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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Ubuntu to CachOS; What to pay attention to? (feddit.org)

submitted 4 days ago by Evilschnuff@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi everyone, I am using Ubuntu since version 14.04 due to ROS and am therefore mostly familiar with its components, such as Apt, systemd, networking etc. nowadays ROS is mostly handled in docker so I have less reason to stick to Ubuntu. Cachyos sounds fun and I am a big proponent of performance being taken seriously in the sense of UX. Also default BTRFS seems nice. How much pain is it to switch? I tend to tinker a bit and appreciate the large community around Ubuntu. I know arch has a good wiki. This is for my personal main pc and usecases are Steam and Lutris gaming, office work and ROS / c++ coding

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I've used both, been daily driving Cachy for a year or two now. CachyOS is a bit easier than plain Arch, in my opinion. I've been using Octopi (a gui tool that fronts the package manager) because I never fully got the hang of pacman yet. And I use Btrfs Assistant (another gui tool) instead of configuring snapper from the CLI.

Overall, it's more involved than something likr Ubuntu or Debian, but it feels manageable.

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 4 points 3 days ago

Pacman has the worst syntax of all package managers. pacman -Syyurape

apt is fine, and zypper is the friendliest, I think. It's similar to apt, but has obvious two-letter abbreviations for commands. It also has nice coloring of the output.

[–] starblursd@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

I just switched out octopi for Shelly (CachyOs also did on the latest iso) and Shelly is so much more user friendly, although I'll probably just stick to using terminal myself. You can manage packages from the repos aur flat pack and app image all-in-one GUI application