Nothing grave - would just like to hear a few other experiences

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I had two very different experiences with Cachy. My main PC has these specs:

| Machine     ││ MS-7E26  1.0                                               │
│ OS          ││ CachyOS   [vrolling] [x86_64]                              │
│ Kernel      ││ Linux  [v6.17.6-2-cachyos]                                 │
│ Running     ││ 152 days                                                   │
│ CPU         ││ AMD Ryzen 7 8700G  [C:16] [5.18 GHz]                       │
│ GPU         ││ NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060  [C:3584] [2.10 GHz] [Discrete]    │
│ GPU         ││ AMD Radeon Graphics  [C:12] [2.90 GHz] [Integrated]        │
│ Memory      ││ 4.25 GiB / 14.73 GiB (29%)                                 │

I installed Cachy as the only OS on one m.2 SSD and everything just worked. After playing around for 2 weeks, I added a better m.2 SSD and did a fresh installation, this time separating /home to its own partition, also with two different rsync-scripts to backup / and /home and all the bells and whistles. It all went fine and as you can see, the system is 152 days old now and still runs smooth as butter :crossed_fingers: even though I had to roll back to a previous btrfs-snapshot at least twice ( because I did things that I should probably not have done).

Then I have a Schenker VIA 15 laptop with these specs:

│ Machine     ││ SCHENKER VIA 15                                            │
│ OS          ││ TUXEDO OS noble  [v24.04.3 LTS] [x86_64]                   │
│ Kernel      ││ Linux  [v6.14.0-113033-tuxedo]                             │
│ Running     ││ 13 days                                                    │
│ CPU         ││ AMD Ryzen 5 3500U  [C:8] [2.10 GHz]                        │
│ GPU         ││ AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics  [C:8] [1.20 GHz] [Integrated]  │
│ Memory      ││ 3.99 GiB / 13.58 GiB (29%)                                 │

I needed to keep Windows on that machine, so I went for a dual-boot thing. First with Mint, then with Kubuntu. All went fine, so I wanted to try out Cachy with the same setup. And I failed miserably. I never got through the installation process, so I ditched Cachy and installed Tuxedo OS.

So from my very personal point of view I’d say

  1. it is best not to try a dual-boot setup when you are new to Linux, because that is a quite complex thing (and actually, the whole setup died one day all of a sudden, leaving me with an unbootable Windows from one day to the next without me changing anything)
  2. from what I’ve read here in the forum, Cachy on a laptop is a hit-or-miss-game: for some it works, for some it never does. No clue as to why.
  3. Cachy OS is not a distro for computer “illiterates”. You need to have quite some understanding of filesystems and operating systems and you need to be willing to climb a steep learning curve. With these things set, you’ll love your Cachy OS pretty soon. Otherwise, you will fail and you will be frustrated and you should stick to a more simple distro like Mint or Zorin.