So I’m using CachyOS with KDE Plasma. I guess cutting-edge is tolerable as long as there’s an efficient backup and rollback mechanism. Limine and Snapper make this super convenient. It is configured to take snapshots hourly, daily, and whenever pacman installs packages. I’m using a Btrfs filesystem with LUKS encryption. Limine is a boot manager that allows you to select snapshots to boot into from the boot menu.

I can confirm the OS is “blazingly fast”. CachyOS also provides tooling for setting up and optimizing gaming on Linux, which is nice. Since it is based on Arch Linux, I have access to Arch Linux package repositories, including the AUR. This means I don’t need Linuxbrew. I also have my usual Flatpaks.

It’s also nice to be back on a normal, mutable filesystem and not have to use Distrobox. Though, to be fair, that was only a minor inconvenience on Bazzite and I got used to it pretty quickly to where it didn’t get in the way. But still, it’s nice to not have to do that.

I did not really plan this. It just kinda happened today. But I look forward to exploring CachyOS as a daily driver, for a while at least.