I am just going to tell you guys a story of my linux journey, if you are interested, you can read.

So i have a laptop, which have intel i3 7020U, 4gb RAM and a 256gb of storage. Windows 10 lagged a lot on my laptop and windows 11 was even not available for it. So i switched to the iot ltsc version, still no difference. Then i switched to ubuntu my first ever linux experience. It was very fast, snappy, i started to love it but i leaved it, because my touchpad was not working very well on it (yeah i just leaved it for some touchpad issue) then i tried linux mint, zorin and fedora, the touchpad had the same issue. Unless i switched to opensuse, my touchpad worked great on it. After some days i just got bored and i wanted to distro hope again and i found out fedora just got a new update and the touchpad was working great! I remained there for 2-3 days but i hated gnome experience Even on a laptop. So i switched to mint and then zorin and then i thought to try something new. I tried Arch. I used kde with it, and i just loved it the most. First two install of arch was manual and then after that all the installations was using archinstall. I have reinstalled arch 100+ times i don’t know i just like to do that. I tried xfce, i stayed on hyprland for so much time, i tried lxqt, and so much, Then shifted to kde again. And one day on fmhy i find a index of linux distros in which cachyos was ranking out of every distro. I just tried it and what the hell it was sooo fast, I just don’t know what to say but i am still on it (i have reinstalled it like 20 times) but I love cachyos from my heart. On my laptop with that specs i hit 200+ fps on minecraft in max settings and max chunks which is great.

I even recommended linux to my friend, now my one friend use Arch and he doesn’t want to switch to cachy because he didn’t like the name :). And on my friend laptop i installed cachyos and he is loving it so far he said this laptop was unusable and now works super fast

  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    14 days ago

    Brazenly stealing this from a thread I saw earlier today about different distros, I feel like it fits. :)

    • Imhereforfun@lemmy.world
      2·
      14 days ago

      Exactly this. I have tried many different distros, but I always end up sticking with mint for casual day use and pop os for gaming with my Nvidia GPU laptop. Mainly, because easy of use and simplicity on daily drivers and because pop os is the only distro that fixes the issue with Nvidia rtx cards being fed full wattage instead of constraining it to mere 60% cap for whatever reason, which hurt my gaming performance in return drastically until I have figured out what is happening. Pop os has its own share of problems tho, mainly the WiFi adapter driver issue where it doesn’t like invisible SSID’s, so it keeps dropping the connection every minute unless you unhidd your SSID.

  • hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    15 days ago

    Since you liked Fedora but not GNOME, sounds like Bazzite or Fedora KDE could have worked out well too. Just something to consider if you want something more stable and less cutting edge

    • thakur0@lemmy.zipBannedOP
      1·
      15 days ago

      Bazzite is more like a distro for consoles and for only gaming. Fedora, i don’t have a strong reason to not to use it, but i just don’t like fedora from my heart

      • hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        14 days ago

        Bazzite supports consoles, but is far from only targeting consoles. There’s also Aurora which is like Bazzite but without the gaming stuff. Same benefits: background updates, easy rollbacks, and lots of included tools that are just useful (podman, brew, distrobox, etc).

        But if you have personal reasons against Fedora then it’s important to be aware that Bazzite and Aurora are both based off Fedora

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
    10·
    15 days ago

    Then i switched to ubuntu my first ever linux experience. It was very fast, snappy

    Coming off Windows, even modern Ubuntu feels “snappy” (nice I see what you did there).

    • mursejoy@lemmy.zip
      2·
      14 days ago

      I use Ubuntu and have never had issues with it. I liked my time on Bazzite but Ubuntu just feels like home. Bazzite didn’t feel any snappier than Ubuntu does, and both feel miles ahead of Win11 on our work computers.

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
        2·
        14 days ago

        The reason why my tone about Ubuntu was like that, is, because Ubuntu used to be slow and sluggish experience in some cases, when the Snap was introduced. It wasn’t good back then. Sure I’m a bit exaggerating for the lolz and so on. I actually don’t know how good Ubuntu feels nowadays. Ubuntu was my Linux system I installed in 2008 to replace Windows XP (!) and kept using for about 13 years or so. So I saw its ups and downs first hand until 2022 or something like that when I changed to different distribution.

        • mursejoy@lemmy.zip
          2·
          14 days ago

          Okay very good to know. I see so much smack talk about Ubuntu and never really know why. I get users people don’t like Gnome as much as KDE.

          I guess for my use case which is very minimal compared to most, Ubuntu works great. I get all my real creative work done on Mac and Ubuntu is just my fun machine.

          • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
            2·
            14 days ago

            You know we Linux people (generalization I know) are a bit sensitive, and some people (admittedly me too) tend to exaggerate either for fun or by pure hate or even in some cases without knowing what is happening. And if you didn’t follow what happened, then you might not even understand why. There was issues what Ubuntu did in the past. If you have no experience with that, and you are happy with your setup, then keep using it. I’m not here to mud the fun of the users.

            I installed Ubuntu in recent years a few times in Virtual Machines. Its a fine distribution. There are edge cases where some people have a problem with, and those are the loudest. This is basically Linux tradition behavior. :D Edit: Also my reply was partially about the “snappy”, which I think is a play on the Snap Store of Ubuntu.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
    61·
    14 days ago

    I’ve never gotten CachyOS to run well. I’ve tried a few times and it’s either updated at some point to an unbootable situation or I had to try installing 2-3 times with different bootloader, FDE, and DE options before it would comply.

    I work for a living, so having a more stable, tested platform is important to me. Fedora KDE always just works for me and is reasonably up-to-date with the latest mesa, kernel, etc.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    15 days ago

    It’s quite excellent even on some pretty old hardware, but I’ve had a couple middle aged laptops consistently fail during installation but I put zero effprt into diagnostics as it was mainly just trying for the hell of it.

    Its my desktop daily driver though and its probably going to stay that way for the foreseeable future

  • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
    1·
    11 days ago

    Can someone help me in switching from Arch to cachy. Also please tell me if there’s an easier way to get the advantages without switching.