CachyOS is great, but I returned to MX

[J_J_Sloan]

I’d been using CachyOS for a couple months. It’s impressive, very fast and great for gaming. But I noticed that the package selection, even with AUR, is not as good as Debian. CachyOS always has the latest version of everything, which has its benefits, but the constant updates, and a kernel update every 3 or 4 days is a lot of churn for my tastes.

So I decided to start with MX again. After replacing my old Nvidia card with a Radeon, gaming is great again on MX, and it’s good to have access to that great collection of software, just an apt-get away.

In addition to the stock Debian kernels, MX also has gaming-optimized kernels available.

I’m running 6.17.13-1-liquorix-amd64, and it’s been behaving very well.

[shybry747 (Bryan Simmonds)]

As I have said many times. Debian is king. Interestingly I have found that most of the software I was using from the AUR was taken from a .deb file and converted for use in Arch. Maybe @hydn might know if there is a metric that shows how many software packages in the AUR comes from Debian.

I myself have a Radeon card to install in my computer. I am going to use it to return to using 3 monitors. When choosing between Nvidia and Radeon, I was aware that Nvidia cards needed extra drivers while Radeon tend to work from the current firmware.