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  • Cachy has, at least in my experience with a Zen 5 processor, it’s own special Arch pacman repo with meta packages for various processor types. I believe for the most part mine uses Zen 4 packages.

    Add your processor meta package and it adds the appropriate repo where packages have been custom built with feature flags / optimizations for that specific architecture of processors.

    So it’s a little closer to Gentoo or LFS in those regards, without you having to actually build every package from scratch.

    So while yes any distro could do this, in practice a lot don’t bother and only release basic i686/amd64/arm32/arm64 sets of packages. Whereas Cachy offers zen4-amd64 packages as an example, and I assume they offer various Intel architecture and other AMD architecture specific packages as well.















  • You know what’s fascinating about that?

    I’m pretty sure that every CD had the entire game and all the art assets for every town / place you could enter on the world map. Every enemy. All the music.

    The only difference between each CD was the FMV cutscenes contained on them.

    At least that was the story / rumor at the time. For optimization they could have reduced the art assets and music to only areas you could enter at that point in the game, and only enemy models you would see, but supposedly that wasn’t the case.


  • While this is technically true, in practice I’ve found there’s always something the old PC is missing, tech wise.

    Socket change. Ram version change. New version of PCIe.

    Effectively you need to do mobo/cpu/ram all together.

    The only other components are GPU and storage, which I agree are generally transferable, but depending on age you may want to upgrade too.

    I guess PSU but that is thankfully something you almost never need to upgrade, unless your new GPU sucks down a lot more watts.

    Maybe if I had an AM5 board I would be in a better state, but currently on AM4 so my upgrade paths are limited (already on a 5000 series chip).