I switched to Cachy 2 months ago and I think my distro hopping days are over. It’s so, so responsive and reliable. People scared me off arch-based distros for being bleeding edge but so far it’s been very stable, I haven’t encountered any major issues.
If you’re thinking about switching, do it. Switched off from Bazzite and I’m not looking back.
Battery life is really good, on par with Windows on my current laptop. For some reason battery life was really bad on Bazzite, like 30% worse or so. I don’t know how it compares to other distros.
That’s what I’m finding. I was on Pop-os for a while and battery life was amazing. I started hopping again and found a real drop on Debian, Elementary, and now Ubuntu.
If you don’t mind my asking, what are your main use cases? Mine are mainly browser-based and documents.
Performance should be relatively the same across every distro, there are benchmarks online you can check. I didn’t like Bazzite with my short time using it though, being immutable means you have to jump through hoops to install something that isn’t available as a flatpak. Like I mentioned in another comment the battery life was also not great, and I found it to be a little slow in general.
I switched to Cachy 2 months ago and I think my distro hopping days are over. It’s so, so responsive and reliable. People scared me off arch-based distros for being bleeding edge but so far it’s been very stable, I haven’t encountered any major issues.
If you’re thinking about switching, do it. Switched off from Bazzite and I’m not looking back.
Any experience with laptop battery life on Cachy?
Battery life is really good, on par with Windows on my current laptop. For some reason battery life was really bad on Bazzite, like 30% worse or so. I don’t know how it compares to other distros.
That’s what I’m finding. I was on Pop-os for a while and battery life was amazing. I started hopping again and found a real drop on Debian, Elementary, and now Ubuntu.
If you don’t mind my asking, what are your main use cases? Mine are mainly browser-based and documents.
When I’m on battery I mainly use the browser. When I’m plugged in it’s usually gaming.
I was looking at Bazzite too. I just haven’t made the switch because I’m not sure if Nvidia performance drops are a big issue.
Performance should be relatively the same across every distro, there are benchmarks online you can check. I didn’t like Bazzite with my short time using it though, being immutable means you have to jump through hoops to install something that isn’t available as a flatpak. Like I mentioned in another comment the battery life was also not great, and I found it to be a little slow in general.