To put it in simple terms: when you update your system, you will have two deployments. One deployment stays exactly the same, the copy will be updated. Until you restart you stay on the original. When you restart, the system automatically attempts to boot the updated copy. If it fails, it automatically loads the original again.

That way the updates are atomic in the sense that you either boot into a fully updated system or simply back into the untouched original, nothing in between.

Edit: if you look up how Fedora Silverblue works, it’s pretty much the same, just applied to Arch!

I’m excited to hear your feedback! Keep in mind, some things might be buggy, but please notify me and they will be taken care of.

Hell yeah, let me know how it goes!

Thank you! In a perfect world I would have loved to name it “Arch Atomic”, but I’m not affiliated with them so I went for a wordplay on atomic with my favorite isotope!

There are a lot of benchmarks for the CachyOS kernel and it’s mostly single digit performance increases for “normal” tasks but a noticeably more snappy feeling. The mayor increases come in compiling or rendering workloads, there it can easily get into double digits. For example on my 270K, compiling this kernel takes 23 min with the stock linux kernel, 20 minutes with the linux-cachyos kernel in -v3.

Fuck apps, anything that can be done in a browser will be done in a browser for me

Oh boy. I’m not going to verify my age fucking ever, no matter the compromises. Fuck them.

“We value your privacy” above 1032 partners and no disagree button is unhinged

No offense taken, but I didn’t use btrfs snapshots in a minute and spent 200 hours in the last 18 days working on my distro with a little less than adequate sleep due to my ADHD keeping me awake, thinking about what to implement next. Please cut me some slack haha

True, if you set it up out of the box with CachyOS it rolls the entire disk back, but I forgot that option was a thing, my bad!

‘Oh come on!’ was my initial reaction, but I’ve read your website, and thought: ‘hey, that sounds nice!’

Haha, I know I know, yet another Arch-based distro in this economy, but I really feel like this does fill a gap, thank you for your interest!

On the other hand, perhaps the distros like this are meant to be installed by someone skilled to then be used mostly unattended by a regular user.

My aim is to make this both appealing for the normie who just wants to use it like “SteamOS but with CachyOS speed” and run Flatpaks on it AND for the more experienced user who wants all the benefits of Arch but with a little more peace of mind.

how would you know what’s a working state, so you need to return to the previous one?

As the website explains, it automatically falls back to the last working state if it doesn’t boot, but obviously it can’t detect if something is messed up but still booting like in your example. In that case you just reboot and manually select the last working state (wip but kinda working already) just like a BTRFS snapshot, BUT it only rolls back the system itself, NOT your files. A BTRFS snapshot will also roll back your documents or whatever so my system, when it’s stable and tested, will be superior in every way to BTRFS snapshots.

I’m making my own distro rn, announced it a week ago here and will likely release today or tomorrow! https://pu-239.org/ https://lemmy.ml/post/52307735

Nice comprehensive overview of why this piece of slop called a “distro” and its backers should be boycotted, thank you! Gives me even more motivation to finish up mine today.

Most of the time it’s just the software engineers of the company being forced to look productive so they have to move stuff around just for the sake of it so they don’t lose their job. It’s sad, even they realize that the new version is a step back, but the stakeholders can’t accept that and require something “fresh and exciting” all the time.

Librewolf on my PCs, IronFox on my GrapheneOS phone

First image: why is she typing on the edges of the keyboard, why is the keyboard just one rectangle, why is the trackpad split in two

Second image: the server is the most unsymmetrical thing I have ever seen and her hands don’t make sense

Third image: the guy is just holding the sign with his wrist, not with his hand and the sign itself is so straight it looks photoshopped in. Well or just placed in by an AI. Also, the backglow of the sign appears behind the people, not behind the sign

Fourth image: the guy had five fingers on the megaphone, the woman only has four. The woman has five fingers on the paper, the guy has a crab hand

This is some mayor fucking AI slop.

Well I mean I support the message, but please pay an artist instead of using these ugly AI generated images.

Who the fuck defines “legitimate” interest anyway, they can go fuck themselves with their “legitimate”, I hate it so much

Next time just open their banking app and start transfering money to your account, let’s see how long that lasts.