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The cool thing about default CachyOS is it has preconfigured snapper built-in. So in case something breaks during update, it's couple minutes to restore to previously working state. I use openSUSE and this is a godsend for rolling distros IMO. And having it working out of the box is a win for newbies.
That's good, didn't knew that but that's a very smart move from them. Even so, that's IF they know about that, also it only fixes the immediate issue of broken system, not the fact that you need to know what to do to not break it.
Cachy works great, it's essentially a preconfigured Arch, but Arch issues for new users was never the installation process.
Not sure how it's with CachyOS, but I update once I feel like it on openSUSE Tumbleweed. Sometimes twice a week sometimes once in months. It works flawless most of the time, but couple times it pooped me out I rolled back, waited another week and updated again without problems. It just works (for me at least).