CachyOS

Reader supplied reviews for CachyOS Average rating 8.0 from 468 review(s) Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. 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: -- 260426251129241221231210221230 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: 260426 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-05-19 Country: United States Votes: 1 I've dipped in and out of Linux for over two decades now. Never sticking with it long term, until now. Built a new system about a year ago and installed Mint first (same as it always is - okay, I guess), then tried CachyOS. Been with it ever since. I don't know that I'd say CachyOS specifically is why I've been happy sticking with Linux this time so much as the maturity of the Linux ecosystem overall. Especially with gaming. What CachyOS does right is out of the box setup is excellent. All the defaults, from Limine, to BTRFS, KDE Plasma, plus the easy add-ons, like the "CachyOS gaming-meta" that with a single click installs all the gaming essentials make for an awesome first impression. While it's commonly said that Arch isn't for the Linux novice, CachyOS certainly had done an excellent job of making me questions that belief. Especially with the ability for quick, hassle free rollback should an update (or oopsie) actually bork the system. Seriously, with a couple clicks and a reboot the system is back to the pre-borked state. That functionality isn't unique to CachyOS, but I don't know of another distro so easily configured out of the box like that (maybe there is, I only sampled two distros this round). As long as one is willing to browse the super helpful CachyOS user forums or extensive CachyOS Wiki if you do encounter an issue or need something not immediately obvious, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this to even a Linux noob. ✓ Easy to install and up and running faster than Windoze ✓ Cutting edge while minimizing the cutting edge pain ✓ Gets the most out of modern hardware (even Nvidia!) ✓ Excellent all-around for productivity and gaming ✅ Not a Microsoft product and open source Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 260426 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-05-16 Country: United Kingdom Votes: 9 I'm a gamer and I've been seriously distrohopping for a couple of years, I spent some time with almost every major distro out there and most of the gaming specific ones too. But CachyOS has stopped all that, I've been running it for over a year now, and I can't see myself changing any time in the near future. The weird thing is people have the perception that arch based distros, on a cutting edge release schedule, are janky as hell and always breaking. But in the time that I've been using CachyOS, it has never crashed or broken, other than through my own actions, I'm super impressed, not to mention I get the benefits of the latest kernel and app versions all the time! It also has some great default config, for example btrfs and limine means you can snap every time you make a change with pacman or yay/paru, and if something goes wrong you can boot from one of those snapshots. It's fast, the devs are great, it runs everything extremely well. Package-wise you have the world at your hands, with the AUR, which as long as you're sensible isn't as bad as some people would have you believe. I don't know what else to say, it's AWESOME! Have fun everyone! :) Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 260426 Rating: 6 Date: 2026-05-16 Country: Poland Votes: 0 It is a real ARCH Linux. (great for software developers, etc...) for Windows replacement consider DEBIAN (13: Trixie) Yes, it is fast : optimized kernel is great, especially on a machine with X86_64-V3 CPU (I have an AMD Ryzen 5 pro...) No it is not worry free : only the KDE Desktop works well out of the box. MATE is buggy, and need lots of manual intervention etc.... COSMIC, seems buggy too. ---- For the installer, the user interface CachyOS is very similar to EndeavourOS, faster but much less robust ! On EndeavourOS almost everything works as installed, not on CachyOS... yet. Good work, it shall be excellent some time soon. My Wish: all three desktop environment mentioned above, fully functional. MATE for reason, COSMIC... for love ! (not ready yet either). Perhaps GNOME too... ---- Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 468 reader reviews of CachyOS...