hello Linux nerds. tis that time of the year where I choose to make the next year more difficult for myself.
DISTRO HOP!
I've been on Mint for the last 2 years and honestly. its held me down good! like really good!
but I'm getting annoyed by a few things and I want a fresh start again. preferably Wayland that works lol.
so what do we think of CachyOS? is it just new distro hype cycle? or actually good?
note: lenovo legion 5 gaming laptop (2020)
@imp3tuz I haven't used CachyOS but I'd be pretty skeptical personally - I've heard it described as "just piling experimental patches on top of everything with no quality control" and looking through its development history for a bit myself, that seemed about right. It feels like the kind of approach with a lot of short-term wins but a very long tail of unsustainable maintenance in the longer term...
@joepie91 thats what I'm thinking!! ive seen many distros pop up and dye out of thus kinda ethos. like I need something I can stick with for some years atleast.
i want good performance, and stability...
@imp3tuz I wouldn't expect a lot of performance difference between distros, honestly - they're generally going to use (or at least support) the same software and they're all going to be using the Linux kernel, so they should all perform about the same.
The only exception I can think of is distros that refuse to ship proprietary drivers, in particular for nvidia cards, since the FOSS drivers are often slower (or less stable) there. But aside from that, if some distro claims to be faster despite using the same parts, then they're probably doing custom patching and then it's worth asking why the upstream maintainer isn't using those patches themselves, what the hidden tradeoff is...
@joepie91 huh, thats a lot to think about. at this point I'm just like...base arch?? 😭
@imp3tuz If the Arch family of distros has your interest, and you're comfortable reading the wiki to get things up and running to your taste, honestly yeah? I think that'd be a good choice. Can always look at the internals of Arch derivatives to get inspiration on stuff to change or improve!
Goo Truther 
@joepie91 @imp3tuz there's always the much more minimal spins of Arch which basically just add a nice graphical installer with GPU driver support, and a very small distro-specific repo for quality of life tools. EndeavourOS is good for that. Things can get overboard with CachyOS, Manjaro, Garuda, etc in my opinion, since they start adding too much and diverging with too many patches from base Arch Linux.
@thufie @joepie91 second time endeavour has been suggested mmmm.
okiii