I’ve used many distributions over the years, and in recent months I’ve been looking for one that would meet a few of my requirements. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find such a distribution, so I had to make some compromises - namely, I accepted AUR and rolling releases.
After accepting these compromises, I ended up using CachyOS with GNOME.
System:
Kernel: 7.2.9-1-cachyos arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: clang v: 23.1.1
Desktop: GNOME v: 50.5 Distro: CachyOS base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: B550 GAMING GEN3 (MS-7B86) v: 5.0
serial: <filter> Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends LLC. v: P.A0
date: 09/03/2025
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3
rev: 0 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 16 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3688 min/max: 421/4654 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3688
2: 3688 3: 3688 4: 3688 5: 3688 6: 3688 7: 3688 8: 3688 9: 3688 10: 3688
11: 3688 12: 3688 13: 3688 14: 3688 15: 3688 16: 3688 bogomips: 118188
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a
ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600
XT/6600M] vendor: ASRock driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2
bus-ID: 12:00.0
Display: unspecified server: Xwayland v: 24.1.13 driver: gpu: amdgpu
resolution: 1920x1080~100Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: radeonsi,swrast platforms:
active: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 26.2.4-arch3.1 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6600 (radeonsi navi23 ACO DRM
3.64 7.2.9-1-cachyos)
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.363 drivers: radv surfaces: N/A devices: 1
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo x11: xprop,xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 12:00.1
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir/Cezanne HDMI/DP Audio
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 30:00.1
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Ryzen HD Audio
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 30:00.6
API: ALSA v: k7.2.9-1-cachyos status: kernel-api
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off
Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.6.9 status: n/a (root, process)
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 2a:00.0
IF: enp42s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: tailscale0 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: full mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
Device-1: ASUSTek ASUS USB-BT500 driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
bus-ID: 1-10:10
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1
lmp-v: 10
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.84 TiB used: 417.45 GiB (22.1%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: A-Data model: LEGEND 710 size: 953.87 GiB
temp: 30.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT1000BX500SSD1 size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 949.87 GiB used: 155.12 GiB (16.3%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot size: 3.99 GiB used: 1.08 GiB (27.1%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-3: /home size: 949.87 GiB used: 155.12 GiB (16.3%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-4: /var/log size: 949.87 GiB used: 155.12 GiB (16.3%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-5: /var/tmp size: 949.87 GiB used: 155.12 GiB (16.3%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 39.06 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 51.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 35.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info:
Memory: total: 40 GiB available: 39.06 GiB used: 7.57 GiB (19.4%)
Processes: 452 Uptime: 32m Init: systemd
Packages: 1509 Compilers: clang: 23.1.1 gcc: 16.2.1 Shell: Sudo
v: 1.9.17p2 inxi: 3.3.41
