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Benchmarking CachyOS vs Arch: is it just hype? (www.youtube.com)
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Small sample set aside, the performance differences here are much bigger than I've seen in previous linux comparisons. Something has to be off right? Curious if anyone is able to reproduce these results.

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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm a Linux casual. Could you go into some more detail on what you're communicating with that update quote? Why is that bad?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    It's a type of question that Arch/Cachy often ask during regular updates. Here it's about replacing a package. Sometimes you also need to make a choice between multiple packages or even perform some manual actions (see https://archlinux.org/). This requires you to possibly look it up, understand the change, and make a decision. If you screw it up, you can break your system.

    My point was not that this is bad. Arch Linux is intentionally and explicitly targeted at proficient users. This is part of the deal. It can even be nice, because it gives you more insight into and control over what goes on under the hood in your system. However, I don't think this is a good experience for (most) new users.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    It's not bad. It's just assumes you know what you're doing. That y/n option there, is one of them. I'm not a power user or anything, I know my way around a computer.

    I've been using CachyOS Linux since last October as my one and only OS on my laptop. It going great. There are some annoying stuff as well but that's because of Linux in general and not CachyOS specific. Laptops have many Linux unfriendly hardware in them so, you don't get full support out of the box if yours is brand new, however if you have a 1 or 2 year old laptop than it will most likely work out of the box. As for other examples of annoying stuff, I had problem with making my gaming mouse work and map the buttons, I went and asked AI to how to fix it and I've got it done. Because I couldn't find anything specific in the forums. Or just the other day I was having problems with my gamepad button mapping and had to ask AI again to fix it and it did.

    As for what I'm doing when I'm asked a y/n question like the example given I do a quick search and 9/10 times the first link would be the answer I'm looking for and I choose accordingly. Or you can go the ignorant way and just chose yes to everything (which I did before) and you'll be alright 99.9% of the time. I don't remember having problems because of it...

    So, it's not that mysterious or hard to understand and as a side effect you learn new stuff. Which is fun for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Yeah, 'y' every time should be pretty safe for updates, right? Like, the reason it's suggested is because it's the suggested alternative for the package it's replacing and the change has been tested by the CachyOS/Arch team(s) already.

    And worst case, something big breaks when you reboot, so you roll back to before the update, wait like a week, and try again (lol).

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