Some opinions on my experience of using CachyOS as my main distro of choice
It’s been a year of using CachyOS on my main laptop as a daily driver. Never faced any major issue which cannot be fixed. The system is snappy and quick to respond. The effects of customized packages and custom kernels builds are quite visible. Although base Arch in itself is very light and snappy. For a normal user who doesn’t play games or compile software will not see much difference in speed between Arch and CachyOS but is still worth while to have those optimizations.
Unlike Omarchy which has ufw installed and rules written but it doesn’t enable it by default. The user needs to enable it manually. That’s already a plus for security.
A GUI application is installed called Shelly which installs, updates and manages packages in CachyOS. It’s a GTK app. For me, searching of packages were made easier than using a terminal.
CachyOS already provides a lot of options to use as a desktop in Calamares installer. Many popular options like GNOME, KDE Plasma with Window managers like hyprland , niri , etc. These are already configured for ease of use. The window manager are also configured with mostly sane defaults.
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