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Yeah, CachyOS is like all those custom builds and performance tweaks you used to do shipped by default, or offered as easy options.
Another good example is the kernels. You can choose between schedulers that prioritize responsiveness or not, opt for features like core compaction (which try to keep other cores asleep in light loads) or sharing core cache, among other things. They’re all precompiled for different architectures and officially supported.
That sounds pretty neat.
I looked into it; it looks like they've got placeholders for server-oriented installs, but no ISOs yet; only for desktop and mobile at the moment. But it's a cool project, and I'm keeping my eye on it - thanks!
Ah, yeah, shows you how long its been since I looked at the ISOs. The CLI installer is ancient.
Looks like there's a new one here, but is a WIP: https://github.com/CachyOS/New-Cli-Installer?tab=readme-ov-file
Oh, yeah; I'm fine with a GUI boot USB, and a GUI installer... but if possible, having a target use is nice. Having a "server" target often means they skip installing X/Wayland, window managers, DE, and a bunch of applications - which means a far shorter installation and fewer post-install clean-up hoops of removing crap that's not going to get used.
I like the convenience of the GUI installers; I just like the option of saying "don't install a desktop GUI."