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
When I was a student I had a period when trying different installations was fun. Disto hopping or reinstalling can be a nice hobby.
I can understand distro hopping, to try to find the best suited for you. But why reinstall the same system if it’s working? That I really don’t get… But to each their own I guess!
I’m with you here, I’ve never done the over-and-over installation myself but since you can take different paths with Arch, I can see someone enjoy exploring those paths.
Makes it sound like cachyos is easy to break, or has issues.
Arch is absolutely easy to break. But it’s also easy to not break.
I’ve been using it for years, only reinstall when I get a new computer (could image, but meh) or when I’m changing desktop environments. This last time when I switched to KDE, I installed Cachy. It’s fine, but it’s a bit less control that I’d rather have. So when I switch back to Cosmic, Lab WC, or XFCE I’ll go back to Arch.
And to be clear, the loss of control isn’t entirely loss of control. It’s defaults that I don’t like, built up by someone else. It puts me into subtractive mode to remove and replace, whereas with Arch proper it’s more fully additive, installing and configuring what I want on a very very streamlined base.
The comment was about them reinstalling cachyos 20 times, highly unlikely to happen unless they broke it at least a dozen times. Other reasons might include wanting to partition differently etc
I have installed cachyos a few times in the past just checking it out, never used it for long enough to notice any stability, update issues etc. It seemed decent enough, just nothing special, and not for me. I use an arch based distro, never had any issues that I didn’t cause myself, but there are other distros that can be a bit daft.
It is the only real way you can find which distro is best for you, but at some point you want to stop, at least for a while, an os is meant to be in the background, not the focus.