The goal is after installing the official ISO, you can get a developer focused desktop environment up and running in ~10 minutes with 1 command. It's quite configurable so you can change around anything you want ahead of time or after you install it. I use it with vanilla Arch but I know of quite a few people using it successfully with CachyOS.

For CachyOS, the only manual adjustment you have to make before running the repo's install script is uninstalling `jack` since it conflicts with `pipewire-jack`. I could easily roll this into the script but so far no one has complained loud enough to automate this. I also wonder if CachyOS will eventually drop that AUR dependency in its official ISO.

Moving away from Windows last year was so worth it. I've been wanting to switch since 2017 but always ran into hardware issues. The same hardware I had back then works beautifully with Arch today.

On my Lenovo laptop, fixes that would take over a day to enable and patch on most distros:

  - Wake from sleep

  - Nvidia GSP firmware workarounds and correct version OOTB (proprietary)

    - Mouse lag/jitter
    - External display hotplug
    - DDC/CI over type-c

 - Embedded controller power profiles from taskbar with correct TDP limits for CPU/GPU

 - Battery charge limiter support right from KDE settings

 - Working `switcherooctl` in hybrid graphics mode on AMD

 - Firefox with video decode acceleration (YouTube) on almost all GPU models

Currently using BPFland which makes multitasking as responsive as idle while compiling Yocto/Chromium in the background.

Windows, Mac (mini M1), and kernel built-in scheduler Linux jank and become almost unusable (Ryzen 5800H).

First day was a bit rough, first week was still a little rough, but it's been pretty smooth since then, even when learning how to fix things and trying new software.

I'm using Niri and Noctalia as my desktop setup, and it's been different than my Windows experience, but it feels fun and cool to just use a computer in a new way.

In the release notes they said they removed Paru and are recommending Shelly instead.

I like that I can manage Flatpack and AUR!

Gonna give this a try!!

This one seems particularly attractive to Windows refugees especially gamers. The default desktop looks very much like Windows: even the wallpaper is one of those blue gradient 3d wave shapes.

I tried it in a VM and I don't think I can deal with the jank. The default install comes with 3 different GUIs for installing software, all of them confusing and inconsistent. Apps with context menus that go 5 levels deep everywhere, confusing layouts, sometimes icons, sometimes not. I guess if you are coming from Windows this is the status quo so that's fine.

Not for me but I'm glad this new wave of Linux users are finding success with it.

Same install.

No problems at all.

Fully succumbed to plasmonic thrall.

Satisfied by being speedy.

So boring. Almost snoring.

(must not distrohop! must not distrohop! must not distrohop!)