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

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[–] 40 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

But why do you reinstall so much? I don't understand 🤔

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    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 ;)

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    some people get a rush with new installs, that must be a serious case to install so much :D

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