Exploring CachyOS: Desktop Environments, Installer, Kernel Patches & Package Manager Deep Dive

[@Mattscreative]

0:00 Intro 1:12 Explaining the Kernel Patches 9:17 Explaining the Grub menu for AMD and NVIDIA 10:19 The live Desktop 11:42 Explaining The Installer! 12:31 Manual Partitioning 15:27 Every Desktop Choice! 18:32 No you can't install every DE at once! 20:16 Hyprland Sucks in a VM 22:39 How to Dual Boot with windows! 24:37 Gnome and Tweak tools! 27:00 What comes preinstalled 27:54 GUI package manager Octopi 28:56 Installing KDE, xfce4, cutefish, and cosmic DE 30:09 Going over Gnome! 31:01 How to switch to Another DE from log in! 31:47 Fast run down of KDE plasma 34:31 Cachyos Kernel Manager! 34:54 Outro

[@ogrooster69]

Starting my next team presentation with "I'm still burned out, let's begin" - thanks for the video

[@Mattscreative]

@@ogrooster69 you better do that then and send it to me on discord

[@TheGrizzledB]

Nicely done! Lookin' forward to the next.

[@Mattscreative]

Thanks!

[@DarkRessurect]

Wanted to thank you for responding to me quickly on my last comment. Whiel i wait for my hard drive to back up im going to use my second NVME as a boot for CachyOS to get the feel of it. This will be very helpful

[@Mattscreative]

Glad I could help!

[@sharkuel]

@Mattscreative, thanks to you I have abandoned KDE and switched to Gnome. Lol Jokes aside, and even though I love KDE, I understand your love-hate relationship with the DE in question. Also, CachyOS is goated af. The bore-lto kernel is the best thing created after underwear!

[@mirkodiciano4647]

nice one matt very helpful

[@VetcGaming]

Great video Matt! Thanks for the info! Also, separate question, between the distros you use, which is your primary favorite / recommendation: Fedora 41 Workstation, PikaOS 4, or Arch?

[@Mattscreative]

yes

[@ItsLysec]

As per usual, if you want to be on bleeding edge, go for arch. Else go for fedora with cachy kernel (which is basically what pikaos does :p)

[@ultraprimez]

Nice! Very Nice. Thanks Bruh ❤👍🏻.

[@sheldonkupa9120]

Nice video man! 👍👏 Just wanted to mention, for hardcore linux installers: rEFInd is by far the best multiboot manager. Lets you chose boot from usb, can boot kernels from root partition. I am used to copy linux root partitions to other ssd and boot it with refind without the need for efi partition or grub reinstall. Have it on any machine in my house.

[@stefanbrunder6329]

Hey :) love your content ... are you also planning a Pika OS video like this on you did for Cachy?

[@Mattscreative]

@@stefanbrunder6329 yes

[@vipesontv]

After manual install of arch + tkg-pds + hyprland... I can attest that adding the cachyos repos was the best thing I could've done. After Syu and reboot it was soo smooth and snappy. It also cured some compiling errors I was getting with Makefiles. Debating on adding the cachy kernel but I'm partial to project C. Gonna have to do some benchmarks.

[@damiengarnier5732]

Hi Matt, thanks for your work on the subject^^ . If you have to choose between the Arch Cachy Customized you've build (your previous video) or cachy out of the box which one do you recommand? and why?

[@KryaxX]

Fedora 41 or CachyOS. I use Cachy but used Fedora for years. Thoughts?

[@Xaito]

If you used both you should know best what's good for you, no? Personally I'm not a fan of Fedora's repository. I couldn't make it work for me without relying on Flatpaks and Flatpaks were annoying due to slow startup time and the occasional permission mismatch. If you're however looking for a Fedora based distro that has gaming optimization, including kernel patches etc. maybe check out Nobara.

[@the-cuteaxe]

main driving cachyos. lives up to the motto blazingly fast

[@ItsLysec]

It does make sense that it wont let you select 123768 DEs/WMs though, especially since its an OOTB experience. Else you will probably run into some config issues. So it does make sense :D Also I'm pretty sure there is a PR for the Hyprland changes (0.45), it's really just not supposed to be for people that are new to linux overall

[@Mattscreative]

nah i did it on base arch with the same confs and everything worked

[@MikeDawson1]

for the windows network speed bouncing around, i always thought that was different interpretations or implementations of the TCP nagle algorithm, or TCP window size scaling or something tweakable like that

[@Lockwood360]

I think ill try this on my rog ally, not ready to go full desktop yet. Little issues with frame gen and hassle with HDR still compared to windows. I need the full Adrenaline feature set.

[@Mattscreative]

@@Lockwood360 HDR will be soon and framegen fully works

[@Lockwood360]

@@Mattscreative I really dont know what i did wrong in Nobara then :/ Just felt choppy in Stalker 2 compared to Windows. I was using proton experimental and the included driver. I didnt download either if the optional ones. Im on AMD though it may run different for you and Nvidea. Im so into HDR rn with my new OLED i just cant give it up haha. Really excited for Linux to get it like windows.

[@Lockwood360]

@@Mattscreative So far im liking the handheld experience on my ALLY with this. Perfect for that.

[@that8bitgamer82]

at 9:20 you didn't say what AMD users should click on. I would like to know thanks

[@random-internet-dude]

first option

[@Mattscreative]

The first option as it doesn't mention Nvidia

[@wolfisraging]

Thanks for the vid

[@Mattscreative]

Any time!

[@AlejandroHTadinoM]

First world problems, 8 min to download 90 GB!? i will take that over my internet any day, anyway... Great video, I've install CachyOS because one of your videos.

[@Mattscreative]

@@AlejandroHTadinoM have fun

[@calholli]

lol.. That intro is hilarious

[@Mattscreative]

@@calholli thanks

[@impersonator4439]

Is there a good hyprland distro with good defaults? Not found one yet.

[@Mattscreative]

no

[@craigsmartin]

Have you ever looked at endeavor os?

[@Mattscreative]

@@craigsmartin ya it's even remotely as good or fast as cachyos I have a lot of videos using endeavor

[@craigsmartin]

@ thank you! I will check them out!

[@katlegomogale7490]

Please do QEMU/KVM install tutorial.

[@Mattscreative]

ok sudo pacman -S virt-manager qemu-full

[@the-cuteaxe]

@@Mattscreative hahahaha

[@danielb.9216]

Gnome has HDR????

[@Mattscreative]

yes since gnome 45 before kde had it

[@AyaWetts]

you are selling KDE short acting like the default looks "like Windows" is all there is... you can even make it look and work almost exactly like GNOME if you want.

[@Mattscreative]

@@AyaWetts cool story

[@Seven_Actual]

Am I the only one here who's never been able to get Cashy installed?

[@OUTLAW1345]

What problem are you having whit it?

[@Mattscreative]

Report that issue to the devs

[@naul06]

Had this problem once because the ISO wasn't updated, so be sure to check that

[@Seven_Actual]

I'm going to have to take a fresh look because the problems I had 3-4 months ago aren't problems anymore. I don't remember specifically either. Wifi I think.

[@AlexXxG91]

I had to update the keyring before i could install it

[@ScottManser-eu2pg]

Hyperland WM has caught my attention lately.

[@Mattscreative]

try it out

[@X-101]

Stopped when he said Hyprland sucks

[@Mattscreative]

@@X-101 cool but hyrpland isn’t for everyone we all have preferences. Welcome to reality

[@calholli]

I still don't understand the difference in distros.. or why to pick different distros. What I mean is, I've ran KDE in garuda.. and debian.. and cachyOS.. and Nobara.. and Endeavour.. and Spiral.. and Kubuntu.. etc. and basically: it's all the same. KDE is KDE; so why should I choose a different distro to run it? This is the question that I still have trouble answering. I don't know which distro to choose because they are all the same (practically). The terminals and file managers might be a little different-- but who really cares about that.... And even choosing a DE; So many of them are the same; either a KDE/windows wannabe.. or a gnome/MacOS wannabe; slight changes here and there, but not really anything meaningful. I mean, at least LXqt and LXde and xfce are light weight... so that's something useful.. But like cosmic, bungie, cinnamon, etc.. Are all just trying to be windows again IMO-- which KDE already does better. at least Gnome is unique. Idk.. Linux just has so many layers of complexity that don't need to be there at all. lol. There are so many projects that are all doing the same things in parallel and just giving them different names. It makes choosing so much harder, since there is very little difference across so many things.

[@Mattscreative]

it's not about the DE is about the kernel and if the distro handles everything for you

[@calholli]

@@Mattscreative yeah.. that's kinda my point. I've never really been able to find any differences in the kernel from one distro to another, etc. I'm sure there are specific technical differences, but in everyday use.. it's kinda all the same. I just wish reviewers could zero in on the specific things that are actually distinctive from one distro to another/ aside from the DE... Which I understand is hard to do

[@Nyxionツ]

i use hprland with cachyos-nvidia-open on arch from scratch as my daily driver xD

[@Mattscreative]

@@Nyxionツ it does not like my VM

[@Nyxionツ]

@@Mattscreative yeah hyprland in general hates VM's ^^ its always better to run it on baremetal or with some special KVM stuff (ML4W has some kvm stuff in its hyprland installer)

[@mashrafidipto5520]

I don't use it because it seems too good to be true

[@Mattscreative]

@@mashrafidipto5520 you realize how dumb that sounds right

[@rafaeldm3314]

Im burntout too and im diving into linux too