• BladeFederation@piefed.socialOP
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    2 days ago

    Yeah this is the real reason I prefer it. A sane installer, auto installing Nvidia drivers, auto setting up Snapper, a good GUI package manager that actually manages everything.

    The customized kernel, and performance boosts that may or may not actually exist are just a bonus.

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        1 day ago

        it has something called “Shelly” which is funny because months ago when the dev of Shelly released the thing I said “you should honestly get in contact with the CachyOS folks” and now it does have Shelly.

        It’s a pretty great GUI for installing AUR stuff, packages, and flatpaks.

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        Shelly yes and they actively develop it with integrations of flatpak aur appimage and native packages

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          It is also a command line package manager (like pacman), meaning it integrated with the system better than anything, even YaST on openSUSE. It doesn’t require a reboot for updates the way KDE Discover would for example (though occasionally I run into bugs if I don’t reboot), and also seems to manage proprietary Nvidia drivers that CachyOS downloaded for me.

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            It doesn’t require a reboot for updates the way KDE Discover would for example

            it does not require that. turn that off in the system settings, and enjoy the consequences

            the consequences:

            (though occasionally I run into bugs if I don’t reboot)

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              They also have one own graphical package manager. I didn’t install Shelly because I personally hate GTK+, but I installed that one because it uses Qt (I’m in KDE Plasma). I don’t remember the name rn though.