I am just going to tell you guys a story of my linux journey, if you are interested, you can read.

So i have a laptop, which have intel i3 7020U, 4gb RAM and a 256gb of storage. Windows 10 lagged a lot on my laptop and windows 11 was even not available for it. So i switched to the iot ltsc version, still no difference. Then i switched to ubuntu my first ever linux experience. It was very fast, snappy, i started to love it but i leaved it, because my touchpad was not working very well on it (yeah i just leaved it for some touchpad issue) then i tried linux mint, zorin and fedora, the touchpad had the same issue. Unless i switched to opensuse, my touchpad worked great on it. After some days i just got bored and i wanted to distro hope again and i found out fedora just got a new update and the touchpad was working great! I remained there for 2-3 days but i hated gnome experience Even on a laptop. So i switched to mint and then zorin and then i thought to try something new. I tried Arch. I used kde with it, and i just loved it the most. First two install of arch was manual and then after that all the installations was using archinstall. I have reinstalled arch 100+ times i don’t know i just like to do that. I tried xfce, i stayed on hyprland for so much time, i tried lxqt, and so much, Then shifted to kde again. And one day on fmhy i find a index of linux distros in which cachyos was ranking out of every distro. I just tried it and what the hell it was sooo fast, I just don’t know what to say but i am still on it (i have reinstalled it like 20 times) but I love cachyos from my heart. On my laptop with that specs i hit 200+ fps on minecraft in max settings and max chunks which is great.

I even recommended linux to my friend, now my one friend use Arch and he doesn’t want to switch to cachy because he didn’t like the name :). And on my friend laptop i installed cachyos and he is loving it so far he said this laptop was unusable and now works super fast

    • hayvan@piefed.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 month ago

      When I was a student I had a period when trying different installations was fun. Disto hopping or reinstalling can be a nice hobby.

      • aliceitc@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        221·
        1 month ago

        I can understand distro hopping, to try to find the best suited for you. But why reinstall the same system if it’s working? That I really don’t get… But to each their own I guess!

        • hayvan@piefed.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          I’m with you here, I’ve never done the over-and-over installation myself but since you can take different paths with Arch, I can see someone enjoy exploring those paths.

          • jcarax@beehaw.org
            1·
            1 month ago

            Arch is absolutely easy to break. But it’s also easy to not break.

            I’ve been using it for years, only reinstall when I get a new computer (could image, but meh) or when I’m changing desktop environments. This last time when I switched to KDE, I installed Cachy. It’s fine, but it’s a bit less control that I’d rather have. So when I switch back to Cosmic, Lab WC, or XFCE I’ll go back to Arch.

            And to be clear, the loss of control isn’t entirely loss of control. It’s defaults that I don’t like, built up by someone else. It puts me into subtractive mode to remove and replace, whereas with Arch proper it’s more fully additive, installing and configuring what I want on a very very streamlined base.

    • Harmonics041@feddit.uk
      8·
      1 month ago

      Yeah the main thing I liked about arch is I could have the same install on a system for like 5 years. I installed basically everything so I knew how everything worked and could tinker.

    • thakur0@lemmy.zipOP
      6·
      1 month ago

      I just like it. Possibly you also like something which can sound stupid to someone and fun to someone, and for me it is fun ;)

      • vandsjov@feddit.dk
        5·
        1 month ago

        In my young days, I would Norton Defrag the hell out of DOS and later Windows. Just watching it work was relaxing. And I probably didn’t know what else to do other than playing games.

      • Joelk111@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 month ago

        Doing the exact same thing over and over again with no reason to be doing it doesn’t sound very fun… Usually I can understand why someone might enjoy something.

        • liking625@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 month ago

          There is another case of rush, i felt it too, when you take the USB stick from any distro and select the erase the whole disk and previous installed OS was windows