During CachyOS installation, select "i3" as desktop environment and look how many of the accessory programs die from linking errors. That should not happen with a package manager with dependency management.

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FlyingSnake 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I use CachyOS as my daily driver and I gave up on i3 after few tries. It just doesn’t work.

I’m happy with XFCE now and it is very performant.

	▲	rainmaking 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No issues with sway here.
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Hydraulix989 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What are examples of packages that fail with linking errors? What are the errors?

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ahoka 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

With all the unofficial patches and experimental compilers they use it must be full of subtle bugs.

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LargoLasskhyfv 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yah well? Why would I when there is Plasma/KDE which never did that to me? :-)

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lionkor an hour ago | parent [-]

User choice

	▲	s20n an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I used i3 for the longest time and I'd say a wayland based alternative like sway or miracle is a better choice nowadays. Even KDE Plasma recently dropped x11 support [1] so going forward, most apps will target wayland first. Migrating my i3 config to sway hardly took any effort. I was also able to get rid of a lot of xorg specific configurations from various x11 dotfiles and put them directly in the sway config (Such as Natural Scrolling) [1]: https://itsfoss.com/news/kde-plasma-to-drop-x11-support/.