CachyOS

Reader supplied reviews for CachyOS Average rating 8.5 from 75 review(s) What are your thoughts on CachyOS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 241221231210221230 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 241221 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-01-20 Votes: 2 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 241221 Rating: 1 Date: 2025-01-12 Votes: 0 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 231210 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-01-11 Votes: 15 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 75 reader reviews of CachyOS...