CachyOS

Reader supplied reviews for CachyOS Average rating 8.0 from 205 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: -- 250530241221231210221230 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: 250530 Rating: 8 Date: 2025-06-15 Votes: 1 Impressive. Most impressive. CachyOS was installed on two of my devices: Mac Pro 6,1 "Cachy-Can" and my trusty T490. Much like any Linux OS nowadays installation was a breeze. I decided to dual boot Siduction/CachyOS on my T490. Considering i'm unfamiliar with Arch distros, quick access to a Wiki, Updates and package manager are critical. CachyOS Hello is a convenient one-stop shop. Options like Hello are common on most distros I use but Cachy's implementation is clean. I'm still gathering my bearings with CachyOS but after a few days of using the OS, i'm impressed with its performance. Quite snappy with what appears to be low resource utilization. MacOS was beginning to be bogged down on my Trashcan but CachyOS has definitely brought this machine back from the brink with awesome performance. For now, my distro-hopping urges have been satisfied. Great work to all who have contributed on this project. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 250530 Rating: 8 Date: 2025-06-15 Votes: 0 Put it right at the 8 so its the same as the average, letme explain: I decided one day to try something arch-based instead of my usual debian, and this was pretty good! Went with Openbox as my choice, which was pre-set very nicely with custom keybindings and various forms of jazz that worked out great. Graphical Access to the AUR as well so that was all nice, but a single problem somewhat annoyed me to death. Theres a little button on the left bar for the controls that lets me change the wallpaper, problem is I cant find the file directory to add more wallpapers to it or change the directory. Theres an application to change the wallpaper, so I use it but once I log out or shutdown it goes back to the default. You would think they would at least do a minor check and try and run a custom version for a week or so but sadly not. Its probably great on the other choices of DE's and window managers, but the fact I couldnt really change the default wallpaper and it actually stay is just disappointing. It may be a good distro, but its got to work out some bugs still :( Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 250530 Rating: 1 Date: 2025-06-14 Votes: 0 I really don't understand how anyone could use this operating system without losing their sanity in the process. First of all, when I installed it everything seemed fine, until I started to browse it and I started to see quite evident problems of stuttering. Luckily I have an AMD card because I knew beforehand that this distribution has problems with NVIDIA. And as if the stuttering wasn't enough when I applied the corresponding updates in the app center the whole system froze and I had to force restart with the button on my PC. Upon restart, my boot loader was broken. At this point I had enough of this. My conclusion is that don't use this crap operating system and look for alternatives. This is so bad and has so many bugs that nobody has bothered to even have any quality control. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 205 reader reviews of CachyOS...