2026-09-04 21:27 UTC
Replies (22)
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@Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2026-09-04 21:35
Is arch really this hard? I’ve been on it for 3 years with practically no issues. It “just works”.
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@gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 2026-09-04 21:36
i recently thought of exactly this but with nixos instead fedora silverblue. sounds very interesting!
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@dieTasse@feddit.org 2026-09-04 21:39
Why the name? I find distros with these names that are hard to say annoying to speak about, so I would suggest better name. Something short, catchy and easy to say for people with different languages. But don’t make it too general either so that it is also easy to search for.
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@eremophila@lemmy.zip 2026-09-04 22:15
I assumed you would have called it Starch
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@warmaster@lemmy.world 2026-09-04 22:21
Why ostree instead of bootc?
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@Sickday@kbin.earth 2026-09-04 22:45
What will this new distro do that CachyOS doesn't already (or can't) do?
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@Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-09-04 22:57
I have no idea what people keep talking about when they say Arch/CachyOS is “unstable”. I have had so many more issues with running Debian (usually on servers) over the years. Since I swapped my desktop to CachyOS over a year ago, I have basically no issues at all. Just one very minor thing that fixed itself after a few days (bug in kde on new version released). For like 15 months of use, that’s spectacular compared to any other system I’ve ever used (especially including Debian and of course Windows, obviously). What exactly is the goal? How do you make “no issues” and “it just works” more stable?
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@Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 2026-09-05 02:04
IIRC the CachyOS optimizations were basically a rounding error. I’m thinking of just switching my gaming PC to Fedora.
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@ISolox@lemmy.world 2026-09-05 02:17
Just an fyi you can basically get the full steamOS frontend as a session pretty dang easy with gamescope. I’m not talking just normal big picture mode either, like just the normal steamOS gaming front end. I have it setup with fedora 44 kde right now for when I’m using my TV with my PC across the room.
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@helix@feddit.org 2026-09-05 03:14
I love the idea, apart from “user applications are flatpaks”. I’d love to install non flatpak applications. Plus points for my perceived lack of AI sloppiness.
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@helix@feddit.org 2026-09-05 03:19
Why github and not codeberg.org?
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@Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2026-09-05 06:20
That’s an interesting idea, but if you make Arch’s root read only you’re leaving behind pacman/AUR (and to a good extent the Arch wiki) which are usually the main advantages of Arch based distros. SteamOS solves the stability issue by providing runtimes for games, I didn’t read anything there about anything similar on your distro. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems you’re not solving the stability issue, or in other words you will still be unstable as this will be a rolling release. In short I don’t see what would be the advantage of this over base Arch + Snapper (or timeshift). In that regard, how is this different from Bazzite? I know it will be a different kernel and package versions but in principle the philosophy seems to be exactly the same, and I don’t expect the kernel/packages to be that different either.
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@littleomid@feddit.org 2026-09-05 06:54
Not personally interested,but a big question with something like this is how much time you have and how do you plan to maintain it in the long term? Don’t want to dissuade you, but I really don’t know if we need yet another distribution based on arch.
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@Kory@lemmy.ml 2026-09-05 08:19
Very interesting approach, please keep us posted and best of luck!
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@yxc999@lemmy.ml 2026-09-05 10:23
UPDATE I took your suggestions to heart and updated the website to reflect the changes I implemented today. The big change is that I found a way to keep pacman fully intact and functioning, but make it apply the changes atomically. So now this isn’t just limited to Flatpaks, but LITERALLY Arch Linux but made atomic. The new intro reads: “Plutonium-239 is Arch Linux, made atomic. It combines the rolling release model of Arch Linux with an atomically updated root filesystem inspired by SteamOS on top of the heavily optimized CachyOS performance kernel. Unlike immutable distributions that lock you out of the native package manager and force you into sandboxes, Pu-239 keeps the core Arch experience intact. You still get the full power of pacman and the official Arch repositories, with the peace of mind of an unbreakable safety net underneath.” For more information, please check out the updated “How it works” section. Thank you all a lot for the feedback!
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@Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2026-09-05 12:57
Interesting, how are you dealing with pacnew/pacsave files? From your explanation it seems that they would go into the read only filesystem and would need to be resolved manually and preserved there until some old version cleanup is ran. And while I find the idea of a writable overlay filesystem for the /etc fascinating, I think that could have issues with some rollbacks and backwards incompatible config changes. At the end of the day seems like a fascinating project, but I wonder if Arch+snapper wouldn’t be better overall.
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@excel@lemming.megumin.org 2026-09-05 20:00
CachyOS automatically does bootable BTRFS snapshots with every update. I don’t really see any advantage of atomic distros over this.
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@lenocolomo@lemmy.ml 2026-09-05 20:55
Big question: Will it condone LLM generated / “assisted” programming?
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@aurorachrysalis@lemmy.ml 2026-09-05 23:10
Is your distro Pu-239 going to be The Bomb?
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@lenocolomo@lemmy.ml 2026-09-06 08:14
Second and last question: Will it support other init systems other than systemd?
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@sunnyjim@lemmy.zip 2026-09-06 15:27
I’d be interested in this! I moved my handheld to SteamOS from Cachy HE because it felt kind of unstable.
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@gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 2026-09-09 20:20
maybe this is useful for your project aerynos.com/tooling/moss/