Is anyone running CachyOS?

I'm using their optimized x64v4 repos on an otherwise plain Arch. No idea about any performance difference, I just want to make sure all the CPU progress in recent years doesn't go to waste.

I’ve been using it a few months and it’s been reliable. But in my mind, my use case, cachyos or endeavour could be interchangeable. I picked cachyos by chance because I was looking at Phoronix and they had just benchmarked it.

I hadn’t used an Arch system since 2009 (except a brief stint with Manjaro around 2018 that ended in absolute disaster after about 2 weeks), so I was a bit skeptical about it.

I like the default browser is pretty much a hardened Firefox. Good boot times. The packages I need were all there. It was easy to setup snapper. The little aesthetic changes cachyos made are nicely done.

I’ve got a problem with port forwarding I can’t get working, never had that problem before and I don’t know network stuff well enough to figure it out.

The updates are the winner for me- I don’t know how long this has been a thing with arch but downloading multiple packages at the same time. Game changer. I love Tumbleweed, but a 2gb “zypper dup” downloading package by package could take me 30 - 60 minutes.

I mostly use flatpak, but I also needed to make use of some appimages and only 3 or 4 things I needed to install as system packages. So my Aeon install wasn’t working out for that and I wasn’t prepared to go back to tumbleweed.

7 months distro hopping sober here ! All thanks to CachyOS.

The installation is seamless thanks to calamares, there are some graphic tools that can help for beginners on arch. Their kernel might be one of the most optimised one to have a smooth experience while gaming. I do not play ressources hungry games, so I can not really tell.

After setting snapshots, I decided to experience it totally blind folded, just to see how long I can last on it. I update the system around 2 times a week, never read any changelog, just like any of the other distro I used... And for now, I've never had any trouble.

My system seems to be way smoother and more responsive than with fedora or tumbleweed.

I use my computer mostly for steam, heroic, librewolf and LibreOffice.

I have been using cachyos for around a month. Its been ok so far, things like the browser are quite fast. And I like some of the gui tools wich make some things easier, although you have similar tools in endevour os.

I dont know whether its really worth it to switch to cachy from endevour. I'd say just stick with endevour os, If you really want things like the browser than yiu can download it, similar to things like the soecial kernel. but at this point its switching from somewhat stable and close to source arch based, to some what less stable but slightly faster arch based.

i've been using cachyos for a couple of years on all my computers and never seen a reason to distrohop anymore.

I'm currently using the handheld edition on my steam deck and I like it much better than steam os. Mainly it's because I can actually use the aur and not rely on flatpack. It also doesn't override my tweaks when the os updates.

I have been running CachyOS for a solid 8 months. Aside from a brief stint of having to use AtlasOS for steam remote play. Some black screen bug with steam. It has been fantastic.

The biggest benefit over say windows I've noticed is the frame time and frame pacing is fucking stable. Motion looks so much smoother when it's timing were correct.

I'm glad to find that the general perception on CachyOS has definitely changed for the better. I believe it was two or three years ago when I stumbled upon CachyOS for the very first time. I don't think it did anything noticeably different back then compared to now. But as it was still relatively new, people didn't quite jump on the bandwagon. As such, I actually received quite a bit of condemnation whenever I tried to recommend the distro to others. I'm glad to see that it's currently flourishing. Congratz to the CachyOS team for sticking to their guns. Whenever a product is good, it will eventually receive recognition.

I think it is one of the more interesting recent distro's. Gaming set up out of the box. it has one of the easier zfs on root install options. Has plasma 6 which a lot of "major" distro's do not have in their stable release yet.

I tried to use it on my laptop but i have a piece of hardware catchy doesn't like. Dev's were helpful when i was trying to get it to work, but we didn't figure it out then. I now know what was causing the problem, so maybe i'll give it another try.

I've been using cachyos on my computer for around a year or more, I think? It's been fine, but I prefer endeavorOS overall.
I like the more vanilla feeling of endeavour if it makes sense.
I also had some technical issues, but nothing insurmountable. The last several months we're uneventful actually. There are not enough differences for me to switch yet and I assume cachy is a bit faster, but I can't tell for sure.

I use it on my gaming desktop. No complaints so far, but it literally only has Steam and Heroic on it. I've been using Endeavour on my laptop for about a year and a half now and don't see any reason to switch — if anything I kind of prefer EOS, but Cachy is great for gaming out of the box.

Chronic distro hopper here. It brings some interesting defaults and is probably easier to get gaming on than default Arch. Lots of stuff that is above my head for performance optimizing, but in all honesty it's not THAT incredibly different than default Arch, or even default mint. At least on my hardware which is a 3070 Nvidia 12th gen Intel laptop. It does make an impact, but your mileage may vary.

You know how some people really like cars and spend endless time on the garage tweaking and tuning things? Cachy feels like the distro version of that for Linux. If you are an enthusiast then it is great, but you had better be prepared to figure out what esoteric thing broke and why your "car" now no longer works.

Mint is driving a car, Arch/Cachy is being a car enthusiast. Both will get you places, but one is probably going to get you to the grocery store more reliably.

I've run it on and off for about 6 months. Just switched to it as daily driver. Absolutely love it. Arch but with automatic x64v3/4, including Wine & Proton?! Sign me up. Which is installed with an fantastic gaming meta package, and I regularly get ~10% FPS boost. Excellent default kernel, too.

I was until earlier this week as it just seemed unstable for me. It was a coin flip whether or not booting would actually work or get stuck at various points of the boot process. Reverted back to EOS and everything is fine again

it’s a very interesting distribution. it feels and probably is slightly faster than arch, with their optimised packages (I had v3), but to be honest you have to rely on their prebuilt binaries and I prefer flatpaks.

I used it for ~ 3 months, but eventually went back to arch and flatpaks (using flatpaks on cache defeats the purpose of having v3/v4 packages, until someone starts bundling optimised dependencies ).

I prefer the originals always, but it is a viable alternative if you enjoy a friendly installer (their Anaconda is very nice).

Sorry if I commented Twice but Cachyos is amazing a little bit unstable But I Really love it's Custom Kernels,Leveraging cpu instructions etc for Performance and its also really flexible. (the rare distros that does this) my recommendation only switch to Cachyos if your Cpu atleast supports x86_64-v3 but if you want you can add their repos/kernel in endeavour if you dont wanna install Cachyos: https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/optimized_repos/ .