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CachyOS with NiriWM. Cachy is Arch with none of the install drama. The performance tuning makes it blazing fast on older hardware. Installs with no bloat.

Niri is superior to Hyprland in my opinion because it’s a scrolling tiling WM that is super intuitive and fast.

For server workloads, however, not much beats pure Debian. It’s stable, well supported, and has a huge package library.

I use Magic Earth by Magic Lane. The company is based in Switzerland, the maps are OpenStreetMap and the app also gives traffic data, which OSMAnd does not support.

CachyOS or plain Arch

I really like CachyOS:

1. Arch based a. Pacman package manager b. AUR c. Rolling release distro
2. Graphical installer
3. Extensive software repo. Things that I used to only be able to get as a flatpak are available in the repo, such as SurfShark VPN as an example
4. Super fast.
5. Updates are tested before they are made available and the delay is only a few days.

I realized this after posting my comment. it’s not listed in the app description so I assumed incorrectly. been using it for a couple of weeks now and it’s good!! the only gripe I have with it is that there’s no way to turn off spoken directions. a lot of time I use gps just to estimate my arrival time and don’t actually need it to guide me to the destination.

doesn’t seem to work with Android Auto, which is the primary way I use it.

I use HereWeGo. it has traffic and decent search and POI databases. plus it has offline mode.