I have never heard of Cachyos until this comment.
Cachyos seems like the general recommendation. Haven’t used it myself, but I’ve used its kernel so I guess that counts for something.
Burninator05@lemmy.world 5 days ago
orclev@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s very popular to the point where multiple other distros are starting to offer its patched kernel on their distro. It’s very focused on gaming performance, particularly around Steam and Proton.
scintilla@crust.piefed.social 5 days ago
Their proton ran BL4 about 10% faster than Valves for my specific hardware. IDK what they are doing but it might as well be magic.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Cachy is the most popular distro on distrowatch. Has been for a month or more. That’s a good place to get the list of current distros.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 5 days ago
I love CachyOS but you need to be a certain kind of nerd who can handle updates breaking stuff. Or more importantly, willing to RFTM and prevent a lot of it.
Basically I need to read these two sites before I update:
Rule of thumb is to not update constantly/daily. Nor should you update too seldomly. Weekly or monthly is the usual. If that sounds like a PITA then yeah, that’s why it’s not recommended.
relativestranger@feddit.nl 4 days ago
my ‘arch based’ system is a cinnamon-flavoured manjaro. manjaro gets shit on for reasons, one of them being they hold back updated packages for a bit… which is basically what you recommend, and it’s what i usually do anyway–defer updates for awhile (even on windows), unless it’s a super critical issue that could actually be a problem.
that manjaro desktop has been solid, never once messed-up an update even with the aur packages i have installed, and even if it’s been a month or two since it last updated.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Monthly might be too long to not fuck an Arch install, from my previous experience.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
I run CachyOS, it works great for me. It’s not the easiest one, but I like the rolling release style and it’s by far the fastest distro I’ve used (cold boots to gnome desktop in maybe 10 seconds).