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[–] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

I don't get it.

As such, users now have the option to choose between cachyos-fish-config and cachyos-zsh-config. "If neither is selected, the system will default to Bash. The default configuration will still be Fish ...

You can choose between fish and zsh and if you don't select anything it selects bash but fish is default? Huh?

Meaning, fish is preselected and you have to unselect fish in order to get bash?

Like:

Which shell do you want (deselect for bash)? [x] fish [ ] zsh

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    I would imagine that if you know enough to legitimately have a favorite shell, you don't really have an issue running chsh

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I always figured anyone wanting a different shell is probably heavily into Linux to the point that switching it themselves would be fairly trivial.

    Is CachyOS a more CLI focused desktop linux? I'm not very familiar with it. Normally on a desktop I avoid the CLI, because the GUI is just easier and faster to use.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Sort of, its Arch so all of the fun stuff that goes with that but they also have a package repo application that let's you use a GUI instead. I find the CLI faster but the GUI will guide you to the correct packages a bit better than searching freehand on a browser.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    GUI is often faster to learn, but CLI is almost always faster to use. It's the argument people use for why they choose it. You don't have to move your mouse to click on buttons that can be anywhere. You just type. With tab completion, it's significantly faster.

    (There is a secondary argument for CLI for tutorials, in that it's going to be the same or similar for everyone.)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Does CachyOS use real Arch repos or is it like Manjaro which holds packages for "testing"?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    no. it is akin to Manjaro in that it is based on Arch repos, but is opinionated. they have their own kernel, wine, proton, with their patches.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm asking whether it's more like "arch with some custom spice" or rather something vaguely similar to arch like "ubuntu is like debian". I tried manjaro long, long time ago and can't remember much more than using AUR being mess due to not really being arch...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's not really arch. It's more like Ubuntu is to Debian.

    EndeavourOS is straight arch repos, with one additional optional repo of their own with a few of their tools, branding, etc.

    Cachy is opinionated about the OS.

    EndeavourOS is only opinionated about the install setup. Arch with sane defaults.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    While I see the analogy, saying "CachyOS to Arch is like Ubuntu to Debian" with a straight face is not something I can do. If you try to interact with an Ubuntu install like it's Debian, you'll get very frustrated very quickly. If you try to interact with a CachyOS install like it's Arch, you probably won't even notice you are not on Arch, besides a couple of different package names.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    chsh is pretty straightforward. Never caused me an issue. Been using zsh for damn near two decades.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Alright nerds, what’s your favorite shell and why do you think it was omitted?

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