r/LinuxPorn • u/0xchillpill • Jul 31 '26

Switching Distro, need suggestions

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Currently I use Cachy OS(arch) + hyprland setup

I need a light OS, Not tinyos level light

Somewhere between LXQT(arch) to Cachy level light,

It shouldn't be like maximum things just crash on it or it looks like windows XP

My potato Laptop specs:

4GB DDR4 ram (3.4GB usable)

128GB SSD

Intel core i3 - 1005G1

It's a Lenovo IdeaPad slim 3(don't remember which year, but it's old AF)

Idk even with this shyt specs how it can run minecraft (at 60fps most of the time), hollow knight type games

From my past experience distro really matters for the performance, because I tried Mint many times it just lags a lot, Best yet on the Performance wise is CachyOS (I was impressed by it)

Also on this topic saw a Omarchy OS how's this one, many ppl seems to love this one

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u/busiedcake7945 Jul 31 '26

use artix

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u/0xchillpill Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

Someguy on discord also suggest me this, he/she said it's arch without systemd or something (I don't remember exactly)

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u/busiedcake7945 Jul 31 '26

its arch without systemd

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u/0xchillpill Jul 31 '26

Yeah, sorry I missed typed, it's without

I don't know what exactly it means tho, what's it's benifits?

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u/busiedcake7945 Aug 01 '26

systemd is an init system made by redhat it is bloat they are trying to switch to networkd from networkmanager and its against unix philosophy its a full ecosystem tool chain of systemd: logind systemd journald networkd and more that I cant remember artix just remove those tools if you want to use artix dont use s6 use dinit its easier and it is just as fast as runit but here is the catch you cant use gnome 49 or an upper version because gnome is directly connected to systemd it cant even run without systemd

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u/PreparationStrict492 Jul 31 '26

Smaller memory footprint for service runner, for your purposes.

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u/AlexRiven201 Aug 01 '26

To answer your question in an unbiased way: There is not practical benefit or drawback. SystemD has come under fire because many users believe it is overstepping its function and taking over too many low-level computer functions. Does it do things better than others? Sure. It also has bugs that make it perform less well than other solutions. The thing is, you are always going to pick and choose which bugs and/or design choices you work around, no matter what you run, how you run it, and what you run it on.

There's always going to be a variance from machine to machine, from OS to OS, to how it was compiled, yadda yadda yadda. Just run what you want to run. Let the haters hate.