I switched to Cachy 2 months ago and I think my distro hopping days are over. It’s so, so responsive and reliable. People scared me off arch-based distros for being bleeding edge but so far it’s been very stable, I haven’t encountered any major issues.
If you’re thinking about switching, do it. Switched off from Bazzite and I’m not looking back.
Arch is stable until it isn’t. Unlike LTS distros, you generally will want to check the Arch/cachyOS website or forum before updating to catch any potential system breaking bugs to either wait until they’re fixed, or apply a workaround found by the community in the forums. As long as you do that, you can generally avoid problems, but it is an extra step that something like Debian or Mint generally doesn’t require.
Yep, they broke routing just yesterday or the day before lol. Network requests only go through like half the time right now. But a fix is coming quickly at least.
I was looking at Bazzite too. I just haven’t made the switch because I’m not sure if Nvidia performance drops are a big issue.
Performance should be relatively the same across every distro, there are benchmarks online you can check. I didn’t like Bazzite with my short time using it though, being immutable means you have to jump through hoops to install something that isn’t available as a flatpak. Like I mentioned in another comment the battery life was also not great, and I found it to be a little slow in general.
I really wish they’d support a MAC system out of the box. Even with basic apparmor policies. Still an awesome distro though.
Has anyone used this as part of a domain? I’m trying to find a replacement for Windows 10 to run on Skylake-era hardware at the small company I work for. I’ll probably end up just using Ubuntu but I’d really like to try something more… Modern
