You know? I did drive Arch daily for a few years, coming from NetBSD.

Then had to use something 'officially' supported for a while, then did some Debian derivative live-distro running from USB/in RAM because of HW-problems, and settled for CachyOS when new (old) HW arrived.

I update maybe once a month at the most, more likely every two monts, because I don't give a shit. With the exception of FF, or maybe some nicer Kernel, for eBPF and scheduler-stuff.

That's reviewing changes in a few config files, after having read up about them at Archs & CachyOS sites. Maybe five minutes max, opening a few relevant tabs. (If necessary at all, which often isn't the case.)

Starting Pacman. Downloads instantly, even if several GB. Decompresses and installs stuff. Maybe two to three minutes. Reboot. 20 seconds. Plasma is back.

Clicking FF. Back with all its tabs. Maybe two to three seconds. Maybe uBO blocks a few more secs sometimes, while updating lists.

After intentionally having killed it with -9 in preparation before reboot.

Cleaning Pacman's package-cache and btrfs-snapshots because The only way is Fooorwaaard!

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_tVzx_PIH8 Daxon ft. Numa - The Only Way (Extended Mix) [COLDHARBOUR RECORDINGS] 7mins, 7secs )

Letting btrfs rebalance in the background.

Opening other stuff, on other virtual desktops, being exactly where and how I left it, thanks to working session-mgmt.

Feels very convenient to me, in opposition to most of the other 'mainstream stuff'.

Maybe the memes have a core of truth to them? For ppl who know what they do?

Cachy, Cachy, Caramba, Yay, Yay!