CachyOS is INSANE! 60 days review

[@lukaorevic6593]

My man sounds French, German and Russian at the same time.

[@AdamDavid]

I think he is from Alsace Region of France, it's definitely French with a German influence. The dialect is called "Alsatian".

[@lundgamingxd5387]

Could hear all three within the first 5 seconds😂

[@masterloic7180]

As a french, I can only detect the French

[@SaiBabaWanga]

@@masterloic7180 as a Polish i agree he souds like French Goebbels born in Siberia ;-))) by the way people in Alsace do not sound any German to me they sound like regular French people

[@SebsOficial1]

@@masterloic7180 As Hispanic man I can listen at least 4 accents.

[@UnboxMe]

Welcome to the CachyOS fam friend 🤝

[@nyuware]

Been using it for the longest time now, cannot stress how good the devs are, they all do such an amazing job, keep the great job guys

[@pitape1822]

For me laptop user with a mix of AMD 780M IGPU and RTX 4060 DGPU! this aspect of CachyOS is key: "We are providing precompiled nvidia modules for every kernel. We are not relaying on nvidia-dkms anymore since Mid of November 2023. This helps to avoid issues with compatibility or the compilation with nvidia-dkms." Believe this can save lots of headaches (if done well of course). Great video A1rm4x!

[@az9az9az9]

Hi. I also have 780M and 4060. I was wondering if there is battery life optimized kernel for AVX512? I would ideally be able to switch between different power levels, but is there way to make custom CPU speed limits? In Fedora and Kubuntu there was no way to fully power down 4060 Nvidia with Optimus GPU switcher and EnvyControl, how is this working in CachyOS?

[@myyoutubecommentschannel8784]

What does this mean? What is dkms?

[@isaacolukanni]

​@@myyoutubecommentschannel8784short for Dynamic Kernel Module Support, DKMS helps to load kernel modules like the Nvidia graphics drivers that are not originally included in the mainstream Linux kernel

[@pmarreck]

will they include zfs with the kernel too then?

[@destiny_02]

thats true for manjaro as well

[@walter_lesaulnier]

CachyOS is AMAZING. So many Arch based distros are beautiful and maybe add a few helper tools, but that is just theming and tools you can add to any Arch install. CachyOS is different down to its very foundation- it is a real quality distro that stands out substantively.

[@cheebadigga4092]

god damnit... just when I'm completely happy with my LMDE and Xanmod setup lol

[@matthiasbendewald1803]

Very cool video, great distribution, great Presentation and so much love and energy... Thank you and keep rolling!

[@monsteriamturbo]

You have really pushed me to expand on Linux and I’ve learned so much. Been on endeavor and loving it, but now I’m gonna ditch my Linux mint and try cachy os. I have Tri boot still have windows but almost never use it anymore. Keep up the great content.

[@A1RM4X]

Thanks! I really appreciate it!

[@seylaw]

I've been using it for more than a year now, its optimizations are noticeable, the staff is very responsive and updates are fairly punctual (there are no long delays for important packages as seen with ALHP). They also aim for sane defaults with is a refreshing user-centric approach. Have I mentioned the performance improvements, ah - I did. That is a big plus of course.

[@k.b.tidwell]

I had ran Cachy a year or so ago for a little bit, but I never got down in the weeds and really understood the optimizations made by the team. It's very worth it if you do! They have put a LOT of work into the improvements, and the wiki explains each pretty clearly. I installed it again last night on a Thinkpad, and I'm stoked to really see how much computing improvement I'm going to be able to get with that older machine. Enjoyed the video!

[@A1RM4X]

Nice!

[@davidwayne9982]

I LOVE CACHY!!! I'm not much of an ARCH guy at all, but CACHY is GREAT.. I'm an old hillbilly - not a techy at all- and I can do it.. just GREAT!!! It's beautiful- full of potential- and BLASINGLY FAST!!

[@walter_lesaulnier]

DJ Ware did an excellent video comparing some of the different CPU schedulers.

[@incremental_failure]

Very excited to try this soon. Not surprised Cachy popularity is growing so rapidly.

[@_photonux_345]

I also jumped on the CachyOS train. The NVIDIA 550.54.14 driver version is installed. Haven't noticed the glitching problem in wayland with this driver yet. Very satisfied so far 🙂

[@bionicseaserpent]

took 5 installs to get it to work today. wasn't at all better for me than what manjaro does (yk having 8gb of ram in modern day requires an os using less than a gig at all times) i can say most arch distros won't do this but i was trilled to see it download my 391.157 driver no questions asked. once i get off this 2012 laptop i might be happy to switch. but i'll also be on a Radeon so it really wouldn't matter.

[@buffalox8492]

Thanks for this review, I just found this distro and thought it sounds like something I should try.

[@docmalitt]

You could have easily uploaded that 40 min video and we (at least moi) would be very happy to see it... great video. And thx.

[@daistarry]

You sold it so well I might have to try it soon !

[@Temet79]

If I had a gaming PC, I would consider distro-hoping 😂

[@thecartooncynic]

At first, I struggled to get Cachy OS installed, (frickin Secure boot!). However, once I finally got the damn thing installed I was amazed at the simplicity and “just works” aspect. Especially with my 4080 super. I’m glad I found your videos!

[@A1RM4X]

Welcome to the La Crème de la Crème Club!

[@profjhgb]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@gr0wnup5]

Not gonna lie, I'm obsessed with ur lovely accent ✨

[@fernandomochizuki6287]

Thank you for this review, I’ll try this distro I’m very interested in using Arch type Linux distro but still didn’t find a good one for me. Thanks again!😁👍

[@fou2flo]

CachyOS is great, Garuda + TKG Bore Kernel is insane as well

[@Techonsapevole]

i didn't find any benchmark where optimized kernel have a measureable advantage

[@A1RM4X]

Latency and input lag are really hard to measure, try it for yourself and make your own decision.

[@Techonsapevole]

@@A1RM4X i tried several kernels on archlinux and for me the best performance is with linux-lts (speedometer)

[@R00tOn3X]

Can only say Thank you! This OS is... beyond good. Love it

[@zodey3611]

Amazing video, keep it up!

[@A1RM4X]

Thanks, will do!

[@_dev_null_]

I had a great time on Garuda for a month and a half before it broke and I switched to Arch. My experience is that Arch variants with menus like this don't have you do the core command line interactions that teach you how the OS works. I'ts always a problem when something breaks, because you haven't learned how to fix it.

[@johnnyveng4014]

That problem highlights the difference between computer hobbyists and gamers. There's a lot of overlap but there is a difference!

[@MrMoonsilver]

love the content!

[@geoffreyrenemoiens3089]

Nice :) I might try it out.

[@kirotay9469]

Where did you get the cachyos dracula themed wallpaper from?

[@A1RM4X]

github.com/dracula/wallpaper/issues/49

[@salvodif]

so for you CachyOS is better than Endeavour?

[@thotopen]

Thank you for this review,.

[@roberto7102]

Thank you bro I saw on another of your videos you mentioned this OS and that it was good but didn't said why it was good this video explains it hahah very good very good

[@re-gaming3913]

I don't understand much about the package manager and stuff, but when you talk about speed of the package manager, does that only apply to downloading and installing packages, or does that also make using the packages more snappy?

[@whiskytangi]

It applies to how fast the package manager can find packages, install, and resolve issues if any are there. pacman is really good at this and zippyr (openSUSE) is notoriously slow

[@GabrielChapdelaine]

Salut A1rnax, j'aurais une question je pense passer à Arch prochainement et je sais que tu as utilisé EndeavourOS pendant longtemps et maintenant CachyOS depuis un certain temps. Laquelle de c'est distribution tu aimes le plus et est la plus stable et facile à faire la maintenance. Merci beaucoup et très bon vidéos en passant. 👍

[@A1RM4X]

Salut Gabriel! Pour commencer et apprendre a maintenir Arch, je conseillerai EndeavourOS parceque la distro est moins customisée. Une fois que tu as la distro en main, et si tu en sens le besoin, tu peux passer sur CachyOS. Pour profiter au max de Cachy, il faut comprendre ce qu elle propose et ca me parait plus difficile sans avoir certaines bases sur Arch (moins de support pour les debutants sur CachyOS). Pour la stabilité et la maintenance, aucune difference. C'est du Arch avec repo Arch (solide si tu sais ce que tu fais).

[@christocodecraft4510]

J'aime bien accent Anglais lol, 🤣 thanks for your video, j'utilise cette OS en dur depuis une semaine.

[@pmarreck]

Seems cool if you're still on the Arch track and haven't discovered NixOS yet ;) (I really believe the end of everyone's linux distro hopping will be nixos or something like it, like guix)

[@Spectrulight]

For 1st optimize, what webpage?

[@Melody528HZ]

What type of Linux do you like? Ubuntu. Kali Linux. Arch linux. Fedora. Nobara. Rocky linux. What kind ?

[@wedge_one]

EndeavourOS or CachyOS? I know how much of a fan you are of EOS. I'd love to hear your opinion.

[@goosepls2868]

Do you have any thoughts on WM's? You and I kinda share the same things we like when it comes to Linux, so I am wondering if you like things like i3 or Worm

[@A1RM4X]

I spent some time on Hyperland and I REALLY enjoyed it. I will main it when Wayland becomes better for playing videogames with my 4090.

[@sukaisnaini1843]

x86-64-v3 and x86-64-v4 optimized repository this make CachyOS very appealing.

[@mikeroenne8344]

This OS is an amazing experience. Pretty sure it’s the end of the many many hours days months years…. of hopping

[@MrSmithUK]

Manjaro user here. How would you day it compares? ( it’s clearly similar visually)

[@AlexanderBukh]

clicked for the title, stayed for the accent 🎉

[@AlexanderBukh]

so, if you are new to arsch... 18:08

[@gilbertrodriguez6053]

Great video. I switched to CachyOS 3 months ago and have been enjoying the benefits ever since. I won't be going back to ubuntu. My only minor issue is the track pad on my laptop (Dell 7720) the track pad works with the minor exception I can not tap the trackpad. Other than this, cachyos has been flawless 😊

[@BeastViper007]

You need to uninstall the synaptics driver on your CachyOS system. Search for it via "pacman -Qs synaptics" then copy the package name and do "sudo pacman -R " and reboot. Then configure it in settings. I also had the same issue and I had to fix it on my own.

[@BeastViper007]

And please reply if it helps

[@Powerm1nt.]

J'adore le pain au chocolat !

[@jmdisalamanca4999]

Je test cette distro en ce moment et effectivement... je me demandes si elle na pas devenir la distro installée sur mon poste principal... ne serait que pour sa beauté... et elle déjà en KDE plasma 6

[@b.s.4478]

Hello A1RM4X, i really enjoy your videos, thanks for you time and dedication 👍 I would like to ask, in your oppinion, what distro can deliver the best gaming experience in general, on systems with both AMD GPU and CPU? Nobara, Garuda, CachyOS or Mint? Or do you have any other recommendation? Thanks and cheers from Portugal!

[@Merc399]

you can set up an arch distro in like 2 hours

[@debnadaebna9981]

CachyOS or Fedora 40 or Nobara?

[@ProjectMork]

I just installed this and its so fast and snappy I really like it

[@kodder]

I had no idea about that side of you. I used to watch you play pubg on twitch, some years ago. Good stuff :)

[@skaifer1715]

Tried CachyOS myself and... It's a great project, and looking at the comments, people enjoy it and see the benefits. In my particular case, though, I got more issues, than Nobara. Wake from sleep ends up with black screen, Nvidia Wayland does not work at all, app startup time differs anywhere from 1 sec to 5 seconds. Spectacle opens so slow, that sometimes I wonder whether I pressed the keys correctly or not. Other than these issues, which I'm sure are fixable, this is a great distro. I'm just looking for a perfect distro for my setup, which would work the best out of the box. So far it is Bazzite. Will try BlendOS now, and I hope it's my final distrohop before anchoring to it or back to Bazzite 🐰

[@ein1742]

Does it provide any noticeable performance benefits in games like apex and such?

[@gbncondor88]

can i install it on old pc or is it heavy?

[@louey2x]

A1RM4X has convinced me to try Cachy (wonder how many times I'll type apt before realizing my mistake) Does anyone know if he made, where is, or is there is a live video for Cachy like the 4 hour live Nobara video?

[@Renull55]

Is pipewire installed by default?

[@A1RM4X]

Yes

[@jba340]

I agree this is a great distro.

[@hermask815]

Me: Just a draft horse from the Debian stable passing by at a leisurely pace.

[@Redmage913]

It may not win the race, but by the gods, it’ll finish it!

[@Kali-xw9dg]

Ça a l'air sympa comme distribution, comme tu le dis, mais le problème, c'est qu'il faut presque être administrateur système/dev/testeur juste pour avoir un OS qui te permet d'utiliser "100%" de ton matériel. Je préfère avoir 10% de performance en moins et que tout fonctionne, que ce soit stable, et passer plus de temps à jouer qu'à tweaker. J'ai beau être passionné et avoir les mains dans Debian toute la journée, le soir j'ai juste envie que ça marche. On commence doucement à y arriver malgré l'EAC, mais de façon générale, ça commence à être acceptable. Avec l'IA, je ne comprends pas que ce ne soit pas plus exploité pour scripter et automatiser tout ce qui est possible, y compris les patchs du git que tu as montrés. En tout cas, merci. Petit à petit, tu changes mon avis sur Arch, mais pour moi, la bonne méthode, c'est celle de Valve. Ça n'avance pas vite, mais ils évitent les régressions. et merci de parler de linux avec enthousiasme sans le coté fanboy c'est cool :). Bonne continuation !

[@mrkrud]

Cachy team is so beyond my level in terms of configuration and optimization. I love my little arch herbstluft build but this is like looking at, and learning from a formula 1 racing team.. cannot express the value of that (until i dig out of debt at least)

[@thefunbuns1]

Bonne critique merci

[@doooouge1136]

I would love to mess with this but Bazzite OS is so stable, auto updates are reliable, and the out of the box experience is just so excellent. It was the perfect switch from Windows

[@deven_gaming]

make a vid on EndeavourOS vs CachyOS

[@jeromeroark4637]

Cachy OS is better than Fedora in gaming its more stable less buggy thanks for the recommendation bro Ive been a Linux user a long time tested them all Cachy OS I recommend to new users all users very light system than out performs most linux distos

[@debnadaebna9981]

What do you think of Fedora 40 and Nobara?

[@mafioso12dk]

1 thing I miss from windows is possibility to undervolting the gpu. And unfortunately I'm experiencing random fps drops on CachyOS. Don't know what's the cause because journalctl doesn't show any critical errors.

[@A1RM4X]

Sadly undervolting with Nvidia is not available on Linux yet. To get this function we need to ask Nvidia directly.

[@vladimir_fomin90]

I tried to install CachyOS on VirtualBox 2 times, it couldn’t start 2 times)

[@BroChacho-q7i]

"Get to the choppa now!"

[@derbestimmer1148]

Hy. Is there a way to get an A4tech G800V Keyboard running with the additional keys being usable under Linux?

[@Kemyo0]

What does rank mirrors do ? I installed cachy os on a secondary ssd to try it out but i'm a complete noob;

[@JD-qo9wk]

The way I understand it is that it basically performs a speedtest on all the available mirrors and orders them based on best to worst connection. Then when you download packages, etc. it will attempt to use the highest ranked mirror first and if that's not available, it'll try the next one down, and so on...

[@trendingtopicresearch9440]

Where Phoronix benchmarks?

[@hicder810]

do you get crashes/freezes while using CachyOS? I think I'm experiencing like a few times over the stretch of a few days, so I'm not sure if it's arch, the BORE scheduler, or the x86-64-v4 mirrors

[@A1RM4X]

No issue on my side. Might get to the CachyOS telegram or discord to discuss your issues with the community.

[@ecu4321]

cachyos works sluggish on an nvidia gpu. the window rendering is stuttery at best even at high refresh rate.

[@johnnyveng4014]

So, everyone mentions Nvidia. Is Cachy OS good if you have an AMD graphics card?

[@A1RM4X]

Should be fine.

[@devilzavacado8430]

I remember seeing a comment somewhere saying that cachyOS is one of the fastest higher performance distros. Like 2nd to clear Linux.

[@A1RM4X]

It was an old article on Phoronix, a great website BTW.

[@armisis]

Waiting on a ARM64 version the raspberry pi 5 needs a version.

[@yadehightech]

On sent l'accent français. Merci pour la vidéo.

[@TheLotw]

Unless you have a machine with lower RAM as it will not install even though Arch and everything will run fine. For instance if you have 4gb its a no go, but yet Arch, EndeavourOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Garuda, etc all install and work fine.

[@nomelkondis4064]

i try many linux i run many of them , but as a player of world of warcraft , wich is old game on graphics , the graphics on any linux distro was sad

[@jr_Linux]

i love cachy os but i like minimum so i don't use there theming, i just have there apps to use for obvious reasons,

[@s3rumano]

The only reason I haven't switched to Linux is the inability to undervolt Nvidia GPU. Unfortunately, Nvidia GPUs don't offer the same level of voltage control as AMD GPUs on Linux. As soon as this limitation is overcome or I acquire an AMD GPU, I will definitely migrate permanently to the Linux

[@MePipe82]

I like ur Klaus Schwab accent. 😅 Good video. 👍

[@ChrispyNut]

Okay, sold me. If I don't like, I'm be back and demanding a refund 😜

[@arunray2986]

It requires 3gm RAM to run properly. Its too much for me. Im currently using Archcraft and its really good. I am more into light weight distro, I would like to leave enough room for the system to breathe. PS- Just my opinion

[@kullimoney365]

try out antiX its only uses about 200mb

[@tecoberg]

👍

[@psour33]

I don't know what they have done with this distro but it was the slowest distro I ever tested for gaming. Even Mint and Debian 12 stable (whith not any hack) is faster. The sharpest distro I ever tested for games is Solus 4.5 sadly it lacks many tools.

[@unclefester9113]

I'd be insane too - If I could endure Cachy for 60 days. Cachy is a good project. For a while now - I've tried to stick with Distros from larger companies - with more substantial development teams..... Simply put - I stay away from the new kid on the block.

[@davidwayne9982]

I love CACHY and ARTIX-- the only two arch distros worth bothering with AT ALL.. the rest are far too much stupid fiddling..

[@Arthzil]

Is this a sponsored vid? Praising CachyOS over marketing slogans is pointless. Couldn't see anyone post actual benchmarks comparing CachyOS to Arch Linux.

[@A1RM4X]

Sponsored by who? There is no sponsor in this video and if it was the case it would be disclosed in it. For the benchmarks, just check any of my LIVE broadcast and you will see how it performs: I use it as a reference because it just gives me the best results in 1% lows and minimal input lag.

[@vulcan4d]

Tried CashyOS and as a relatively newish user to linux as a desktop i dont think the user experience is great out of the box. .deb files wont install, zip wont extract, dark mode doesn't trigger and thats just the start so far. I know these are minor issues but if you cant get simple things working out of the box then the user adoption is crap. So far I'm impressed with Mint as a desktop.

[@A1RM4X]

Hey! CachyOS is based on Arch Linux: you won´t be able to install packages from Debian / Ubuntu (.deb) on it. I am happy you are enjoying Linux Mint. Welcome to the Linux gamer team!

[@garthdev]

Remove sysd

[@jabuci]

8:58 If you are so very lazy, why don't you use Manjaro?

[@ruby_impostor]

The author of this video didn't mention one very important thing: one of the core developers is not only from russia, but he is still there. So I wouldn't be so sure that somewhere in the CachyOS code there is some kind of malware. Also, would you be so comfortable to use a distro from terrorists?

[@johnonline1135]

Are you serious? You sound too simple to be watching videos about Linux. You seem more of a Windoze user or Biden voter.

[@ruby_impostor]

@@johnonline1135 I see you're "не все так однозначно" enjoyer

[@bourbonick]

I just switched to arch two weeks ago. no thanks.

[@bourbonick]

....ok, I'm trying it.

[@Ribyum]

@@bourbonick lmfao

[@bourbonick]

@@Ribyum ha, I ended up distro hopping for a while but ended on CachyOS. It's really good. Still downloading all my damned games.

[@GoustiFruit]

Ça sonne bizarre, cet accent…

[@dwarfman78]

arrête il est trop bien ça m'a tué !

[@Temet79]

Fallait bien qu'un francophone y aille de sa critique inutile et non constructive...

[@aftalavera]

What?

[@supermaster2012]

Took me 3 seconds of hearing the accent to turn the video off. Jesus Christ.