CachyOS

Reader supplied reviews for CachyOS Average rating 7.9 from 185 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on CachyOS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 250422241221231210221230 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 250422 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-05-23 Votes: 0 Perfect on a Asus Zephyrus G16 Notebook with AMD Ryzen 9 AI HX 370 CPU and Nvidia. This system needs most recent packages and performs very well with CachyOS. Especially the power handling and fan noise is top notch when used together with asusctl. Which is in the OS repos by the way. Another plus. Cachy OS Hello handles stuff very well and makes installing the first necessities pretty straightforward. Updating is sometimes a thing, because it sits right on the edge, with new packages rolled out very early. But that is no problem, using btrfs and snapper. You can allways roll back breaking changes. So far so good, enjoying the ride. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 250422 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-05-19 Votes: 16 I have AMD 5800X3D CPU and Radeon 5700XT GPU with 16GB RAM. After 25 years of Windows I am using CachyOS as a main OS for a year now. Installation was easy and straightforward. I chose GRUB and Wayland. I really have no issues with it, it is my daily driver. I do mostly gaming. Discord, CachyOS forum and Reddit are great, and the guys behind the project are really helpful and know their stuff. It is based on Arch, and many say Arch is too hard for beginners, but from my experience, CachyOS is very easy to install, configure, use and maintain. Gaming: CachyOS Hello app is really helpful, one click on Install Gaming packages installs everything needed for gaming. I play Steam Native games, EPIC games through Lutris and Heroic and GOG games through Heroic launcher. CachyOS is stable, no problems whatsoever, my computer runs almost all games faster/smoother than in Windows 11. Good to know: CachyOS has constant updates available and sometimes (rarely) some system updates can break the system, but BTRFS and Snapper are working really well and saved me a lot of time. Snapper support comes as a button on CachyOS Hello app but it needs to be configured in Btrfs assistant. I think it should be automatically installed and preconfigured and made obvious to new users that it is active and working. Recently Steam Native needs to be run before Lutris Epic or Heroic Epic and GOG games in order to use Proton Experimental. Not an CachyOS issue though. Radeon 5700XT GPU tends to use around 20-30W on idle in comparison to 8W in Windows, but in games it works exceptionally well. Not a big deal anyway and it is not a CachyOS issue as far as I know. CachyOS can be fully updated through Cachy Hello, but also through Octopi. CachyOS Hello can Remove orphans, Clear package cache, Rank repo mirrors and much more. It has CachyOS kernel manager where you can easily change kernel. Additionally you can easily and on the fly change CPU scheduler with CachyOS Configure sched-ext! I don't know if other distros have these abilities with kernels and schedulers, but in CachyOS it is trivial to try and see if it helps in games for example! I played with power control of CPU, GPU, tried different kernels and schedulers with mixed results, but the point is whatever I tried, it worked and still works! Apps can be installed through CachyOS Package installer, but also through Octopi (including AUR apps). Paru is also installed. CachyOS comes with a CachyBrowser based on the newest Firefox. I had some issues with settings, so I uninstalled it and am using standard Firefox with hardening. All in all after 5-6 distros I tried, CachyOS stays! I even installed it on an old Sandy Bridge 2 Core Intel CPU with 4 GB DDR3 and it works like 10 times faster than Windows 10 on it. The old machine lives a new life and is useful again! I was really surprised how well it works on such old hardware! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 250422 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-05-18 Votes: 0 So far great experience on all fronts. Great GUI installer that guides you through the process and makes it hard to mess up. Wide variety of supported desktop environments with really good pre configuration. I personally use hyprland and cachyos's preset dot files were a great jumping off point. The optimizations really are there and are greatly appreciated as an Nvidia user and the set up of some base level arch systems like the paru package manager wrapper and inbuilt mirrors are great quality of life integrations. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 185 reader reviews of CachyOS...