Let’s experiment and share what we discover.
I will play with CachyOS and Openbox.
A freshly installed CachyOS with Openbox. I like it. It reminds me of the days of my first experiments with Openbox, and the excitement I felt back then 
Thunar and xfce4-terminal is here.
So far… so good… everything seems to work as usual.
Some changes needed in mabox tools… but mostly cosmetic one.
Nice 
yeah MCC need adaption for manjaro-settings-manager and pamac.
Another thing for me on EOS, i only can trigger auto-theming direct click, automatic auto-theming is not working.
Just started installing cachyos base for testing.
Wow, CachyBox. 
Update test:
After an update i need manually do checkupdates.sh, so the status icon gets back to ‘all up to date’.
When there are new updates, mb-status behaves as expected.
I will try to prepare metapackage with all Mabox’s initial configurations and all packages needed as dependencies + maybe script to copy needed settings into user home directory.
By the way…
Do you know an equivalent of pacman‑mirrors for Arch‑like distributions?
While working on the fix, I want to make mb-status more friendly for Arch‑like systems.
The last time I used Arch was back in 2007, for a few months
pacman-mirrorlist and reflector are the usual combo for Arch. 
Reflector is very common and is shipped with reflector.service
options configured via /etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf
What you think of replacing pamac-aur with octopi as the default GUI package manager — it’s more stable, lighter.
Less buggy??
Thanks for info @M0nst3r , @muzqs .
reflector is probably what i’m looking for.
Maybe it’s time to explain exactly what I want to do, so there are no misunderstandings…
I’ve been asked many times whether it’s possible to run ‘Mabox’ on Fedora, Debian, or Arch. Adapting the project to work on Fedora, Debian, or any other distribution would be a huge amount of work and costs that I simply cannot afford. It’s different with Arch and its derivatives… I can adapt the Mabox tools to Arch‑like systems at a relatively low cost.
And that’s exactly what I want to do — nothing more.
In my tests on CachyOS, only minor shortcomings appeared, and I will try to fix them. Thanks to this, advanced users will be able to install the Mabox goodies on Arch‑like systems relatively easily. There is no question of creating separate CachyBox, ArchBox, or EOSBox
Me teasing 
This is amazing.
Manually I managed to come close to a working mabox flow in EOS and CatchyOs.
It looks like it is the best to use an arch derevative with no desktop or minimal openbox installation at least.
It would be a great plus to be able to install mabox on other archies.
Looking forward to tasting 
I’ll focus on that as soon as I finish working on the 26.03 March ISOs refresh
Fifth day of testing Mabox on CachyOS thanks to Quickemu, a few Mabox tools already adapted.
I’m liking CachyOS more and more.
Ah cool.
Didn’t know the kernel installer gui can be used on all arch derivatives.
Except manjaro, i guess.
No idea about other Arch-based distros… but CachyOS have cachyos-kernel-manager.
And also handy pacman-mirror- like script called cachyos-rate-mirrors.
Edit:
also cachyos-pi - GUI package installer.
I am searching for jg quickemu. 
It’s still hacky and buggy…
Although I’ve been using it every day for a very long time.
I can share it with you and anyone interested… unofficially
I’ll upload the files to a server somewhere in a few hours.
