I am Abhishek Barua. 42 year old Indian male from Kolkata. I did engineering in Information Technology and immediately worked for 2 years (2005-07) in IBM at Bangalore where I was disillusioned with the type and quality of work and the salary in India.
I jumped ship, left the software engineering profession and then did MBA from the best B-school of India (2007-09). Since then I have been working in the different profiles in managerial capacity (sales, operations, strategy) in a state owned Energy giant.
Though by profession I am a manager, from my heart I am still an engineer. I like to tinker with technology and I keep myself updated with technology landscape. My day starts with reading HN and not Economic times and so you can extrapolate.
** The CachyOS team deserves a standing ovation for their work** on creating a dream OS for the high performance focussed communities who strive to get the last drop of performance from their machine, like professional backend software developers, gamers, ML researchers, statisticians, etc.
** Salute to Peter1337 and his team** for the following:
being such responsive with minimum latency (just like their tuned kernels) in this Forum and Discord.
doing it for free but definitely incurring personal opportunity cost in lost time which could have been invested for their own personal gain.
such encyclopedic knowledge of the Amazon rainforest like ecosystem of the GNU Linux world where components are being sourced from different groups mostly not in sync.
not taking the easier path of packaging a GUI arch installer in the name of a distro. This fine tuning job is a serious work of engineering which other engineers appreciate.
@peter1337 - Brother please don’t hesitate to let me know if I can help this project with my skills.
Thank you for your really nice words!
Actually, we are trying to focus a lot on performance, but we dont sacrifice usability and user friendlyness, like other performance oriented distributions are.
We are all time searching for help and contributions, specially with the projects is growing more and more (Funfact, around 1 year ago we had around 50 times less traffic).
Just take a look on our github, and if you find projects you would like to help and equal.
What are the other performance focussed distros available in the market? I only know of clear linux from Intel which I have not dared to use because I haven’t heard of anyone using it. I won’t count linux from scratch and gentoo, because those distros are not pragmatic as they require build everything from source code.
What else am I missing?
That is what I like the most about this distro, reaching a balance between performance and usability.
I began my Linux journey in 2007 with Mandriva. I was one of the founder of the french community website called MLO (Mandriva Linux Online at first and then Mageia Linux Online) and contributed to packaging and transalations for the distro a couple of years . When Mandriva cease to exist, the devs of Mandriva created a new distro called Mageia (still existing today). I didn’t like it much, then I migrated to openSuse and to Ubuntu until 2014, the year that I left the Linux world because my main objective with my PC was gaming and in 2014, the prospect of gaming on Linux was really not good.
Then I grew tired of Windows and don’t like at all the path Windows 11 is going. I heard about Proton and how it is easier now to game on Linux. It’s been 2 months now that I returned to Linux. I tried Nobara for a couple of weeks and migrated to CachyOS and boy it is by far the best experience I had with Linux. Never wanted to try Arch based Linux in the past, but now I have no regrets. it is not perfect, but it is really awesome. What a great distro for gaming and I also praise the great work achieved by the team on their free time, I know what it is.
It’s true. I originally talked with ptr1337 before CachyOS was a thing, over his kernel customizations. After much back and forth and benchmarking, I had one of the best, most performant, most customized kernels I could ever dream of.
Fast forward a couple years and now it’s a whole OS, and I haven’t needed to make a single change to the kernel. Any further customization ends up making my system less performant or being completely pointless.
It really is the best performance distro I’ve ever tried.
