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CachyOS
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Reader supplied reviews for CachyOS
Average rating
8.2 from 122 review(s)
Version: 250202
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-02-13
Votes: 0
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CachyOS:
I have been using CachyOS for a while, over 2 years, and my opinion about the system is very negative. First of all, the main problem I encountered was the stability of the system. Sudden freezes and crashes became frequent and unpleasant. This created a constant feeling of anxiety that anything could happen at the most inopportune moment. For example, several times I lost unsaved data due to unpredictable reboots and system errors.
In addition, package management in CachyOS turned out to be a real disaster. There were often problems installing and updating software, and the errors I encountered were difficult to fix. To fix them, complex commands were required in the terminal, which is not suitable for users who prefer a graphical interface and a distro that’s easy to use
Performance issues were also not long in coming. On old hardware, the system works very slowly, despite the claims of its optimization for less powerful machines. This is annoying and makes working on such devices almost impossible.
In addition, support and documentation leave much to be desired. Often, the information in forums and manuals is outdated or not detailed enough. This makes finding solutions to problems that arise a time-consuming and tedious process.
Despite the presence of many options for customization, the setup process is far from intuitive, a lot of options don’t apply, and if they do, things start bugging out and may crash the system. The flat icons and flat theme is- to put it nicely, harmful to the eyes and icons don’t make sense, so it’ll be difficult trying to figure out some of the applications you want to use are This leads to additional problems and makes the system difficult to use.
Overall, using CachyOS has become a source of constant problems and frustration. For those looking for a reliable and user-friendly operating system, CachyOS is definitely not a good choice.
The only positive here is that it’s Linux and not Windows.
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Version: 250202
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-02-12
Votes: 1
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CachyOS:
So, let me state this loud and clear right out of the way: CachyOS is not prime-time ready. And if you thought you are in for some user-friendly and polished Linux experience, then be horribly disappointed. First hour, it crashed on me four times, yes FOUR freaking kernel panics in less than an hour; that in itself should be saying something to do with stability.
But wait, there's more! The repos? Forget it. They are slow as syrup, and even when they actually load, half the stuff you try to install either fails to install or manages to break something else. Every time you run dnf update, it is like playing roulette. And, oh yeah, xdg-desktop-portal: that's totally hosed, meaning some basic functionality just plain does not work. Great.
Oh boy, where to begin? Bloat city, population: you. Packed full of features you'll never use and none of the ones you do need. Missing settings here, broken apps there. what a mess. Unless you actually like trawling through forums and editing config files just to make your system usable, you're in for a world of hurt.
And let me tell you something about usability: unless you are some sort of seasoned Linux veteran who can troubleshoot your way out of a paper bag, this distro will leave you stranded. So much is not properly configured out of the box that rookies and maybe even intermediates are in for a bad time. You'll spend more time fixing issues than actually getting things done.
If you're looking for a solid, working rolling-release distribution, then keep away from CachyOS and head to EndeavourOS: rock solid, no drama with multiple DEs/WMs, and fast, dependable mirrors. You won't also waste hours trying to fix what shouldn't break in the first place.
In short, unless you’ve got the patience of a saint and the skills of a wizard, give CachyOS a wide berth. Your sanity will thank you.
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Version: 250202
Rating: 5
Date: 2025-02-11
Votes: 0
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i think this is the worst distro out of the 3 i used, comes with tons and i mean tons of bloatware cant connect to hidden networks but thats more of a kde issue mouse just expands for some reason occasionally. bluetooth drivers didnt work runs fastfetch whenever you open a terminal and much more i think ill just try arch instead of these god awful distros that are just copies of eachother but on a side note just because i had a bad experience doesnt mean you will keep trying till you find the distro thats right for you
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Version: 250202
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-09
Votes: 0
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CachyOS has quickly become my go-to distribution for both gaming and everyday computing. As an Arch-based distro, it offers the latest software and the flexibility I crave, but with a level of user-friendliness that's often missing in the Arch world.
Installation and Setup
The installation process was surprisingly smooth. The Calamares installer is intuitive, and CachyOS provides clear documentation to guide you through the setup. Even for someone relatively new to Arch, the process was straightforward and hassle-free.
Performance and Stability
CachyOS is blazingly fast. The performance tweaks and optimizations under the hood, including the custom kernel, make a noticeable difference. Games run smoothly, and even resource-intensive applications don't slow down my system. What's more, it's rock-solid stable. I've experienced no crashes or unexpected issues.
Gaming
For gamers, CachyOS is a dream come true. It comes with a curated selection of gaming-related tools and libraries pre-installed, making it easy to jump into your favorite titles. The performance optimizations also translate to a great gaming experience, with higher frame rates and smoother gameplay.
Customization and Flexibility
Like any Arch-based distro, CachyOS offers unparalleled customization. You have complete control over your system, from the desktop environment to the smallest details. The community is also active and helpful, providing plenty of resources and support for further customization.
Overall Impression
CachyOS is a fantastic distribution that combines the best of Arch Linux with a focus on user-friendliness and gaming performance. Whether you're a seasoned Linux user or someone looking to explore the Arch ecosystem, CachyOS is definitely worth checking out. It's a well-rounded, high-performing, and stable distribution that I wholeheartedly recommend.
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Version: 250202
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-08
Votes: 0
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No words. They're doing an amazing job for gaming community, and it's focused for user-friendly stuff, such as package manager, kernel manager and cachyOS hello that gives you plenty of stuff to fix any problems you might have from a mouse click button instead of letting the user to search about the problem and copy pasting stuff into the terminal that they don't have any idea of what they're doing.
Plus it's a distro focused on security as well. How not to give it a try? Not sure if it's the best distro for a begginner, though it have potential for some users who like to explore and feel okay about trying new stuff with no fear of messing up.
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Version: 250202
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-02-07
Votes: 0
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I tried this for Raspberry PI 4b. The startup was slow, then nothing really worked. I couldn't update the package manager so I tried to troubleshoot the issue. I opened Firefox to look it up, but it wouldn't load a single page. It kept saying there was some problem with certificates and there was no apparent way around it. On top of that, this has got to be the worst-themed distro I've ever seen. The artwork is strangely vacant like some post-apocalyptic setting -- no people, no life, just a dropped umbrella, empty-looking buildings. Meanwhile, the color scheme is uppity pastels, like a baby shower threw up all over it. It's like a celebration of desolation. It's not just ugly, it's creepy. Artwork is a more superficial aspect of any distro. But, honestly, I don't think I've ever found the artwork for a distro so creepy before.
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Version: 250202
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-07
Votes: 0
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it is so fast and reliable, i love it CachyOS is an impressive Arch-based Linux distribution that combines speed, optimization, and usability into an outstanding package. Its tailored kernels, BORE scheduler, and per-architecture optimized repositories deliver unparalleled performance, whether for gaming, development, or general use. The installation process is intuitive thanks to the Calamares installer, and tools like the Kernel Manager and CachyOS Hello app make customization seamless. With excellent gaming support, including optimized drivers and ready-to-use Steam/Proton packages, it caters well to gamers. The active community and comprehensive documentation ensure any issues are quickly resolved, making it a fantastic choice for both beginners and experienced users seeking a responsive and reliable Linux experience. Highly recommended!
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-07
Votes: 0
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BY FAR the best Arch-based distro I've used. Yes, it does all those things it claims: it's fast, secure, stable, etc. If it was only these things, it would be a worthy distro, but it is so much more it's hard to capture it all without taking notes while using it. For starters, it comes with built-in tools, like a kernel manager. A kernel manager on steroids that allows you to easily make new custom kernels with the tweaks YOU want. A kernel customized BY YOU. It has a multitude of other tools too, optional tweaks, easy mirror ranking, and much more super-handy system aids. Plus, there's their custom Web browser and other custom applications too.
On top of all these neat things, the people that put this distro paid a lot of attention to little things throughout the KDE desktop. They don't talk about, or brag about all the useful little things they've done, but they're there. Things like, if you create a new folder and then split your folder view in Dolphin, your newly created folder is automatically opened in the new pain. The new pain isn't focused on, Dolphin keeps your focus on the parent folder, but that newly creted folder is just sitting there, waiting & ready to accept whatever files you wanted to place in it. So much that I can't even remember all the little things they've done.
Desktop is KDE, theme is Breeze dark. Included applications are a reasonable base set without being a whole bunch of bloat, like all of the other top distros on Distrowatch. Adding applications is easy either when installing or afterwords in CacnyOS' own installer or via Octopi.
It's fast, stable, well thought out, and just about as perfect a base OS as one could wish for. I've been using Linux for a while now. Over a decade. Two maybe. I have tried dozens, if not hundreds of distros. I settled on Arch & its derivatives about 8 or so years ago. Of all Arch's deriviates, and I have tried them all, this is the best of the bunch.
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Version: 250202
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-04
Votes: 8
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CachyOS is an impressive Arch-based Linux distribution that combines speed, optimization, and usability into an outstanding package. Its tailored kernels, BORE scheduler, and per-architecture optimized repositories deliver unparalleled performance, whether for gaming, development, or general use. The installation process is intuitive thanks to the Calamares installer, and tools like the Kernel Manager and CachyOS Hello app make customization seamless. With excellent gaming support, including optimized drivers and ready-to-use Steam/Proton packages, it caters well to gamers. The active community and comprehensive documentation ensure any issues are quickly resolved, making it a fantastic choice for both beginners and experienced users seeking a responsive and reliable Linux experience. Highly recommended!
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-30
Votes: 5
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I've used CachyOS now for several months without issue and can tell you that it is nothing short of amazing. Decided to try Cachy on an old laptop and was very impressed with the speed and stability, so much so, that it is now the only OS I use; even on my daily driver (this says a lot since I've been a Fedora user for twenty years). Installation process was smooth and quick. Documentation was very good. Very fast and you will notice it, even with top of the line hardware. You can choose from several optimized packages, including different, optimized kernels. Steam works, with optimized Proton packages. Good RAM usage, it seems it uses it well for caching data and apps, leading to a very snappy experience.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-29
Votes: 0
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Arch-based distros are not all they’re cracked up to be, being put on a high horse, which leads to disappointment and frustration in the end.
Even if there are more user-friendly approaches to Arch, it’s still overall a complicated and confusing Linux distro and distro family. Arch is still a high-intermediate to expert level of distro where a lot of stuff you have to do in the terminal and fix breakages that randomly happen and happen frequently. There aren’t really fool-proof ways to have it easier to use- thats Arch’s nature. I do not know why Arch is being considered the poster child for Linux when it is nothing at all for anyone who is new to Linux.
Arch is very experimental and prone to a lot of frustration and annoyances with frequen crashes and breaks.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-28
Votes: 0
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This seems good but I wasn't able to install it on a test laptop, seems to have a lot of bugs in the installer and severe hardware compatibility limitations, including some very basic issues: it seems wasn't able to write any changes to the partition table, so the first installation said it was complete, but on reboot it couldn't find a boot device. Thereafter it couldn't delete any partitions on the HDD. This seems a very basic bug. Maybe with more development it will become a viable option for a desktop, but given the bugs encountered, I can't imagine it would be trustworthy enough for daily use.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-27
Votes: 11
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Excellent experience. This is a fabulous Arch based linux distribution. It is not a total newbie distribution as some of the other Arch based distros out there but, it can be easily managed with a little patience. It is very fast and seems to be taking security seriously.
I appreciate the hard work put into this one. I'm using KDE Plasma edition on an old lenovo laptop, Duo core and 5.7G memory that runs as smooth as ever. The system comes with its own package installer and kernel manager, enabling you to install various applications from AUR or using flatpak.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-27
Votes: 1
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Wanted to try something new and was a bit bored of Ubuntu. I decided to give CatchyOS a shot and I am amazed by this version of Linux. It is incredibly fast and responsive, which has significantly improved my workflow. I found all the software I needed, and it works seamlessly with my docking station. The user interface is intuitive and visually appealing, making it a joy to use. I think I will stay with this version for the long term. Additionally, I really like the package manager; it's simple and efficient, making software installation and updates a breeze. Overall, CatchyOS has exceeded my expectations and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a fresh and reliable Linux experience.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-26
Votes: 0
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The distro is good and lightweight, they've configured many things well, like the driver utility, the cleanliness, and in my opinion, it's also aesthetically pleasing.
But nothing useful works: Lutris always throws a 256 error, the Flatpak version doesn’t even start, and the NVIDIA drivers are super outdated (though, to be fair, you can install others).
The bare installation takes up way too many gigabytes, and I can’t figure out why. I’d recommend it to someone who only wants to use their PC for very basic tasks.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-26
Votes: 0
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This is not an OS oriented for the general public. The environment remains prehistoric and very limited (GNOME and XFCE mainly). In some cases, the KDE environment does not install. The OS has too much obsolescence in its libraries to the point that KDE crashes or simply does not start. The performance of graphics cards and recent hardware is not taken into account. You have to rely on proprietary drivers to try to make everything work.
In short, it is a troubleshooting solution for the general public.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-25
Votes: 3
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I recently gave CachyOS a spin, and I have to say, it's pretty impressive, with T2 drivers integrated in the kernel, witch is absolutely perfect for installing on a mac mini or a mac book.
it felt super smooth and responsive. The whole thing is designed to be fast, thanks to some clever tweaks.
One cool thing is that it uses the XFS file system, which is robust and great for preventing data loss in case of crashes
I recommended it eyes closed to anybody that already have a little experience with linux.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-24
Votes: 3
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CachyOS stands out as a remarkable Arch derivative distro, offering a seamless and user-friendly experience that appeals to both newcomers and seasoned users alike. Its aesthetic design is complemented by a highly customizable interface, making it easy for users to tailor their desktop environment to their preferences. The performance of CachyOS is impressive, with fast boot times and smooth operation across various hardware configurations. This distribution is built on Arch Linux, which ensures that users benefit from the latest software updates and features while maintaining stability. Another highlight is the extensive documentation available, which serves as a resource for users looking to maximize their experience. The community is welcoming and supportive. CachyOS includes a variety of pre-installed applications that cater to different needs, making it a versatile choice right out of the box. The inclusion of essential tools enhances productivity and ensures that users can get started immediately without the need for extensive setup. Overall, this distro excels in delivering a polished and efficient Linux experience, making it an excellent choice for anyone looking to explore the world of open-source operating systems.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-23
Votes: 3
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Jumping over from Arco linux, which became old and a little slow over time. Much quicker IMO, very stable, responsive, and easy to use. Really like the kernel optimizations and the fact the kernels are updated quite frequently. Kernel manager is also very useful. I'm running several OSs on separate drives as well as Windows11, when the installer completed, it seemed to have interfered with the Windows efi parition boot loader, but was able to rebuild it easily enough. No complaints so far and system running well.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 7
Date: 2025-01-23
Votes: 1
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cachyos is the best arch based distro out there right now, but i have a big issue with it.
the defaults are too drastic, without tinkering with what packages to install you will be greeted with horrible desktop theming, the fish shell with a custom config, cachyos launcher/helper thing, cachyos kernel manager, cachyos browser, alacritty with a custom config, cachyos kde settings and more, it's excessive and greatly ruins the user experience. an option for a minimal installation would be amazing.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-22
Votes: 0
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A lot of people told me coming from Windows to Linux, meant I should try, CachyOS. I was told how easy it was to use and how user friendly it was. I tried installing CachyOS on 2 computers in the house (I have four). It is not easy or user friendly. The theme and wallpaper are boring with a capital B. Asking for help in the forums meant needing to use the terminal for everything. I was instructed to use the terminal to change my desktop wallpaper. One of my computers would not boot no matter what I tried. Someone told me to edit the GRUB menu but since it would not boot and displayed a black screen, I could not do anything with it. I got it working on my desktop which was four years old, and it froze anytime it went into sleep mode. I tried disabling sleep mode, but the screen would still sometimes turn black. My laptop could not boot this and kept providing a kernel panic.
To sum up the rest;
Resource usage is a bit steep. The distro is bloated and runs pretty slow from booting, to trying to use CachyOS as a day-to-day with web browsing,, watching videos, etc. it is a pain to use this. I have also experienced a couple crashes of my system too from using CachyOS.
Not recommended.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-21
Votes: 2
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CachyOs is Arch Linux with a greater focus on performance and responsiveness (e.g. for gaming and media) out of the box. The defaults are so good that most of the low-level optimization/customization that anyone would want to do has already been done for them. The per-architecture optimized repositories also bring in a big benefit of distros where packages are mainly self-compiled (like Gentoo) but without requiring any of your own CPU time. These repositories are very quick to be updated to track upstream, and will sometimes be pre-patched, if necessary, for increased performance/compatibility. Finally, the distro maintainers/developers are very active in their discord and matrix servers for help and all sorts of discussions.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-20
Votes: 15
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CachyOs is Arch Linux with a greater focus on performance and responsiveness (e.g. for gaming and media) out of the box. The defaults are so good that most of the low-level optimization/customization that anyone would want to do has already been done for them. The per-architecture optimized repositories also bring in a big benefit of distros where packages are mainly self-compiled (like Gentoo) but without requiring any of your own CPU time. These repositories are very quick to be updated to track upstream, and will sometimes be pre-patched, if necessary, for increased performance/compatibility. Finally, the distro maintainers/developers are very active in their discord and matrix servers for help and all sorts of discussions.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-19
Votes: 0
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First off, the installer is pretty buggy- I was forced to partition the drive by myself and it was annoying when so many other distros help you do that graphically in the installer. After researching for about an hour how to do it, I finally got past that. I used it for a little while, resource usage ramped up- about 1.5 GB of ram used just sitting at the desktop on a clean install. I looked in the system monitor and I don’t really see why there is so much usage of ram, everything looks normal and it does not show where that about 1.5 GB of ram usage is coming from.
Now onto the fun part (sarcasm), interacting with people in the forums was terrible. It seemed like there were some nice people, and I tried out what they recommended it to do, but it didn’t work, ram usage was still around that 1.5 GB and now I had a couple of system crashes forcing me to restart my computer. After a while of just trying to use this, I could t take any more and removed it. I’m currently looking for another distro now.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-18
Votes: 2
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This is an outstanding Arch based Distro. Having used it for several weeks I've been pleasantly surprised without a single issue. I have to seriously wonder about some of these reviews. If you need to install a distro several times or breaking your bootloader, I would be more inclined to think there might be an end user issue rather than this, or any other distro for that matter. The creators and maintainers have done amazing work in putting this distro together. I was so impressed I installed it on an AMD/Invidia Production machine without a single issue.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-17
Votes: 1
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One of derivatives of Arch, it inherited some Arch drawback and advantages.
Drawbacks - can lead to unstable work in the middle of updates. For some rare case of HW it can be problematic. I am kind a geek who assembles home computers in couple of years, change video cards in about a year, and have heat sink on my SSD and memory dimms. Not mentioning SW and OS customization. So CachyOS is easy for geeks/nerds like me, but may be not so great for other users.
Why I am giving 10?
Main reason - fast wifi speed. Can't explain why, but it faster than Ubuntu/Arch on same HW. Important to me to login from my laptop to GPU enabled node and use "ssh -Y ..." without lagging.
Another reason - it feels faster. Kind of Clear Linux with optimized kernel/packages, but with "human" face.
One more reason - calamares installer. I installed Arch Linux from text based installer many times in a past, but for my multiboot environment calamares are faster and more safe.
I have installed CachyOS on my laptop, desktop with Intel GPU, desktop with NVidia GPU and it works everywhere just fine. Not generalizing for all possible cases, but for majority of cases it is mostly stable.
Also it just fits my personal preferences of of the box - KDE plasma, fish shell, good set of packages.
Of coarse I have to install some additional packages from available repositories, but it happened for me with any distro, not a big deal.
My default Linux daily driver for several months, and counting.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-16
Votes: 0
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What more could one want from a Linux System?
This system has a perfect kernel.
This system is available in two versions:
Desktop edition with the perfect desktop Kde Plasma.
With a perfectly selected package manager in which most Linux applications can be found.
With a very good browser based on Mozilla Firefox.
And last but not least, the Perfect Proton, which makes games on Steam, Lutrix and Heroic look perfect!
Even this system has a separate:
CachyOS Handheld Edition which is directly oriented towards games.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-15
Votes: 2
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CatchyOS brings in a lot of new features to an already Arch based distro e.g. custom kernel control, bore scheduler for faster loading, paru and octopi preinstalled. The swap memory is 19GB which is in line with modern systems. Nvidia is preinstalled Fish shell is default and zsh is installed with Powerlevel 10k. The installer is calamaris and many DE options are included like hyprland/qtile/cosmic apart from regular ones. KDE is the default DE but I find KDE to be slow although its Arch based distro. With paru you can install any app with one line for e.g. paru -S ghostty. Apps availability is awesome. It has catchyOS Hello, an interface like Endeavour Hello which allows you to tweak packages, change kernel, Install game packages, rank mirrors, and change DNS. For installing apps there are two basic apps centers (CatchyOS Hello and CatchOS Package Installer) and a third option is using octopi package installer (which includes paru). Its GUI app center is quite basic though (just app names of aps, no pics or reviews etc). Octopi App requires skill because dependencies are listed along with aps names. Moreover when using Paru (in command line) which is a helper tool for AUR, you oftentimes have to read and Inspect the PKGBUILDs files before installing the app, otherwise some malicious code may be executed. Ideally check metadata, urls, checksum,dependencies, and redflags like rm -rf, curl, or wget. Moving on, most of the services need to be manually enabled. In Ubuntu most services are enabled by default. But in many Arch Distros Bluetooth is not enabled out of the box (it is enabled in CatchyOS though). Moreover, say you installed "virt-manager" the application won't start unless you start the demon service with "sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd.service" and "sudo systemctl status". These kinds of things are normal in arch based distro. Say you want to install nvidia cuda drivers you have also set up Set up Environment Variables eg "export PATH=/opt/cuda/bin:$PATH" and "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/cuda/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH". Arch Linux is a rolling release distribution, meaning the kernel is frequently updated. This can cause issues with NVIDIA drivers if not handled properly. You have to install DKMS(dynamic kernel module support) to automatically rebuild the driver after each kernel update. On Arch Linux, you may need to manually configure Xorg to use the NVIDIA driver, whereas Ubuntu often handles this automatically.After installing CUDA, verify that it works correctly. The short of it is that you have many extra manual steps which you don't have in ubuntu. So if we think cattles vs pets, Arch is like a pet where you have to spend extra hours grooming and maintaining the system. Yes you will learn these matters and become better at version management, or you could be using that time towards building better ML models. The choice is yours. This is the best Arch Distro right now
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Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-14
Votes: 0
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CachyOS:
CachyOS,nightmare to install,don't even try unless you have a minimum of 8gb Ram and a decent processor, here are my findings of this os,graffically its superb but that the only good thing I have got to say about it,everything else dissapoints, I have been using linux for a number of years now and have to say its the least user friendly distro I have ever come accross so for newbies this will be a nightmare,ok so trying the try before you buy scenario it works just ok, but I noticed a lot of slowdown ,after full install that's where your problems will begin, updates or should I say most of them installed promptly but wouldn't or couldn't install all of them, so back to the os,app store installed a few of the app I selected but after opening once they failed to open at all,even one or two of the pre installed apps wouldn't open either, selected other packages to see if that would cure the problem but to no avail, lastly there is never any mention in any of the reviews for this os that you have to pay to fully unlock all of apps that are on other distros for free, there are better distros out there, the moral of this review is never believe all the reviews that you will see for this product,I wish I had never bothered
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Version: 241221
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-14
Votes: 0
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An Outstanding Linux Distribution
I have tried CachyOS, and it feels truly unique compared to others. It runs flawlessly on my laptop, and the experience is incredibly smooth with its KDE desktop environment.
Installing additional applications is also very straightforward, especially with the support of the AUR. It doesn't pose any difficulties even for those who are accustomed to Debian-based distributions.
I sincerely hope the CachyOS developers continue to grow and deliver a Linux distribution that is exceptional, easy to use, fast, and enjoyable.
Thank you!
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-13
Votes: 1
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The big selling point of Cachy is hardware-specific kernels and optimisations. The developers are clearly technically very able as these are obvious - the speed of everything is astonishing.
There are a few built-in applications - Hello, which is that but also has some intimidating options just behind the first screen as noted, Package Installer, which is a quick installer of common packages, and Kernel Manager, which provides a choice of about a dozen kernels and an easy switch between them.
The other built-in application is Cachy Browser, which is a further-locked-down Firefox. It has borrowings from elsewhere (e.g. automatic session save and restore from Librewolf), various flags enabled which show standard Firefox user interface controls (e.g. container tab support) and uBlock Origin plus a few arcane, but interesting, search engines built in, but also a completely new "Cachy" preferences page which allows further flags to be switched on and off from an explicit interface such as tighter fingerprinting prevention, updating addons automatically, preventing Google malware checks and - one I didn't know about until now and jumped on - switching off Firefox Sync to the extent that it is fully removed from the user interface.
Overall? Excellent all round and ridiculously fast, and fish is a revelation here, but I think Cachy could revert to standard Firefox without much being lost.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-13
Votes: 0
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Probably the most convenient distribution out of all that I have tried; I've spent quite a long time on it. After the upgrade, I also plan to switch to it. The advantages are simple: convenience, flexibility, customizability, optimization, and speed of operation. It’s clear that there are people working on the distribution, and that’s very encouraging. I wish the distribution success in its development, and it deserves to take second place in the Distrowatch ranking.
I also forgot to mention that gaming packages are available right away, but some need to be installed manually, such as Vulkan and certain AMDGPU dependencies, which for some reason are not included in the gaming packages. Additionally, I would like the developers to pay closer attention to gaming improvements on Linux and to implement them promptly in their distribution (like the latest Proton, Wine, etc.).
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Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-12
Votes: 0
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I installed it several times to give it a fair shake. Although it does have a pleasant, intuitive interface, it has a few slight issues that need to be addressed. For example, when i open app finder, it sometimes hangs up, and does not load anything. It has a slight lag, feels slower than other distros like manjaro or zorin on the same machine. At the end of the day, as a current windows user, I ask does it meet the test of intuitive, easy to use - does it work consistently enough to be a reliable desktop environment - can it replace my windows - and most importantly do i feel compelled to keep it installed on my machine? In my case no.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 4
Date: 2025-01-12
Votes: 0
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Well forst the good parts : Its a fresh looking distor and its kernel controls are awesome. It uses BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) CPU Scheduler which is considered superior. It uses harderded firefox.you can choose from mainstream DE to new ones like hyprland, sway, qtile and even cosmic. Uses btfs file system by default. Octopi is very decent software manager with paru preconfigured. Fish is default user shell and zsh 10k is also installed. Uses 20 GB default swap memory.
Cons: Won't dual boot unless you open the grub config file at "/etc/default/grub" and uncomment "GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false" . Then you have rerun os-prober and then make a new grub file using "grub mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
This is done by default in every other Distro including endeavourOS.
Second issue is with "octopi" the package manager. Its unnecessarily complicated. At this point in time its better to use the terminal.
Some apps like virt-manager don't work although installed it from their software center.
And why do they customise firefox is beyond me. They say cachyos-firefox uses a hardened user profile, but anyone with half a brain can download librewolf, mullvard, waterfox and they allwould preconfigured with these feature.
Its customization for the sake of it, to look different.
And if you it think it boots faster then it doesn't, and app are as slow as they are in other DE's
Perhaps the Arch, sadomasochist community loves these kinds of challenges. I prefer to get some work done. nuff said.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-12
Votes: 0
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This is a fabulous Arch based linux distribution. It is not a total newbie distribution as some of the other Arch based distros out there but, it can be easily managed with a little patience. It is very fast and seems to be taking security seriously.
Let's hope the developers continue on this journey and appreciate hard work put into this one. I'm using Plasma edition on an old lenovo laptop, Duo core and 5.7G memory that runs as smooth as ever. The system comes with its own package installer and kernel manager, enabling you to install various applications from AUR or using Flatpak.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-12
Votes: 0
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Good points of CachyOS
1. Optimized for the latest hardware: Specifically, it's a rare OS with x86-64-v3 and v4 repositories, allowing it to fully utilize the potential of the newest hardware. While Linus Torvalds is critical of the level of CPU optimization and believes this classification will become less relevant, CachyOS's dedication to improving performance remains.
2. Fewer unnecessary applications: The GUI has minimal bloatware, providing tools that users can easily install later if needed.
3. Excellent pre-installed tools: Top-tier CLI tools are included from the start, and Zsh comes with popular built-in plugins. FishShell is the default shell, widely considered user-friendly and powerful. Other essential tools for setting up your environment are also carefully selected and included.
4. Stability: If you experience instability, review your hardware configuration. While having multiple desktop environments (DEs) to choose from is an advantage, be aware that some DEs may be unstable.
Bad points of CachyOS
1. Limited keyboard navigation: The Tab key doesn't cycle focus through buttons in the install menu, preventing installation from the GUI screen using only the keyboard.
2. Unresponsive installer: The installer app can be unresponsive. You might be tempted to click repeatedly, but be patient and wait after clicking a button.
3. KDE stability: While KDE is the flagship desktop environment, it can be unstable overall. Gnome is considerably more stable.
4. Underutilization of Flatpak: When looking for applications, check Flathub for Flatpak versions first. Flatpak offers a more streamlined installation experience and improves compatibility. While cachyos-gaming-meta is available, using Steam through Flatpak rather than installing it locally can resolve compatibility issues.
Finally, it's unfair to compare a free operating system to a commercial one priced at $120 or more. If you prefer Windows, by all means, continue to use it.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-12
Votes: 1
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I have gone back and forth between fedora, silverblue, endeavour, manjaro and ubuntu. I came across cachyos looking to retry arch linux without going through all of the install of arch linux itself.
Been using this distro for a few weeks and it has run very well. Installed on an old dell desktop, a thinkpad and a full amd laptop. No issues. I like the fact that the developers put a lot of effort into the kernels. I chose a different version of the kernel that seems to best fit the hardware and it works great. I appreciate the efforts the developers put into the cachy browser also.
Overall, the experience has been great and if there is an issue, I can quickly find an answer for it.
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Version: 231210
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-11
Votes: 15
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I've used Cachy now for about 6 months without issue and can tell you that it is nothing short of amazing. Decided to try Cachy on an old laptop and was very impressed with the speed and stability, so much so, that it is now the only OS I use; even on my daily driver (this says a lot since I've been a Fedora user since 2006). Installation process was smooth and quick. Documentation was very good. Only issue I had was Bluetooth didn't work initially and I had to enable it via terminal but that about 5 minutes of research to find a fix and less than a minute to do, so all in all not a big deal.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-10
Votes: 0
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Make sure you choose the refind bootloader if you have other operating systems installed. I made the mistake of using systemd boot the first time and it erased all my other entries
Works great now that I installed it properly. I don't really notice a speed difference between this and other lightweight Arch distros, but it runs well and seems very stable. Theme options are nice looking too. Their website is informative and well designed, plus the forum seems active
It's nice to see another great Arch distro climbing the ranks
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Version: 241221
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-10
Votes: 0
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Used it daily for around 12 months. Based on Arch Linux.
Fast and you will notice it, even with top of the line hardware. You can choose from several optimized packages, including different, optimized kernels.
If you're a linux veteran you will feel in charge, as the default installation is very barebones, but you can install the apps you want afterwards.
For Linux newbies, maybe an installation "I'm a Linux newbie, install everything I need" option could help?
Steam works, special, optimized "Cachy OS"- Proton packages.
Good RAM usage, it seems it uses it well for caching data and apps, very snappy experience.
Very good distribution for linux enthusiasts and adequate support forums. for newbies.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 7
Date: 2025-01-09
Votes: 0
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Lenovo ThinkPad 32Gb ram i7, 1Tb NVMe gen3.
CachyOS is very similar to Endeavour and Manjaro in its philosophy. Make Arch accessible to the masses. The main difference is the kernel and its tweaks for performance.
Furthermore, the installation is clean, install other packages likes CUPS. BTRFS file-system is installed by default, which is convenient.
I have used Arch Vanilla most of my life and I have tried other Arch Distros, but they always disappoint me in the installation. CachyOS covers most of the installation requirements and tweaks for the end-user.
However, it does have some annoyances:
1. The fstab uses direct device name instead of UUID.
2. If you modified boot entries, ensure to lock the entry file, otherwise, CachyOS will rewrite it when updated.
3. The mkinitcpio.cont uses the old hooks style instead of the new one (sd-crypt).
4. Boot is slow. It uses Plymouth for the graphical booting, which makes it slow.
5. Shutdown is extremely slow, like an MS Windows machine.
6. Allows only one WM to install. If you want more than one, then you have to install them later.
Still, if you are new to Arch, give it a try, you may like it and enjoy it. The WM that you chose will look nice and everything works out of the box.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-09
Votes: 0
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Excellent experience, high quality distro. I use arch and endeavourOs on most of my devices so I had to try CachyOs. I installed it on a mac mini 2019 with an i7. It is one of the rare distros with T2 drivers already compiled in the kernel, so perfect for a Mac with a T2 chip. I only had to do minor adjustments to get the wifi working but the overall experience was flawless. The installer is very intuitive and of course way less time consuming than the vanilla Arch install. It is very fast, but I haven't tested speed with a precise benchmark. I have been using it for 3 months without a single bug or problem. I will probably use it for my future install. Amazing distro, thanks to the dev for this excellent piece of software.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-06
Votes: 0
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I am very impressed with the speed and stability of CachyOS, the customizability of the system is very easy and after a bit of "playing" I have easily configured the desktop as I like it for my productivity.
This being my first foray into Arch I must say I'm impressed. Both the stability and security of the default browser seem very good indeed.
Installation was a breeze as the installer is both easy and familiar.
CachyOS has gone from an experimental installation to work horse moderately quickly.
It seems like an old well established and stable OS even though it is new, this speaks highly of the time and effort put into it's development by the developers / contributors, my sincere congratulations to both.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-04
Votes: 0
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Arch setup OOTB with relatively sane defaults.
- Friendly installer with a lot of options so you can get started however you like. Don't like the default theming? Deselect it at installation.
- Little to no theming depending on the Destop Enviroment / WM
- Custom In House Repo's with optimized package builds, and useful meta packages.
- In house utility applications (such as the CachyOS kernel manager) to make your experience that much more friendly
- Custom Kernel W/ a very nice CPU scheduler, to make your desktop experience that much more responsive. Also comes with Sched-Ext support OOTB along with the aforementioned CachyOS kernel manager to make utilizing it even easier.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-04
Votes: 0
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My favorite distro. One may look at it and say, "Oh, it's just yet another Arch-Based Distro", however that couldn't be further from the truth. Unlike other Arch-Based Distribution, CachyOS goes above and beyond to deliver the best UX tailored to almost any type of end user.
It offers a minimal installation OOTB with an intuitive installer, with a wide range of available Desktop Environments / Window Managers, and also lets you pick exactly what you want preinstalled. Don't care for preinstalled themes? You can just deselect them at install time.
What really sets CachyOS apart from other Distro's is the raw extent they go through to provide the most responsive and optimized experience as possible. It comes with additional Repo's on top of the existing Arch Repo's that feature a lot of software and optimizations that you won't find in any other repo. It also comes with a in-house kernel built with various optimizations, aswell as Sched-Ext support and a "CachyOS Kernel Manager" tool for managing your kernels, patches, and schedulers, just incase you want to tweak their already great kernel build.
The default installation, I would not consider bloated at all, the software that does come preinstalled is all very lightweight and useful. CachyOS also offers various meta packages tailored to different types of end users, such as a gaming meta package.
Overall CachyOS is a Unique Arch-Based experience that you cannot find anywhere else.
Optimized kernel, and repo's with great tools made by the Cachy team to elevate your experience even further.
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Version: 221230
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-03
Votes: 0
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### CachyOS: A Versatile Choice for Programming, Gaming, and General Use
CachyOS is an Arch Linux-based distribution designed for performance, efficiency, and ease of use. Whether you're a developer, gamer, or just someone seeking a robust general-purpose OS, CachyOS has plenty to offer.
#### **For Programming**
CachyOS is a paradise for developers due to its Arch Linux base. It offers access to the Arch User Repository (AUR), providing a massive library of software, libraries, and tools. Programming languages like Python, JavaScript, Rust, and Go can be easily installed and updated. CachyOS comes with a performance-optimized kernel, which can speed up compiling and execution times for large codebases. The customization options allow developers to set up their environment exactly how they like it, with support for IDEs like Visual Studio Code, JetBrains, and more.
#### **For Gaming**
Gaming on CachyOS is an excellent experience, thanks to its focus on performance optimization. It supports tools like Steam, Proton, and Lutris, ensuring compatibility with a wide array of games, including AAA titles. The system’s low latency and efficient resource management make it an ideal platform for gaming. Additionally, drivers for AMD and NVIDIA GPUs are easily accessible, offering smooth graphics performance.
#### **General Use**
For daily use, CachyOS is lightweight, fast, and secure. It includes user-friendly interfaces and customization options, making it suitable for both Linux beginners and seasoned users. Regular updates ensure stability and the latest features.
Overall, CachyOS is a powerful and adaptable operating system that excels in programming, gaming, and general usage. With its balance of performance and usability, it’s an excellent choice for tech enthusiasts.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-03
Votes: 0
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Well, at least I gave this a try. I had one disaster after another using CachyOS- my bootloader was broken numerous times throughout my use- I have a Windows 10 install and it made sure to make that uncountable (I still need Windows for some things). This distro was pretty bloated with way too many apps, some of which do the same thing- so that's definitely unnecessary. Boot time was pretty slow, it took a few minutes if it would even fully go through booting tot he desktop- I had to force shutdown my computer numerous times and it was a 50/50 chance it would boot to the desktop or not. It could not recognize my printer or wifi card, good thing I have ethernet as a backup, but that was slow too. There is a bit of RAM usage with no programs open, which slowed down the system. There were some crashes and any workarounds from "helpful" users in the forum proved to be a blatant lie, and would mess up something else in the distro- making this overall not trustworthy to use and a pain trying to fix anything thaty is broken.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-03
Votes: 0
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This Distro is verry good.Cachy os have a special kernel versions (in my opinion BMQ lto is the best for performance) but calamares installer often crash when i install this distro from usb.This distro have a problem with partitioning disks to dual boot.
Despite this, I recommend this system to all those who want to have a fast, light and stable work environment. I currently use the qtile desktop and it works well in many applications. You can always install another one or choose another one during installation. I recommend installing only one graphical environment, otherwise the system may not install correctly.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-02
Votes: 0
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The best distro I've ever used. It's so unbelievably fast. I also haven't found any speed differences using ext4 instead of btrfs. I recommend anyone to at least try it. It installs all Nvidia drivers automatically. Runs games easily and is on-par game wise performance with Garuda. It also has secure boot support and docs, for anyone that cares about that. I haven't tried Hyprland but using KDE Plasma, which is the default DE, it's fantastic. For anyone who wants to try Arch without the painful setup, CashyOS is a must try!
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Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-01
Votes: 0
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Have been using it as my main OS on both desktop and laptop for over 12 months now and I've been very impressed. Stable, fast and reliable.
Occasional package issues to deal with, but you get that with Arch. One good thing is if it's one of the packages they maintain a version of, it'll usually get fixed quick smart.
I think the only bad thing I could say about it is that I think the CachyOS Hello (welcome app) could do with a bit of rework to make it simpler for new users. A bit more of a guided tour perhaps, especially pointing them towards the Apps/Tweaks page for gaming packages and snapper support, as well as perhaps a more visible note about paru and the AUR.
Other than that, not a bad thing to say. It may be the longest I've stuck with a particular distro to date and I don't see myself changing any time soon.
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Version: 241221
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-12-31
Votes: 0
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Have to say, I'm impressed! Usually a Debian or Ubuntu-based kinda person but after having some issues, I thought I'd expand into Arch-forks. First one I tried was Endeavour OS. While there is nothing wrong with that flavour, I thought I'd give Cachy OS a shot and am glad I did. Very pleased with the overall ability to tailor this OS to what I want while running pretty quick on my ThinkPad T480. I am running Windows 11 Pro, Zorin 17.2 Core, Mac OS 15.2.x Sequoia, Endeavour OS on my main drive. I was also running the latest Linux Mint until I replaced it with Cachy and have no regrets so far!
Awesome distro and looking forward to future improvements!
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Version: 241110
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-12-19
Votes: 65
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Very fast. Very stable. Have user friendly installer. Using it on my production machine for 6 months without any significant issues. Switched from ARCH to CACHYOS. Started with GNOME, but now switched to KDE. Only package specific issues sometimes come. I think they will also appear on other distros. Although some things need to be done post installation like loading HUC GUC firmware, installing all the VULKAN and MESA libraries. It would be better if they are automatically installed. Otherwise firefox online videos would be slow. Also I needed to adjust the font rendering of some Microsoft fonts like CALLIBRI fonts manually. It was causing ugly rendering of GMAIL fonts which used CALLIBRI.
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Version: 241110
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-11-25
Votes: 0
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This seems good but I wasn't able to install it on a test laptop, seems to have a lot of bugs in the installer and severe hardware compatibility limitations, including some very basic issues: it seems wasn't able to write any changes to the partition table, so the first installation said it was complete, but on reboot it couldn't find a boot device. Thereafter it couldn't delete any partitions on the HDD. This seems a very basic bug. Maybe with more development it will become a viable option for a desktop, but given the bugs encountered, I can't imagine it would be trustworthy enough for daily use.
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Version: 241110
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-11-22
Votes: 49
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Cachy has given me a barebones, but customizable experience of Arch Linux. Things like yay for AUR access are readily available on their repos so you can get going faster. CachyOS offers heavily optimized packages and settings by default, and it sits on the very edge of "bleeding edge". I recommend not using testing repositories on this distribution. I recommend this distribution for people looking to squeeze maximum performance from their hardware. One of my favorite features is being able to choose from various kinds of kernels from the repositories, and the ability to change CPU scheduler on the fly via scx-sched. Overall, this distro has done well as a daily driver.
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Version: 241110
Rating: 7
Date: 2024-11-16
Votes: 0
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Overrated imo. Its nothing different from endeavor OS. I haven't tried every game but these days all distros do good gaming. The installation process is so long compared to installing ubuntu or fedora. also there is a flaw in the installation workflow where you cannot choose multiple env and have to stick to default KDE. I don't see any value. This seems to be the new hype in the town so I don't want to berate the boy but to me its just another "also ran" candidate. I will update if my opnion changes in the future but it nothing great.
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Version: 240929
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-11-04
Votes: 23
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The word that keeps coming to mind is "optimized." CachyOS runs as well on my N4020 netbook (yes including KDE!) as it does on my 12th gen chipset. It's also one of the few distros that has some customization: Fish shell, fastfetch in the default profile, etc., but overall doesn't change the look and feel of the system, which is nice. I would rather have some mods to functionality than the appearance mega-distro-ified. It's snappy and fast on a variety of machines; I've been using it a couple months now and it's my go-to recommendation for an Arch-based distro!
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Version: 240929
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-10-26
Votes: 11
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We have been trying to get a distro which can be customized for 2 specific tasks Machine Learning and casual Gaming. Then we came across Cachy os on Distrowatch tried this for few days on a seperate partition for a few days and then came across sced-ext scheduler config. Again tried this for few days in conjunction with Porproton and a suitable kernel and wow that we were amazed. from 25 to 30 fps the system went to 50-110 fps on gaming and our ML tasks take 3/4 the time now. Great for scientific works and gaming. Must try along with Mint or debian in dual boot env. it runs on 2 of our systems TUF gaming 15 and Nitro 15. KDE Plasma 6.2.2 wayland and some ML based customizations. it simply is beautiful and blazing fast. Wish some more teaks and more people to use it to make it more popular as we feel it is arch on steroids.
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Version: 240929
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-10-25
Votes: 15
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I've tried a few distros over the years, but kept coming back to Windows for gaming. But the Copilot spyware they are ramrodding through, despite massive backlash, finally pushed me to seek a permanent replacement. I researched for several weeks before landing on CachyOS and it's been amazing. I'd toyed with the idea of getting Bazzite or ChimeraOS since I mainly game, but also wanted the ability to do other things like document editing, web browsing, etc. I also looked at Arch, PopOS, Linux Mint and Garuda, but I'd tried most of them over the years and I heard really good things about gaming on CachyOS so I decided to give it a whirl. It's now been four months and I think I've dual-booted into Windows twice, just to update drivers and it's actually felt like it's no longer home. CachyOS is now my home. Steam runs great. Almost every game runs flawlessly. Cider works great for Apple Music, Brave works great as my browser. Discord works, Signal works, VLC media player works, NordVPN works... I don't think I'll ever go back.
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Version: 240929
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-10-25
Votes: 2
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By far the best experience I've ever had with Linux. I switched from Windows a few months ago after it crashed twice in a month. I had used several distros before, but the gaming aspect kept me going back to Windows. Now, going back, I realized how much Linux has evolved in terms of gaming. This time I tried Nobara and Majaro, but I had problems with both. Manjaro is very buggy and I don't know why. Davinci Resolve Studio doesn't work well with Fedora and derivatives for me. CachyOS is perfect, everything works fine, the repository, Steam, Bottles, Heroic, Davinci Resolve, Blender... That's why it's being my daily driver.
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Version: 240929
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-10-21
Votes: 14
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I am a debian enjoyer. I recently installed CachyOS because I wanted to mess around with an arch based system. I have been very pleasantly surprised by how performant and good it is. It includes a few excellent software tools including a kernel manager that honestly should be standard on way more distros. I really like CachyOS. I am currently using it as a daily driver with important directories rsync'd back to my usual Debian install. Time will tell how stable it will be and the longevity of the project. I can say that this is without a doubt the best Arch distro I've ever used.
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Version: 240929
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-10-19
Votes: 15
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I have been on numerous Linus distros before and always had the constant urge to hop to somewhere new, but after trying out CachyOS, I've stayed there for two years now. Everything works out of the box, but it's easy to tinker if you want to try out something different, e.g. the CachyOs Kernel Manager is a great place to start how to try compiling your own kernel. Most of the most popular desktop environments and window managers are also supported out of the box when installing from the live iso. Also a huge shoutout to the awesome and always super helpful community over on the CachyOs discord-server.
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Version: 240714
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-08-07
Votes: 53
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CPU: AMD 7800X3D
GPU: nVidia 4080 Super
Motherboard: Asrock B650 RS Pro Wifi
RAM: 32 GB
Storage: WD SSD
Setup: Dual boot OS with Windows, CachyOS, Games and General Storage on separate SSDs
I didn't have any previous experience with Arch before installing CachyOS beyond some stuff learning commands in my Linux+ training. So far, the experience has been seamless with no issues. After distro hopping I ended up on CachyOS and there I've stayed. The OS doesn't come preloaded with a lot of software IMO but throught the AUR repos, I can easily install what I need for gaming and more. Overall, great experience so far.
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Version: 231210
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-08-06
Votes: 30
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I don't know about you, but when I tried different distros over the last couple of years, I always had the feeling of "incompleteness". Whether it was running a Debian-based OS with older packages and longer update cycles or EOS, knowing I had to study Arch for the next couple of months in order to be up to speed, minmaxing the capabilities of my system.
CachyOS is the first distro which managed to purge that feeling entirely. Reading through their content on their Wiki/Discord and finally realizing that I was understanding pretty much nothing of the underlying improvement concepts, gave me that cozy feeling of having someone far more competent than myself taking care of all of this.
So now, with more time on my hands, I can get more thoughtful ranting about kernel-level anticheat software and big tech trying to create digital clones from our user data. Thank you, KatchyOS team
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Version: 240714
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-07-28
Votes: 46
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After turning off Secure Boot and running the standard Calamares installation, it's straight into a KDE desktop which, tacitly, is the default as the Live desktop is KDE.
The big selling point of Cachy is hardware-specific kernels and optimisations. The developers are clearly technically very able as these are obvious - the speed of everything is astonishing - but learning is required in return. Some of the kernel names and flags in the Hello application such as "bpftune enabled" and "systemd-oomd enabled" would have very few people recognise what they are for straight off. (For the record, the first automatically tunes various buffer sizes and the second automatically kills processes which develop memory leaks).
With KDE, the Arch quirks (for example, online wallpapers are out because the functionality is omitted) are there but there is a very nice default setup with themes (based on dark blue, cyan and green) that are an improvement on the bland Breeze.
konsole and alacritty use the fish shell, which is a new one on me, but I like it. Non-irritating auto-complete and configuration using the browser (fish_config) from which one can do things like delete individual history items (!) are two highlights here.
There are a few built-in applications - Hello, which is that but also has some intimidating options just behind the first screen as noted, Package Installer, which is the same quick installer of common packages as used by MX, and Kernel Manager, which provides a choice of about a dozen kernels and an easy switch between them.
The other built-in application I am not so sure about - Cachy Browser, which is a further-locked-down Firefox. It has borrowings from elsewhere (e.g. automatic session save and restore from Librewolf), various flags enabled which show standard Firefox user interface controls (e.g. container tab support) and uBlock Origin plus a few arcane, but interesting, search engines built in, but also a completely new "Cachy" preferences page which allows further flags to be switched on and off from an explicit interface such as tighter fingerprinting prevention, updating addons automatically, preventing Google malware checks and - one I didn't know about until now and jumped on - switching off Firefox Sync to the extent that it is fully removed from the user interface. Although the browser is up-to-date (128.0.3) I am a bit concerned that such a large customisation could slow down release if it breaks and has to be fixed.
That said, it uses ~/.cachy rather than ~/.mozilla to store its configuration, and Firefox can be installed from the Package Installer or by using octopi/pacman.
Overall? 9. Excellent all round and ridiculously fast, and fish is a revelation here, but I think Cachy could revert to standard Firefox without much being lost.
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Version: 240714
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-25
Votes: 17
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CachyOS is probably the best arch based out of the box experienced for me not just in gaming but in general usage. I've been using it for 3 weeks now my last distro was Mint and I used it for 3 years. This is the first time in 3 years that I will move to another distro for my daily driver. I love that the developers are active in their discord server and you can ask questions and people there will answer you politely. So far so good its only been a month of usage so it could change in the future for better or worse, I see CachyOS becoming more popular in the future as long as they keep on improving it. Props to the developers and community.
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Version: 240714
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-22
Votes: 13
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I used Fedora on my main gaming machine for years, and for about a year I used Nobara. Both great! Love them both and still use Fedora on my laptop,
But I wanted to try something arch based. Garuda was way, waaay too bloated, EndeavourOS is really awesome but too "vanilla" for gaming and needs a fair amount of tweaking, CachyOS hits the sweet spot just perfectly! Everything "just works (tm)" and I've had a great experience gaming on my machine with very little tinkering. Their repos are really good too adding some useful packages for easy access.
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Version: 240609
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-12
Votes: 12
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So lightweight, so fast. Runs right out of the box. I run it with bcachefs with xfce on one laptop, an older one, at home with no problems for a month now. I tried most of the arch based distros the last five years and this is my favourite.
This is the first time I use fish since it is default shell. I wanted to give it a shot and I like it as well. The only thing I didn't like was vim as default editor, but it takes a couple of seconds to change it to micro (or what ever editor preferred). I like the kernel manager as well and I even like octopi even if it is the first time i use a gui tool for installing software.
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Version: 240609
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-11
Votes: 9
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I have gone back and forth between fedora, silverblue, endeavour, manjaro and ubuntu.
I came across cachy os looking to retry arch linux without going through all of the install of arch linux itself.
Been using cachy os for a few weeks and it has run very well. Installed on a 12 year old dell desktop, a 7 year old lenovo carbon x1 thinkpad and a laptop fully loaded with AMD. No issues.
I like the fact that the developers put a lot of effort into the kernels. I chose a different version of the kernel that seems to best fit the hard ware and it works great. I appreciate the efforts the developers put into the cachy broswer also. That is a nice touch.
Overall, the experience has been great and if there is an issue, I can quickly find an answer for it.
I'll be using this for quite a while.
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Version: 240609
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-02
Votes: 17
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Very good linux distribution, the kernel is insanely fast compared to the kernel i used previously on Fedora.
The preconfigured and preinstalled nvidia driver is also very good and is always the latest version. You don't have to do anything to get it working since it is working out of the box after installation.
CachyOS also has optimized packages for different CPU architectures which is also really cool.
If you have any questions or problems the developers are very active on the discord server so you get help pretty easily. I recommend CachyOS
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Version: 240609
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-01
Votes: 3
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Before CachyOS I had used Nobara. But not everything ran smoothly there. I then decided to give Cachy a chance. And what can I say? I have no regrets. So far, everything has run without any problems.
It has the latest NVidia beta driver pre-installed. There is a package that can be installed for gaming. So you have pretty much everything you need quickly installed.
On the Cachy Discord you will be helped quickly. Even the developer is happy to help.
I would recommend CachyOS to anyone who has problems with other distributions, especially when it comes to gaming.
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Version: 240609
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-30
Votes: 7
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Basically, it's Arch Linux with a greater focus on performance and responsiveness (e.g. for gaming) out of the box.
You can turn a basic Arch install (or any distro install, with enough effort) into what CachyOS comes with; however, the defaults are so good that most of the low-level optimization/customization that anyone would want to do has already been done for them.
The per-architecture optimized repositories also bring in a big benefit of distros where packages are mainly self-compiled -- like Gentoo -- but without requiring any of your own CPU time. These repositories are very quick to be updated to track upstream, and will sometimes be pre-patched (if necessary) for increased performance/compatibility.
Finally, the distro maintainers/developers are very active in their Discord and Matrix servers for help and all sorts of discussions. It's hard to miss out on new developments in the Linux sphere if you are part of its community.
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Version: 240609
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-25
Votes: 11
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An Arch fork with many optimizations for newer hardware. It has a GUI Installer that lets you install CachyOS easily.
CachyOS Pros:
-v3/v4 packages
-optimized packages von Zen4/Zen5
-O3 compiled Kernel
-many performance tweaks/services out of the box like ananicy-cpp
-many kernels/cpu scheduler like sched-ext and BORE (Team works with BORE/sched-ext developers)
-best gaming performance ootb
-one command to install everything required for gaming
-pre compiled nvidia modules
-active and supportive discord/matrix community
It works flawlessy for me and till now its the best performing Linux Distro that i tried.
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Version: 240609
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-06-13
Votes: 5
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Easy to use and install Arch fork with probably the most inclusive and helpful dev-team out there through discord.
Including their own kernel manager that makes it really easy to add or remove kernel versions, the stock kernel that comes with installation is already well optimized and up to date.
Using the latest and most stable version of KDE 6 with optional custom themes ready to go.
Very little bloat as far as i'm concerned , just a very convenient way to set up arch even for people new to linux.
This just works.
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Version: 240609
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-13
Votes: 7
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I am a long-term user of Arch, my notebook, which I use the most, has a pure Arch, my desktop computer which is also used by children with a dual SSD, to which I have one SSD Gnome and another test. CachyOS surprised me because I had no problems with the installation I installed from online fashion.
I like the distro because it doesn’t have too many programs installed because I’m a minimalist and I only install the programs I use, I don’t like the upholstery on my computer.
I like the simplicity and cleanliness of the system, everything works as it should, quickly and uncompromisingly.
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Version: 240401
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-04
Votes: 13
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I am quite new to Arch based Distros in general but I can say that after a week using CachyOS, I can honestly confirm this is by far the best Arch based Distro.
I already tried Manjaro and EndeavourOS and both failed to address a very simple issue with mounting an external drive and the constant locks which caused frozen logon screen and had to reboot all the time. Maybe this is a bug, maybe not, I do not know.
All I know is that ever since I installed CachyOS, my experience has been the best.
Out of the box, I did not have to do much. The CachyOS Hello Wizard that launches post installation gave me pretty much all I needed to get up and running:
- Apps/Tweaks
- Install Apps
- Software available
- Wiki and Forum, etc.
Under the Apps/Tweaks section, as a gamer in the making (not a pro, just an enthusiast gamer), this has been the fastest and easiest method to get all the apps, dependencies and configuration required to install Lutris, Steam, Proton setup, and the drivers required.
I really love the fact that all apps versions come with their latest version available which is a plus to me. Out of the box you get Octopi which solved most of my problems but even if you want other sources like the Pamac GUI which serves as an alternative method if you are like me (getting used to install AUR packages).
So far, I have not found one single problem, and when I did find one, the Wiki, Forum and their outstanding support guides have solved it in a very efficient way. I guess my Distros hoping days are finally over.
However, I would only suggest customizing a little bit more the Konsole terminal as every Linux user knows this is where we spend most of the time. I love the way how Manjaro displays its own Terminal by default without customizations. Just a thought, perhaps the devs could tweak it a little bit to include Oh-My-Posh theme and fonts by default. I know this is too much to ask as they may have other features request which make more sense, but I wanted to ask and try anyways.
Thanks again for this great work guys Please keep it up!
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Version: 240401
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-04
Votes: 9
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I consider myself a newbie into the Linux world. The most important thing for me is to have an almost out-of-the-box ready experience. I have tried many popular distros like Ubuntu, Manjaro, Mint, Fedora, PopOS, then I went for gaming ready ones like PikaOS, Nobara Linux and Garuda.
All of them were great but they all had some cons. The most stable of them all were Nobara and PikaOS.
Then I wanted to give arch another try. After a bit of searching I got to CachyOS which was recommended in Nobara's discord.
I was expecting lots of problems and bugs but surprisingly it didn't have any!
Everything works as it should and the repos are up-to-date. If you don't find your required software in Cachy repos, you can install them via AUR which is a blessing of Arch.
CachyOS does have a gaming meta package which installs all the necessary packages for a comfortable gaming experience.
It's the first Arch distro that was newbie-friendly for me.
Highly recommend this distro to everyone who wants a rolling release distro that just works and has excellent performance.
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Version: 240401
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-02
Votes: 4
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Very good distro stable has many desktop environments and flavors to choose from well i don't do desktop hopping much but for the the one that does pretty good . stable and fast . silent startup . with ton of customization . this is the distro that i am using right now . fast and reliable
running it on my desktop and laptop and even on my old second laptop it runs blazing fast without any issues or lags or hiccups whatsoever happy with it so far I've tried some other distros and this is by far one of my favorites . can´t recommend it enough
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Version: 240401
Rating: 4
Date: 2024-05-27
Votes: 0
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Almost a whole day spent making multiple attempts to install this resulted in nothing of worth other than the knowledge to avoid this OS like the plague.
On at least three occasions the result was a completely blank SSD and on 4 occasions the complete dropout of the GUI resulting in an unresponsive PC with no display.
This was not helped by the painfully drawn out and tedious installation process involving the slow download of 18o+ packages not, apparently, included in the base distro or ISO image. Those installation attempts that did get near to completion took upwards of 45 minutes.
Many of the desktops looked good, it was the Hyprland desktop that caught my eye. Sadly, this OS will have to get a lot better before I get to try it it seems.
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Version: 240401
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-05-24
Votes: 4
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Been using Arch, wanted to try something different. Pleasantly surprised. Liked having a lot of tweak to the system without having to do myself. They use packages I would not have looked up that are interesting to me, fish for example. Their parallel loading during pacman updates (didnt look up what they use) works great. Only neg is sometimes pacman hiccup on the repositories and they time out. Didnt have that issue with Arch. But have not spent anytime researching the problem.
It is snappy, their method to install steam seems to work great. Have not tested much as too busy with work.
It merged great with my home directory and config from Arch. Mounted and ran, all my settings from old Arch install work. Just had to reinstall apps of course.
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Version: 240401
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-05-20
Votes: 4
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I use it for multimedia applications on an outdated computer and am quite pleased with the performance and ease of use. For me it's the best for everything it presents. Congratulations to the developers for the excellent product.
I don't have advanced knowledge about Linux system, I stick only to using image editors, video and 3d rendering. And the performance of the system with Gnome environment for me is the best. I used several distro for a considerable amount of time and something always came up that bothered me. However, with CachyOs I feel the consistency of the system in delivering me speed and precision in my productions. I hope that the system will continue to evolve and serve modest computers like mine.
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Version: 240401
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-04-13
Votes: 13
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I've been using CachyOS on my gaming rig for several weeks now. Running Gnome on xorg because wayland causes freezes and crashes in some of the rather older games that I play. Cachy runs smooth and fast on my newer machine.
Install was simple.
Pros =
Online install allows choice of desktop and installs the latest packages.
Tuned packages for newer hardware result in more speed. In my case it's V4 for my AMD Ryzen 5 7600.
Arch based. Comes with paru preinstalled for package mgmt.
The wiki has good documentation for things soecific to CachyOS. Arch wiki for evrything else,
Cons =
Default Fish shell in terminal. (personal con, really. It works but can be changed)
Higher memory use than the same setup in Arch. Probably due to the V4 tweaks. "Unused memory is wasted memory" if one has 32G.
If you have a newer V3 or V4 CPU and plenty of memory give this a try. It truly is faster than other distros for most workloads. There are benchmarks online that prove it. And I've been feeling it.
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Version: 240401
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-04-12
Votes: 8
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Excellent Distro.
I've never commented before, but I feel its important to let people know that this and exclusively this distro only will solve your macbook pro overheating issues if using linux.
I'm not technical enough to understand how the BORE scheduler works, but clearly it is the missing piece of the puzzle that other distros aren't using as standard when it comes to linux on a macbook.
To reiterate - If you have a macbook pro and every distro you've put it on has immediately shown insane cpu temps which you've then corrected through a long series of workarounds you can just skip all of the headache and go with Cachy OS. Install themald as usual and thats it.
Brilliant work.
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Version: 240401
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-04-11
Votes: 6
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Cachy OS has finally put an end to my decade-long journey of hopping between distributions. It's simply amazing! The speed and reliability are unmatched, thanks to the meticulous optimizations that have been implemented. What's truly remarkable is the exceptional support provided through the active and helpful community on the Discord server. Whether it's for work or gaming, this OS excels in every aspect, providing a seamless and efficient user experience. Its performance is a significant improvement over previous distributions. Plus, it's easy to install and not bloated, making it hands down the best Arch-based Linux distro.
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Version: 240401
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-04-04
Votes: 9
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Easy to install Arch-based Distro with following features:
-O3 compiled Kernel
-Bore CPU Scheduler (they work closely together with the BORE Dev)
-v3/v4 Packages for Users with newer Hardware
-Devs trying everything to improve performance
-Many performance tweaks out of the Box
-smooth gaming + compiling thanks to BORE
-only 1 command needed and the System is Game ready (sudo pacman -S cachyos-gaming-meta)
-Great Community on Discord
Till now it was the smoothest Experience for me using Linux on a Desktop/Notebook.
Important: Always choose the Online Installer when Installing CachyOS, to get the newest Packages and so you don't run into any Installations Problems.
For me it's the best Arch-Based Distro.
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Version: 240401
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-04-01
Votes: 6
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The default kernel and packages are very optimized and run well on my old hardware. Particularly, I like the Kernel Manager which is a GUI-based application that lets me easily customize the kernel to my liking without needing to manually add patch files. Furthermore, the ananicy-cpp implementation comes with a good default config resulting in a smooth gaming experience without needing to install gamemode. The login manager is nice and allows me to easily change Desktop Environments / Window managers without needing to change any settings. The default system is generally highly tweaked and works well out of the box.
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Version: 240313
Rating: 5
Date: 2024-03-15
Votes: 2
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As an OS, Cachy is very good. In fact, it is as good as any arch-based distro.
As a concept, I fail to understand its added value. I'm using an Intel 11th gen cpu but, all in all, I don't see any difference at all in performance compared to pure Arch or Endeavour. On all of them, I get roughly the same boot time, UI responsiveness, and execution time, even in cpu intensive applications. If anything, my cpu fan is noticeably louder when using Cachy, so more cpu load and power consumption for nothing.
Having multiple repositories (core, V3, V4…) just makes things messier and updates are usually twice as slow as Endeavour. In addition, when using Cachy you loose the support from Arch's community. Also, you now have to trust binaries from a less established source, although I've never found anything fishy yet. The team behind Cachy is honest, very good and talented, but I doubt they would resist a NSA attack better than Arch would (just an example). That's a lot of trade offs for no real benefit.
TL;DR: very good OS but, at least for me, no added value so I'd rather stick to official Arch repos and get support from a broader community.
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Version: 240313
Rating: 2
Date: 2024-03-14
Votes: 0
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I've been using pure Arch for over two years now and until a number of bugs with KDE 6 arose, de-stabilising the OS its been perfect.I decided to do a clean install focusing on the Cinnamon desktop, which I use on most of my laptops and find very reliable.
I heard a lot of positive things about CachyOS, so I gave it a go. The initial install went well, easy to choose set-up options that reminded me of SUSE or Arcolinux. It took time to install, longer than I had expected but once installed and logged in, useful tools were on offer to set up things like browsers, multimedia players and more. A very similar proposition to MX Linux, in this regard.
Sadly that's where the positives ended. No sooner had I set things up than the system froze. After a cold restart it promptly crashed and refused to mount the drive. I fell back on different kernel and upon arriving at the login screen it failed to accept my carefully chosen password. So I did yet another restart and chose the last kernel on offer. This time it crashed again at the login screen and only let me in on the third or maybe the fourth?? reboot. I had lost count by then to be honest. Suffice to say, what a disaster!
I'll be going back to pure Arch and that's where I'll be staying. I'm yet to find anything better.
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Version: 221230
Rating: 7
Date: 2024-03-09
Votes: 5
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I like the idea here, of packages optimized for other than bare minimum hardware, so I decided to give it a try. It's basically Arch with extra stuff (think EndeavourOS), the most intriguing being all those optimized packages. There isn't a noticeable difference, at least on my hardware. Things seem to work for the most part, especially when the introduction of Plasma 6 is factored in, but Cachy's purported speed benefits seem illusory. It's not a bad distro by any means, just not quite enough extra stuff to edge it past Endeavour or even Arch itself, which for me still feels snappier than its dependents.
I got the MX feeling from CachyOS - lots of extra tools, and they all work, but it all exists sort of outside what the underlying OS is trying to achieve. But hey, a worthwhile effort here. With some polish (and unencumbered by a major DE upgrade) I could see Cachy gaining in popularity. People love the idea of fast.
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Version: 231210
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-03-04
Votes: 4
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EXCELLENT OS very fast and the video and sound playback on films etc is amazing
WELL DONE
I have used various linux systems and without doubt this is the best i have ever used
CachyOS is one of the few Linuxes that has a repository optimized for x86-64-v4. In the past, it was said that new hardware would not run on Linux, but thanks to the cooperation of vendors, it now runs without problems.
Also, some Linux is often introduced as a replacement for old Windows, but I would like to use Linux on new hardware as well. I'm using Zen4, so I support CachyOS' efforts to take advantage of this performance.
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Version: 231210
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-02-12
Votes: 5
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CachyOS with KDE Plasma 6: A Smooth Experience
I was pleased with my experience using KDE Plasma 6 on EndeavourOS. I didn't encounter some of the issues I faced on Fedora and OpenSuse. This made me curious to try CachyOS on ZFS to see how it would perform.
CachyOS successfully installed the system with the ZFS filesystem.
For KDE Plasma, I added the following line to the /etc/pacman.conf file after the core section:
[kde-unstable]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
I then ran the command sudo pacman -Syu from the console and rebooted the system. Plasma 6 came up and worked beautifully.
Some programs were missing, so I installed them using the following command:
sudo pacman -S kinfocenter spectacle gwenview fwupd amdvlk vulkan-radeon xf86-video-amdgpu liba52 libmad libdca libmad faad2 libfdk-aac libwebp libavif libheif libjxl libde265 libdv libmpeg2 schroedinger libtheora libvpx x264 x265 xvidcore gstreamer gst-libav libva-vdpau-driver libva-mesa-driver vdpauinfo libva-utils imagemagick ffmpegthumbs flatpak ttf-ubuntu-font-family ttf-ms-fonts otf-apple-fonts ttf-roboto ttf-roboto-mono-nerd
Currently, everything is working normally, smoothly, and quickly. I hope it continues to work flawlessly in the future. I had previously installed CachyOS when it was first released and was impressed by its speed. However, significant improvements have been made. It has become considerably better, and I understand that they are continuously improving it.
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Version: 231210
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-02-09
Votes: 1
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CachyOS - A distribution built on Arch Linux, CachyOS features the optimized linux-cachyos kernel utilizing the advanced BORE Scheduler for unparalleled performance, while the desktop packages are compiled with LTO, x86-64-v3 and x86-64-v4 optimization, security flags and performance improvements.
Pros:
When you install CachyOS, you can choose from the following five filesystems: xfs, ext4, btrfs, f2fs, and zfs.
CachyOS offers several desktop environments for you to choose from, including the default option of KDE. The available options are: Hyprland, GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon, CuteFish, i3wm, Wayfire, LXQt, OpenBox, UKUI, LXDE, MATE, Budgie, Qtile, Sway.
Enhanced Performance with PGO and BOLT Optimized Packages in CachyOS
Cons:
None
I recommend that you try this Distro, as you won't regret it!
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Version: 231210
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-01-11
Votes: 19
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CachyOS is one of the few Linuxes that has a repository optimized for x86-64-v4. In the past, it was said that new hardware would not run on Linux, but thanks to the cooperation of vendors, it now runs without problems.
Also, some Linux is often introduced as a replacement for old Windows, but I would like to use Linux on new hardware as well. I'm using Zen4, so I support CachyOS' efforts to take advantage of this performance.
It seems that KDE is the main source of maintenance, but it seems to be a little unstable. I prefer Gnome's good stability and ease of configuration. One of the reasons is that it also has great extensions such as "Dash to Panel" and more etc... I also like the fact that CachyOS doesn't have a lot of unnecessary software. If you need it, you can add it yourself later.
I use 4 PCs, two of which are a server and a NAS. The server is Ubuntu Server. NAS is OpenMediaVault. The remaining two devices are a desktop and a laptop, and both use CachyOS and I am very satisfied with them without any problems.
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Version: 231210
Rating: 4
Date: 2024-01-03
Votes: 3
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CachyOS is a distribution that has attracted a lot of interest in recent weeks. It is based on Arch Linux (like many others), but with a performance-oriented approach: optimized kernel and binaries compiled for the latest generations of X86_64 architectures.
My first two attempts were to use the latest graphical installation on an empty physical machine. Using the Kde ressente image.
1) By choosing to use the entire hard drive in XFS and encrypted. The installation crashed and the machine wouldn't boot.
2) By choosing to use the entire disk in XFS and unencrypted, and just accepting the default suggestions. Same thing, installation crashed, machine won't boot...
In short, it doesn't work out of the box.
After that, I was interested in non-graphical installation and in finding comparisons between this approach and other distributions, such as Manjaro, but in the end I couldn't find anything concrete, even from the project team. In what use cases is it more efficient? Certain compilation parameters are not recommended, or even counterproductive in some cases. Why apply them to all packages ?
All in all, I find this proposal interesting , but I won't use it even on a secondary machine. There are too many unknowns, and I prefer the Gentoo approach of choosing parameters at the package level.
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Version: 231210
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-01-02
Votes: 2
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I was very pleasantly surprised to discover that CachyOS really feels fast and responsive. The speed improvement is significant and perceptible. It is so great that I must give this distro a 10 despite the fact that it still needs a little polishing IMHO.
The installation process was pretty painless and straightforward. I opted for printer support during installation. But I still had to struggle to set up my Brother network printer. Even after installing the appropriate driver from AUR, I still needed to consult the Arch Wiki to find out which additional packages I needed, which config file to edit, and which services to restart. It doesn't have to be that hard. This printer was not difficult to set up on Manjaro or EndeavourOS.
The post-installation instructions mentioned adjusting the swappiness. The advice given there is inappropriate, and also doesn't work, because COS uses zram, which has different rules for the game. Maybe COS switched to zram after that article was written? Even if so, the instructions could have been updated.
But the forum is very helpful and atones for these oversights.
It comes with two different GUI package managers. One is the CachyOS Package Installer, and it is very much like the MX Linux package installer. However, not everything works so great. It offers Zoom video conferencing in the Popular Applications tab, but can't find the package to actually install it.
The other GUI package manager is Octopi. I had to consult the Manjaro forum to find out how to enable AUR support for it, which entailed installing an AUR package (catch-22 situation for those who are cli-challenged).
I am on the default Plasma desktop and the theming is really good.
Like I said, I am really happy about the speed. And the forum is helpful. So this is a keep!
But it does entail some challenges that are reminiscent of a pure Arch installation.
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Version: 230806
Rating: 6
Date: 2023-11-21
Votes: 1
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I've tried this distro and was pleased with the speed, having a 4th generation Intel 4 core laptop with Nvidia card that I use for gaming as well as work you really feel squishing the last fps from it, also the seleccion of packages was a good deal, not too bloated, not too minimal, and as I use flatpak for any package not for the system, didnt have much problem.
Also installed with BTRFS filesystem for / (root), so I can use Timeshift for snapshots befor every update and before any package update.
But things started to get weird when updated, one week after installation, first nvidia driver didn't work well anymore, was getting errors compiling modules against the kernel, tried Archi tutorials, Cachy OS recommendations, maybe it didnt compile initramfs or whatever, I'm not a noobie in the matter but I'm kind of it with Arch, but anyway I tried to get it to work so I've said lets go back to the working snapshot and wait for an update that corrects this issues.
Next few weeks tried update again, this time many packages gave versioning errors and the update didnt finish, it didnt started applying modifications so not so bad, but searching for information found out that this is normal business with Arch distros? that sometimes you want to install and you have this kind of problems, so that gave me a little bad impression, I'm not purist that cant tolerate some problems from time to time, but the fact that a distribution has this issues as normal -this is my impression and what I've read in forums- with an update is crazy.
To the point, after some days the update ran ok, everything installed properly, rebooted and it was ok until I noticed -the very first moment but took me days to realice it was from the update- that the system was kind of unstable, with stuttering everywhere, opened my bloated -full of tabs- firefox, as always, and couldnt watch youtube without stuttering here and there, games where the same of course
so any kind of medium load fired this issue, not with the desktop and normal apps, but with some load.
Went back again to a previous snapshot and of course everything was ok.
Will wait until it gets corrected but as I've installed this distro in 2 machines already and having the same good and bad experience, I'm not sure to recommend to someone looking for some kind of stable distro without hiccups, not even using Timeshift.
Give it a try but with an external disk until you feel comfortable with it and several updates after, then you install, this is for any other distro as well.
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Version: 230806
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-11-20
Votes: 0
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Many of us welcome an Arch Linux version which can offer some of the things we tend to complain about with slower Ubuntu based libraries. In fact I think all of us would like to see more choice in many areas, not those enjoyed by nerds who actually seem to have endless time to invest. Now, I’ve installed quite a few Distros over this last couple of years but do have less time available with a growing family commitment these day. When I saw CachyOS it was with some real enthusiasm that I download and installed it on an ageing HP EliteBook. I spent quite a long time trying to install and it was till I had messed the installation up that I realised that the test password I had used not only was short (as it is always reported on test installations) but that CachyOS balked at installing the Linux. The Swedes have what I thought was a German expression “BesserWissare” and I just wonder if the days on people knowing our business better than us, have long gone. The bottom line was I just wasted an hour or two before realising!!
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Version: 230806
Rating: 5
Date: 2023-11-19
Votes: 0
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Tried the new version out this morning on two machines. Both machines are somewhat older units. The first machine is a Dell Optiplex 755 with 2x Intel core 2 cpu 6400@ 2.13 ghz and 7-gb ram. It would not boot. It threw an error "Failed to start refresh pacman mirrorlist with reflector". It just throws that message in an endless loop and therefore wont go anywhere.
The next machine is a HP-6305, AMD A4-5300 with 16-gb of ram. It did not do that error on this machine, it booted and worked great.
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Version: 230806
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-18
Votes: 8
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Discover Cachy OS
New to Linux and ARCH, I'm an end user. I installed Cachy OS on an old Toshiba laptop. 240 GB SSD and 8 GB RAM.
Installation is very easy. It has all the classic desktops and some more surprising ones. Enlightenment might be missing to be complete.
I chose KDE, and installed Discover with Pacman. No problems at all, which is not the case with other ARCH distros.
No system stability problems, even with an RT kernel.
Cachy OS is an excellent entry into the world of ARCH, simple, reliable and efficient leaving the possibility of customising with the console.les
Well done to the Cachy OS team.
Jimux
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Version: 230806
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-08-11
Votes: 6
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Imagine an Arch linux distrowith firendly install and gui.
To customize your computer without being a hacker or advanced user.
The disro is recent.
There are some minor bugs. If they are cleared, Cachy Os will be more popular.
It reminds me a Linux Mint, but for the Arch Linux wa ;)
I have big hopes.
The Pros :
Fast distro
Choice of many kernels
Many GUI : package install, drivers, tools...
The Cons :
Many minor bugs can get mad a new linux user.
For example :
- Can not update sometimes, because Gpg keys incorrect
- Ask a password for a user, when sudo . But this user has been deleted... Crazy, yes !
- Not optimized for many desktops.
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Version: 230806
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-08-10
Votes: 4
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I have used this OS using Ventoy, and I am mighty surprised at the speed with which it renders a firefox modification called Cachy. I have used it on a 26 year old 2 core Athlon CPU based computer, a 17 year old 5 core, yes 5 core Phenom based computer and a 14 year old 2 core cpu based Fujitsu LH 532 laptop. It works on each of them flawlessly including set up of the wifi cards on all of them. The only glitch if I may call it one is that it does not have the firmware for the touchpad of the Fujitsu laptop. It has been just 24 hours since I tinkered with it and till now it's been smooth sailing. On my daily drivers I shift between Devuan and a highly optimised Windows 7. Both of them have served me well for years, with earlier operating systems being Windows 98 and XPSP2. Loading times from Ventoy is very slow as compared to Solus or Devuan but shut down times are comparable. I am not sure if the OS is loading from RAM like GhostBSD does, because it so very fast once loaded. Absolutely no delay beetween clicks of the keyboard and opeining of the programmes. All of them have SSD as the main drives, but that should not make a difference because I am loading from a USB2 pendrive for all the computers I have. It is too early in the day for me to pass judgement, but from what I have experienced till now, I am mighty impressed. After a month or so I just might shift over to CachyOS from Devuan. I am forced to use Win7 because of certain programs like Vituix which do not have an alternative in Linux.
I had been distro-hopping for ages and found Nirvana in Devuan LXQT. It looks like CachyOS is going to rock the boat of the thresome I have had been having till date. What the heck, I might as well make it a foursome, with Devuan, WIn7, CachyOS and yous truely. The reason for me to give it an 8 instead of a 10 is that it is using SystemD instead of Runnit or SysV and it keeps cutting off from WiFi every 30 minutes. Cautting off from WiFi is a serious glitch, which needs looking into.
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Latest Reviews
Project: CachyOS
Version: 250202
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-02-13
Votes: 0
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CachyOS:
I have been using CachyOS for a while, over 2 years, and my opinion about the system is very negative. First of all, the main problem I encountered was the stability of the system. Sudden freezes and crashes became frequent and unpleasant. This created a constant feeling of anxiety that anything could happen at the most inopportune moment. For example, several times I lost unsaved data due to unpredictable reboots and system errors.
In addition, package management in CachyOS turned out to be a real disaster. There were often problems installing and updating software, and the errors I encountered were difficult to fix. To fix them, complex commands were required in the terminal, which is not suitable for users who prefer a graphical interface and a distro that’s easy to use
Performance issues were also not long in coming. On old hardware, the system works very slowly, despite the claims of its optimization for less powerful machines. This is annoying and makes working on such devices almost impossible.
In addition, support and documentation leave much to be desired. Often, the information in forums and manuals is outdated or not detailed enough. This makes finding solutions to problems that arise a time-consuming and tedious process.
Despite the presence of many options for customization, the setup process is far from intuitive, a lot of options don’t apply, and if they do, things start bugging out and may crash the system. The flat icons and flat theme is- to put it nicely, harmful to the eyes and icons don’t make sense, so it’ll be difficult trying to figure out some of the applications you want to use are This leads to additional problems and makes the system difficult to use.
Overall, using CachyOS has become a source of constant problems and frustration. For those looking for a reliable and user-friendly operating system, CachyOS is definitely not a good choice.
The only positive here is that it’s Linux and not Windows.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 250202
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-02-12
Votes: 1
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CachyOS:
So, let me state this loud and clear right out of the way: CachyOS is not prime-time ready. And if you thought you are in for some user-friendly and polished Linux experience, then be horribly disappointed. First hour, it crashed on me four times, yes FOUR freaking kernel panics in less than an hour; that in itself should be saying something to do with stability.
But wait, there's more! The repos? Forget it. They are slow as syrup, and even when they actually load, half the stuff you try to install either fails to install or manages to break something else. Every time you run dnf update, it is like playing roulette. And, oh yeah, xdg-desktop-portal: that's totally hosed, meaning some basic functionality just plain does not work. Great.
Oh boy, where to begin? Bloat city, population: you. Packed full of features you'll never use and none of the ones you do need. Missing settings here, broken apps there. what a mess. Unless you actually like trawling through forums and editing config files just to make your system usable, you're in for a world of hurt.
And let me tell you something about usability: unless you are some sort of seasoned Linux veteran who can troubleshoot your way out of a paper bag, this distro will leave you stranded. So much is not properly configured out of the box that rookies and maybe even intermediates are in for a bad time. You'll spend more time fixing issues than actually getting things done.
If you're looking for a solid, working rolling-release distribution, then keep away from CachyOS and head to EndeavourOS: rock solid, no drama with multiple DEs/WMs, and fast, dependable mirrors. You won't also waste hours trying to fix what shouldn't break in the first place.
In short, unless you’ve got the patience of a saint and the skills of a wizard, give CachyOS a wide berth. Your sanity will thank you.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 250202
Rating: 5
Date: 2025-02-11
Votes: 0
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i think this is the worst distro out of the 3 i used, comes with tons and i mean tons of bloatware cant connect to hidden networks but thats more of a kde issue mouse just expands for some reason occasionally. bluetooth drivers didnt work runs fastfetch whenever you open a terminal and much more i think ill just try arch instead of these god awful distros that are just copies of eachother but on a side note just because i had a bad experience doesnt mean you will keep trying till you find the distro thats right for you
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 250202
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-09
Votes: 0
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CachyOS has quickly become my go-to distribution for both gaming and everyday computing. As an Arch-based distro, it offers the latest software and the flexibility I crave, but with a level of user-friendliness that's often missing in the Arch world.
Installation and Setup
The installation process was surprisingly smooth. The Calamares installer is intuitive, and CachyOS provides clear documentation to guide you through the setup. Even for someone relatively new to Arch, the process was straightforward and hassle-free.
Performance and Stability
CachyOS is blazingly fast. The performance tweaks and optimizations under the hood, including the custom kernel, make a noticeable difference. Games run smoothly, and even resource-intensive applications don't slow down my system. What's more, it's rock-solid stable. I've experienced no crashes or unexpected issues.
Gaming
For gamers, CachyOS is a dream come true. It comes with a curated selection of gaming-related tools and libraries pre-installed, making it easy to jump into your favorite titles. The performance optimizations also translate to a great gaming experience, with higher frame rates and smoother gameplay.
Customization and Flexibility
Like any Arch-based distro, CachyOS offers unparalleled customization. You have complete control over your system, from the desktop environment to the smallest details. The community is also active and helpful, providing plenty of resources and support for further customization.
Overall Impression
CachyOS is a fantastic distribution that combines the best of Arch Linux with a focus on user-friendliness and gaming performance. Whether you're a seasoned Linux user or someone looking to explore the Arch ecosystem, CachyOS is definitely worth checking out. It's a well-rounded, high-performing, and stable distribution that I wholeheartedly recommend.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 250202
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-08
Votes: 0
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No words. They're doing an amazing job for gaming community, and it's focused for user-friendly stuff, such as package manager, kernel manager and cachyOS hello that gives you plenty of stuff to fix any problems you might have from a mouse click button instead of letting the user to search about the problem and copy pasting stuff into the terminal that they don't have any idea of what they're doing.
Plus it's a distro focused on security as well. How not to give it a try? Not sure if it's the best distro for a begginner, though it have potential for some users who like to explore and feel okay about trying new stuff with no fear of messing up.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-07
Votes: 0
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BY FAR the best Arch-based distro I've used. Yes, it does all those things it claims: it's fast, secure, stable, etc. If it was only these things, it would be a worthy distro, but it is so much more it's hard to capture it all without taking notes while using it. For starters, it comes with built-in tools, like a kernel manager. A kernel manager on steroids that allows you to easily make new custom kernels with the tweaks YOU want. A kernel customized BY YOU. It has a multitude of other tools too, optional tweaks, easy mirror ranking, and much more super-handy system aids. Plus, there's their custom Web browser and other custom applications too.
On top of all these neat things, the people that put this distro paid a lot of attention to little things throughout the KDE desktop. They don't talk about, or brag about all the useful little things they've done, but they're there. Things like, if you create a new folder and then split your folder view in Dolphin, your newly created folder is automatically opened in the new pain. The new pain isn't focused on, Dolphin keeps your focus on the parent folder, but that newly creted folder is just sitting there, waiting & ready to accept whatever files you wanted to place in it. So much that I can't even remember all the little things they've done.
Desktop is KDE, theme is Breeze dark. Included applications are a reasonable base set without being a whole bunch of bloat, like all of the other top distros on Distrowatch. Adding applications is easy either when installing or afterwords in CacnyOS' own installer or via Octopi.
It's fast, stable, well thought out, and just about as perfect a base OS as one could wish for. I've been using Linux for a while now. Over a decade. Two maybe. I have tried dozens, if not hundreds of distros. I settled on Arch & its derivatives about 8 or so years ago. Of all Arch's deriviates, and I have tried them all, this is the best of the bunch.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 250202
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-07
Votes: 0
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it is so fast and reliable, i love it CachyOS is an impressive Arch-based Linux distribution that combines speed, optimization, and usability into an outstanding package. Its tailored kernels, BORE scheduler, and per-architecture optimized repositories deliver unparalleled performance, whether for gaming, development, or general use. The installation process is intuitive thanks to the Calamares installer, and tools like the Kernel Manager and CachyOS Hello app make customization seamless. With excellent gaming support, including optimized drivers and ready-to-use Steam/Proton packages, it caters well to gamers. The active community and comprehensive documentation ensure any issues are quickly resolved, making it a fantastic choice for both beginners and experienced users seeking a responsive and reliable Linux experience. Highly recommended!
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 250202
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-02-07
Votes: 0
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I tried this for Raspberry PI 4b. The startup was slow, then nothing really worked. I couldn't update the package manager so I tried to troubleshoot the issue. I opened Firefox to look it up, but it wouldn't load a single page. It kept saying there was some problem with certificates and there was no apparent way around it. On top of that, this has got to be the worst-themed distro I've ever seen. The artwork is strangely vacant like some post-apocalyptic setting -- no people, no life, just a dropped umbrella, empty-looking buildings. Meanwhile, the color scheme is uppity pastels, like a baby shower threw up all over it. It's like a celebration of desolation. It's not just ugly, it's creepy. Artwork is a more superficial aspect of any distro. But, honestly, I don't think I've ever found the artwork for a distro so creepy before.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 250202
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-02-04
Votes: 8
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CachyOS is an impressive Arch-based Linux distribution that combines speed, optimization, and usability into an outstanding package. Its tailored kernels, BORE scheduler, and per-architecture optimized repositories deliver unparalleled performance, whether for gaming, development, or general use. The installation process is intuitive thanks to the Calamares installer, and tools like the Kernel Manager and CachyOS Hello app make customization seamless. With excellent gaming support, including optimized drivers and ready-to-use Steam/Proton packages, it caters well to gamers. The active community and comprehensive documentation ensure any issues are quickly resolved, making it a fantastic choice for both beginners and experienced users seeking a responsive and reliable Linux experience. Highly recommended!
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-30
Votes: 5
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I've used CachyOS now for several months without issue and can tell you that it is nothing short of amazing. Decided to try Cachy on an old laptop and was very impressed with the speed and stability, so much so, that it is now the only OS I use; even on my daily driver (this says a lot since I've been a Fedora user for twenty years). Installation process was smooth and quick. Documentation was very good. Very fast and you will notice it, even with top of the line hardware. You can choose from several optimized packages, including different, optimized kernels. Steam works, with optimized Proton packages. Good RAM usage, it seems it uses it well for caching data and apps, leading to a very snappy experience.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-29
Votes: 0
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Arch-based distros are not all they’re cracked up to be, being put on a high horse, which leads to disappointment and frustration in the end.
Even if there are more user-friendly approaches to Arch, it’s still overall a complicated and confusing Linux distro and distro family. Arch is still a high-intermediate to expert level of distro where a lot of stuff you have to do in the terminal and fix breakages that randomly happen and happen frequently. There aren’t really fool-proof ways to have it easier to use- thats Arch’s nature. I do not know why Arch is being considered the poster child for Linux when it is nothing at all for anyone who is new to Linux.
Arch is very experimental and prone to a lot of frustration and annoyances with frequen crashes and breaks.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-28
Votes: 0
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This seems good but I wasn't able to install it on a test laptop, seems to have a lot of bugs in the installer and severe hardware compatibility limitations, including some very basic issues: it seems wasn't able to write any changes to the partition table, so the first installation said it was complete, but on reboot it couldn't find a boot device. Thereafter it couldn't delete any partitions on the HDD. This seems a very basic bug. Maybe with more development it will become a viable option for a desktop, but given the bugs encountered, I can't imagine it would be trustworthy enough for daily use.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-27
Votes: 1
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Wanted to try something new and was a bit bored of Ubuntu. I decided to give CatchyOS a shot and I am amazed by this version of Linux. It is incredibly fast and responsive, which has significantly improved my workflow. I found all the software I needed, and it works seamlessly with my docking station. The user interface is intuitive and visually appealing, making it a joy to use. I think I will stay with this version for the long term. Additionally, I really like the package manager; it's simple and efficient, making software installation and updates a breeze. Overall, CatchyOS has exceeded my expectations and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a fresh and reliable Linux experience.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-27
Votes: 11
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Excellent experience. This is a fabulous Arch based linux distribution. It is not a total newbie distribution as some of the other Arch based distros out there but, it can be easily managed with a little patience. It is very fast and seems to be taking security seriously.
I appreciate the hard work put into this one. I'm using KDE Plasma edition on an old lenovo laptop, Duo core and 5.7G memory that runs as smooth as ever. The system comes with its own package installer and kernel manager, enabling you to install various applications from AUR or using flatpak.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-26
Votes: 0
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This is not an OS oriented for the general public. The environment remains prehistoric and very limited (GNOME and XFCE mainly). In some cases, the KDE environment does not install. The OS has too much obsolescence in its libraries to the point that KDE crashes or simply does not start. The performance of graphics cards and recent hardware is not taken into account. You have to rely on proprietary drivers to try to make everything work.
In short, it is a troubleshooting solution for the general public.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-26
Votes: 0
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The distro is good and lightweight, they've configured many things well, like the driver utility, the cleanliness, and in my opinion, it's also aesthetically pleasing.
But nothing useful works: Lutris always throws a 256 error, the Flatpak version doesn’t even start, and the NVIDIA drivers are super outdated (though, to be fair, you can install others).
The bare installation takes up way too many gigabytes, and I can’t figure out why. I’d recommend it to someone who only wants to use their PC for very basic tasks.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-25
Votes: 3
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I recently gave CachyOS a spin, and I have to say, it's pretty impressive, with T2 drivers integrated in the kernel, witch is absolutely perfect for installing on a mac mini or a mac book.
it felt super smooth and responsive. The whole thing is designed to be fast, thanks to some clever tweaks.
One cool thing is that it uses the XFS file system, which is robust and great for preventing data loss in case of crashes
I recommended it eyes closed to anybody that already have a little experience with linux.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-24
Votes: 3
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CachyOS stands out as a remarkable Arch derivative distro, offering a seamless and user-friendly experience that appeals to both newcomers and seasoned users alike. Its aesthetic design is complemented by a highly customizable interface, making it easy for users to tailor their desktop environment to their preferences. The performance of CachyOS is impressive, with fast boot times and smooth operation across various hardware configurations. This distribution is built on Arch Linux, which ensures that users benefit from the latest software updates and features while maintaining stability. Another highlight is the extensive documentation available, which serves as a resource for users looking to maximize their experience. The community is welcoming and supportive. CachyOS includes a variety of pre-installed applications that cater to different needs, making it a versatile choice right out of the box. The inclusion of essential tools enhances productivity and ensures that users can get started immediately without the need for extensive setup. Overall, this distro excels in delivering a polished and efficient Linux experience, making it an excellent choice for anyone looking to explore the world of open-source operating systems.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 7
Date: 2025-01-23
Votes: 1
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cachyos is the best arch based distro out there right now, but i have a big issue with it.
the defaults are too drastic, without tinkering with what packages to install you will be greeted with horrible desktop theming, the fish shell with a custom config, cachyos launcher/helper thing, cachyos kernel manager, cachyos browser, alacritty with a custom config, cachyos kde settings and more, it's excessive and greatly ruins the user experience. an option for a minimal installation would be amazing.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-23
Votes: 3
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Jumping over from Arco linux, which became old and a little slow over time. Much quicker IMO, very stable, responsive, and easy to use. Really like the kernel optimizations and the fact the kernels are updated quite frequently. Kernel manager is also very useful. I'm running several OSs on separate drives as well as Windows11, when the installer completed, it seemed to have interfered with the Windows efi parition boot loader, but was able to rebuild it easily enough. No complaints so far and system running well.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-22
Votes: 0
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A lot of people told me coming from Windows to Linux, meant I should try, CachyOS. I was told how easy it was to use and how user friendly it was. I tried installing CachyOS on 2 computers in the house (I have four). It is not easy or user friendly. The theme and wallpaper are boring with a capital B. Asking for help in the forums meant needing to use the terminal for everything. I was instructed to use the terminal to change my desktop wallpaper. One of my computers would not boot no matter what I tried. Someone told me to edit the GRUB menu but since it would not boot and displayed a black screen, I could not do anything with it. I got it working on my desktop which was four years old, and it froze anytime it went into sleep mode. I tried disabling sleep mode, but the screen would still sometimes turn black. My laptop could not boot this and kept providing a kernel panic.
To sum up the rest;
Resource usage is a bit steep. The distro is bloated and runs pretty slow from booting, to trying to use CachyOS as a day-to-day with web browsing,, watching videos, etc. it is a pain to use this. I have also experienced a couple crashes of my system too from using CachyOS.
Not recommended.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-21
Votes: 2
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CachyOs is Arch Linux with a greater focus on performance and responsiveness (e.g. for gaming and media) out of the box. The defaults are so good that most of the low-level optimization/customization that anyone would want to do has already been done for them. The per-architecture optimized repositories also bring in a big benefit of distros where packages are mainly self-compiled (like Gentoo) but without requiring any of your own CPU time. These repositories are very quick to be updated to track upstream, and will sometimes be pre-patched, if necessary, for increased performance/compatibility. Finally, the distro maintainers/developers are very active in their discord and matrix servers for help and all sorts of discussions.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-20
Votes: 15
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CachyOs is Arch Linux with a greater focus on performance and responsiveness (e.g. for gaming and media) out of the box. The defaults are so good that most of the low-level optimization/customization that anyone would want to do has already been done for them. The per-architecture optimized repositories also bring in a big benefit of distros where packages are mainly self-compiled (like Gentoo) but without requiring any of your own CPU time. These repositories are very quick to be updated to track upstream, and will sometimes be pre-patched, if necessary, for increased performance/compatibility. Finally, the distro maintainers/developers are very active in their discord and matrix servers for help and all sorts of discussions.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-19
Votes: 0
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First off, the installer is pretty buggy- I was forced to partition the drive by myself and it was annoying when so many other distros help you do that graphically in the installer. After researching for about an hour how to do it, I finally got past that. I used it for a little while, resource usage ramped up- about 1.5 GB of ram used just sitting at the desktop on a clean install. I looked in the system monitor and I don’t really see why there is so much usage of ram, everything looks normal and it does not show where that about 1.5 GB of ram usage is coming from.
Now onto the fun part (sarcasm), interacting with people in the forums was terrible. It seemed like there were some nice people, and I tried out what they recommended it to do, but it didn’t work, ram usage was still around that 1.5 GB and now I had a couple of system crashes forcing me to restart my computer. After a while of just trying to use this, I could t take any more and removed it. I’m currently looking for another distro now.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-18
Votes: 2
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This is an outstanding Arch based Distro. Having used it for several weeks I've been pleasantly surprised without a single issue. I have to seriously wonder about some of these reviews. If you need to install a distro several times or breaking your bootloader, I would be more inclined to think there might be an end user issue rather than this, or any other distro for that matter. The creators and maintainers have done amazing work in putting this distro together. I was so impressed I installed it on an AMD/Invidia Production machine without a single issue.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-17
Votes: 1
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One of derivatives of Arch, it inherited some Arch drawback and advantages.
Drawbacks - can lead to unstable work in the middle of updates. For some rare case of HW it can be problematic. I am kind a geek who assembles home computers in couple of years, change video cards in about a year, and have heat sink on my SSD and memory dimms. Not mentioning SW and OS customization. So CachyOS is easy for geeks/nerds like me, but may be not so great for other users.
Why I am giving 10?
Main reason - fast wifi speed. Can't explain why, but it faster than Ubuntu/Arch on same HW. Important to me to login from my laptop to GPU enabled node and use "ssh -Y ..." without lagging.
Another reason - it feels faster. Kind of Clear Linux with optimized kernel/packages, but with "human" face.
One more reason - calamares installer. I installed Arch Linux from text based installer many times in a past, but for my multiboot environment calamares are faster and more safe.
I have installed CachyOS on my laptop, desktop with Intel GPU, desktop with NVidia GPU and it works everywhere just fine. Not generalizing for all possible cases, but for majority of cases it is mostly stable.
Also it just fits my personal preferences of of the box - KDE plasma, fish shell, good set of packages.
Of coarse I have to install some additional packages from available repositories, but it happened for me with any distro, not a big deal.
My default Linux daily driver for several months, and counting.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-16
Votes: 0
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What more could one want from a Linux System?
This system has a perfect kernel.
This system is available in two versions:
Desktop edition with the perfect desktop Kde Plasma.
With a perfectly selected package manager in which most Linux applications can be found.
With a very good browser based on Mozilla Firefox.
And last but not least, the Perfect Proton, which makes games on Steam, Lutrix and Heroic look perfect!
Even this system has a separate:
CachyOS Handheld Edition which is directly oriented towards games.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-15
Votes: 2
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CatchyOS brings in a lot of new features to an already Arch based distro e.g. custom kernel control, bore scheduler for faster loading, paru and octopi preinstalled. The swap memory is 19GB which is in line with modern systems. Nvidia is preinstalled Fish shell is default and zsh is installed with Powerlevel 10k. The installer is calamaris and many DE options are included like hyprland/qtile/cosmic apart from regular ones. KDE is the default DE but I find KDE to be slow although its Arch based distro. With paru you can install any app with one line for e.g. paru -S ghostty. Apps availability is awesome. It has catchyOS Hello, an interface like Endeavour Hello which allows you to tweak packages, change kernel, Install game packages, rank mirrors, and change DNS. For installing apps there are two basic apps centers (CatchyOS Hello and CatchOS Package Installer) and a third option is using octopi package installer (which includes paru). Its GUI app center is quite basic though (just app names of aps, no pics or reviews etc). Octopi App requires skill because dependencies are listed along with aps names. Moreover when using Paru (in command line) which is a helper tool for AUR, you oftentimes have to read and Inspect the PKGBUILDs files before installing the app, otherwise some malicious code may be executed. Ideally check metadata, urls, checksum,dependencies, and redflags like rm -rf, curl, or wget. Moving on, most of the services need to be manually enabled. In Ubuntu most services are enabled by default. But in many Arch Distros Bluetooth is not enabled out of the box (it is enabled in CatchyOS though). Moreover, say you installed "virt-manager" the application won't start unless you start the demon service with "sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd.service" and "sudo systemctl status". These kinds of things are normal in arch based distro. Say you want to install nvidia cuda drivers you have also set up Set up Environment Variables eg "export PATH=/opt/cuda/bin:$PATH" and "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/cuda/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH". Arch Linux is a rolling release distribution, meaning the kernel is frequently updated. This can cause issues with NVIDIA drivers if not handled properly. You have to install DKMS(dynamic kernel module support) to automatically rebuild the driver after each kernel update. On Arch Linux, you may need to manually configure Xorg to use the NVIDIA driver, whereas Ubuntu often handles this automatically.After installing CUDA, verify that it works correctly. The short of it is that you have many extra manual steps which you don't have in ubuntu. So if we think cattles vs pets, Arch is like a pet where you have to spend extra hours grooming and maintaining the system. Yes you will learn these matters and become better at version management, or you could be using that time towards building better ML models. The choice is yours. This is the best Arch Distro right now
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-14
Votes: 0
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An Outstanding Linux Distribution
I have tried CachyOS, and it feels truly unique compared to others. It runs flawlessly on my laptop, and the experience is incredibly smooth with its KDE desktop environment.
Installing additional applications is also very straightforward, especially with the support of the AUR. It doesn't pose any difficulties even for those who are accustomed to Debian-based distributions.
I sincerely hope the CachyOS developers continue to grow and deliver a Linux distribution that is exceptional, easy to use, fast, and enjoyable.
Thank you!
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-14
Votes: 0
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CachyOS:
CachyOS,nightmare to install,don't even try unless you have a minimum of 8gb Ram and a decent processor, here are my findings of this os,graffically its superb but that the only good thing I have got to say about it,everything else dissapoints, I have been using linux for a number of years now and have to say its the least user friendly distro I have ever come accross so for newbies this will be a nightmare,ok so trying the try before you buy scenario it works just ok, but I noticed a lot of slowdown ,after full install that's where your problems will begin, updates or should I say most of them installed promptly but wouldn't or couldn't install all of them, so back to the os,app store installed a few of the app I selected but after opening once they failed to open at all,even one or two of the pre installed apps wouldn't open either, selected other packages to see if that would cure the problem but to no avail, lastly there is never any mention in any of the reviews for this os that you have to pay to fully unlock all of apps that are on other distros for free, there are better distros out there, the moral of this review is never believe all the reviews that you will see for this product,I wish I had never bothered
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-13
Votes: 0
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Probably the most convenient distribution out of all that I have tried; I've spent quite a long time on it. After the upgrade, I also plan to switch to it. The advantages are simple: convenience, flexibility, customizability, optimization, and speed of operation. It’s clear that there are people working on the distribution, and that’s very encouraging. I wish the distribution success in its development, and it deserves to take second place in the Distrowatch ranking.
I also forgot to mention that gaming packages are available right away, but some need to be installed manually, such as Vulkan and certain AMDGPU dependencies, which for some reason are not included in the gaming packages. Additionally, I would like the developers to pay closer attention to gaming improvements on Linux and to implement them promptly in their distribution (like the latest Proton, Wine, etc.).
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-13
Votes: 1
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The big selling point of Cachy is hardware-specific kernels and optimisations. The developers are clearly technically very able as these are obvious - the speed of everything is astonishing.
There are a few built-in applications - Hello, which is that but also has some intimidating options just behind the first screen as noted, Package Installer, which is a quick installer of common packages, and Kernel Manager, which provides a choice of about a dozen kernels and an easy switch between them.
The other built-in application is Cachy Browser, which is a further-locked-down Firefox. It has borrowings from elsewhere (e.g. automatic session save and restore from Librewolf), various flags enabled which show standard Firefox user interface controls (e.g. container tab support) and uBlock Origin plus a few arcane, but interesting, search engines built in, but also a completely new "Cachy" preferences page which allows further flags to be switched on and off from an explicit interface such as tighter fingerprinting prevention, updating addons automatically, preventing Google malware checks and - one I didn't know about until now and jumped on - switching off Firefox Sync to the extent that it is fully removed from the user interface.
Overall? Excellent all round and ridiculously fast, and fish is a revelation here, but I think Cachy could revert to standard Firefox without much being lost.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-12
Votes: 1
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I have gone back and forth between fedora, silverblue, endeavour, manjaro and ubuntu. I came across cachyos looking to retry arch linux without going through all of the install of arch linux itself.
Been using this distro for a few weeks and it has run very well. Installed on an old dell desktop, a thinkpad and a full amd laptop. No issues. I like the fact that the developers put a lot of effort into the kernels. I chose a different version of the kernel that seems to best fit the hardware and it works great. I appreciate the efforts the developers put into the cachy browser also.
Overall, the experience has been great and if there is an issue, I can quickly find an answer for it.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-12
Votes: 0
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Good points of CachyOS
1. Optimized for the latest hardware: Specifically, it's a rare OS with x86-64-v3 and v4 repositories, allowing it to fully utilize the potential of the newest hardware. While Linus Torvalds is critical of the level of CPU optimization and believes this classification will become less relevant, CachyOS's dedication to improving performance remains.
2. Fewer unnecessary applications: The GUI has minimal bloatware, providing tools that users can easily install later if needed.
3. Excellent pre-installed tools: Top-tier CLI tools are included from the start, and Zsh comes with popular built-in plugins. FishShell is the default shell, widely considered user-friendly and powerful. Other essential tools for setting up your environment are also carefully selected and included.
4. Stability: If you experience instability, review your hardware configuration. While having multiple desktop environments (DEs) to choose from is an advantage, be aware that some DEs may be unstable.
Bad points of CachyOS
1. Limited keyboard navigation: The Tab key doesn't cycle focus through buttons in the install menu, preventing installation from the GUI screen using only the keyboard.
2. Unresponsive installer: The installer app can be unresponsive. You might be tempted to click repeatedly, but be patient and wait after clicking a button.
3. KDE stability: While KDE is the flagship desktop environment, it can be unstable overall. Gnome is considerably more stable.
4. Underutilization of Flatpak: When looking for applications, check Flathub for Flatpak versions first. Flatpak offers a more streamlined installation experience and improves compatibility. While cachyos-gaming-meta is available, using Steam through Flatpak rather than installing it locally can resolve compatibility issues.
Finally, it's unfair to compare a free operating system to a commercial one priced at $120 or more. If you prefer Windows, by all means, continue to use it.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-12
Votes: 0
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This is a fabulous Arch based linux distribution. It is not a total newbie distribution as some of the other Arch based distros out there but, it can be easily managed with a little patience. It is very fast and seems to be taking security seriously.
Let's hope the developers continue on this journey and appreciate hard work put into this one. I'm using Plasma edition on an old lenovo laptop, Duo core and 5.7G memory that runs as smooth as ever. The system comes with its own package installer and kernel manager, enabling you to install various applications from AUR or using Flatpak.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 4
Date: 2025-01-12
Votes: 0
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Well forst the good parts : Its a fresh looking distor and its kernel controls are awesome. It uses BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) CPU Scheduler which is considered superior. It uses harderded firefox.you can choose from mainstream DE to new ones like hyprland, sway, qtile and even cosmic. Uses btfs file system by default. Octopi is very decent software manager with paru preconfigured. Fish is default user shell and zsh 10k is also installed. Uses 20 GB default swap memory.
Cons: Won't dual boot unless you open the grub config file at "/etc/default/grub" and uncomment "GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false" . Then you have rerun os-prober and then make a new grub file using "grub mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
This is done by default in every other Distro including endeavourOS.
Second issue is with "octopi" the package manager. Its unnecessarily complicated. At this point in time its better to use the terminal.
Some apps like virt-manager don't work although installed it from their software center.
And why do they customise firefox is beyond me. They say cachyos-firefox uses a hardened user profile, but anyone with half a brain can download librewolf, mullvard, waterfox and they allwould preconfigured with these feature.
Its customization for the sake of it, to look different.
And if you it think it boots faster then it doesn't, and app are as slow as they are in other DE's
Perhaps the Arch, sadomasochist community loves these kinds of challenges. I prefer to get some work done. nuff said.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-12
Votes: 0
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I installed it several times to give it a fair shake. Although it does have a pleasant, intuitive interface, it has a few slight issues that need to be addressed. For example, when i open app finder, it sometimes hangs up, and does not load anything. It has a slight lag, feels slower than other distros like manjaro or zorin on the same machine. At the end of the day, as a current windows user, I ask does it meet the test of intuitive, easy to use - does it work consistently enough to be a reliable desktop environment - can it replace my windows - and most importantly do i feel compelled to keep it installed on my machine? In my case no.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 231210
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-11
Votes: 15
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I've used Cachy now for about 6 months without issue and can tell you that it is nothing short of amazing. Decided to try Cachy on an old laptop and was very impressed with the speed and stability, so much so, that it is now the only OS I use; even on my daily driver (this says a lot since I've been a Fedora user since 2006). Installation process was smooth and quick. Documentation was very good. Only issue I had was Bluetooth didn't work initially and I had to enable it via terminal but that about 5 minutes of research to find a fix and less than a minute to do, so all in all not a big deal.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-10
Votes: 0
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Used it daily for around 12 months. Based on Arch Linux.
Fast and you will notice it, even with top of the line hardware. You can choose from several optimized packages, including different, optimized kernels.
If you're a linux veteran you will feel in charge, as the default installation is very barebones, but you can install the apps you want afterwards.
For Linux newbies, maybe an installation "I'm a Linux newbie, install everything I need" option could help?
Steam works, special, optimized "Cachy OS"- Proton packages.
Good RAM usage, it seems it uses it well for caching data and apps, very snappy experience.
Very good distribution for linux enthusiasts and adequate support forums. for newbies.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-10
Votes: 0
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Make sure you choose the refind bootloader if you have other operating systems installed. I made the mistake of using systemd boot the first time and it erased all my other entries
Works great now that I installed it properly. I don't really notice a speed difference between this and other lightweight Arch distros, but it runs well and seems very stable. Theme options are nice looking too. Their website is informative and well designed, plus the forum seems active
It's nice to see another great Arch distro climbing the ranks
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-09
Votes: 0
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Excellent experience, high quality distro. I use arch and endeavourOs on most of my devices so I had to try CachyOs. I installed it on a mac mini 2019 with an i7. It is one of the rare distros with T2 drivers already compiled in the kernel, so perfect for a Mac with a T2 chip. I only had to do minor adjustments to get the wifi working but the overall experience was flawless. The installer is very intuitive and of course way less time consuming than the vanilla Arch install. It is very fast, but I haven't tested speed with a precise benchmark. I have been using it for 3 months without a single bug or problem. I will probably use it for my future install. Amazing distro, thanks to the dev for this excellent piece of software.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 7
Date: 2025-01-09
Votes: 0
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Lenovo ThinkPad 32Gb ram i7, 1Tb NVMe gen3.
CachyOS is very similar to Endeavour and Manjaro in its philosophy. Make Arch accessible to the masses. The main difference is the kernel and its tweaks for performance.
Furthermore, the installation is clean, install other packages likes CUPS. BTRFS file-system is installed by default, which is convenient.
I have used Arch Vanilla most of my life and I have tried other Arch Distros, but they always disappoint me in the installation. CachyOS covers most of the installation requirements and tweaks for the end-user.
However, it does have some annoyances:
1. The fstab uses direct device name instead of UUID.
2. If you modified boot entries, ensure to lock the entry file, otherwise, CachyOS will rewrite it when updated.
3. The mkinitcpio.cont uses the old hooks style instead of the new one (sd-crypt).
4. Boot is slow. It uses Plymouth for the graphical booting, which makes it slow.
5. Shutdown is extremely slow, like an MS Windows machine.
6. Allows only one WM to install. If you want more than one, then you have to install them later.
Still, if you are new to Arch, give it a try, you may like it and enjoy it. The WM that you chose will look nice and everything works out of the box.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-06
Votes: 0
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I am very impressed with the speed and stability of CachyOS, the customizability of the system is very easy and after a bit of "playing" I have easily configured the desktop as I like it for my productivity.
This being my first foray into Arch I must say I'm impressed. Both the stability and security of the default browser seem very good indeed.
Installation was a breeze as the installer is both easy and familiar.
CachyOS has gone from an experimental installation to work horse moderately quickly.
It seems like an old well established and stable OS even though it is new, this speaks highly of the time and effort put into it's development by the developers / contributors, my sincere congratulations to both.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-04
Votes: 0
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My favorite distro. One may look at it and say, "Oh, it's just yet another Arch-Based Distro", however that couldn't be further from the truth. Unlike other Arch-Based Distribution, CachyOS goes above and beyond to deliver the best UX tailored to almost any type of end user.
It offers a minimal installation OOTB with an intuitive installer, with a wide range of available Desktop Environments / Window Managers, and also lets you pick exactly what you want preinstalled. Don't care for preinstalled themes? You can just deselect them at install time.
What really sets CachyOS apart from other Distro's is the raw extent they go through to provide the most responsive and optimized experience as possible. It comes with additional Repo's on top of the existing Arch Repo's that feature a lot of software and optimizations that you won't find in any other repo. It also comes with a in-house kernel built with various optimizations, aswell as Sched-Ext support and a "CachyOS Kernel Manager" tool for managing your kernels, patches, and schedulers, just incase you want to tweak their already great kernel build.
The default installation, I would not consider bloated at all, the software that does come preinstalled is all very lightweight and useful. CachyOS also offers various meta packages tailored to different types of end users, such as a gaming meta package.
Overall CachyOS is a Unique Arch-Based experience that you cannot find anywhere else.
Optimized kernel, and repo's with great tools made by the Cachy team to elevate your experience even further.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-04
Votes: 0
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Arch setup OOTB with relatively sane defaults.
- Friendly installer with a lot of options so you can get started however you like. Don't like the default theming? Deselect it at installation.
- Little to no theming depending on the Destop Enviroment / WM
- Custom In House Repo's with optimized package builds, and useful meta packages.
- In house utility applications (such as the CachyOS kernel manager) to make your experience that much more friendly
- Custom Kernel W/ a very nice CPU scheduler, to make your desktop experience that much more responsive. Also comes with Sched-Ext support OOTB along with the aforementioned CachyOS kernel manager to make utilizing it even easier.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-03
Votes: 0
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This Distro is verry good.Cachy os have a special kernel versions (in my opinion BMQ lto is the best for performance) but calamares installer often crash when i install this distro from usb.This distro have a problem with partitioning disks to dual boot.
Despite this, I recommend this system to all those who want to have a fast, light and stable work environment. I currently use the qtile desktop and it works well in many applications. You can always install another one or choose another one during installation. I recommend installing only one graphical environment, otherwise the system may not install correctly.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-01-03
Votes: 0
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Well, at least I gave this a try. I had one disaster after another using CachyOS- my bootloader was broken numerous times throughout my use- I have a Windows 10 install and it made sure to make that uncountable (I still need Windows for some things). This distro was pretty bloated with way too many apps, some of which do the same thing- so that's definitely unnecessary. Boot time was pretty slow, it took a few minutes if it would even fully go through booting tot he desktop- I had to force shutdown my computer numerous times and it was a 50/50 chance it would boot to the desktop or not. It could not recognize my printer or wifi card, good thing I have ethernet as a backup, but that was slow too. There is a bit of RAM usage with no programs open, which slowed down the system. There were some crashes and any workarounds from "helpful" users in the forum proved to be a blatant lie, and would mess up something else in the distro- making this overall not trustworthy to use and a pain trying to fix anything thaty is broken.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 221230
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-03
Votes: 0
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### CachyOS: A Versatile Choice for Programming, Gaming, and General Use
CachyOS is an Arch Linux-based distribution designed for performance, efficiency, and ease of use. Whether you're a developer, gamer, or just someone seeking a robust general-purpose OS, CachyOS has plenty to offer.
#### **For Programming**
CachyOS is a paradise for developers due to its Arch Linux base. It offers access to the Arch User Repository (AUR), providing a massive library of software, libraries, and tools. Programming languages like Python, JavaScript, Rust, and Go can be easily installed and updated. CachyOS comes with a performance-optimized kernel, which can speed up compiling and execution times for large codebases. The customization options allow developers to set up their environment exactly how they like it, with support for IDEs like Visual Studio Code, JetBrains, and more.
#### **For Gaming**
Gaming on CachyOS is an excellent experience, thanks to its focus on performance optimization. It supports tools like Steam, Proton, and Lutris, ensuring compatibility with a wide array of games, including AAA titles. The system’s low latency and efficient resource management make it an ideal platform for gaming. Additionally, drivers for AMD and NVIDIA GPUs are easily accessible, offering smooth graphics performance.
#### **General Use**
For daily use, CachyOS is lightweight, fast, and secure. It includes user-friendly interfaces and customization options, making it suitable for both Linux beginners and seasoned users. Regular updates ensure stability and the latest features.
Overall, CachyOS is a powerful and adaptable operating system that excels in programming, gaming, and general usage. With its balance of performance and usability, it’s an excellent choice for tech enthusiasts.
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-02
Votes: 0
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The best distro I've ever used. It's so unbelievably fast. I also haven't found any speed differences using ext4 instead of btrfs. I recommend anyone to at least try it. It installs all Nvidia drivers automatically. Runs games easily and is on-par game wise performance with Garuda. It also has secure boot support and docs, for anyone that cares about that. I haven't tried Hyprland but using KDE Plasma, which is the default DE, it's fantastic. For anyone who wants to try Arch without the painful setup, CashyOS is a must try!
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Project: CachyOS
Version: 241221
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-01
Votes: 0
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Have been using it as my main OS on both desktop and laptop for over 12 months now and I've been very impressed. Stable, fast and reliable.
Occasional package issues to deal with, but you get that with Arch. One good thing is if it's one of the packages they maintain a version of, it'll usually get fixed quick smart.
I think the only bad thing I could say about it is that I think the CachyOS Hello (welcome app) could do with a bit of rework to make it simpler for new users. A bit more of a guided tour perhaps, especially pointing them towards the Apps/Tweaks page for gaming packages and snapper support, as well as perhaps a more visible note about paru and the AUR.
Other than that, not a bad thing to say. It may be the longest I've stuck with a particular distro to date and I don't see myself changing any time soon.
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