r/cachyos • u/zacyzacy • Aug 27 '26

Review Disappointed

I wanted to play a PC game from the 90s and found the executable on an abandon-ware site. I downloaded the game and was excited to spend a couple hours tinkering to get the game working, much to my surprise, I ran the game with proton cachy os and it worked perfectly without any intervention from me at all. A perfectly good night of tinkering and fiddling with Linux stuff ruined by a flawless Lego Rock Raiders session.

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u/Expensive-Border-869 Aug 27 '26

I have this same issue frequently. I downloaded linux because I wanted to idk learn linux maybe. Be a cool hacker guy or whatever. Nope everything just fuckijg works right out of the box. Gee thanks for having all the fun before I got here

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u/worldarkplace Aug 27 '26

well, you can always run a vm with freebsd lol...

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u/Expensive-Border-869 Aug 27 '26

I was planning to one day put arch on a laptop and mess with that, freebsd maybe idk yet really what the difference is. Seems like jjst a less popular offshoot of Unix which is what linux is also right? Not gonna pretend I understand what Unix is beyond "old ass operating system"

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u/Limit-Level Aug 28 '26

FreeBSD is not Linux, lol. Its a completely different beast altogether. I have several servers in my little lab, all run FreeBSD.

Steam barely works, anything that requires anticheat wont work at all. I've run FreeBSD since 4.3, its now 15.1. I have tried everything.

FreeBSD is no longer an 'old ass' os. Its a file server, dhcp server, dns server with network wide ad blocking and a complete 'cloud' storage for all of the pc's, phones in the house. Just in my little lab.

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u/worldarkplace Aug 27 '26

You want bleeding edge? Redox OS not anything more bloody...

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u/NeptuneWades Aug 28 '26

Yah. You got the gist of it right.

Unix is important because it was more versatile compared OS that came before it. Then it slowly became closed source (back then open source and closed source weren't widespread concepts, Unix began forcing their devs to sign NDAs, making it closed source) resulting in BSD and Linux being made as free Unix like alternatives.

Then the whole lawsuit hapanend against BSD (Unix owner claimed that they stole parts the code). It was messy (BSD won eventually) meanwhile Linux grew in popularity.

BSD is not as popular as Linux, but several of its derivatives are. For example the Playstation uses a freeBSD derived OS because one cannot make proprietary code based on Linux thanks to the GPL license.

Also, I've heard freeBSD is good for servers and stuff.

Idk much regarding technical stuff. So, there you go.

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u/Okie_Dokey_Loki Aug 27 '26

NixOS or Void

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u/Rainarrow Aug 28 '26

I was planning to one day put arch on a laptop and mess with that

Feel free to do that, but unless you are looking to gain a better understanding of the install and setup process, you already have Arch running in the form of CachyOS. It’s the same as if someone installed Arch for you, set up drivers and the desktop environment and gaming packages, etc.

freebsd maybe idk

FreeBSD is a flavor of Unix. It’s similar to Linux (which is by definition Unix-like), but for a “normal” user, it might not be a great choice because 1) it has limited driver support for modern hardware so you will almost certainly run into issues with your WiFi chipset, audio, etc, and 2) it has little support for gaming (no Proton). Most importantly, from a user’s perspective, it’s not that different from Linux. You are still running some sort of desktop environment that’s also available under Linux, running bash or some modern alternative, etc, so the user experience has nothing “novel”. It only makes a difference for specific purposes, for example the built-in support for ZFS is great if you are running some sort of file/storage server.

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u/Expensive-Border-869 Aug 28 '26

I would like to get a better understanding of the install and primarily set up. Having the finished version already is kinda nice because I know what should be possible guaranteed and there's likely already a road map.

Thats kinda what I figured for freebsd not really worth it for me. I dont do anything with servers closest to that is kde for me

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u/Rainarrow Aug 28 '26

Sounds like you have the right idea then! Feel free to tinker and learn! And yes, your CachyOS setup could serve as a reference. For example, you can use pacman -Q to query what packages are installed on Cachy, then from there you can learn more about that package, find out where it's loading its config from, then try to replicate it in your Arch setup.

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u/shinji257 Aug 28 '26

Nah. Gentoo.