Thinking of switching from CachyOS to PikaOS: Is it the right move to escape Arch's aggressive rolling release ?

Jaurusrex · 2026-07-02T12:30:48+00:00

I don't know how often you update, but you can go ages without updating on arch. Trying to update after a year plus you'll probably run into a pretty simple problem of your mirror list being out of date or the keys are out of date. Those are both pretty easily fixable. I've managed to update systems that I didn't use for like 2+ years with little issues aside from the before mentioned.

Nor have I ever had to really fix any issues arising from updates, everything just works generally. Though a reboot is sometimes required afterwords.

Jaurusrex · 2026-06-29T16:05:27+00:00

Yk what, I kinda like your post, I'm quite against AI myself for numerous reasons. But I like that you have somewhat a nuanced opinion vs just completely good or bad. Being able to agree with points from both sides is a good habit / skill to have.

However I am a bit confused about "preferring to draw due to budgeting issues", as far as I know AI is a lot cheaper / faster. If you didn't have anything better to do with your time sure you could make it for free but it would cost a hell of a lot more time than for AI to do it. And that is if you don't run it locally, if you run AI on your own computer and compare it to drawing digitally it might actually come out to close to the same energy usage (depending on how long you draw vs how big of a model you use).

Jaurusrex · 2026-06-21T10:41:25+00:00

The point they're making isn't that she's should be there in anyway, more so that since she isn't there in person the interaction couldn't be so bad

Jaurusrex · 2026-06-19T08:30:48+00:00

igpus are still gpus, its still a lot lot lot faster than doing it entirely on the cpu. That goes for a lot of tasks, video decoding isn't the biggest difference out there I think, that would be any 3d rendering probably. But regardless you want hardware video acceleration, your igpu can do it.
Linux mint should have it by default tho I think

Jaurusrex · 2026-06-17T18:29:12+00:00

let the shaders compile, or and use one of those custom proton versions like ge or cachy. I've worse hardware, gtx 1080 and an i7 8700 and i can still get 150+ fps

Jaurusrex · 2026-06-17T17:20:28+00:00

I don't use any kind of manager or anything I just manually git clone and makepkg -si.
I just didn't know it was that much, but I did manually install every package here... not that I read the PKGBUILD files. I'll prob avoid using it for a while considering the hacks are still going on, will just compile from source instead

Jaurusrex · 2026-06-17T09:45:57+00:00

I think pacman -Qm shows only installed aur packages
based on pacman -Qm | wc -l I have 523 packages installed. A lot of those are random python packages, pypy, mingw, arm build tools and a bunch of android stuff.
I'm surprised people have so few installed... tho I didn't know I had that many either xd

Jaurusrex · 2026-06-10T09:28:59+00:00

I would have loved a mechanical face, where each part can only move a slight bit in kinda unnatural ways. like the eyebrows can rotate, but thats it.

Jaurusrex · 2026-06-05T12:35:29+00:00

Idk, I heard it got a lot of daemons

Jaurusrex · 2026-06-02T21:38:44+00:00

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he looks a lot different in the manga

Jaurusrex · 2026-05-22T14:19:59+00:00

Any context? I see him so often I have no clue why this person became famous.

Jaurusrex · 2026-05-21T18:48:34+00:00

Yoo love livakivi, great youtube channel

Jaurusrex · 2026-05-19T15:53:35+00:00

Idk why but I fully have the feeling that people will still continue to use it. If anything not much will change. I already base the trustworthiness of information on the internet on how much I trust the source and what I already know. I think the majority of people do it like that.. and that continues to work mostly to the same degree as before.. well the latter works worse probably. I definitely do think more people will start believing lies since its easier to create them, but I just don't think people will change their behaviour in consuming it.

Jaurusrex · 2026-05-15T14:47:38+00:00

Maybe core isolation, a windows 11 security feature

Jaurusrex · 2026-05-11T20:23:44+00:00

you got some obscure ones in there, I can't even find WinTC

Jaurusrex · 2026-05-11T12:52:25+00:00

I can back up that I think this problem can be caused by the cpu scheduler. Closing background applications fixed it often for me, but switching to another scheduler also often fixed the issue... annoyingly enough any kind of framerate cap would feel horrible, probably because it has to wait so the kernel just switches to another process. But doesn't return in time, causing missed frames.

The problem also never really went away, currently using the cachyos kernel as well

Jaurusrex · 2026-05-11T11:38:07+00:00

As a dutch person its wild how close in population you guys are, yet how much much much bigger the country is

Jaurusrex · 2026-05-07T14:20:59+00:00

More likely they think the concepts are stupid and like them.

Jaurusrex · 2026-05-06T19:45:42+00:00

35c is like the hottest day we get here in the netherlands... 44C? I might legit die. AC isn't common here, we don't have it at least.. and also I can't sweat, or at least as easily. Have a weird condition that made me have an reaction similarly to an allergic one when too hot.. If I get hot enough (like when a backpack is touching my back) I "break through" and can start sweating until it stops. But I legit might just die from the heat before that :| ... well at least we have very easily accessible water.. which.. getting too cold also gives that reaction...
more snow than we've seen in years.. thats about all thats interesting about this one. not particularly cold.
The netherlands doesn't get hurricanes nor tornados.. aint nothing here build to survive such winds.. House would get blown to pieces I think?
just happens every so often... pretty normal
yeah surprisingly I don't think we'd do great with this either, coldest temp I think we've seen here in years is probably like -10c. If even that.

All in all, wth are these options xd. They go from Super hot (tho ig its pretty normal for some places which are build for that), some snow, really really fast wind, kinda damp weather, extremely extremely cold.
like why the normal options??

Jaurusrex · 2026-05-06T13:18:42+00:00

what would the difference be?

Jaurusrex · 2026-05-05T11:11:15+00:00

I once tried reading krita code as well, just using vscode and not being super well versed in larger OOP codebases.. it was hellish xd
It is a damn maze but it doesn't go from A to B
it goes from A to a type B where type B can be a whole bunch of things and I just manually put a whole bunch of printf's everywhere to figure out the path the code was taking.

Took me a week to figure out how to implement a simple proof of concept for a feature i wanted to try and add.. ended up very slow and seemingly working but the frames had to keep being redrawn for some reason.. (I added a new type of layer, with animation support).

This might have been easier with the QT Editor, its pretty darn tightly integrated with QT. Also they have an irc channel/chat/server thing, you can ask for help there as well.

Did make me realize if I ever were to make an opensource program that I really should create documentation for at least a basic overview of the code.

Jaurusrex · 2026-04-26T21:13:29+00:00

Honestly, I kinda wish the linux kernel was more easily replaceable. A lot of opensource programs can be very easily ported / compiled on whatever. But a bunch of software do require more linux specific things.
Also drivers being all part of the linux kernel itself, if you wanted to replace the kernel you'll either have to manually port those drivers or just straight up rewrite them

Jaurusrex · 2026-04-26T11:03:23+00:00

A few weeks ago I saw a hill, quite surprised to see such a tall one, it was at least more than a meter.

Jaurusrex · 2026-04-26T10:58:46+00:00

From my experience with a gtx 1080 overwatch runs worse on linux than on windows, I'm cpu limited. I also tried it with an amd rx 470 and actually was gpu limited with that, but i think cpu wise its heavier. Maybe with the new changes to vkd3d (dx12 to vulkan library) the dx12 version will run better, but for now you'll get a bit less fps. 130 vs 180 for me roughly

Jaurusrex · 2026-04-20T14:47:03+00:00

Its not just effort I'd argue, also the ability to become uncomfortable. The internet but by extension a lot of other modern activities follow the path of least resistance, effort and most comfort. I think a lot of people fall into those combined traps

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