I've been happy with CachyOS. Using in on this laptop to respond. I use it for my gaming machine. CachyOS resuscitated life back into this old laptop. Windows 11 was an awful pig on this thing.
My daily driver is still MX as I personally choose to avoid systemd for a myriad of reasons that have been discussed here ad nauseam.
As part of my testing I blindly apply OS updates daily and wait for something to break. Thus far no breakage. What did I just do. Kernel on my gaming machine is 7.0.0-1 whereas this is on 6.19, not sure how I managed that.
agentgibbs@localhost
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OS: CachyOS x86_64
Host: ZenBook UX564EI_Q538EI (1.0)
Kernel: Linux 6.19.12-1-cachyos
Uptime: 1 hour, 43 mins
Packages: 1407 (pacman)
Shell: bash 5.3.9
Display (SDC4143): 3840x2160 @ 1.9x in 16", 60 Hz [Built-in]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.6.4
WM: KWin (Wayland)
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]
Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
Cursor: breeze (24px)
Terminal: konsole 25.12.3
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 (8) @ 4.70 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile [Discrete]
GPU 2: Intel Iris Xe Graphics @ 1.30 GHz [Integrated]
Memory: 3.10 GiB / 15.31 GiB (20%)
Swap: Disabled
Disk (/): 52.59 GiB / 953.37 GiB (6%) - btrfs
Local IP (wlan0): 1.2.3.4/24
Battery (ASUS Battery): 100% [AC Connected]
Locale: en_US.UTF-8
I've been happy with CachyOS. Using in on this laptop to respond. I use it for my gaming machine. CachyOS resuscitated life back into this old laptop. Windows 11 was an awful pig on this thing.
My daily driver is still MX as I personally choose to avoid systemd for a myriad of reasons that have been discussed here ad nauseam.
As part of my testing I blindly apply OS updates daily and wait for something to break. Thus far no breakage. What did I just do. Kernel on my gaming machine is 7.0.0-1 whereas this is on 6.19, not sure how I managed that.