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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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...

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

i suppose, it's a loose analogy he brought up, so i was just trying to speak his language.

the point is, the packages are different, particularly core ones. so it is not straight Arch.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

I know it's not a perfect analogy. It was just a first thing that crossed my mind...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

doesn't bother me, i get what you're saying.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They use their own repos, but they don't hold back the packages. The reason for having separate repos is recompiling packages for newer architectures. It gives a little performance boost for most of them. AUR works totally fine.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

OK, thank you, this pretty much explains everything.

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