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Cachyos is a gaming linux distro made in Germany๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช (cachyos.org)
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[โ€“] 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Windows forced me to upgrade to 11 so I went for cachyos instead and Iโ€™m blown away by how great it is.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    It's great - but, to be fair, if you hated updates and restarts in Windows, you are not going to like cachyos :)

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  • [โ€“] 23 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Huh? Theyโ€™re a thousand times better in Cachy. Why wouldnโ€™t anyone like them if they hated windows updates?

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    The argument is that "Oh, Windows updates once a month and you hate it? Well, CachyOS has several updates every day which makes it much worse".

    But the real issue with Windows updates is how distruptive, forced, slow, and broken they are. Microsoft gives you some freedom to choose when to update, but sooner or later it'll say "Oh you're doing something important? Nope, time to restart right now" if you delay it too long.

    I actually update my CachyOS system far more often than I did Windows, but I am in full control of it. But the truth is, while I would recommend people on CachyOS or any rolling release distro to update at least every 1-2 weeks, you can easily go a couple of months without doing so.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 2 days ago

    Yeah I update once a month max, and itโ€™s like 5 minutesโ€ฆ a windows update I did on my work computer the other day was an hour and a half of unusable computer.

    Windows is just another level of horrible updates. CachyOS might have lots of updates, but you donโ€™t have to do them and theyโ€™re also a hundred times faster AND you can use your computer while the update happens. Itโ€™s just nothing alike.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 days ago*

    Itโ€™s the forced upgrade, boatware, and lack of lack of privacy that drove me to swap. I blindly picked hyprland as my DE because the preview looked cool without knowing what a tiling DE was, It took me 3 days but I finally got it configured and everything is so snappy and fast. Iโ€™m never looking back

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Don't really notice.

    Just sudo yay -Syu whenever something doesn't work anymore. 3-4 mins of unnoticeable background updating later, done. It's not even a thing.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 6 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Metal Gear Solid Ground Zero runs like a dream on it.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 days ago

    I was blown away by how much faster BG3 loads. The last time I had used Linux was when I was in college in 2008 and I kept running into incompatibility issues and after a while i swapped back to windows. I was half expecting a battle when I installed cachy but everything worked right out of the box (ignoring the fact that I picked hyprland without knowing wtf I was doing)

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