I’m going to switch to arch for my general-purpose laptop, since I feel like kubuntu is not enough for me, I want to try a tiling WM and do some ricing.

I’m still undecided between plain arch or CachyOS, because that optimisation looks promising and I also game on my laptop.

The fact is that CachyOS seems more “bloated” with some unnecessary packages, so what do you suggest me? A simple arch installation, arch using the cachy-linux kernel and its optimisations or a debloated CachyOS install? Thank you all in advance.

  • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
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    55 minutes ago

    I use Arch on all my systems now. It does great for gaming on both my beefy gaming PC and my little work laptop (within their respective punching weights). I haven’t felt the need to explore CachyOS or any other variants for performance gains and I really do appreciate how bare bones Arch is. Just having the lightweight OS that isn’t doing a darn thing beyond what I’ve asked it to claws back plenty of performance, although I’m speaking more in contrast to Windows than other distros having any sort of bloat.

    Still, Arch has been the first distro I really committed to, I’ve been on it for a year and a half now and learning how to build it out taught me a lot about Linux.

    Also, I’m just never sure how long some of this offshoot distros will hold on for, you know? Is that unfounded?

    • sparkle_matrix_x0x@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      32 minutes ago

      I didn’t really think about your last point, in fact a big distro like arch will probably never die, while, just how we saw with arcolinux, these smaller distros with smaller development teasm can die in the future.

  • ProtonBadger@lemmy.ca
    8·
    2 hours ago

    I don’t use either but IMO people are far too worried about bloat, it’s not some monster that’ll drag you down. Unless you’re extremely space constrained some extra packages on disk won’t make any difference. And even on the slimmest install there’ll be stuff you never use anyway.

    • sparkle_matrix_x0x@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      35 minutes ago

      I understand, but less packages means it’s easier to manage my system. One of the reasons I’m leaning towards arch is because of its minimal approach, so that I can install only what I need.

  • Eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws
    8·
    3 hours ago

    Start by using base arch and eventually you can try to use the cachyos repos if you want to try and get some performance uplift.

  • cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de
    32·
    2 hours ago

    You can try Endeavour OS. Its pretty close to stock. I found cachyos was too bloated for my likings and ffmpeg ran faster on EOS than COS in my case.