I’m currently on PopOS 22 and I’m in the mood to try something different. I mostly game but I do need my system to have support for the everyday tasks I sometimes need to do, so I fell bazzite is a no go.

I see a lot of people recommending Cachy, will it be a smooth experience for someone used to linux? Is Endeavour a better choice? Will I have issued with my PS3 eye camera and x52 stick?

  • maaneeack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Daily driving EndeavourOS for over a year, game daily with no issues. Command line updating isn’t a big deal, just

    sudo pacman -Syu && yay -Syu

    Alias it or use a terminal like quake that disappears. If you want yay to just do it’s packages use -Sua instead.

    My PS5 controller worked out of the box.

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
      10·
      1 day ago

      If you do yay -Syu anyway, then you don’t need pacman, as yay is a wrapper around pacman. On EndeavourOS there is a special command to update the system eos-update. It is a wrapper around pacman and supports yay as well (so it can handle AUR). I also have some other stuff like Flatpak and Rust environment to update, so created an alias to bundle all of that. Here is my update commands:

      alias update='eos-update --yay'

alias updates='eos-update --yay ; flatpak update ; flatpak uninstall --unused ; rustup self update ; rustup update'
      • Matty_r@programming.dev
        3·
        1 day ago

        You should check out topgrade - it does all of those things as well. Not specifically for EndeavourOS, it can be used pretty much everywhere.

        Its pretty handy, particularly if you have multiple machines to keep updated (it has a remote command too).

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
          2·
          1 day ago

          Why would I need a third party application, if I can do the thing with an alias? I prefer to workout what I need and only do that and write my own scripts in case it gets complicated. That’s how I do stuff. :D

          • Matty_r@programming.dev
            2·
            17 hours ago

            Sure, its not up to me to decide what you use. Was just a suggestion that others might find handy if they don’t want to write and maintain scripts.