Why I wont install CachyOS

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I develop software. I have Fedora on one nvme, SUSE’s leap on a second, EndeavourOS on a third, and I wanted to replace EndeavourOS with CachyOS.

My normal practice is to assign a full SSD/NVME to a distribution, as I do want to contain that to the dedicated item.

CachyOS was given /dev/sdb, but when it summarized what it was going to do, it also included some installation onto my /dev/nvme (the current boot drive).

If I assign a full disk, I want the installation program to respect that decision.

Why CachyOS in lieu of EndeavourOS? CachyOS will allow me to use ZFS and experience as the default file system.

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Hello, perhaps you’re using some automatic partitioning during the installation.

Have you already tried to do a manual partitioning as reported in the CachyOS wiki ?

It consists in creating the boot and root partitions with the reported parameters. This worked for me.

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I have tried to install CachyOS with Gnome and with zfs. As sub-interfaces, I included KDE. and printing support.
The installation completes OK, however, on reboot, the Gnome GUI does not start. Terminal mode does work as expected. My next test is with KDE alone. I will post results. I was using a prev version of CachyOS that worked well.

I use CachyOS to test the following:

It validates any fstab and reformats same. It can do conversions too.

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General rule, don’t install gnome and kde at the same time, atleast create another user to use gnome and another to use KDE or else you will have a hell of a time to fix the configs which both of these try to use

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I have 2 M.2 SSD’s and have OS’s on both. If you use the automated partitioner in the installer and the drive is blank it will create a boot partition on that drive. Then when you go to install on the second drive it will create a new boot partition on that drive. Unless CachyOS is doing something different it’s boot partition will always be on the drive Cachy is installing to not on the secondary SSD.

As for ANY two desktop environments alway have them in separate OS’s. it is never a good idea to have more then one desktop environment per OS.

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Nah, you can have as many DEs on the same OS. You just have to know something like KDE and Gnome sharing the some same configs (and specifially like KDE overwriting some GTK configs).

So multiple DEs are fine, but always recommended to use separate users for different DEs. Unless you are sure that they don’t share some configs with each other.

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Lets try that again. More likely than not each DE will break or change things in the other DE(s).

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Not true the files install for all uses and you select which use you want in each DE.

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Works OK for Fedora, In fact I can with Fedora do KDE, Gnome,XFCE and other.

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After many tries, I have a running CachyOS with ZFS.

With the installer program, if you set the distro inteface (btrfs, ext4, zfs) first and then choose the partition/drive, the installation program crashes.

To succeed, since I have a Canadian French keyboard, I long ago discovered that I must set the keyboard to “Canadian French” before beginning the installation. It also matters what happens if you choose grub or other interface.

I would like to know if it is possible with the CachyOS linux, toI do a normal btrfs installation, and then create a partition with zfs after reboot.

Fish may be a good alternative to bash, however, I am and really old dog, and I have a hard time learning new tricks, ergo I revise my logon to use bash. (BTW, I am age 85, been with Linux since it was born).

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