I Tried CachyOS and Now I Can't Stop Booting Into It

I've been a Linux user for a while now. Not in the " I rice my desktop for eight hours and post it on r/unixporn " way, but in the " I genuinely enjoy understanding what's happening under the hood " way. My main machine is a MacBook Air M2. It handles everything work-related without complaints: Cypress, Docker, the whole stack. But I have a secondary laptop that was just sitting there, waiting for a purpose. I'd cycled through a few distros on it over time, never fully committing to any of them. Recently I decided to give CachyOS a proper shot. What I didn't expect was how much I'd actually enjoy using it day to day, well beyond just recording videos. So what is CachyOS? CachyOS is an Arch Linux-based distro with one core obsession: making your system as fast as possible. Most Linux distributions are built to run on as many machines as possible: old ones, new ones, everything in between. That's great for compatibility, but it means they leave a lot of performance on the table if you're