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#preach

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ScotsBear 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I've talked a great big lot of Linux lately so I'm placing a wee cap on that for the time being (The Doctor???) with a little appraisal of my new PC home, CachyOS.

Disclaimer: This is me Mug in hand contemplating my work. All opinions expressed herein are therefore my subjective own and all the fault of the coffee.

Cachyos feels a little bit like the future.

Its great claim to fame is being hyper-tuned for performance and I can definitely see it by comparison to Garuda. Linux generally feels nippier than Windows (whether it is or not is not for me to say); I remember well, moving to Linux, the feeling of being on an OS that wasn't fighting you or dragging it's arse doing stuff. But Cachy gives that feeling even compared to other Distros. That feeling is made more acute by Hyrland's glossy animation smoothness, selling itself by lovingly licking my brain each time it does anything, a clear step above even the new(ish) KDE Plasma 6. The two together are giving me some immense Happy.

On the alternate hand, I've never installed anything quite so minimal. There was really nothing installed beyond the absolute basics. Imagine buying a house without owning any furniture. That ain't a home.

I invested time this weekend adding furniture and decor but it wasn't until I got my /home files out of storage that I started to warm to the place.

CachyOS feels a little bit more Linux.

That's true. I feel closer to the Linux coal-face on this OS than I did cossetted by KDE's adherence to ancient WIMP/DE paradigms, and by Garuda's abundant setup generosity. I have config-file bashing in my future (bring it on!). Also, Hyprland feels a little like a frontier wilderness. It's still being built and there are no guarantees stuff will work.

As much as I love a comfort zone in software terms, I get bored. Some part of me needs to be out exploring. I rarely got that feeling on Windows. Remember Compiz? The spinny desktops-on-cube-faces hotness Linux was all about 7 or 8 years ago? That, to me, is Linux. Wide-eyed mavericks dreaming the future in order to make our lives better. Tiling Windows Managers are another great innovation, and Hyprland seems to have zeitgeist in it's sails. And now Cachy is here to give us even more on the same hardware. I'm now very glad I've scrubbed Windows off my drive; the contrast would be even starker now.

The ghost of Windows persists as a partition on my cloned backup drive, haunting me in the spooky corners of my mind. Therefore, after I'm sure I've got everything I need from the Garuda partition data-wise I will be re-Cloning to preserve what I have here - pure, unadulterated Linux.

Now, would anyone like to guide me through installing Hyprland dotfiles? ​:ablobsweats:​

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