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CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution

https://cachyos.org/
32•doener•1h ago

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lousken•36m ago
Bazzite (Fedora atomic), CachyOS (Arch), PikaOS(Debian), Nobara(Fedora), (Pop_OS - Ubuntu), it's nice that there's a gaming version of pretty much all major distros at this point so everyone can have a familiar base, hopefully they all survive
IshKebab•5m ago
I don't understand why we need "gaming versions" for distros. I've never used them but if there's stuff that's broken for gaming in the base distros, shouldn't that just be fixed?
hulitu•31m ago
> features the optimized linux-cachyos kernel utilizing the advanced BORE Scheduler for unparalleled performance.

Never heard about BORE scheduler. It is an additional patch to the kernel ? How stable is this ?

tosti•27m ago
Gaming distros trade stability and security for performance. IMHO they're only useful for FPS bragging rights. Most popular distros should already be performant enough for gaming purposes.
sylware•22m ago
The gaming version of cachy OS seems to come with default proton versions which seem to work around many windows kernel anti-cheat (valve proton being very limited as it seems).
gutafoki•21m ago
Or they lower the bar for someone that wishes to pick up Linux for gaming but are not comfortable or able to massage the distro it is based on into something gaming-compatible.
komali2•24m ago
I have no idea how stable it is but it seems it's a scheduler that weighs processes based on burstiness?

https://github.com/firelzrd/bore-scheduler

LargoLasskhyfv•11m ago
You could go into their wiki. It's linked from the page, and skim/skip over that installation stuff, until the chapters where they explain what they did to the kernel(s), how they compile and link optimized, schedulers, and stuff. It's not ultra-thourough, but gives a good overview.

I've settled on sched_ext: BPF scheduler "bpfland_1.0.18_g5bff813c_dirty_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu" -powersave for processes, and let mq-deadline handle internal storage, and bfq anything connected via USB.

What do you mean by "stable"?

bblb•28m ago
Two years ago switched permanently from Win11 to Mint. It was ok, but craved something more bleeding edge. After two dozen distro hops landed on Cachy. Might try Gentoo at some point.
Valodim•23m ago
When you are tired hopping between different but similar distros, give NixOS a shot. No way back from there :)
terhechte•26m ago
I wish they had a working ARM port
arch1e•19m ago
I'm curious, what hardware would you run it on?
drcongo•22m ago
I'm using CachyOS on a Strix Halo machine. It's pretty good, certainly a lot easier to get on with than I found Ubuntu Desktop.
rockyj•19m ago
Using CachyOS for all my work for around 18 months now. Super stable, fast and up-to-date always, highly recommend it.
irilesscent•17m ago
I've seen this be popular but I'm a little sceptical as to the effectiveness of their optimisations. Does anyone have some examples, anecdotes?
neverrroot•12m ago
How does it compare to DHH’s Omarchy? Looking for opinions from those who tried both.
PreHistoricPunk•9m ago
Omarchy is not a distribution; just a customized Arch setup.
LargoLasskhyfv•8m ago
There is https://github.com/mroboff/omarchy-on-cachyos if one wanted it. I didn't, because I'm considering that a fad.
blueflow•8m ago
During CachyOS installation, select "i3" as desktop environment and look how many of the accessory programs die from linking errors. That should not happen with a package manager with dependency management.
LargoLasskhyfv•4m ago
Yah well? Why would I when there is Plasma/KDE which never did that to me? :-)
popcar2•6m ago
This was the one to finally stop getting me to distro hop. Cachy is very easy to use and very well maintained. The performance is usually the selling point people talk about, but it's also very customizable and beginner-friendly (especially for an arch-based distro).

It uses an online installer that lets you choose the desktop environment, boot manager, file system, among other things. You can follow the defaults if you're new. Once you install it, it also comes with a few helper applications that can quickly set up things you'd want to use, like a one-click button that installs all the gaming packages you want to use and their flavor of Proton which is (allegedly) faster than the default.

They also have a really good wiki which I contributed a bit to and a very active community if you need help. All around, 10/10 would recommend to anyone. I managed to convince my friend who's new to Linux to use this instead of Zorin and he's had a great time.

CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution

https://cachyos.org/
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