Is CachyOS The Ideal Desktop Linux Distro?

fine fine fine, I'll install it, jeez! I only just installed picaOS, but I've been wanting to standardise my OS across devices, and cachy might well be the way forward. I've been running endeavour on my laptop, and while I've been very impressed by it's snappiness, I have been extremely impressed by the changes to the kernel that pica has implemented, and I understand most of those are ported from cachy.

Fish is amazing

Is the CachyOS kernel any different than Xanmod kernel?

I'm really impressed with cachyos. Having ms core fonts installed was a nice surprise. I had do distro hop until i wait for cosmic and pop to come out.

ZFS install via Calamares is the killer feature for me. Ironically, I've been using CachyOS on an MS-01 for most of this year, had a problem trying to remove all Qt5 packages (doh, don't even think about it), couldn't reboot, tried the latest CachyOS ISO, and it would not start up either. I had an older ISO lying around, and it did boot up, allowing me to fix my package problem. ATM I am sus of the 241110.iso on an i9-13900H machine.

The big deal on this distro is that it has a handheld-specific installer spin for devices like the ROG Ally and Lenovo LegionGo to replace WIndows with something closer to SteamOS.

I still enjoy manjaro. Currenmtly using straight Arch Linux NO GUI on my M1 Max in a VM. Love it

manjaro works better in a vm

manjaro has the hello application too and i belive a few other distros has it

Been using CachyOS for a few months, I find this to be the perfect distro for me.

since it has btrfs, im wondering if it comes with timeshift or snapper.

There is no reason to move from Arch + I3 Wm + Neovim + Tmux 😅

Yes, yes it is.

I use CachyOS handheld edition on legion go, and I like it very much

Everyone said it good but in my exp it not 😟, first time install took a whole day (idk why it took so long), when it done install, it not even let me boot in, have to re-install (no idea). Second time it work (still took ages to install), and it not snappy at all (already update to latest package😑). After install some application i freq use the BG gone (it black somehow). Just switch back to endeavouros and everything back to normal, pure joy😌

Be interesting to see where you see Manjaro end2024/early2025 as a “how it’s evolved/devolved” perspective!

KDE has that cursor thing enabled by default, or at least if you got plasma-meta. I turn it off usually.

DT, please make a video about setting up and configuring labwc, which is the wayland version of openbox.

Yes

virtual machine reviews are useless imo. You need real machine installation to get a feel for the distro. Often they have issue in dual boots which is never pick up in VM, plus you can't give them the full hardware cores

CachyOS stopped me from distro hopping.

CachyOS is the best OS in the world. The only os handle 4Kn-DC (Data-Carrier) properly and offer `zfs` as file-system, but, this is not all: you can partition & format EFI-Partition & partition only the ROOT `BF00` & let Calamares make automatically zpool & Datasets. This mean, you can limit the size of your Root-partition avoiding to end it up in the pampas and/or let empty space at end.
Secondly, CachyOS install `zram` (not `zswap`) by default and both `zram` & `zfs` are `zstd`-compressed.
On top, CachyOS detect your hardware (CPU & GPU) and install the right drivers & optimized kernel. So, an old Dell-Optiplex-7050-micro start very fast & can be used without limitation as desktop.
Finally, through `systemd-boot` optimized kernel, right GPU-drivers & compressed fylesystem you get a formula1 machine.
If you then use Screen-Locking [Win-key + L] or [Meta +L], CachyOS disconnect the network, this is a big advantage related to all other OS.
i will not bother you with all other unique feature of CachyOS, but, just want say… i use Linux since 2009 & first stop distro-hopping with CachyOS.
Your video does not pay enough tribute to the work of the developers of CachyOS.
CachyOS is the ideal Linux-desktop for beginner and experienced user!

I am running CachyOS on my PCs (Hyprland). It is very impressive. Three months without issues...I was using Fedora 39-40.

TrashyOS LMAO

fyi to people out there considering cachy watch other reviews dt's are always in a vm and he does not really do anything that would showcase what makes cachy special

Rolling-release distributions are st,upid. They break. Just use Debian with KDE.

the cachy browser looks a lot like librewolf

I'm currently using cachy os on the cosmic desktop and xfs file system

Im sure it was meant be "BetterFS" and not "ButterFS"

I just discovered ArcoLinux (ArcoPro) and am curious how CachyOS would compare to ArcoLinux using the Cachy kernel. Is there more that CachyOS brings to the table?

I would like to try CachMeOutsideOS. How bout dat?

A good linux distro, but ubuntu linux is enough for me... 😊

Been using it for 8 months and it's GREAT.

You're wrong. Dark themes require a dark wallpaper. People use dark themes because they don't want to get blinded, and because dark looks nice.
It's disgusting though that catchy OS shoves political propaganda into their wallpapers.

Do you ever stop talking?

Cachy os o nobara ?

Thanks for doing this! I'm currently running Arch but thinking about trying out CachyOS.

I do like this distro because of its customized calamares installer, the real-time terminal output, and most of all, its kernel which I run on my bare metal daily driver. The tweaks in the customization helper are very reminiscent of the Garuda flagship installation but opinionally, A little less bling in the plasma theme which aligns more to my taste. I would have liked to have seen The addition of chadwm, am but no one seems to carry it but Erik and I'm not sure why because I love it. But I share all of your accolade and this was a great demonstration in review. Cheers!

Gnome has wiggle extension makes cursor bigger 😊

I don't like vm reviews nor a true review always do bare metal 😢

how to get nvidia driver?

One of the distros I've been meaning to try out when I get a chance.
I've been pretty happy on Ultramarine KDE for a long time.

Any way to run screensavers on Wayland.

Thanks for overviewing CachyOS. I'd heard the name, but I didn't know much. It's always nice when you walk-thru and give us a brief overview. Helps me feel more comfortable.

I don't get why people called them distros when CachyOS is just Archlinux with a calamares installer and some custom packages but that's about it, Its better to just call it Arch derivative.

I wish to give Cachy a try, but I have a problem that I cannot set higher refresh rate than 60 hz while having no such issue on Windows. I have Nvidia GTX 1070, connected with LG C4 TV with HDMI 2.1 cable through Dispaly Port --> HDMI adapter. Doesn't matter whether I pick Wayland or X11.

I would appreciate any tips to get it working.

I had been looking for an OS that was lightweight like LXDE but I wanted Wayland not x11 and I love KDE then I seen CachyOS and wanted to dive a little deeper and find out what it's all about thank you for this video it is very explanatory and I think I have found my new Distro.