CachyOS

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Version: -- 240714231210221230 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: 240714 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-08-07 Votes: 33 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 231210 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-08-06 Votes: 18 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 Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 240714 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-07-28 Votes: 32 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. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 61 reader reviews of CachyOS...