I’ve been using CachyOS for over two years and the same install/partition for over a year.
100% recommend, it’s my distro to end all distros, and I can’t imagine anything else being (for me) easier or more performance/efficient, while having the critical mass of the Arch community behind it and being relatively stable. It’s not like Manjaro, just screwing everything up with its changes and throwing away Arch’s work, yet on very rare occasions the CachyOS devs fix something that breaks in vanilla arch.
I’m not even gaming on it or following all the tweaks, but it’s amazing for dev work, servers, or anything really, and configured great ootb.
I just got a new, cheap, fanless micro computer that advertises itself as running Linux, and I spent today looking at Arch-based distros; Cachy made my short list, although I’ve never run it.
Is it suitable for running a headless, fanless mini-PC that’s raspy just going to be a snapclient host?
Is there a “Server” option in the installer? Once I get this set up, it’s going to be running entirely headless and without any peripherals (except the AUX out), and I’d like to strip out all of the unneeded software.
I’ve installed bare Arch before, and it’s a PITA I’d rather avoid; it’s easier to just install Garuda or Endeavor and then uninstall X and Wayland, and everything that depends on them. I’m wondering how Cachy fares in this situation.
Before anyone suggest I use a different, non-Arch distro for this: no. I understand pacman and yay, and I know where Arch puts files that every distro has a different opinion on locating. I’ll play with other distributions and switch when I find one I like more, but this is a device I just want to set up and forget about except for periodic upgrades.
Anyway, what are your opinions on CachyOS? I’ve been pretty happy with Endeavor for desktops, but I wouldn’t put it on a headless server.
Also, if it’s somehow not already automated, be sure to select the right packages for your CPU level. For instance, if it’s older (AVX2), you want the v3 packages, but if it’s zen 4+ there are packages specifically for that.
I’ve been using CachyOS for over two years and the same install/partition for over a year.
100% recommend, it’s my distro to end all distros, and I can’t imagine anything else being (for me) easier or more performance/efficient, while having the critical mass of the Arch community behind it and being relatively stable. It’s not like Manjaro, just screwing everything up with its changes and throwing away Arch’s work, yet on very rare occasions the CachyOS devs fix something that breaks in vanilla arch.
I’m not even gaming on it or following all the tweaks, but it’s amazing for dev work, servers, or anything really, and configured great ootb.
I just got a new, cheap, fanless micro computer that advertises itself as running Linux, and I spent today looking at Arch-based distros; Cachy made my short list, although I’ve never run it.
Is it suitable for running a headless, fanless mini-PC that’s raspy just going to be a snapclient host?
Is there a “Server” option in the installer? Once I get this set up, it’s going to be running entirely headless and without any peripherals (except the AUX out), and I’d like to strip out all of the unneeded software.
I’ve installed bare Arch before, and it’s a PITA I’d rather avoid; it’s easier to just install Garuda or Endeavor and then uninstall X and Wayland, and everything that depends on them. I’m wondering how Cachy fares in this situation.
Before anyone suggest I use a different, non-Arch distro for this: no. I understand pacman and yay, and I know where Arch puts files that every distro has a different opinion on locating. I’ll play with other distributions and switch when I find one I like more, but this is a device I just want to set up and forget about except for periodic upgrades.
Anyway, what are your opinions on CachyOS? I’ve been pretty happy with Endeavor for desktops, but I wouldn’t put it on a headless server.
They have a CLI installer, but honestly I’ve never installed it headless before. There is also a “barebones” image that’s closer to stock arch.
The main tweaks I’d recommend for a minipc server are enabling the power saving mode and rcu lazy: https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/general_system_tweaks/#enable-rcu-lazy
Also, if it’s somehow not already automated, be sure to select the right packages for your CPU level. For instance, if it’s older (AVX2), you want the v3 packages, but if it’s zen 4+ there are packages specifically for that.
deleted by creator