CachyOS vs EndeavourOS: Find Your Ideal Linux Companion! 🚀

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

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[@JerryMarshall]

Great comparison video! I've been using EndeavourOS for a while now, but got a new laptop and looking to keep it light. EOS fills the bill, but CachyOS is intriguing with the kernel optimizations it has and a little less memory footprint. Other than those two things, they look pretty similar, so maybe I will just stick with EOS. Both are Arch, so no new learning curve on either. Thanks for this informative walk through!

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

Thanks Jerry! Enjoy the new laptop!💻

[@anonymoususerinterface]

why not try artix? i recomend artix with dinit and if u care about memory footprint, use LXQt desktop manager, boots reeeeeaaallllll fast esspecially if u use booster for initramfs and use efistub if you dont plan on dual booting anything

[@michealvincent731]

Another CachyOS user here. Recently moved from Nobara 40 as my daily driver for the past three months

[@debnadaebna9981]

And how is CachyOS compared to Nobara and what is your daily usage scenario?

[@southernbellebeauty3547]

I like the new background music! 🎶

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

Thanks!

[@cybernit3]

Wouldn't the Cachy OS BORE scheduler kernel be better for gaming than the standard Arch kernel Endeavour OS uses? I am thinking of trying Cachy OS out; but worried it won't work with my Xerox B205 printer since it doesn't list on the Xerox webpage driver support for Arch; but sure Ubuntu works.

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

You'll have to test the Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer with your setup and let us know. Thanks for watching.

[@cybernit3]

I finally installed CachyOS about 2 weeks ago and it is quite good compared to Win11 or Ubuntu. I had 2 issues though my printer and wifi hotspots. I had to use the CUPS web interface to add printer with localhost:631 and it worked. The wifi hotspot didn't work at first but assumed the firewall was not enabled by default, but turned it off and it works. Prior to that Ubuntu 24.10 was working fairly well, but I had a login glitch problem where I had to make a 2nd account. I select my name at login and enter the password goes to a grey blank screen then back to Login screen. If I use the tty I can login. I think it might have something to do with a gnome extension that has a bug from 24.04 to 24.10. Of course 24.10 is not a LTS stable release; hopefully they improve fix this by April/2025 with 25.04.

[@kilobitz8639]

you're videos are rad. like i'm sitting on the back porch in the fall with cup a coffee talking about linux.

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

100% the vibe I’m going for. Thanks for the comment.

[@FierroSev]

EoS was more stable for me, and not in terms of less crashes but overall just less buggy.

[@seanpbennettable]

Hi Chris, Did you install these in a VM? What did you use for side-by-side OS screens? Great video. Thank you.

[@ThingyThongy]

Hey, i use a unmodified latitude 5580, i currently use endeavourOS and its been pretty perfect, im thinking of switching to cachyOS or getting the tkg kernel, which one would be better? I mostly want it for the performance

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

I haven’t tried tkg, but I’ve read it provides less input lag and more fps. Test it out and let me know.

[@ThingyThongy]

@TheLinuxITGuy right now I'm trying cachyOS's kernel, haven't checked out the fps appropriately yet but the responsiveness feels really amazing!

[@ThingyThongy]

@@TheLinuxITGuy update, the fps on the Cachy kernel are ok, but the responsiveness is what amazes me, for me the fps are the same as the generic kernel though

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

@@ThingyThongy Awesome! So it’s noticeable?

[@ThingyThongy]

@@TheLinuxITGuy for responsiveness yeah but zorin has given me better fps, I'll try TKG and update you

[@SwiatLinuksa]

For me, near 2 months Leap 15.6 is best daily driver for day to day job. But Cachy vs Endeavour = Ende win. I used it about 8-9 months - stable, good devs custom scripts and it's Antergos Linux continuation of i good remember ;) Thanks 4 video!

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing!

[@harryhopkinson162]

Great comparison, I am using CachyOs. Absolutely love it

[@Yoda0VGs]

Thank you for not wasting time with a walk through of the install lol Everytime a channel does that I'm just like, "Bro, if someone is thinking of using Linux they know how to run an installer" 😂

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

First time I've done this. If I get more positive feedback, I'll probably continue to skip it. Thanks for watching.

[@Josuesantosgm]

Acho que muitas pessoas não sabe como estal,então se vc aprendeu já saberá como fazer,mais tem pessoas que tão migrando pro Linux,então terá sempre que ter vídeos de como estalar.

[@imalkesara4466]

Tuxedo os Review please

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@lsatenstein]

I have both Cachy and endeavour installed. With the latter, zero faults during the past two months. With Cachy, with some terminal use, (pacman), I did lose access to the file containing the passwords. I signed out and the only way back in was the reboot. With Cachy, I run KDE and Gnome, chosen just before password entry.

[@lsatenstein]

After posting, the issue with losing access to the password file occurred with kde 6.2. It happened after I was using gnome (with dual interface) and returned to KDE. Imagine, The login field for keyboard is accepted, but not validated. It only happens if I mix using gnome and kde. (I write some hobby code that runs in each of the mentioned). Reboots restore sanity.(grin)

[@neuromask]

Nice comparison, good voice and music!

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

Thank you very much!

[@i12bcd8d_now5]

anyone reading this go from a working vanilla arch install to cachyOS? if so, why? I hate fixing what isn't broken unless there's a compelling reason to do so. know what i mean?

[@alpacamale2909]

it'd be nice if you offered 1080p 23.976 fps. 60fps is laggy

[@IrishKingzz]

CachyOS for me..

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

Nice! How long have you been running Cachy?

[@Blackmachismoo]

Bro it's trash. Can even get visual studio code to work on it.

[@henryofskalitz2228]

I got vscode to work just fine

[@DarrenTarmey]

So iv been using cachy os few months and I love it but updates have broken boot loader couple of times now and timeshift was a pain and never manged to get back to were I was so lost all my work.

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

Sorry to hear that. I wouldn’t run Arch on anything work related. I’d recommend Fedora for work.

[@saberkz]

confused between garuda and catchyos and EndeavourOS , whos better for daily and all thing good and updated and enjoy the power of linux and fun without break the system

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

If you are like 99% of us, you’ll try them all eventually. For a daily driver, try EndeavourOS first.

[@lmotaku]

I''ve been daily driving Nobara for 2 months so far and I've been having a great time. However, I find randomly while playing games, plasmashell will lockup the system or even without a game running it will crash. No rhyme or reason. Sometimes it can be a month, others a week. I have no idea what it's doing. Not sure when you started doing -t, that's super smart for benching.

[@LTPottenger]

I think it''s plasma itself. I get lockups daily on my newer computer but it seems to happen less the more updates I get.

[@techzone2009]

I love EOS. I gaming on it, and it is awesome. I was using manjaro

[@calholli]

I'm trying to narrow down my daily driver between Nobara, Garuda, Regata.. they are all gaming oriented and very similar in a lot of ways. If you could do a showdown comparison between these, it would be awesome. All three have a lot of preinstalled stuff for noobs and have simple ways to add packages without the terminal. I just can't choose. lol.. I've been at this for days. I could use any of them.. same for Pika, Cachy and Zorin......... instead of going through all the usual things that are practically the same across most distros: you could just focus on the differences, so that the video wouldn't be too long- since it's 3 distros rather than two. Just a suggestion: I need more data. lol.. help

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

What games do you play?

[@calholli]

@@TheLinuxITGuy Right now I'm only installing on old hardware.. Acer 7551 laptop (AMD quad core 64bit, 16gb ram), and an old AMD 6core desktop with the AGP- 3850 card (12gb ram). Not much gaming on these> but I still have newer machines, so I want to install these more "gaming" oriented distros and get familiar with it for awhile, before installing it on my new gear.. and then go to lightweight distros for the old stuff eventually. I just don't want to waste a bunch of time distro hopping if I don't' have to.. Trying to make an informed choice here.. but there are several good choices.. (I'm sure I'll distro hop a few times :)

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

Give EndeavourOS a try. If that goes well, try vanilla Arch.

[@Kokuraman]

Wonder why I can kinda guess which part of USA you're from!?

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

lol, guess

[@zonadeguerra929]

cachy is better

[@JH_Tech49]

I am also a new user of Cachyos. I have replaced all my Windows installations with Cachyos and I am quite satisfied with it overall. However, I occasionally miss playing PUBG.

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

Anti-cheat holding PUBG back?

[@maicon9]

I don't blame you. I've been trying to go for Linux for a couple years. Pubg is the only thing holding me back with 4,000 hours but I think I finally found another game to take me away from it that runs on Linux. Arma reforger.

[@JH_Tech49]

Yeah, unfortunately. I really hope that in a few months or years, developers (Steam, game developers, Linux developers) find ways so we can have all the multiplayer games running fine on Linux. Don't get me wrong, I don't like having kernel-level "spyware" to be able to play online with friends, but there are cheaters who ruin games for everyone, and it needs to be addressed somehow.

[@JH_Tech49]

@maicon9 wow 4000. I will have a look at your suggestion.

[@maicon9]

@@JH_Tech49 yup and it sux because to me pubg is the best BR game period. I hope in the future it some how becomes available on linux. Maybe with pubg-2 but who knows. I went 4yr without playing it so shouldn't be hard. would of had way more hours if i didn't lol

[@DarrenTarmey]

So do you have a favourite

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

Linux Mint and Fedora. With Fedora I run KDE.

[@DarrenTarmey]

@TheLinuxITGuy iv used fedora silverblue but I kept breaking it and u used most ubu tu flavours

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

@@DarrenTarmey How did you break silverblue? lol

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

NGL, I'm very comfortable in Debian-verse... Not returning to Arch-maelstron.

[@TheLinuxITGuy]

Nice! That's the beauty of Linux... you have options :) My Toolbox will run on Debian, Arch, or Fedora. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@CCJ1998]

Agreed there Arch is a fun playground but for daily driving and working it can be as annoying as Windows at times with its updates. As somebody who has brain farts a lot, I kind of like having a GUI application center. I usually wind up installing Pamac when I've run EndeavourOS in the past.

[@ml_serenity]

@@CCJ1998 Windows updates never broke anything for me and they're nowhere as often as in Arch. Windows is actually a slow semi-rolling if you make a comparison. They have Canary, Dev, Beta and Release channels. I've been on Beta for a while now and it never broke anything (except for GRUB bootloader after upgrading to 24H2 - well known "feature" of rewriting efi)

[@CompuB1t]

I would say cachyOS is better, but all the tests I've done, cachyOS has more bugs. And just for faster response is not enough argument. Also cachyOS has little inconsistencies like an unrecognized icon on the desktop bar (which is Discover), two Alacritty terminals pop-up in the installation, ugly fastfetch configuration when you open a console, they removed the share option from Dolphin and other minimal things. I don't understand why they use alacritty when there is Konsole, and why they try to show the calamares installation on alacritty. Basically, cachyOS wants to cover many desktop environments that they forget about KDE Plasma, and also it has problems with ventoy startup on real machines. Meanwhile EndeavourOS feels very stable, even though they look very similar and are Arch derivatives, EOS is more cohesive, more consistent and has less bugs, I've been running it since June of this year. For me it is one of the best minimal KDE experiences out of the box without tinkering with the vanilla Arch installation.

[@codylopez2158]

You can right click and delete the discover icon on the taskbar, also you can choose not to install both consoles during installing in the live iso.. you can also uninstall one or both after installation..

[@CompuB1t]

@@codylopez2158 I know but they can fix that in the live and Real installation. Also a friend installed CachyOS and said that the boot takes 1 min while on Garuda was 10 secs.

[@az9az9az9]

CachyOS takes 3 second to boot on my machine. I wish they had installed the KDE discover with flatpack support by default. I don't use flatpack unless it's the only source. They say use AUR, but this is not enabled by default and there are some forum posts about mess with mixing dependencys.

[@CompuB1t]

@@az9az9az9 discover it is not recommend for arch, and AUR are enabled via octopi or the air helper. And flatpak is very easy to install and also can be added to octopi. But I agree that CachyOS has some weird configuration on some kde apps, but the distro is very good

[@mugichi8597]

endevour no problems, Cahsy os problems begin both during installation and immediately after it. 90% of sites stop opening, when installing with bspwm there is a black screen after entering your login and password. Vanila arch works fine too.