Even more, as Ubuntu has many differences from Debian in choices of packages, configuration and ubuntu’s snap focus and monetizing schemes AND it’s not a rolling release. CachyOS is just a nice installer to jump into rolling Arch.
CachyOS is more than just a nice installer, they also have additional repos with packages built with optimizations for specific architectures and some simple utilities to make common operations easier.
It’s still fundamentally Arch with extras, but I think that’s mostly a good thing.
It adds a fancy installer and it’s own kernel and some other things. But that doesn’t make it less arch.
So I gave an example from the other direction: if you take your arch and apply all the things that cachy does extra, it will still be arch.
I think the key here is the word “distro”/“distribution”.
If you take your arch and change the way software is distributed to it, by lets say uninstalling pacman and installing apt (and modifying everything else that’s related to this change so it works properly) then it would become debian.
Even more, as Ubuntu has many differences from Debian in choices of packages, configuration and ubuntu’s snap focus and monetizing schemes AND it’s not a rolling release. CachyOS is just a nice installer to jump into rolling Arch.
CachyOS is more than just a nice installer, they also have additional repos with packages built with optimizations for specific architectures and some simple utilities to make common operations easier.
It’s still fundamentally Arch with extras, but I think that’s mostly a good thing.
Yeah, its almost the most Arch can be customized/preconfigured without changing Arch packages.
Which is just about perfect, IMO.
https://github.com/CachyOS/kernel-patches says otherwise
You can install the cachy kernel on plain arch.
can’t you also install snaps on Debian?
True but the wrong claim was that Cachy is merely a fancy installer for regular Arch.
No I think the claim was: Cachy IS arch.
It adds a fancy installer and it’s own kernel and some other things. But that doesn’t make it less arch.
So I gave an example from the other direction: if you take your arch and apply all the things that cachy does extra, it will still be arch.
I think the key here is the word “distro”/“distribution”.
If you take your arch and change the way software is distributed to it, by lets say uninstalling pacman and installing apt (and modifying everything else that’s related to this change so it works properly) then it would become debian.
So not merely a fancy installer for Arch. Thanks for proving me right.
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