In my search for a Linux distro, I happened across CachyOS. It seems to be getting a lot of hype right now. It’s an Arch Linux based distro that optimizes the software found in the arch repos which is supposed to lead to a more performant OS.

As I’m waiting on my new refurbished laptop to arrive, I decided to give CachyOS a test drive on my current laptop. I had some installation issues. For some reason, if there’s already an OS on the hard drive you’re trying to install CachyOS to, it fails to delete the partitions and create the new partition scheme. I had to use GParted to delete all the partitions first. It took me a few tries to realize this though. It was several frustrating hours.

I got my tax refund yesterday, and decided that it was finally time to get a new laptop. Well, a refurbished laptop at any rate. So now I’m trying to decide, do I want to return to nerdy roots and install Linux once it arrives? I’m leaning very heavily towards yes.

So the next question is, do I want to nuke Windows or dual boot? This laptop is going to have half a terabyte of storage, so I think I can share a dozen or so GB for Windows so that if I ever need to return to Linux, it’s easy to do. I’m thinking I’ll just shrink Windows down to just enough to hold all the files, and then install Linux on the rest of the partition. Should it come down to me needing to return to Windows, I can just divide the drive more evenly between the two OSes.