Hand-holding with the system requirements

[cscs]

I agree it could be a little more explanatory and/or better organized.. but just to touch on a few things ..

@could

“x86_64 Microarchitecture Level Support”

Haswell and later generations (e.g., Broadwell, Skylake, Coffee Lake, etc)

This quotation seems to conveniently skip the underlying tabs there that specify *-v3 and *-v4 processors. Yes this could be some more words there .. but, at least to me, it seems somewhat evident that these are the, well, ‘v3’ and ‘v4’ architectures referenced in other areas, ie; would be supported by the relevant v3 and v4 optimized repositories.

It is not that other hardware isnt supported at all .. just that other hardware wont get the ‘optimized repos’ benefits.

The section before that is what pertains to real general system ‘requirements’ ..

System Requirements

Before beginning with installation preparations, make sure that the computer used meets the necessary system requirements in order to run CachyOS. The installer uses an online installation process so a stable and relatively fast internet connection is mandatory.

• Minimum requirements

• Recommended requirements

• 3 GB RAM

• 30 GB of Storage Space (HDD/SSD)

• Stable internet connection

Thats the very first section on that page .. so its a little hard to miss.

And as shown there .. no such ‘generational’ processor requirements are listed.

I do have some critiques here though, as its not technically accurate.

32-bit and ARM processors are not supported. This would be true for Arch and most other major distros as well, but if we are listing requirements we might as well list the real ones, right?

Which I have also written about on another somewhat related thread.

@cscs

Also, what is referenced about “Haswell or newer” pertains to the optimized v3 repos .. it is not a system requirement. In fact you skipped the real requirements above that which are;

3 GB RAM
30 GB of Storage Space (HDD/SSD)
Stable internet connection

Which is not really accurate either - you need a x86_64 processor too - ARM or 32-bit will not work. And the RAM is negotiable. As is the storage space.

Intel Core2Duo and Core2Quad Compatibility? - #4 by cscs

@could

It would be extra nice to provide instructions about how to determine general system specs on Windows and Linux (and Mac OS if any apple devices are supported?). I think people who are not traditional Linux users may not know this stuff. Especially if they do not game.

Extra: the boot image could provide a friendly graphical tool that could be run and display all relevant information so user could check that way.

I thought there was a script that would print out your ‘level’ provided somewhere on the wiki but I am admittedly having trouble finding it. I am pretty sure it was the same as sourced here though:

GitHub - HenrikBengtsson/x86-64-level: x86-64-level - Get the x86-64 Microarchitecture...