CachyOS - Arch Linux, Many DEs, and System Tools

[@iBolski]

CachyOS is what I've been running for the past 2+ months. It's very stable. And the latest 560 nVidia drivers are great. The handheld release is for the ROG Ally X hand-held gaming console that comes with Windows on it. Also, for gamers, do NOT use gamemode. Because of the scheduler, you do not want to use gamemode scripts. Instead, use game-performance instead which gets installed when you install the game package. Definitely read through their WIKI to learn a lot, especially if you're going to be gaming on it. As for snapper, that is for snapshots so you can roll back after an update/upgrade. Definitely recommended.

[@Majso]

Same here, switched from bazzite around 2 months ago and it’s been working more or less flawlessly since then. For newcomers looking for something that is a bit more ”just works out of the box” I’d probably recommend bazzite, but for me (also new to Linux) CachyOs has been great. It comes with more freedom and I love learning more about Linux, which I’ve had to in order to customize it to my needs. Also cachyos has been a lot faster in adopting the new Nvidia drivers which has been of great benefit for me when gaming.

[@Coopertronics]

Thanks for the tip. I was going to install gamemode this weekend, I'm glad I read your post first. I'll read up on game-performance.

[@bourbonick]

cachy with kde has been running very well for me. Gaming on it is like butter. Glad you checked it out.

[@Cheironic]

I've been waiting over 20 years for CachyOS. Gaming is finally seamless and I was able to completely ditch windows. I don't think I've had to open a terminal yet. Everything works.

[@wooshbait36]

sure buddy, photoshop working fine too? 🤡🤡

[@PileOSchiit]

@@wooshbait36 What does photoshop have to do with gaming?

[@wooshbait36]

@@PileOSchiit I could say the same for 95% of the games.

[@PileOSchiit]

@@wooshbait36 what are you smoking?

[@wooshbait36]

@@PileOSchiit We all know it's true. In a thousand years, Linux won't be on par with Windows or Mac. There are no talented developers at Linux.

[@TrustJesusToday]

I've been running CachyOS with Hyprland 0.42 for a week on a ten year old HP notebook. Thoroughly impressed. I have Fedora 40 with Hyprland 0.39 on two newer PCs, but seriously considering switching to Cachy (hate to fix PCs that are running perfectly well though),

[@wooshbait36]

Wow, you copy pasted a few lines from Github, and installed Hyprland with dotfiles? Awesome bro, you are a pro hacker, but who asked?

[@jr_Linux]

another great thing about cachyOS is it runs fish shell out of the box, and fastfetch, really good up to date distro.

[@wooshbait36]

Wow it has fastfectch by default? That's ground breaking lil bro, never seen such advanced distro

[@Damglador]

Looks like the best Arch distro Note: for fast configuration and user friendlyness

[@chaddesrosiers1107]

For what its worth I highly doubt anyone installing CachyOS... with Budgie would be a "new" Linux user... so leaving out the fluff theming packaging is a perfectly sane option imo. Cachy is great if you don't feel like doing a Arch install... the work they do on the pre compiled kernels is fantastic, and the GUI kernel builder is also a cool feature. I have done the arch install a few times... and I have zero quams about just running Cachy from this point forward, assuming the devs don't go crazy or something. If you want as close to just arch without spending an evening installing and tweaking arch there are 2 or 3 good options, and I think Cachy is no at the top of my list. Cachy or Endeavour... if you want BORE and a few extra performance tweaks Cachy is the way.

[@westaus666]

Yep, many content creators (& devs) seem to forget KISS. Big wtf? Skip @14:40. IMO more than one theme, etc, is bloat with install. It comes with 3 different software installers. After first boot load step by step like install, setup core requirements like display, etc. When complete, pick what you want to add, just like browser extensions. "assuming the devs don't go crazy or something". Ah-huh.

[@Tectonic999]

switched to cachyos a few days ago and it's amazing the performance boost definitely helps in gaming, in terms of usage it pretty much the same as arch.

[@Vlado709]

I am running CachyOS on one of my machines and I very impressed.

[@wooshbait36]

Wow, you have multiple machihnes, and you run CatchyOS on one of them? That's incredible bro, I never seen a hacker like you, you must Linux. But anyway, who asked?

[@davidwayne9982]

WOW!!! I used this before back when it first came out- and used it with EXT4 and my own settings-- out of habit- and had issues with it- glithces etc. so thought it needed time to mature. NOW- after my other distros conked out-- I installed this-- on default with BTRFS and let it set itself pretty much- and WOW-- it IS blazingly fast-- and the snapshots are INSTANT.. and easy to rollback to. I've had to rollback when an update to ONIONSHARE messed it up a bit- and it was instantly rolled back and PERFECT. I'm loving it now--- FASTER than I remember. LOVING IT!!! OH- and this is coming from a long time DEBIAN user that avoided arch like the plague-- so that says a LOT for it!!! OH_ and I use TILING on my NEW 6.1 KDE with krohnkite script and it works PERFECTLY!!!!

[@Johnmoe_]

looks awesome 🔥

[@jr_Linux]

heck yea, i saw this video had to come watch it!! i've been using it for like a week now, not to jinx it but its been pretty smooth, even found a video how to properly use steam and my games and everything has ran smoothly, i have nvidia in this PC and other then maybe 1 small thing with windows with xfce i haven't had any problems no new software its a 2060 super but yea im loving cachyOS and i highly recommend it to people.

[@Little-bird-told-me]

I tried to dual boot with windows and it install. Also it install btrfs and the systemd bootloader doesn't recognize any other linux distro

[@Coopertronics]

I've installed this on 2 PCs so far and it is blazing fast. I first installed it on my gaming PC and tried some games. The frame rate has improved. I install it on an old Lenovo laptop and at first I had it throw a bunch of errors over the microcode before killing tty and refusing to boot to the live USB. It turns out that I hadn't updated Ventoy for a while. It booted and installed fine after the Ventoy update. I had a little trouble installing the Broadcom wifi driver, but opted for the dkms and now it works fine. I'm seriously considering putting it on most of my machines. EDIT: On both PCs Discover was supposed to be installed but wasn't for some reason. I had to install it manually and all the back-ends.

[@maxserver3985]

that bore is interesting.

[@daniellbrinneman]

Could you do a Linux series on software available for running a small business, please?

[@aameiel]

Does anyone know how to get the WIfi working

[@holyhelga]

installer workd for me without changes

[@CowboyTrucking61]

Is this a rerun of when you looked at this a year ago. I wonder if they fixed some of the issues since you checked it out a year ago. Because you were having the same issues when I watched the one a year ago.

[@donaldc3884]

I am on the verge of, and i mean usb stick in hand, wiping my Fedora install and trying Catchy os and this video comes out! I am pausing the install now and watching this video....lets see what happens?

[@sparkspl]

try it on other drive

[@holyhelga]

its funny they seem to have a what i asume is a virtualbox bug where it set the desktop to 4k resolution

When I tried CachyOS a few months ago than I had problem with the installation too. However I had other problem after installation. So ocasionally the system froze for a few seconds and I found out the cachy sheduler was the problem.

[@iBolski]

Is your PC older hardware? CachyOS is made for more recent hardware. But you can also choose a different scheduler per their WIKI.

@@iBolski yeah, maybe it's one of the issue, I tried with a i7 7700k which is not a recent hardware.

[@iBolski]

That's strange then. Per the CachyOS wiki, even an AMD FX Series or an Intel i3 2100 will work as well.

[@antiwokehuman]

My installer crashed every time. It still has a few kinks that needs to be worked on

[@holyhelga]

yea there is a few seconds delay for the installer to start

[@diewahrheitwillichwissend1344]

Its awesome for gaming i had issue s with linux mint pc crushing and so one but with this distro it fix all that issues. The only problem i have now i have issue to mount the extern usb drive and steam download drops very low and very unstable . Maybe there is some one on this channel to know about to fix it . im still learning

[@johanb.7869]

The Cachy browser font looks horrible. Very blurred🤔 BTW the rest of the system too.

[@iphorctv6972]

the hole week i distro hop, like 2-3 distros per day, finaly i stopped to this one, just becouse i can game at least my games flawless on this one, actualy in let say dota2 i have more fps then wind10, wich is crazy :)) now i finaly can stay fully on linux, this was the dealbrake for me an now i fix it :D

[@TheMrWyn]

The installer takes a bit to load because it's downloading the latest version

[@holyhelga]

kde default theme is ok

[@BitsOfTruth]

It seems to me they need I new user version.

[@my.name.is.y]

Not good installer, can't install without internet connection..

[@tacticalcenter8658]

I now refuse to use any distro using systemD and everyone else should refuse also.

[@tylersperry9164]

I'm surprised you're running btrfs and didn't recognize snapper. What system snapshot manager are you using? I was also surprised you spent so much time fussing on Budgie issues. If Budgie won't let you reset to default desktop options that's not a CachyOS issue, is it? And that you had to endure a default Budgie text-based menu? Oh, the humanity!

[@diuran1919]

I realy wish Cachy os have app shop like linux mint or other distros, dont like what we got.

[@demanuDJ]

Not Manual but Automatic (adresses only) as long as you still want DHCP...

[@cameronbosch1213]

Personally, I prefer an Arch based distro that uses the stock Arch repos (like EndeavourOS or Garuda Linux) so I can still use the AUR. That being said, I still think CachyOS has a place. It's just not for me.

[@Emancipatriot]

I have no clue where you got the impression you can’t use the aur. As long as you have git, fakeroot, base-devel and few other basic packages you can just go clone a repo after searching up the package on the aur website. Another thing you can do is go grab the archlinux tweak tool from that same aur webpage, then add the additional repos you want into your etc/pacman database under the pacman section for the tweak tool menu. You can use pretty much any arch repo with any arch disto

[@tylersperry9164]

There seem to be AUR users on the CachyOS forums. What problem do you anticipate with CachyOS that you think Garuda has solved? I've been running Garuda on one of my boxes and it's not shy on linking up to the Garuda mothership.

[@Emancipatriot]

@@cameronbosch1213 my comment got deleted. Arco Linux has a package in the aur the archlinux tweak tool. You can clone that repository for the aur package, then install it. After that you can get all the different mirror providers you could imagine. Also, the Aur works regardless of which arch based distro you use. You just use the git clone feature

[@JeffreyBernabe]

I use AUR on cachy. its the recommended by the lead dev

[@quianmunro4588]

Nobara is better for gaming

[@OldieBugger]

Well, I'm an impatient guy so I wouldn't be enjoying this distro.

[@Hifin8-ug2sr]

Stopped watching at the whining about the password.

[@SwitchedtoLinux]

Its not "whining", it is CONTROL OVER MY COMPUTER

[@Chris-fx5sw]

@@SwitchedtoLinux come on ... if you are honest to yourself it is whining ... you give up your "CONTROL" as soon as you install a distro ... if you want total control you have to develop EVERYTHING by yourself .. .you have no control, not on windows, not on macos and not with linux either. CONTROL is what the developers let you control .. .btw you can change your password after install to 123 if you want.

[@siwiecministro1994]

Even Windows allows not to use password or to use weak one (I think)...

[@codylopez2158]

Sudo passwrd

[@anth5189]

Just unfortunate that they are tying themselves to NVIDIA.

[@antiwokehuman]

I think it’s great

[@k3ppi537]

Just another arch distro

[@sharkuel]

Nah man, this isn't just "another" arch distro. This is *THE* Arch Linux distro. The optimizations they did on this distro goes beyond what other Arch Distros did. They actually added stuff to their distro to make it distinct, and their repos are updated and tried and true. Basically, this is to Arch what Ubuntu (in its prime, mind you) was to Debian. Easy to install, setup, and use your hardware to its maximum with fairly low tinkering, with the stability and reliability that you expect from a Debian based distro. Have it for 8 months, never broke on me.

[@AmarNavi-td3cf]

​@@sharkuelgood to know testing 1 day only, tried many distros always broke it in the end tired installing over again everything 😅

[@JeffreyBernabe]

….That stopped me from distro hopping. Its great