Cachy OS is indeed a lot more than just hype. To me, Endeavour OS and Cachy OS, both in the top five, are solid, stable variations of Arch Linux, well worth using depending on your interests.
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I’d been running MX Linux for the past few years, but I recently decided to try CachyOS. I’m impressed. I haven’t seen a distro so well optimized. It’s made gaming fun again.
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I’m not a game playing type, but I have been quite pleased with the usability, performance and quality of CachyOS.
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The buzz has gotten me curious.
@J_J_Sloan video, looks quite smooth and impressive. One question, I have for those who are using it. How are the updates, since it’s based on Arch?
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I’ve been doing a daily pacman -Syu, nothing has broken so far. I’m going to be observing it long term, more to come.
Almost forgot, there is a GUI for updates etc, but I’m used to the command line.
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@shybry747 I prefer command line updates like you. I’ve tried the GUI and it works fine. I can also use the shell provided but I prefer Bash, simply because I have so much personally customized there, and I don’t gain any significant value at this stage by transferring my shell configuration to another shell. As for Cachy OS in general, I like it a lot.
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This is pretty useful. 
Reminds me a bit of Kali Tweaks. But that uses TUI and has less options than this CachyOS hello.
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The Buzz continues to be relentless, and now I may seriously think about switching.
I was recently tasked to used a CAD program. I searched for the best FOSS in that category, and I came across FreeCAD. It’s not available on Fedora unless you use Appimage. I haven’t ventured into non native software yet, just a preference.
I decided to check the AUR, and there it is. What isn’t on the AUR? Hence, I am thinking about CachyOS. They do have the Sway window manager available. I am still curious about the updates, but I remember I am comfortable running Arch, and I never had an update break a tiling window manager. So it might be worth switching.
I have been on Fedora about a year now, and I would admit, this was not the first time having difficulty finding some software. I have worked around it, but whenever I peep on the AUR the software is always there. Stay or switch? That will be answered soon.
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I’d been on MX (a very nice distro) for several years and recently installed CachyOS on a new drive. I was so impressed that it’s now my daily driver.
After the install was done, everything was working - printer already set up, nvidia binary drivers loaded, and gaming performance was fantastic.
Debian does have a somewhat better package selection, but I’m not deprived of any important functionality.
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Printer already set up? There’s a gem for you. Most gaming setup’s are not concerned about printers. That is a nice game changer.
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@J_J_Sloan comparing MX Linux and Cachy OS is a tough one; it really all depends on what you are looking for. MX Linux is hard to beat as a very stable, full featured, but efficient distribution.
Cachy OS, on the other hand, has an option to select a reasonably stable, secure system kernel and utilities, but it’s real value is the ability to get the latest working software in a setup that actually works.
I had trouble getting the login screen to display anything other than a dark screen with a login box, but once logged in it has all kinds of configurable things. That login screen is undoubtedly configurable, but the last image I used DIDN’T configure it that way. Endeavour OS is a “better looking” default setup than Cachy OS; both are very good thereafter.
Is this anything like what your experiences have been so far? The AUR in Arch - so it’s there with yay for both Cachy OS and Endeavour OS DO have a LOT of software available. I’m surprised that software selection is an issue with any of these distributions. You did say that you are “deprived of any important functionality.”
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I’d say MX and CachyOS are my 2 favorite distros for desktop use. I use KDE either way, but MX is really nice looking out of the box, and has useful system tools and a better package selection, but CachyOS KDE is also pretty, and squeezes every bit of gaming performance out of the machine.
I haven’t found anything in CachyOS that wasn’t configurable as advertised.
As far as package selection, CachyOS didn’t have several programs I use on Debian/MX:
- dsh - distributed shell (it’s in AUR but the build fails)
- diatheke - command line bible search
- dbench - disk performance benchmark program
So I’m torn between the two, though I’m running CachyOS on my main desktop.
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Problems with AUR are not unique to Cachy OS as you probably know. I have not dug in deeply enough to know if Cachy OS has any other tools or features that allow you to import applications from other sources. For instance, Debian-based systems have typically included “alien” in their repositories. While it also does not guarantee success, in a pinch, sometimes it is possible to bring in a .tgz, .rpm, or other format, convert it to .deb format and install it; don’t know if you have a way to get those packages and port them over that way.
I have another sneaky trick that sometimes works: if you have a binary package that works, copy that package and any library packages it requires from one system to another. For instance, the neovim package has bin, lib, and share packages, so I copy them between systems like this:
- sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt
- cd /mnt/home/masinick/bin/nvim-package
- sudo cp -R bin lib share /usr
- run nvim to make sure it works and the new version is copied.
(Just did this the other day and it worked great on my multi-boot system, a significant reason why I like multi-boot configurations!
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I’ll give that a shot. I’d been thinking about running a debian container for a few programs.
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Indeed it seems that Debian is king when it comes to software, but it seems to be difficult to find a Debian based distro that has a tiling window manager. That is one reason I have held on to Arch and Fedora for now.
In fact when I did a search in Google asking “Why aren’t tiling window managers available in debian distros?”, the answer was it is a user niche and not very popular, hence most distros will not have those options available.
Hyprland knows this, because it’s builds are for Arch or NixOS. And to add to this, I saw a poll on Reddit that shows EndeavourOS Sway is better than Fedora’s Sway. So for me the toss up is, who has the better software, between Fedora and Arch?
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