I’m asking whether it’s more like “arch with some custom spice” or rather something vaguely similar to arch like “ubuntu is like debian”. I tried manjaro long, long time ago and can’t remember much more than using AUR being mess due to not really being arch…
While I see the analogy, saying “CachyOS to Arch is like Ubuntu to Debian” with a straight face is not something I can do.
If you try to interact with an Ubuntu install like it’s Debian, you’ll get very frustrated very quickly.
If you try to interact with a CachyOS install like it’s Arch, you probably won’t even notice you are not on Arch, besides a couple of different package names.
They use their own repos, but they don’t hold back the packages. The reason for having separate repos is recompiling packages for newer architectures. It gives a little performance boost for most of them. AUR works totally fine.
Does CachyOS use real Arch repos or is it like Manjaro which holds packages for “testing”?
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I’m asking whether it’s more like “arch with some custom spice” or rather something vaguely similar to arch like “ubuntu is like debian”. I tried manjaro long, long time ago and can’t remember much more than using AUR being mess due to not really being arch…
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While I see the analogy, saying “CachyOS to Arch is like Ubuntu to Debian” with a straight face is not something I can do. If you try to interact with an Ubuntu install like it’s Debian, you’ll get very frustrated very quickly. If you try to interact with a CachyOS install like it’s Arch, you probably won’t even notice you are not on Arch, besides a couple of different package names.
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I know it’s not a perfect analogy. It was just a first thing that crossed my mind…
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They use their own repos, but they don’t hold back the packages. The reason for having separate repos is recompiling packages for newer architectures. It gives a little performance boost for most of them. AUR works totally fine.
OK, thank you, this pretty much explains everything.