll be just fine.
I‘m used to Ubuntu Server and installed Cachy on a gaming PC. I’m still looking things up, but that’s about it. Just some more search engine work in the beginning.
A major difference might be the rolling release, which can trash your system/configs temporary. It didn’t happen to me, but friends reported some mishaps and frustrations.
