[kwlug-disc] Migration: Slackware -> CachyOS

[William Park]

Hi all, (long post)

It took 30+ years, but I finally managed to migrate from Slackware, to 
CachyOS.  I can now hang out with all the cool kids.  These are my 
observations:

1. BTRFS was excellent and defining choice, in hind sight.  Snapshot 
makes backup so easy.  I'm willing to take speed hit, but I found it's 
quite fast.

BTRFS filesystem has "subvolume", eg. for CachyOS,
     - root is "@" subvolume, mounted at /
     - home is "@home" subvolume, mounted at /home
So,
     - to back up /home within the current filesystem, just take snapshot.
     - to back up to another BTRFS filesystem, do "btrfs send | btrfs 
receive".  I see 60MB/s throughput on my machine with SATA2 harddisks.

2. Font was surprising.  Using same Firefox, same website,
     - Fedora has the best fonts.
     - CachyOS is close second.
     - OpenSUSE has the worst fonts.

3. CachyOS is the fastest.  Fedora vs OpenSUSE felt about the same in speed.

4. Vim is Vim is Vim.  It should be, but each distro has their own 
configuration stack.  You have to watch out for that.  I took me some 
time to get "indentation" that Slackware gives you by default.


Conclusion:
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I'm satisfied with CachyOS, so far.  I recommend people to try BTRFS 
distros.  It will make your backup much easier.  And, ability to do 
"rollback" is bonus.

--William