• czech@kbin.social
    30·
    11 months ago

    I had been off Linux for a few years but recently returned to arch. I didnt feel like mucking around with everything from scratch so I tried the included install script. Next thing I knew I was in a full xfce environment with everything working out of the box.

    If arch can drop you in a full DE of your choosing, from an install script, what is the point of these other options? Genuinely wondering what’s going on with them and if I should check them out.

    • RickyRigatoni
      131·
      11 months ago

      These other arch distros usually come with pre-compiled kernels with special options for different platforms, repos with different package versions to offer some level of stability, custom scripts to manage services and updating, and their own config files for various things. It’s pretty much what you do with regular arch but someone else is doing most of it for you.

      • srcEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        So they’re just desktop environment reskins? With sons basic config files changed? What’s the point? You can download some packages and files any time from normal Arch for the same outcome.

    • DaTingGoBrrr
      2·
      11 months ago

      I plan to go these route but to also bring in the Garuda repos and some tweaks they make. I am running Garuda right now and it works really well for gaming and I like some of their scripts, like garuda-update

    • SunRed@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      11 months ago

      Even if I don’t use this distro and just use plain Arch myself, I know that CachyOS is a bit more special as it at least compiles the arch repo packages for a newer x86 target and with additional compiler optimizations again that improves performance on newer CPUs. You can achieve the same on an Arch system with the wonderful ALHP project I use on one system but Cachy certainly makes this more accessible.