Post #1782341
2026-04-28 11:59 UTC
I’ve used both, been daily driving Cachy for a year or two now. CachyOS is a bit easier than plain Arch, in my opinion. I’ve been using Octopi (a gui tool that fronts the package manager) because I never fully got the hang of pacman yet. And I use Btrfs Assistant (another gui tool) instead of configuring snapper from the CLI.
Overall, it’s more involved than something likr Ubuntu or Debian, but it feels manageable.
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@starblursd@lemmy.zip 2026-04-28 12:46
I just switched out octopi for Shelly (CachyOs also did on the latest iso) and Shelly is so much more user friendly, although I’ll probably just stick to using terminal myself. You can manage packages from the repos aur flat pack and app image all-in-one GUI application
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@Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 2026-04-28 20:32
Pacman has the worst syntax of all package managers. pacman -Syyurape apt is fine, and zypper is the friendliest, I think. It’s similar to apt, but has obvious two-letter abbreviations for commands. It also has nice coloring of the output.