There are actually a lot of differences, there only thing they really share in common is they both use pacman.I'm almost ready to try that, considering my Arch situation. What's the difference between that OS and Arch? Is there really any?
Chakra started out based on Arch, but forked back in 2010. Now it uses a half-rolling release system, basically the core is frozen and only updates for major fixes and the application layer is rolling. It's also 64bit only and KDE focused, keeping a very small library of GTK applications and 32 applications. There are a lot of other major differences, but those are there main