CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch Linux
cachyos.org
🚀 CachyOS is a performance-optimized Arch Linux distribution with CPU-specific package builds, advanced kernel scheduling, and an effortless installation — delivering measurable speed gains without sacrificing simplicity.
  • Tekdeb@lemmy.zipEnglish
    22·
    20 hours ago

    CachyOS is also great for gaming, but calling it “a gaming distro” is underselling it for people who do not care much for gaming. It’s a highly optimized general-use distro that is also great for gaming.

    But by default it does not install any gaming-related packages, so calling it a gaming distro is wrong. It has a shortcut to install everything most people would want for gaming, and the team also tunes it in ways that benefits gaming, and they also have their own Proton fork called Proton-CachyOS that is in my opinion the best one. Right now it is still based on a relatively old Experimental version because the main dev behind it is taking a break, but it’s normally very up-to-date on everything including new features and fixes.

    Plenty of people do not want the “bloat” that actual gaming distros include by default and CachyOS is the best of both worlds. Pretty clean by default, with easy access to gaming tools if you want that.

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    18 hours ago

    It’s awesome! Totally! Not just for gaming though. It’s a “normal” Linux too.

    But a yr ago I tried it on a 2ND nvme and left winblows there for “when nothing works”. I am a massive nerd, with many self written tools and I have a very precise demand of my machine and how it behaves.

    Never tried Linux desktops. Only ever uses it for servers.

    Well, the windows drive is still there, but I never ever booted it again. Even made a VM of it for super-quick emergencies. Never started it.

    Everything works the same or better. Most of my tools were basically fixing windows, don’t need them anymore. And except destiny2 I can game every game with basically zero problems.

    And I game at least 5hrs a day. Sometimes a but of tinkering is helpful (rarely needed). Especially if you want to run a side-app like cheatengine or some map-tools or whatever else.

    Long story short: cachy is awesome! Being a German adds a nice bonus flavour.

  • antianarchist@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    111·
    22 hours ago

    Started on Garuda, it was okay.

    Went to Bazzite, made me mad constantly.

    Now I am on CachyOS for ages and couldn’t be happier. I only dislike the daily 4726 updates.

    • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 hours ago

      Went to Bazzite, made me mad constantly

      cachyos:

      I only dislike the daily 4726 updates.

      hmm

      bazzite is the best and easiest distro out there and getting better all the time with new tools to make it even easier to use

      also you can pin versions of the OS at any time so if an update doesn’t work as well for you, you can boot the previous version any time you like

      this is the one that made you mad constantly

      lol

      • antianarchist@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Yeah my way of using linux is just not suitable for immutable systems. While it is good for most people, and while I love the philosophy of having immutable systems, I ended up using rpmtree constantly for the most simple things. And honestly, the only thing missing for it to be a very usable working OS is something like Homebrew.

        So yes. It made me mad. I’d rather have a bit more freedom in my terminal emulator.

    • HumbleExaggeration@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      18 hours ago

      This was the reason to switch to OpenSuse Slowroll. I still get updates nearly everyday but not nearly as much. The big updates are bundled once a month. Love it so far.

      Bonus: also a German distro.

      • antianarchist@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        OpenSuse is actually my personal preference, as I basically grew up with SLES. Will be my choice as soon as CachyOS starts to act funny

    • theprogman@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      20 hours ago

      How do you manage the updates? I do them once every two weeks, but even though I work in tech I have no desire to manually check each repo/kernel/update info. Last month or two there was an alert saying something among the lines of “we’re working on removing malware from the latest updates” and that made me wary. Still a better experience than running Windows, but I miss the flatpacks from other distros.

      • antianarchist@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        19 hours ago

        I do the updates when I feel like it, roughly once every couple days. I don’t check anything at all to be honest, because I use CachyOS on my private computer and I honestly do not care so much about getting malware. I know, probably not the answer you expected, I just learned to live with the risk. Besides that, I try to install flatpacks or via npm. pacman is just used for the things where no other option exists. AUR is a huge mess and will always be full of malware, so don’t ever use Arch on any important devices. This is why on my servers I have Debian 13. CachyOS has own repositories, but as far as I know they just mirror AUR and add/modify some build flags

    • BenLeMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      20 hours ago

      Oh, the 4726 updates whose failure I have to acknowledge one by one? Yes, I hated those when I was testing CachyOS a while ago. 🤬

  • RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    231·
    1 day ago

    I’m using it for a few months now. Coming from Kubuntu, I noticed that everything seems much faster/more responsive.Love it. Its not a pure gaming distro though. It’s arch-based, but with easy install and configuration, you have access to the whole Arch repo.

    And of course as a bonus I can now unironically say "I use arch by the way*

    • jagermo@feddit.orgEnglish
      94·
      1 day ago

      It’s great - but, to be fair, if you hated updates and restarts in Windows, you are not going to like cachyos :)

      • TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        22 hours ago

        It’s the forced upgrade, boatware, and lack of lack of privacy that drove me to swap. I blindly picked hyprland as my DE because the preview looked cool without knowing what a tiling DE was, It took me 3 days but I finally got it configured and everything is so snappy and fast. I’m never looking back

      • tyler@programming.devEnglish
        17·
        1 day ago

        Huh? They’re a thousand times better in Cachy. Why wouldn’t anyone like them if they hated windows updates?

        • Tekdeb@lemmy.zipEnglish
          7·
          20 hours ago

          The argument is that “Oh, Windows updates once a month and you hate it? Well, CachyOS has several updates every day which makes it much worse”.

          But the real issue with Windows updates is how distruptive, forced, slow, and broken they are. Microsoft gives you some freedom to choose when to update, but sooner or later it’ll say “Oh you’re doing something important? Nope, time to restart right now” if you delay it too long.

          I actually update my CachyOS system far more often than I did Windows, but I am in full control of it. But the truth is, while I would recommend people on CachyOS or any rolling release distro to update at least every 1-2 weeks, you can easily go a couple of months without doing so.

          • tyler@programming.devEnglish
            5·
            16 hours ago

            Yeah I update once a month max, and it’s like 5 minutes… a windows update I did on my work computer the other day was an hour and a half of unusable computer.

            Windows is just another level of horrible updates. CachyOS might have lots of updates, but you don’t have to do them and they’re also a hundred times faster AND you can use your computer while the update happens. It’s just nothing alike.

      • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 day ago

        Don’t really notice.

        Just sudo yay -Syu whenever something doesn’t work anymore. 3-4 mins of unnoticeable background updating later, done. It’s not even a thing.

      • TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        22 hours ago

        I was blown away by how much faster BG3 loads. The last time I had used Linux was when I was in college in 2008 and I kept running into incompatibility issues and after a while i swapped back to windows. I was half expecting a battle when I installed cachy but everything worked right out of the box (ignoring the fact that I picked hyprland without knowing wtf I was doing)

  • Baron von Fajita@infosec.pubEnglish
    2·
    21 hours ago

    Not just a gaming distro. This works great for everyday use, as well. If you have an older system, it will breathe a little life back into it, as well.

  • nfms@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    22 hours ago

    Happy “costumer” here.
    Been using boring old Arch for 4 years on a desktop. But I have a second hand 8 year old laptop that I didn’t want to spend to much time setting up and installed CachyOS on it. Everything just works.
    After using it for a while I decided to add the CachyOS repo on my desktop, with instructions from the CachyOS wiki, and I’m now running the CachyOS kernel.

  • maam@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    Use the distro on a libreboot computer 🇬🇧 to visit peertube.wtf 🇩🇰

  • Sequence5666@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    19 hours ago

    i get fomo seeing linux distros being loved by people. unfortunately with intel macbook, i have little options for using linux.

    • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      intel macbook, i have little options for using linux.

      On an Intel Macbook can use literally any x64 distro…

      If you had an M series macbook, you’d be limited to Asahi and it’s sort of janky.

    • rem26_art@fedia.io
      9·
      1 day ago

      GUI-wise, when you go to install Cachyos it’ll ask you to select a Desktop environment. Gnome and KDE both can understand tablet/convertible/2-in-1 devices. I have a Thinkpad Yoga and Arch with Gnome at least is fine in tablet mode. Haven’t tried KDE.

      Actual driver support may depend on your specific device in terms of driver support. My Lenovo worked perfectly fine after install with nothing special and gets updates through fwupd, and I know that the Microsoft Surface tablets have a special kernel you’ve gotta install with some Surface specific stuff in it in order for everything to work.

        • doctorflynt@feddit.orgEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          disagree. while KDE has a Tablet mode it still depends on the device. Gnome with a few Extensions is far superior as a tablet imo. „TouchUp“ and „Gjs OSK“ are needed. With those installed, gnome will feel like a tablet and be easier to navigate than KDE. Especially if you want to switch on the fly between touch navigation and mouse/keyboard

        • WastedJobe@feddit.orgEnglish
          2·
          22 hours ago

          In my experience (Surface 7 using first the linux-surface kernel and then Nobara), KDE is way behind Gnome in touch support. OSK is way worse, general GUI design is not touch friendly, worse pen support… And that is before extensions like gjs oak for gnome.