Former Manjaro users, what's CachyOS like?

[9a3eedi]

Thanks, i think I got all my questions answered. Looks like CachyOS it is. Meanwhile on my desktop computer, I’ll stick to Manjaro for now, because formatting/reinstalling is a pain.

@mattsteg

recommend cachy for people who know ZFS and want a distro that supports it well. And I recommend ZFS for all of the things it is great for. For a single disk, stripe, or mirror that you want to use familiar GUI tools with and don’t otherwise care about zfs btrfs is probably a better choice and more peole can answer any questions that arise.

Guess I’ll stick to btrfs then. I’m not running a NAS or a RAID or anything like that, I mostly just want snapshots

I personally think btrfs is a bit overkill even for snapshots. Ideally, what I really want is basically something like ext4 with snapshots.. I believe that’s how NTFS works. None of the pervasive CoW or subvolume complexity of btrfs. Don’t think that exists for Linux though. Maybe bcachefs? But that’s not ready yet for primetime.

@mattsteg

Just don’t do partial ugrades (i.e. pacman -Sy) ti make this happen - simply just don’t chase every upgrade and set a schedule that is comfortable to you.

Sounds good to me. I’ve been avoiding partial upgrades on Manjaro anyway.

@Dirge

You can find some good insights in the comment section of this weird article of Phoronix trying to benchmark a scheduler, which doesn’t make any sense at all.

Well there needs to be an objective way to evaluate a scheduler. “Responsiveness” seems like something that might be hard to measure objectively. I now wonder if there has been any objective test of the responsiveness of CachyOS’s scheduler.