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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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[–] KernelTale@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I switched from Mint to CachyOS also as a developer. As I do a lot of piracy I depend on Bottles and flatpak to play pirates games a bit more seculy. When flatpak had an issue a few months back with signing their programs bottles didn't work properly as I had different versions of Nvidia drivers. Up to date native and almost up to date flatpak. I am not sure how others distros handled this but be prepared that updates might break something. Study a bit about AUR of you decide to go there and try out Cachy for a bit before fully switching on a spare disk or something. I wanted to run a local LLM and virtualbox but I had problems with that likely due to my kernel???? So I am not sure how well it works with docker. All in all, try it out and expect a slight increase in difficulty.

[–] Evilschnuff@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

Thanks, yeah dual boot is probably the right call, especially since I should probably not tinker with a project deadline ahead 😅