CachyOS

Reader supplied reviews for CachyOS Average rating 8.0 from 445 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. 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: -- 260308251129241221231210221230 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: 260308 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-04-16 Country: Brazil Votes: 3 Excelente experiência! CPU i5 6200U (Dual core), GPU Intel HD520, 16GB de RAM DDR4 2133mhz e SSD de 256GB, TV LG 4K 60". 10 bits de cor, HDR, 1440p a 60hz no desktop (devido a limitação da porta HDMI só ir até 4k 30hz) e a tv fazendo upscale pra 2160p, ta lindo! Nunca tive essa experiência no windows. A maioria das distros são mais leves que o windows porem, essa Cachy Os é muito bem feita! Tenho impressão de estar usando um Notebook novo de tão boa a experiência de uso no dia a dia. Quero agradecer a todos que estão por traz desse projeto maravilhoso que esta prosperando muito. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 260308 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-04-15 Country: United Kingdom Votes: 7 ABSOLUTE PEAK. Can't find anything wrong with it after 7 months of usage. It's fast, it's reliable and it's feature-packed. I have noticed the improvement in performance coming from bazzite I have been enjoying how easy it is to get used to and it ties perfectly with KDE Plasma. I have it on two key devices of note, one is my main PC, but the other is an Asus BR1100CKA. This laptop has a Dual-Core Celeron N4500 at 1.10Ghz and 4GB of RAM. The storage is 64GB of eMMC and yet it plays games perfectly fine on CachyOS. The one that performs the best (easy 60fps) is MegaBonk. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 260308 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-04-14 Country: United States Votes: 12 CachyOS was easy to install and significantly improved my gaming performance, even on an NVIDIA card. For me personally on fairly budget hardware those improvements were pretty extreme, nearly doubling frame rates in some cases (compared to Linux Mint), but depending on your hardware the differences might be more or less noticeable. In terms of software, CachyOS uses pacman as the primary package manager and benefits from all the packages available in the Arch repositories, as well as the AUR, which gets pretty much every package anyone is going to need. There are a lot of GUI options available, so it's possible (though not recommended) to avoid using the terminal for a large variety of things. On the Desktop Environment side of things, CachyOS defaults to the latest version of KDE Plasma, which is arguably the best Linux DE by far right now. There are also a number of other options available at install including GNOME, XFCE, Cosmic, Cinnamon and more. For those who like Window Managers instead of full DEs, CachyOS has plenty of options there as well including Niri (my personal favorite), Hyprland, Sway, i3, and more. The filesystem that CachyOS uses by default is BTRFS, though other options like EXT4, XFS, ZFS, F2FS, and BcacheFS are available if desired. If installing using BTRFS, CachyOS has automatic snapshot using snapper that allow you to rollback your system from the boot menu fairly easily in case of any issues. This is helpful both in the case of an update breaking something, as does happen on occasion with rolling release distros, and in the case of any tinkering gone wrong. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 445 reader reviews of CachyOS...