How to install CachyOS and optimise it!

[@A1RM4X]

NOTE: systemd-boot support multi OS boot, it requires extra configuration to do so: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-boot Recommendation stays the same for the video, just a clarification. Thanks for watching!

[@ToppFunk]

I love this type of content. The best kind of subjects, one of the best accents. Could easily watch your vids all day

[@saadhabashneh5587]

@@ToppFunk yeah I love it too 😂😂

[@MrSuvvri]

I like grub combined with btrfs and snapshots as grub allows you to automatically add the snapshots to the bootloader and run them from the grub directly without the need to load to your system

[@xt_raven8842]

i discovered cachyOS 2 weeks ago and watched all your videos about it > its amazing that there are such great videos being uploaded just as i enetered this journey! i wanted to install cachyOS this week and your timing was perfect as always with uploading this video! thank you!🔥

[@A1RM4X]

Welcome aboard!

[@xt_raven8842]

@uHansG well your "maximum" estimation seems to be a bit off... i installed this distro the next day after the og comment: havent booted windows since > and have no plans on doing that any time soon.... PS: by the way, how many BSODs and windows 11 push updates did you have while writing your comment? :)

[@josejoaquim.762]

I've used Windows my whole life, 3 years ago I started virtualizing some Linux distros out of simple curiosity, now I'm finally switching from Windows to Linux and I'm going to start with CachyOS, which seemed like the best option. Thanks for the video. I'm excited for the video with the gaming settings.

[@rowton001]

The tweaks and fixes portion was something I really needed to know, very helpful video.

[@Anneonyme-b1q]

The tips to have the first results in Paru's research at the bottom of the terminal, this is gold ! Thanks for the videos, I hope i'll be able to see your stream on VanillaOS !

[@A1RM4X]

Hope to see you during the stream too! Cheers!

[@iBolski]

Great video, A1RM4X! Even though I installed CachyOS without this video, I still watched it and you explained some things that I didn't know before, such as paru and configure it! I loved how you explained what a lot of the settings are, etc. And one thing that has held me back from using systemd was that I was under the impression that only GRUB could handle booting from the boot menu. It seems systemd allows it as well. I'll have to play around with it (in a vm first) to get used to it. If I find it works with snapper, I'll probably convert to it the next time I have to reinstall CachyOS. Keep up the great work. Love your videos and streams!

[@tiagomedeiros7935]

First of all, congratulations on the very comprehensive video. I've been using Arch Linux for about 6 years, and sometimes I test other distros to see if I can get better performance. I tested CachyOS on my machine, and it performed exactly the same as my Arch Linux (kernel 6.6.42-1-lts), which is strange given all the optimizations CachyOS has. I will wait for the CachyOS optimization video to see if I can get a bit more performance.

[@mecanical5597]

These videos have been super useful especially for me since I haven’t been around a computer in general for a while, thx❤

[@A1RM4X]

Happy to help!

[@markfeathers]

This is my main Linux distro at the moment. Whatever these guys are doing for speed, I feel like everyone else should be doing. Cachy feels so much faster on my system than say Fedora and Windows. Great tutorial. I learned some stuff for the post install and am now making use of that. Thank you.

[@A1RM4X]

Happy you're enjoying it!

[@djole0501]

beautiful, I just installed cachy yesterday! :))

[@Mortos592]

Been waiting for this, thanks!

[@mikealphafiver555]

Thanks for the video. It was very helpful!

[@CaduPedroni]

Great content, thanks a lot for sharing. Looking forward to the gaming optimization video.

[@A1RM4X]

Coming soon!

[@miraclemaxicl]

nice walkthrough. I use EndeavourOS and it was interesting to see what CachyOS team is doing

[@A1RM4X]

I am a big fan of EOS! You are in the right place with this distro too.

[@christianpeyrusse794]

Super le tutoriel que j’attendais. Great allez l’OM 😊

[@heyguyslolGAMING]

Tyvm, for the video walk thru. This was my 1st Linux install and it was much smoother than I expected.

[@BjørjaBear]

Excellent video, as a Linux newb, I've found CachyOS to be surprisingly user friendly. The best thing is that you can still use the Arch Wiki, which has a lot of information.

[@Arty_x_g]

Hi, i'm new on the channel. I wanted to try a desktop version of linux (for now i only did basic things on servers, mostly gaming servers on debian) and found out i really like arch linux. I was trying to install EndevourOS, but it gave me some problems and then YOU "SAVED" ME. I found cachy os thanks to you and i really REALLY like it. Hope to see an in depth optimization video soon. You gained a subscribe my friend, yours is a really good work.

[@emmettolentino2962]

Thanks A1RM4X! Just installed CachyOS Handheld + Handheld Daemon on my ROG Ally and happy with the gaming performance. Too much of a beginner to dual boot but keeping Cachy just for the performance alone.

[@wakatsuki4563]

love you man

[@anikethkumar904]

Thanks man! Really helpful!

[@TrustJesusToday]

I just installed CachyOS on a ten year old HP notebook with Hyprland and Budgie DEs. This is now one fast device. I am running Fedora with Hyprland on two newer PCs and they are running well. But, Fedora was too much for this old laptop. CachyOS is a pleasant surprise.

[@EmirKATIRCI]

I like how you did an accent when you are talking about people complaining about why their Bluetooth is not working. 😀

[@mirkodiciano4647]

lets go 💯

[@folksurvival]

How did you theme your Ventoy with that dark mode?

[@Mustafa55949]

Great video, thank you so much. 👍

[@bannedbrother]

Brilliant stuff A1RM4X and thanks for "converting" me to this as my very first Linux OS. Looking forward to further vids on CachyOS. A question please: I realise that when I installed Cachy that I selected ext4. It seems btrfs is the more preferred way of going. Is there a way (other than a new install) to change my OS to btrfs? Keep them coming mate, you are doing amazing work in the community.

[@bannedbrother]

Oh of forgot to say "you use Arch BTW"

there is no way to do that. BTRFS is only worth it for the backups. Ext 4 has a very similar performance. Both of them are lightyears ahead of NTFS that windows use

[@A1RM4X]

It depends on your needs. If you want compression and snapshot, btrfs is the way to go. You would have to reinstall the distro to switch though... If you don´t need those features, stay on ext4. You will be fine (I use it if it makes you feel better).

[@TheLonelyMoon]

Heard Cachy's kernel is actually pretty good. FYI to existing Arch users, you can add Cachy's repo if you want, no need to reinstall your system. I usually don't prefer forks, but I respect Cachy for providing means to add their forks from their github page

[@Robin_8Bit]

No, I switched because I needed to reinstall anyways

[@xellesOR]

Thanks a lot!

[@avyam7509]

Thank you 😊

[@A1RM4X]

You're welcome 😊

[@luminaxar]

Sadly I can’t install it on my machine. It fails with a Pacman error and won’t even let me retry properly.. it tells me to manually partition my drive..

[@diuran1919]

Waiting for the gaming prepare settings and tweaks.

[@xt_raven8842]

@@diuran1919 same here!

[@tmendoza6]

another great video

[@azizmetchonou]

you're french because your accent is very similar. i like your videos a lot.😁

[@A1RM4X]

Glad you like them!

[@anderpikkewyn]

Yeah pappa. Now we get into the S tier.

[@Skorpp13]

I'm using Linux since 2007 (Ubuntu 7.04) and done A LOT of distro-hopping :) and this is the VERY best and stable distro I've used. My distro-hopping is over !

[@chrisjchalifoux]

love your video it is helping me out alote

[@DavidCoutinhoCG]

I really liked CachyOS (did a live test), and i can install it and use it, and I'm planning to, but there is this tiny little problem compared to distros like debian and ubuntu and mint distros, i feel its lacking lots of default pre-installed libraries packages so users don't have to deal with problems by default, i can install it one by one but its annoying, sometimes i can understand which package is missing, but when sometimes that log doesn't point that? using LDD, trying to launch by terminal and looking at which package that lib corresponds into arch repository in google, maybe in the future i will have to make a script post-installation to install all these missing stuff that doesn't come by default with the distro.

[@ixvicvi]

Great video! It would be cool if you could make a video about what scheduler is the best for gaming, content creation,... (like bore or different sched-ext versions).

[@DrNutrijorge]

amazing video tks

[@A1RM4X]

Glad you liked it!

[@yeiya]

im waiting for video for setup catchy for gaming 🔥🔥🔥

[@JoshTheFlyGuy]

So on the bootloader section I can’t get passed it. I selected systems-boot and it just hangs there.

[@Robin_8Bit]

Waiting for part 2!!!

[@Hifin8-ug2sr]

Been using CachyOS going on 2 months now after watching an earlier video reviewing it. Its been great. Sometimes it can be frustrating because I am totally new to Linux but learning has been fun. Only issue I have it the log in screen has tearing around the input boxes. Once I log in though everything is fine. Tried a couple different log in screens but same issue.

[@mitsch581]

Thx! ✌

[@gamingwithrafi4895]

great content would like a a video about BTRFS for sure!

[@ScottManser-eu2pg]

Cachy is my second favorite distribution. Voyager is my current desktop.

[@liutaurasleonavicius2680]

could you make a similar vid with Cachyos handheld edition, pretty pls?

[@novosakharchenko5238]

Okay, the thing with the "Tweaks" is important information for me.

[@Lana_Warwick]

Thank you for this. After 40+ years of W I'm giving this a go, as linux less terminal now, which I gave up after moving from Commodore 64 to Win1.0. 30:05 What do you use/do? I recently discovered Nextdns, but haven't properly tried it yet.

[@zor8952]

Awesome video thank you A1RM4X!! Looking forward to the next video. Please also include setting custom screen resolutions and refresh rates under Wayland if possible. My current screen is capable of running a higher refresh rate than its default. I use xrandr to create and set a custom refresh rate, however, since xrandr doesn't work in Wayland, this limits me to X11. I have no idea how to do this in Wayland.

[@MegaKiri11]

The whole video I was waiting for "CachyOS Kernel Manager" section, but it didn't happen 😢

[@firat.c]

is there a way to get only the performance improvements to my already using arch installation with hyprland? i dont want an entire new distro

[@A1RM4X]

You can rebase your repos on CachyOS: github instructions are here github.com/CachyOS/linux-cachyos#cachyos-repositories

[@firat.c]

@@A1RM4X thanks

[@F0XH0UND007]

I see you have RegataOS in Ventoy, future review? 🤔

[@A1RM4X]

Soon tm

[@fredericconsavela8484]

I assume it's possible to choose multiple DEs during the installation. Yes?

[@jcbjvos6456]

im pressing the download with nvidia drivers and im stuck on a blackscreen :(

[@gamerzone2296]

can u tell me which one is better cachy or nobara when it comes to gaming performance im struggling to pick a destro i tried PoP os and it wasnt that good

[@albertsolv_]

@@gamerzone2296 cachyos rt-bore and add 1000hz pollrate patch

[@The_Taco_Thief]

As far as I know cachy is better but I didn't use it because I preferred something super easy like mint

[@shivangrathore]

I tried to install cachy os but wasn't able to do it. Then I went to nobara ( was using fedora for 4 months ). I would say try both and see what fits for you ( I might give cachy os a try again in 1-2 months)

[@The_Taco_Thief]

@@shivangrathore yeah I tried installing cachy and followed a video but it wouldn't stop giving me errors and breaking.

[@daistarry]

Nowadays, most distros with recent packages will be very close in performance. It's more the utilities and some preferences that will make you chose one or the other.

[@ElNagual-j8k]

I love CachyOs, but how to clear the System Info from the default terminal??? It is very annoying that it takes up so much space. I want a clean terminal, anyone???

[@Dampferfrosch]

La vie est dure sans confiture - le beurre, c'est le bonheur !

[@vicktorpolonio]

What kernel do you use?

[@3b19R9vdKc]

Does it make sense to switch to CachyOS if you can simply add CachyOS repositories to an existing arch linux?

[@DrNutrijorge]

@A1rm4x I would like to ask a question. I installed the same cachyos as proposed in this video and noticed that the system did not create the swap. Did I do something wrong? Do you need to swap the cachyos?

[@Scoundrelsurf]

After I click my ISO from ventoy I get the black grub menu and after I select cachyos with nvidia I just get a complete black screen forever

[@ultraprimez]

i installed it on Oracle vm virtual Box (work place) and now let's see how can i optimise it. 👍 i have old Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB + intel i3 8th gen CPU (4 core) + 16 GB Ram, so if i ever choose to install it in my system then which option should i go with ? i also want to know how to install Display Cal application for hardware monitor colour calibration for me (BenQ SW2700PT) ? I use Display Port to connect to my system in windows. because it gives more accuracy on colour work for photo and video editing. Ya i am a person who work on photo and video editing and few thumbnails editing for my videos. If possible can you show how to install it Sir. Doing So many Snapshots will be take space in system ? Yes i also want to know more about Btrfs snapshot.

[@starmarine64]

Because you have nvidia GPU you should use boot with nvidia closed source

[@skorne7682]

I had a play with CachyOS, and I don't think it's quite ready for prime time quite yet. While it's quite usable and games run great I found a number of oddities for example the long dates are stuck displaying in French regardless of Plasma locale settings.

[@J-Ernie]

Hello, Does Linux support 4k pulling for the mouse?

[@StrelokRadist]

I use systemd boot on my laptop. It seamlessly allows me boot both linux and windows.

[@MishiRaptor]

Yo Sensei what's better cachyOs or PopOs! ? right now I'm using popOS I want ur opionion

[@hunabku9615]

Une caresse à Chatoune de ma part :)

[@A1RM4X]

Elle a vraiment apprécié =)

[@matth3w-all3n]

Could you do a review on the handheld edition if you have a handheld; as i’m thinking of installing it on my Steam Deck OLED.

[@A1RM4X]

I wish I had a handheld: if you send me yours I could do some nice tests -)

[@sayanawan3638]

hi, how to install using proxy, you know i use tethering from phone with vpn for internet. so how to set it.

[@Chr0nicjamz187]

Damn no gaming till the nxt vid😂

[@popcornfz2h]

I am waiting for the total optimizing with low latency and and and =)

[@jaycapcom2]

cachyos or garuda os?

[@Taikostuff]

Now i know why everyone is calling it cat-chyos, as a dog person i feel left out but still i use cachyos, fight the power!

[@A1RM4X]

Ahaha!

[@Gorboxxx]

im about to install it was trying out linux mint for gaining but not liking the performance im getting

[@demerdemer328]

Apparmor doesnt exist anymore in.cachyos 😢😢😢😢

[@Deezter16]

how do I enable the AUR in the Cachy package manager GUI. I also noticed AUR is not available in Pacman command line (might be me doing something wrong, but it worked in Garuda) EDIT: it's chaotic AUR on Garude, please include instructions on how to enable it on CachyOS

[@A1RM4X]

I would not do that, but you can. Just follow the installation instructions from chaotic AUR and you should be good to go...

[@Deezter16]

@@A1RM4X hmm, you make me curious to why you wouldn't recommend chaotic AUR ?

[@A1RM4X]

@@Deezter16 Chaotic is great, I just like to compile the few AUR packages I use myself.

[@feelsbad1193]

I thought they dropped Gnome from the install.

[@A1RM4X]

Live ISO is KDE, you still have a lot of choices when it comes to installation.

[@feelsbad1193]

@@A1RM4X Yeah but they had stated awhile back they lost their maintainer for gnome, so it was going to be dropped from the iso. I still see it in the options. When they first dropped it you could select it but it would not actually do anything.

[@ICY-iC]

Thanks @A1RM4X for this really simple yet efficient video ! i still have one question: i did previously installed cachyos on my computa but tried switching kernel to LTO optimised , i sadly loose my EFI BOOT. So is there anyway to rollback as mentioned ? or re-create boot ability through out live usb? thanks to anyone willing to help aha !

[@A1RM4X]

google "chroot arch wiki" and chroot from the live iso of CachyOS for example.

[@ICY-iC]

Ohhh Thanks for the update ! i'll be trying my best :)

[@yngvildrthevoracious]

Chatoune is the best part of the video

[@SmokingMan26]

OOoh always good to know of another distro that has systemd-boot. I have a shitty cheap HP laptop that does not like GRUB at all

[@Hardey-li6eb]

Can linux installed with btrfs read externall drive with ntfs format?

[@A1RM4X]

Yes

[@Hardey-li6eb]

@@A1RM4X Thank you :) Im chosing you to be my trusted guide true linux adventure. Have nice day :) And seeya on stream :)

[@johanb.7869]

Why no UEFI?🤔

[@Totallynotmwa]

It does support uefi Secure boot requires some setting up

[@candyts-sj7zh]

You have the thickest french accent I've ever heard 😅

I didn't had to disable secure boot and it wasn't a problem at all for me with refind. I didn't even know i should have disabled it. It just worked ootb

[@A1RM4X]

I guess secure boot is disabled on your machine! Enjoy!

[@alternatuber6698]

It feels like you speak French instead of English :)

[@tunabomber111]

I'm guessing that this is probably a very informative video, but the extreme (French I'm guessing) accent. I cannot understand what you are saying.

[@A1RM4X]

Use the CC, Google understands me :)

[@tunabomber111]

@@A1RM4X I can't for the life of me get the damned network printers working. I'm thinking maybe it's back to ArcoPlasma. at least there the printers work (out of box) and I can still use the "6.9.9-1-cachyos" kernel. Sad. I really had high hopes for CachyOS as well.

[@emmettolentino2962]

Thanks A1RM4X! Just installed CachyOS Handheld + Handheld Daemon on my ROG Ally and happy with the gaming performance. Too much of a beginner to dual boot but keeping Cachy just for the performance alone.

[@rimenahi]

Thank you!