CachyOS

Reader supplied reviews for CachyOS Average rating 8.0 from 467 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: 2026-05-16 Country: United Kingdom Votes: 3 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 Version: 260426 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-05-16 Country: Brazil Votes: 1 I’ve used Debian, Mint, Fedora KDE and GNOME, Solus, Zorin, openSUSE, Bazzite, Pop!_OS, and Kubuntu, and I can easily say that CachyOS is one hell of an operating system. It’s Arch-based and inherits a bit of its philosophy, meaning you need to install a few things that are missing out of the box (like Office, CUPS, etc.). But other than that, it comes with a very fair bundle of applications. It features two package managers with AUR support, which pull optimized and incredibly fast programs from the repository, giving the whole system a sense of speed. I started using it on my main PC (Ryzen 5 5500 and RX 7600), and later installed it on my Lenovo laptop (Intel, no dedicated GPU), and I didn't face a single instability issue or anything like that. The system is beautiful, fast, stable, and very easy to use if you are somewhat used to Linux and have a little bit of terminal knowledge (or simply use language models). Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 467 reader reviews of CachyOS...