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I've thought about making the switch but what holds me back is stability.
I don't mean stability from a software perspective. But from a distro perspective. Distros come and go all the time. Four or Five have stable enough support through community developers and industry sponsorships that they've managed to become large enough and supported enough to be considered Evergreen Distros for lack of a better word. In other words, distros where the support base is large enough to be considered "too big to fail" (Ubuntu, Mainline Arch, Manjaro, Fedora, Gentoo, etc...)
The rest eventually just fade away. I've always avoided distros that are maintained by a small community of enthusiasts because enthusiasm goes away really quickly once the real work of maintaining a distro rolls around.
I won't pull the trigger on any small community project until I'm reasonably sure I'm not going to have to jump to a new project a year from now when the developers get tired of it and move on to something else.
I would not consider Manjaro too big to fail considering what they're currently going through. The distro has been stagnating the past few years tbh. The community wants collective ownership but the founder is stalling more time. If you're curious they made a big post about it on their forum
agree. I used to have time to tinker and if things break, I distro hop. Dont have time for that now, I want things to work.
bruh, no Debian?
Or Suse
Yggdrasil Plug and Play Linux!
Debian's the grand-daddy from which the others all were born.
I mean , from the ones that are listed, it's only ubuntu, but Debian has spawned A LOT of other distros; and is the literal granddaddy of mint.
True. But I was meaning more spiritually.
If Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, Suse, etc... are the Greek Gods, then Debian and Slackware are the mythological Titans that preceded them.
Distros that come after the Greek Gods (Elementary, Manjaro, CachyOS, etc...) are basically the equivalent of every time Zeus or another god would go down to earth to have sex with a mortal and create a demigod (Hercules, Achilles, Aeneaus, etc...)
Wow, I did not expect Fedora to be this much of a Johnny come lately. Debian is 93, Fedora 03! Even when you consider Red Hat, which is basically fedora , RH is STILL from 95.
Asking the real questions.
You can switch back to arch pretty easily and also just upgrade from arch. That's the real benefit of cachy is standing on the shoulders of giants like Arch.
Does that mean moving from EndeavourOS to CachyOS is also easy?
Maybe I should first look into what the difference is between EndeavourOS and CachyOS. Is it even worth it to switch?
All of the recent gaming focused distros felt this way to me, it's why I'm sticking with good old tried and tested vanilla Fedora with OpenSUSE as my backup option if RedHat ever fucks it up. I don't want a toy to play with but a tool that just works and that I don't have to think about and that's exactly what Fedora is.
The stability issue is why I am waiting for SteamOS Desktop. I don't want to distro hop, I just want to install a single OS and never have to worry about it for the rest of my machine's life.
I mean Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora (or Arch if you're technical) are all solid and proven base option.