CachyOS August 2025 Release
CachyOS August 2025 Release
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CachyOS August 2025 Release
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I really wish they’d support a MAC system out of the box. Even with basic apparmor policies. Still an awesome distro though.
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Has anyone used this as part of a domain? I'm trying to find a replacement for Windows 10 to run on Skylake-era hardware at the small company I work for. I'll probably end up just using Ubuntu but I'd really like to try something more... Modern
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I switched to Cachy 2 months ago and I think my distro hopping days are over. It's so, so responsive and reliable. People scared me off arch-based distros for being bleeding edge but so far it's been very stable, I haven't encountered any major issues.
If you're thinking about switching, do it. Switched off from Bazzite and I'm not looking back.
Arch is stable until it isn't. Unlike LTS distros, you generally will want to check the Arch/cachyOS website or forum before updating to catch any potential system breaking bugs to either wait until they're fixed, or apply a workaround found by the community in the forums. As long as you do that, you can generally avoid problems, but it is an extra step that something like Debian or Mint generally doesn't require.
Yep, they broke routing just yesterday or the day before lol. Network requests only go through like half the time right now. But a fix is coming quickly at least.
eh got snapshot and backups on and off pc, if anything goes wrong ill survive and be ready to go in a minute or two, dejadups is lowkey annoyingly slow to load tho
I don't know what the time frame or interval of these events is. I switched to CachyOS 5+ months ago now, updated in the evening before going to bed (basically daily, bleeding edge as you might say).
I had zero issues. Maybe it'll be an issue one day. But while I could check for any critical known issues, and that would be an extra step (I don't, so it's not), it has saved me so much time just having up to date packages on literally everything just in the repo. It's insane compared to especially Debian, where things can be years behind and the only way to get a reasonable recent version is to build from source, find a .deb repo for it or install a manually downloaded package directly (like on Windows).
Any experience with laptop battery life on Cachy?
Battery life is really good, on par with Windows on my current laptop. For some reason battery life was really bad on Bazzite, like 30% worse or so. I don't know how it compares to other distros.
I was looking at Bazzite too. I just haven’t made the switch because I’m not sure if Nvidia performance drops are a big issue.
Performance should be relatively the same across every distro, there are benchmarks online you can check. I didn't like Bazzite with my short time using it though, being immutable means you have to jump through hoops to install something that isn't available as a flatpak. Like I mentioned in another comment the battery life was also not great, and I found it to be a little slow in general.