Hey, I have nothing to do with CachyOS or this Lemmy community, but just wanna say I love this distro.
It’s everything annoying about Arch Linux (to me) fixed, more convenient, and objectively fast as heck. I distro hopped for a long time, but have zero inclination to switch after finding CachyOS. I hardly need to tweak anything. It’s all optimal out of the box! And how many other distros offer their own AVX2/AVX512 packages by default?
…I haven’t even reinstalled CachyOS on my main PC for almost two years. I can’t say that for Ubuntu, Fedora, PopOS, or (heaven forbid) Manjaro, all of which are more ostensibly stable yet always seem to break, or get behind on fixes I need. Kionite was too finicky with the whole immutable thing. Garuda Linux was OK, but more bloated, and not nearly as “optimally preconfigured” as CachyOS.
I’m glad you’re liking CachyOS. I recently switched from endeavourOS because of the modified kernel and the difference for me was night and day. I haven’t had any major issues so far which is always good. I actually started seriously using Linux with Manjaro which started out good, until the bugs started to show. I don’t see myself switching anytime soon.