Windows is getting worse, while gaming on Linux is getting better. I’m gonna move my desktop to CachyOS. Wish me luck.
To be clear, my desktop works fine on Windows 11. But the general ratio of cool new features to egregious bullshit is low. I do not want to talk to my computer. I do not want to use OneDrive. I’m sure as hell not going to use Recall. I am tired of Windows trying to get me to use Edge, Edge trying to get me to use Bing, and everything trying to get me to use Copilot. I paid for an Office 365 subscription so I could edit Excel files. Then Office 365 turned into Microsoft 365 Copilot, and I tried to use it to open a Word document and it didn’t know how.
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Cachyos is fantastic. I installed it 7 months ago and I can never go back (I previously used Mint for years). It’s the best distro I’ve used. Best of luck.
I made the transfer couple months back. It’s fantastic. Best distro I used so far. Sounds settings took some time but it’s the best…
Why cachy
Here’s his reasoning from the article:
an Arch-based distro optimized for gaming on modern hardware, with support for cutting-edge CPUs and GPUs and an allegedly easy setup.
I installed Cachy recently too and I really like it, after using Mint and Arch for several months (and many others previously).
What really are these magical “optmizations” besides installing the default packages available on every distro?
There’s a bunch of gaming/performance settings out of the box ranging from custom helper scripts to ananicy-cpp kernel scheduling tweaks and more. Here’s CachyOS’s page on the “tweaks” they have: https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/cachyos_settings/
They also include an easy to use kernel manager that gives users a lot of options for kernel customization: https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/kernel_manager/ (I may have spent some amount of time borking my system with it… repeatedly 😅)
And they have package repositories that are optimized for newer hardware like Zen4/5 and AVX512 instruction sets: https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/optimized_repos/
I’ve been using Cachy for a while now and it’s been great for gaming. I don’t use it for much else tho. As a sysadmin by trade, I do like the support for ZFS on root (which varies between other distros). Although it was a bit tricky to set up, now it’s running smoothly and my snapshots/backups are working great.
I’m not exactly sure, but a few things have worked better out of the box than other distros.
For example, it boots up faster than any of the other “simple” distros I’ve tried in some time. I tend to like lightweight things that seem to install a “bare minimum” to start, and Cachy appears to do that. It was dead simple to install my favorite window manager, even using X11 instead of Xorg.
The equivalent minimal mint installation took considerably longer to boot, using pretty much my same settings.
I somewhat broke my Linux mint Debian edition and decided to distro hop a bit. So I wanted to try popos but when trying to install it the windows and everything were broken like when you dragged the windows it left shadows and you couldn’t see anything on it. So I ended up with CachyOS and so far that was awesome. Especially like that you can just clone the bottom panel which I struggled with on mint. The only “problem” I have with it is that there’s no app manager like on mint just octopi that is too minimalist and doesn’t seem to search well and some apps I assume aren’t for arch so looking for some app manager to install that would be similar to mint or just more noon friendly, just normal GUI. Well, there’s my short story of finding CachyOS is good so far.
I believe when you say app manager, you mean a package manager GUI. If so, you might like GuiMan
If you want something that hides all of the ugly console garbage, well that’s not an option on Arch because reading the pacman output is mandatory; using something like Discover (which hides it) will break your system eventually.
On the other hand, if you just mean “a small curated list of apps for specific tasks”, there actually is one, it can be launched from CarhyOS Hello.
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Sorry, English is not my native language.
Don’t apologise to the grammar police, they are more afraid of you then you are from them.
That’s spelling, not grammar.
…yes I’m AFRAID of unclear communication.
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It’s not about unclear communication. You know exactly what they meant.
interesting, I’d never heard of it!
I love Cachy, it’s the distro I use in my dual boot.
Why not endeavor os?
Because Fedora is extra steps for nonfree codecs and firmware, and PopOS has an old kernel that doesn’t support the latest AMD GPUs. This was my logic when installing linux on the gaming PC of a windows user who wanted to make the switch, recently
EDIT: genuinely curious about the downvote lol
You’re spreading straight up false info here about Pop_OS. My kernel on Pop_OS is updated quite frequently and it supports my ~2 year old AMD card flawlessly. My current kernel version, 6.17.4, is about two weeks old…
No, actually I am not. 2 year old AMD cards are not the latest.
I tried to install PopOS for them first, however the LiveISO does not boot with a 9060 XT, because the PopOS kernel is quite old. If it was compatible with the latest AMD GPUs, they’d be running PopOS right now instead of CachyOS.
Are you on the 24.04 Beta version of PopOS?
You are wrong about the kernel. I’m not on the beta, I’m on a stable release I installed like 2 years ago and have updated many times since. The kernel is exactly what I just said.
Dunno what to tell you lol, maybe it is possible to update an already existing install to a newer kernel version, but the LiveISO hangs when booting on a 9060 XT, and “sorry, it is unsupported by the PopOS kernel” was a common/known issue when I searched for the solution. This was only a few weeks ago.
It’s interesting you say all this because as others have said in the past, pop os pulls upstream updates so often, some say it’s practically rolling release at least for many important packages
Maybe their live iso isn’t as maintained?
That’s my guess based on what you’ve said
You’re also a cachy?
I personally run Gentoo btw, but was not going to subject a first-time Linux user to that lol. So I installed CachyOS on their PC, yeah
TIL people still use Gentoo.
There’s really never been a better time to run Gentoo tbh, processors are so fast that compilation does not really take as long as you’d expect anymore. Probably the best hardware support of all Linux distros, and its good for gaming or workstation.
If I wasn’t so intent on going to Nix, I’d give Gentoo a try. Currently an Arch user due to laziness and AUR, but the AUR is not as consistent an experience as memory serves so if it doesn’t fulfill laziness I might as well move on.
And I subjected a first time user to Debian 13 lol
I’m currently using NixOS and I constantly switch back to CachyOS every now and again. By far the best Arch based distros and one of the best overall distros available.
Maybe I should do some researching but what do you like about Cachy over plain Arch? That it’s gaming optimized?
one of the main things is it’s just painfully easy to install and have set up. I’ve installed regular arch countless times but sometimes I just don’t want to be bothered with that so installing CachyOS just makes things easier/smoother.
Their repos are great, their kernel is great (to the point I’m even using it on NixOS) and it’s just an overall smooth experience.
Plus I like the options they give you for DE’s and WM’s on install which they provide just about all of them with their own tailored configs.
Good choice with cachy
