Nobara vs CachyOS

[HardCode4All]

@the-burrito-triangle

Furthermore, Arch and its derivatives are quite fragile (as all rolling releases are) and break often because package updates are not always synchronized with rebuilds.

In my limited experience so far (~9 months) Arch is not so “fragile” at all. The two times I could not boot were 1) a freeze at “Starting switch root” (which I still don’t have an explication or remedy for, but it never occurred since) and 2) when I accidentally created a 0-byte /boot/initramfs-linux-cachyos file

As long as you keep an LTS kernel as a fallback and don’t update every single day, I cannot confirm the infamous instability of Arch.

@the-burrito-triangle

For example, anytime glibc is updated, GNOME Shell breaks.

Using KDE, I don’t know about GNOME, but that sounds a lot like an partial upgrade scenario to me. Can some GNOME user confirm or falsify this?

@the-burrito-triangle

Anyways, I doubt that Nobara is actually faster than CachyOS / Arch in general. Just look at Phoronix benchmarks between distros.

@the-burrito-triangle

Anyways, I don’t think you can really compare Arch based distros, or any rolling distro, with point-release distros. They are like apples and oranges. Completely different build paradigms and philosophies.

In the end, most benchmarks are bullshit because […] There is no one-size-fits-all.