CachyOS

Reader supplied reviews for CachyOS Average rating 8.0 from 442 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: -- 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: 9 Date: 2026-04-13 Country: Brazil Votes: 4 CachyOS is the closest it has ever been to a perfect Linux distro compared to any other. I've tried using vanilla Arch before, but I had some problems with it regarding NVIDIA drivers. This did not happen here. Pros: + Super easy to install (after all, it has Calamares) and use, especially for beginners. + Stable despite being Arch-based. + Great community support and documentation (the Arch Wiki also helps with this). + Similar FPS in games like RDR2 and GTA5 as Windows, while being open-source. + Installer offers flexible choices for bootloaders, DEs/WMs, and additional options like printer and scanner support. + Great support for Intel and NVIDIA components. + Optimized kernel for performance and security, including sched-ext, which increased my FPS by 50+ in Minecraft. Cons: - Has unnecessary packages that an average Linux user won't need post-installation (for example, Plymouth, which makes the boot splash prettier, but it isn't something I necessarily need). - systemd (some people are not bothered by this, but I am). As shown here, there are many more pros than cons for this distro, but there are still cons. If Cachy had an option for picking init systems other than systemd and specifically selecting which packages to install and not install, both straight from the ISO, this would be, in my opinion, the best Linux distro that exists. If it's not possible to add an option for init systems, they could at least provide ISOs bundled with different init systems, like Artix does. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 260308 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-04-10 Country: Canada Votes: 15 I moved to CachyOS from windows in October 2025. It was my first real jump into the linux world. The install was easier and quicker than a windows install. The OS has just worked. I had a problem with auto mounting my drives at start up but that was an error on my part and not the OS or the instructions in the wiki. I know a lot of people told me to stay away from Arch based Os's for my first jump into linux, but CachyOS has been very easy to use and between the Cachy wiki and the Arch wiki I don't feel like I'm going to ever really struggle with a problem. Cachy has been very stable for me and I enjoy the rolling release. I also have not had any bugs due to the rolling release as I was told I would, and snapper gives me some piece of mind that even if I do it will be easy to fix. I can't recommend this distro enough. Huge thank you to the Cachy team. Keep up the good work! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 260308 Rating: 5 Date: 2026-03-31 Country: France Votes: 0 Depuis la dernière version ils ont complètement supprimé "X11". J'avais décidé de réinstaller "Cachyos" car mon temps de démarrage devenait très long...environ plus de 2 min sur mon pc trop vieux qui a plus de 15 ans. En consultant les discussions du forum de "Cachyos" j'ai découvert qu'ils supprimaient depuis la nouvelle version de "Cachyos" la prise en charge de "X11". L'écran d'authentification restera bloqué et vous empêchera d'accéder à "Cachyos" car maintenant c'est "Wayland" qui est obligatoirement activé par défaut donc plus du tout de "Plasma X11". J'ai une très vieille carte graphique Nvidia GT710 à 2 Go de vram qui n' est pas du tout compatible avec "Wayland"...et le drivers "Nouveau" fonctionne très mal pour le gaming. Adieu "Cachyos"'... Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 442 reader reviews of CachyOS...