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honestly if they do this I will slap it on my server. I love CachyOS, it's a great and solid distro and by far the best Arch fork out there. I've never had issues with it and while sure the install is probably the longest out of all the distros I've used it's still great. Very solid team behind it.
As long you keep it updated. I left my machine powered off for 8 months and came back to being impossible to update it because the repo was missing library updates from months prior... I could never figure it out, and just nuked the install with bazzitte.
Had the same experience with EndeavourOS. Also switched to bazzite and haven't looked back. There was a slight learning curve, but once you figure it out, you can do pretty much anything you want to/on it.
Why would you want it? Especially for a server. If you can just use Arch. The installation part takes 5 minutes, if you’re not doing it the very first time. My very gist Arch server is about 6 years now, no need to reinstall, always updated.
because I like cachyos and want to try their server version?
Hey, but that’s barely an explanation. I don’t force Arch on you, I am just curious what specifically you like about this fork. Is it some DE being pre-installed and pre-configured? Why would it matter for a server then? Or is it something else? If so, do you mind sharing more? Perhaps you have some blog about that. I like reading people new to Linux.
why do I need to explain it to you? I already said I like CachyOS and I want to try the server version. that's it.
Why would I want Arch when I can use CachyOS? Defaults matter.
That’s why I’m asking, what’s the difference? Which defaults? I have never used CachyOS and have no idea what it brings to the table. I use Arch for ~7 years, and I’m no looking for a replacement. Especially an Arch based one. Yet, I’m curious of the difference, and why one would want Cachy, especially as a server.
I used vanilla arch as a daily driver for about 3 years and I loved it. but started to need a more ephemeral OS and switched to atomic fedora and centos/Alma precisely for the defaults. So i know you asked about cachyOS and I dony have an answer there. So you can skip the rest of this if that is all you wanted. Im not saying RHEL or bust. Each person has their own needs and i highly recommend just going and doing the hard things yourself to learn, but I get it that it isnt possible for everyone.
What defaults? Several. 1st SELinux. 2nd ability to select old kernels on boot. 3. Firewall enabled out of the box.
Sure you can do a lot of additional hardening and nothing is to stop a simple bash script from setting these up on Arch, but I figured I only know a little bit and those have saved my ass multiple times. So there are probably other things the folks in that ecosystem have figured out that I dont know about yet.
I too run an Arch and am happy with it, and I would like to know why Cachy. The only reason I can see is having x86-64-v3 packages instead of baseline. That is nice, but on it's own doesn't feel worth the effort of switching over.
Defaults don't matter to me much, as I automate and manage my system config in git (using a tool I wrote myself: https://github.com/VorpalBlade/paketkoll/tree/main/crates/konfigkoll inspired by https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr). It makes it a breeze to set up a new computer as I want it.
I don’t want to spill some memes worth Arch elitism here, but I just doubt Arch derivatives crowd knows what x86-64-v3 thing is. Truth be told, I barely understand that myself. So I guess the difference should lie somewhere else. My previous research showed that the crowd is afraid of no installer installer, but these days Arch has some kind of installer, doesn’t it?
I’m just struggle to grasp what does it have, what those defaults are? A DE and whatnot? Is it just an opinionated Arch? Looks quite popular for everyone and their dog to have their own opinionated Arch this year, isn’t it?
You can check CachyOS wiki https://wiki.cachyos.org/cachyos_basic/why_cachyos/
heaven forbid you go read about it. You're weird, man. Takes all of 5 seconds to web search the distro and find what makes it different.