CachyOS Now Lets Users Choose Their Shell
Imagine getting the opportunity to select which shell you want during the installation of your favorite Linux distribution. That's now a thing.
CachyOS is a bit niche and not nearly as well-known as the likes of Ubuntu or Fedora, but sometimes those niche distributions do things that might inspire the others to follow suit.
In a recent announcement for the upcoming July CachyOS release, the developers announced that the user's shell can be chosen during installation. Before you get too excited, the choices are limited to fish, Zsh, and Bash. During installation, if you don't choose between fish or Zsh, Bash will be chosen for you (even though the default configuration will remain fish).
There are other changes coming to the next iteration of CachyOS, such as KDE Plasma installations defaulting to Wayland. At the same time, the Nvidia legacy drivers and plasma-x11-session will also be installed to avoid problems.
Plus, CachyOS also offers improved latency, thanks to mesa-git now including the upstream merge request for Anti-Lag 2. Proton-CachyOS will also include support for Anti-Lag 2 as well.
Finally, CachyOS has dropped support for cachy-browser in favor of cachyos-firefox-settings, which can be applied on top of a standard Firefox installation.
You can read all about the upcoming changes in this official CachyOS blog.
