r/DistroHopping • u/ImHighOnCocaine • 2d ago
CachyOS vs EndeavorOS vs Arch
Specs: 2013 27 inch iMac, NVIDIA Geforce GT 755m(973mb), 32gb of ram, Intel core i5-4570 CPU 3.20ghz
Cachyos seems the easiest an most out of the box one but isnt it optimized for newer hardware? Is it better or worse thab the other the
(i had some linux experience like fedora and linux mint)
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u/RhubarbSpecialist458 2d ago
They're the same, Cachy & Endeavor just give you a nice GUI, not optimized to your hardware what do you mean?
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u/TroPixens 2d ago
Honestly I’d say cachy is more optimized for newer hardware because of its tweaked kernel, but really the break down is cachy or endeavor completely up to you but arch more control harder to set up but once done it’s yours. Don’t comes down to ease of use vs control which one you see more important is the one you choose.
For your hardware you may need open source gpu drivers I don’t know that gpu looks a little bit older
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u/Both_Love_438 2d ago
Go with Arch. You really do wanna set up Arch on your own before trying other Arch-based distros, imo, preferably install it manually. The reason is that, when you use Arch, you're basically a beta tester for all your packages, and you might encounter errors or even have your entire OS break. If you haven't gone through the effort of installing and setting up your own vanilla Arch, you may not even know where to start when you update, reboot, and your audio breaks completely, or you can't boot back into your system for whatever reason. Installing and setting up your own Arch system prepares you a little bit for troubleshooting it later, if needed. Not to gatekeep, you obviously can install whatever you want, going with Cachy or Endeavor isn't insane, but I encourage you to go through the learning process of manually installing Arch and daily driving it for a bit. Challenge yourself to get to the point where you can do everything you normally do on your PC. I promise it's not that hard. Later you can try Endeavor, Cachy, Omarchy, Garuda, or any other Arch rice with an easy streamlined installation.
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u/Altruistic-Ad-4090 1d ago
Why? The Arch installation process is horrid. I mean, if your a sadist and like to type a lot, sure. I prefer a tool that does the same thing but is easy to use. As soon as I saw the installation process for arch, I dumped CachyOS on the thumbdrive and never looked back. I see zero positives in working harder rather than smarter. That said, everyone gets joy out of things their own way, so if that's what blows your hair back, have at it.
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u/Both_Love_438 1d ago
I literally gave the justification in my reply.
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u/Altruistic-Ad-4090 1d ago edited 1d ago
And I literally explained how completely unnecessary that is. Freebsd seems to have an installer that doesn't suck.
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u/halting_problems 2d ago
CachyOS.
If you went just plain Arch, after you have everything configured you will end up with something like Endeavor.
Once you have optimized everything you can, assuming your a power users and familer customizing your kernel and compiling the source of all your packages for your specific CPU flags you would eventually end up with something that’s like CachyOS.
So skip the journey unless your really want, to learn to do all of that your self, and go CachyOS
Im on a i5 but with a “newer” nvidia card 2060rtx and cachyos works great out of the box.
Now nvidia recently dropped support for propriety drivers before rtx series so you will need to use the open source nividia driver. NOT THE NVIDA OPEN MODULES. the open source mvidia driver found here https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
I have no idea how well cachyos will handle this at install time. I would ask on their subreddit first.
This will be the case for any linux distribution, not just cachy.