I have been thinking about switching from CachyOS back to vanilla Arch Linux, but I want to use the CachyOS kernel instead of the normal Linux kernel.
Background Information:
I have been daily driving CachyOS for around a year and before that I was daily driving Arch Linux for 1 1/2 years. I know the very basic commands (pacman, sudo, ls, man) but nothing in depth. I also have installed Arch Linux manually a few times and have a basic surface level understanding off what the commands do (I have surface level understanding of things like services, daemons, etc).
I really love the benefits of CachyOS kernel and CachyOS repos but I really enjoyed setting up Arch Linux from scratch. What would be the benefits and downsides of installing vanilla Arch Linux with the CachyOS kernel? What are some things I should know.
This sounds more like what you actually want to do is your own Arch install and then add Cachy to that - so you get a custom setup the Arch way .. but then access to all Cachy things, including the kernels, as well as architecture-optimized packages.
You would just follow this;
I myself have only ever done a single Cachy-ISO install and that was just a test.
The system I use daily was a conversion like described in the link.
So you would be in good company.
Coming from Arch, I switched to CachyOS but did a mostly manual setup - configuring Btrfs with a custom subvolume layout and tweaking a few other things here and there. During installation, I only installed the packages I actually needed.
Honestly, I don’t notice much difference between CachyOS and Arch besides the repositories. The main reason I went with CachyOS was for the extra optimizations and “special sauce” they include for modern hardware, especially since I’m using a newer laptop.
Went with No Dsktop during the desktop selection part and unselected every package just to select the one i needed.
