I have been an Arch user for a decade. This year I switched to CachyOS to give it a go. Performance (for me at least) has indeed improved but its not a massive jump.

I don’t find it particularly ‘bloated’. There wasn’t much I had to uninstall after installation and the installer gives you the option to deselect packages. List of packages here: https://github.com/CachyOS/cachyos-calamares/blob/cachyos-systemd-qt6/src/modules/netinstall/netinstall.yaml

Its also not as simple as many people claim to switch to CachyOS just by changing repos. CachyOS also has some of its own configs that would also need to be imported. I found it was easier just to install Cachy and remove unwanted packahes than switch repos on my Arch install and fiddle around with a bunch of configs and change some packages and settings.

So far I have found CachyOS a little more buggy than my install of Arch. But not so much that I want to switch back. So far the slight performance increases are keeping it worth it.

If, gods forbid, CachyOS ever stopped being maintained, it will be easy to switch back to vanilla Arch.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arrowlake-cachyos

What would you recommend then?

Default but In use fstab to keep my home folders (Documents, Pictures, Music, Video) on a separate HDD.

Doesn’t mean you have to repeat it 🙂

This is my usecase too. I don’t personally feel any need for an immutable, but for family that regularly jams up their systems, bit makes sense. Unfortunately when I tried Aurora, it just wouldn’t boot no matter what. No idea why. Mint on the other hand just worked. Hopefully Aurora will get developed more and just work also because I would love to use it for family.

Upvoting but please stop using the term “bricking” this way. Bricking is permanent and there is no recovery. You have turned your device into a useless brick.

There’s a book called Gamechanger by L.X. Beckett that explores the idea of a society that is completely open with zero privacy. Your life is always watched and anyone and everyone can see. Pretty much the only thing left private is thoughts. It was an interesting read and my only wish was that the author had explored the negatives and struggles of a fully transparent society more as I feel like this was glossed over too much.

I watch a lot of his videos. But I didn’t watch this one because I loathe and resent clickbait titles. I would imagine a fair number of people chose not to watch and down voted because of the clickbait title alone.

Maybe shouldn’t have used a clickbait title then?

Will it work running in a VM with pass through?

This is kinda what we do. But in our case we use both because personal storage is not cheap in this country and thus our self-hosted storage is limited. All out favourites that we watch repeatedly stays on the home server but we use Stremio and Torbox (because no way we’re going to use RD after theyb doxed customers) for one offs, shows were trying out, etc.

I don’t feel like this adequately accounts for stupid people though. The number of times I’ve seen people freak out over a perfectly legit website because a cert warning popped up or others who have ignored the warning and clicked through to a scam or malware… 🤦‍♀️

My longest running Arch install was 6yo. I cleaned it up every so often (old configs, left over packages, old caches, etc) but beyond that it really didn’t need a reinstall. It never got slow over time (unlike Windows). At worst, I would sometimes delete confif files if there were major changes just so I could start fresh with a particular package/app.

In fact, it would have gone longer but I built a new PC. On that PC my Arch install was 4yo before I took the plunge to try CachyOS.

And yet I was saying just today there’s no way I’d go to the movies to see it anyway… Because Microsoft. Yet another example of how they’d never get money anyway but no doubt there’ll be another article claiming they lost billions from the leak or some bs

You do realise that most medical research these days is for-profit? The only thing opening these databases to medical research will do is increase the profit lining the pockets of the already mega wealthy (and corrupt) industrial medical complex.

Too bad, its April 2nd for me lol

Came here to say the same thing. Using the term “bricking” in the title had me very confused. It would be catastrophic if this was actually bricking computers.

If you want to get really technical, each Signal account actually has a ‘secret’ account number that the phone number is linked to. The phone number requirement is actually a means to reduce spam and scam accounts.

Maybe its a shared device that kids also use? We have a laptop that’s shared amongst everyone and I constantly come back to finding random desktop wallpapers from Minecraft to Undertale to Pokemon and I think the latest is Transformers related lol.