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I'm going to switch to arch for my general-purpose laptop, since I feel like kubuntu is not enough for me, I want to try a tiling WM and do some ricing.

I'm still undecided between plain arch or CachyOS, because that optimisation looks promising and I also game on my laptop.

The fact is that CachyOS seems more "bloated" with some unnecessary packages, so what do you suggest me? A simple arch installation, arch using the cachy-linux kernel and its optimisations or a debloated CachyOS install? Thank you all in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can try Endeavour OS. Its pretty close to stock. I found cachyos was too bloated for my likings and ffmpeg ran faster on EOS than COS in my case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

ffmpeg will do CPU detection and use features like AVX2 if available even on vanilla distros.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Why would ffmpeg run faster on another distro?