CachyOs installation guide

General
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Hello everyone, I hope you’re all doing well.

I’ve decided to switch from Windows to Linux, and the CachyOs distribution

is the one I liked the most.

I’ve seen tutorials that showed me how to make the switch.

They say to back up your data. For my personal data, that’s not

a problem, but for my browser data, I don’t know how

to do it. I use Firefox and Brave. I have extensions, notably OneTab, which

contains a lot of links I don’t want to lose, as well as passwords, etc.

I’ve already booted a Calus USB 3.0 drive with BalenaEtcher.

I have a PC with the following specs:

-- System family: HP200

-- Processor type: AMD 3020e with Radeon graphics.

- Processor speed: 1200 MHz

- RAM: 8 GB

But for the RAM, there’s a hardware component—some graphics thing, sorry, I forgot the name—

that takes up 2.1 GB of the 8 GB, so only 5.9 GB is available.

I know, there are plenty of tutorials on YouTube explaining how to do the installation.

But they never mention the specifics of their PC, and I have a lab assessment coming up soon. So I can’t just go in hoping it works.

That’s why I’m turning to the community—please help me set up the best possible installation of Cachyos for my needs.

For more info, I use software like VirtualBox, Postgres, Arduino, GNS3, VSCode, etc., for my classes.

Thanks in advance.

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Since this is the case, do you have enough space on your drive for a dual boot?
You can dual boot until you are more comfortable with Cachyos and you are sure the software you depend on works on linux, then you can remove Windows.

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I have a 500 GB hard drive. But I’ve heard that dual-booting slows down a computer.

4

The profiles are mostly portable, I think. if I search for “backup onetab” i see in the official documents there us an export and import function.

Ideally you just install cachy leaving your Windows alone just in case you forgot to bring sonething over, but all of that stuff is generally easy to import.

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Hello and welcome,

Who/what/when/where/how/why? What was the actual claim?

Multibooting has more or less no impact on the performance of any one operating system. You only run one of them at a time.

It may have some sort of minor impact on boot up times maybe?

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For Firefox there is an official article that explains how to transfer your personal data such as bookmarks and passwords to a new computer: Client Challenge
Brave has this post in their frequently asked questions (FAQ): Helpful Info & FAQ for Brave Users - #34 by Saoiray - Community Resources - Brave Community

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Hi, thank you so much. I heard that a long time ago on YouTube, so I don’t remember who said it. I’ll give it a try and let you know how it goes.

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Hi, Oh, I see. I’ll check it out.

9

A big thank you to everyone for your help.