Does CachyOS use real Arch repos or is it like Manjaro which holds packages for "testing"?
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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no. it is akin to Manjaro in that it is based on Arch repos, but is opinionated. they have their own kernel, wine, proton, with their patches.
I always figured anyone wanting a different shell is probably heavily into Linux to the point that switching it themselves would be fairly trivial.
Is CachyOS a more CLI focused desktop linux? I'm not very familiar with it. Normally on a desktop I avoid the CLI, because the GUI is just easier and faster to use.
Sort of, its Arch so all of the fun stuff that goes with that but they also have a package repo application that let's you use a GUI instead. I find the CLI faster but the GUI will guide you to the correct packages a bit better than searching freehand on a browser.
I would imagine that if you know enough to legitimately have a favorite shell, you don't really have an issue running chsh
I don't get it.
As such, users now have the option to choose between cachyos-fish-config and cachyos-zsh-config. "If neither is selected, the system will default to Bash. The default configuration will still be Fish ...
You can choose between fish and zsh and if you don't select anything it selects bash but fish is default? Huh?
Meaning, fish is preselected and you have to unselect fish in order to get bash?
Like:
Which shell do you want (deselect for bash)? [x] fish [ ] zsh
From my understanding, if you choose one, you'll get that shell + the styling/prompt, however if you choose neither, you'll just get stock bash with nothing extra applied. I've taken a quick skim through their pkgbuilds, and they don't seem to have a bash equivalent for these configs
It would be cool if it was built into the terminal itself, where you'd just select it and it would auto-download and install.
Alright nerds, what’s your favorite shell and why do you think it was omitted?
My favourite is fish because I tried it once and I really like its autocomplete. I usually do simple stuff so I stick to it.
Really saves a bunch of time. It seems to auto complete based on what directory you are in too which is really useful for some of the stuff I do.