About the installation process

New laptop, new distro. In a few hours I went into four Cachy installations (checked different DE on my old and new laptop) so I decided to leave some feedback. First I want to thank and congratulate to the developers, I am really surprised by the performance and the look and the feel. However here some very minor quirks on the installation process:

  • In Cachy Hello, the “launch installer” button is not very responsive. It does nothing if one is offline, otherwise it takes some time to pop up. Now that’s undestandable, but I finished up everytime launching multiple instances of it on basically every installation.

  • In Cachy Hello, if one is disconnected the “launch installer” button does nothing. It should pop-up saying that an internet connection is required.

  • Once the installer is launched, GRUB is the rightmost and automatically selected bootloader. What I mean, is that if the user press Enter, Grub is selected as if it was the default choice. But systemd is the default choice, and this is not immediately noticeable.

  • I didn’t look much into this. It seems to me that one can choose the shortcut to switch the keyboard layout, but at the same time can choose only one keyboard layout.

  • I am not sure about this either. But the default packages for sway and hyprland contain quite a few x11 dependences. Maybe I am wrong about it, and didn’t look in detail nor I have an idea on the current wayland/X11 situation; just I would have expected to have some xorg libraries to be installed later according to dependencies of what the user installs.

In any case, it was a smooth experience and I absolutely love the distro. llama-cpp runs like it never did.

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Hi! Thanks for the feedback. I’ll start addressing some notable ones.

Yes, the installer is fetched online so it takes time to download.

I’ll forward this to the correct people in the team so the UX can be improved in the future. Thank you!

While sway and hyprland are indeed wayland compositors, it still depends on xwayland which is used for legacy X applications under wayland compositors. This must be what you’re seeing by x11 dependencies.