@@sesimie i can see the reason you don't like this. It's because of the desktop environment. He is using KDE Plasma, you can try other desktop environments and even tiling window managers. Personally i like hyprland so i always go with that
If you like Fedora (sudo dnf install) base, with KDE or GNOME, then Nobara is for you. If you like Arch (sudo pacman -S) or (sudo yay -S), with practically any desktop environment that automatically installs NVIDIA drivers, then CachyOS.
I personally on my setup had much issues with nobara 40. Many graphics related stuff that I don't have on cachyos. As far as I can tell, gaming on cachyos (on my particular setup) is much more smooth on cachyos. And I must tell the meta packages are very neat. On nobara many is pre installed, but in my case runs better on cachy.
I am watching this on my newly installed CachyOS, this is after your videos, it was a very painless install. Im Looking forward to your cachyOS video series, keep it up.
I'm running ChachyOS since May because of your Video. Before I tested POP!OS, Mint, Zorin, Manjaro, Nobara ect. but CachyOS for my usage is the best. Dual Boot works fine with rEFInd and didn't messed up anything. You can also set up Secure Boot. Switching from a 512GB NVMe (xfs partition) to a 2TB NVMe worked fine. I was able to clone that partition one to one. With the Wiki I could also install my network Brother printer and scanner with the AUR Packages. There is also a "Zen 4/5 optimized Repository" which I actually use for my 7800X3D CPU. I have to say it is amazing. I've been played Hunt: Showdown, Remnant: From the Ashes some DOS Classic's, Need for Speed Underground 2 ect.
One thing regarding your last point against using CachyOS, you can still use cachy optimized LTS kernel if you want more stable experience and don't care about all the newest patches
It's been about a month since I decided to test Linux, but which distro to install was my biggest question, I tested a few but after watching one of your first videos about cachyos, that's when the desire to install the distro shined even though I didn't know what an Arch would be. Linux. Result, since then I have had cachyos installed as main OS, I work with programming and I love playing. To my surprise, cachyos served both of them very well, for games it really was the best experience possible, I just have to thank you. The cachyos community and team are amazing whether on the forum or discord. I'm really looking forward to watching the next videos, learning more every day about the distro, about Linux, about Arch and also taking advantage of the best performance for games.
J’ai pu tester CachyOs justement pour les jeux et j’ai été surpris de voir que nativement sans rien modifier ou configurer l’OS est optimisé. Les jeux sont fluides et j’obtiens même de meilleurs performances que sous Windows. Pourtant usager de distros a base de Debian, je sens que cet OS va rester longtemps sur ma machine. Merci beaucoup pour tes vidéos 😊
Oh man, here I was watching some of your older videos about CachyOS, considering to switch from Fedora but beating the temptation saying "yeah, Im good right now". And now you come out with this. Are you the devil on my shoulder? 😆
Mon PC va arriver la semaine prochaine. Premier PC gaming depuis + de 10ans et bien decide a n'utiliser que Linux. Merci pour tes videos, je vais installer Cachy et never look back. Merci ! Hate de voir la serie qui arrive
@@fluddsskark It's been amazing. I keep a Windows partition just in case that I haven't opened once. Everything works really fine I haven't encountered any issue.
I know the pain of getting a vanilla Arch where you want it. I have even built some scripts myself for this. Yep, another one working with on the same thing as many others. Gradually changed things and migrated from different desktop envs (from Budgie to Gnome to Hyprland to Plasma). While it was great to learn about Arch (just migrated from Windows then Debian), it quickly became a time sucker to just configure low level things, like nvidia drivers, some virtualization aspects and others. What I really appreciated your video was the clarity presenting the top reasons for using CachyOS. So much so that I quickly brought up a VM, saw that it was basically the same as what I already had. The fact that some of the optimizations that I had to script are already there is amazing.
@@pimpatterson I can tell you that I had problems with nobara that made me get scared of kde and Cachy totally fixed them. Try it out. It's huge for gaming
@@pimpattersonI was on Nobara for one year. But decided to hop to CachyOS. Because I think choosing a distro that is maintained by one person is not really a good idea.
Thank you for this video, that’s really interesting. I used Garuda Linux in the past, which is also based on Arch. Maybe you can compare CachyOS some time with other Arch based Gaming optimized distros? They main problem I have with Arch based distros is, that they are always doing a lot of updates, almost every day. If you did not use your arch system for some time and you try to use it again, you will be overwhelmed by all that updates the system is trying to do then. And I sometimes have the feeling that this updates are struggling with themselves, a older update wants to install after a newer update is done and so on.
J'ai fais ma transition sur Linux il y a 2 mois et c'est principalement avec ta chaîne, que j'ai découvert en cherchant des tips, que je suis l'actu linux. Je testerais Cachy une fois que je serais plus à l'aise. Tu fais du bon boulot en tout cas.
CachyOS caused me to stop distro hopping! I'm at a stage now where even if i try other distros i'm back with Cachy within a few hours. It is by far the most satisfying distro i've ever used.
I've been using CachyOS for about a year as well. For me it is the best gaming distro so far. I've tried Arch, Fedora, Nobara and a couple of other distros, but Cachy OS is the only one all my games run smoothly. I did not encounter a single game I couldn't run on CachyOS + proton-cachyos. As a desktop I use Hyprland. And here I had some issues when I installed only Hyprland. Mainly authentication issues. I am not that advanced of a user, so I reinstalled with GNOME + Hyprland with no intention to use GNOME. And after that all is running as it should. No more issues. It was the only hiccup I experienced using CachyOS. Thank you for your videos. You're great!
Just installed CachyOS on a spare SSD, sharing @home with my Nobara installation. Installation was without any hitches, although I had to re-install flatpak remotes without GPG signing because of gpg key issues. The @home is interoperable so far without issues, I've switch 3 or 4 times so far between using these distros and rebooting OK. I took the scheme of Cachy's partitioning of subvolumes and introduced them to my Nobara installation, whilst also copying my Nobara fstab tweaks into Cachy. So far so good, will see how it all works out, but nice to know I can switch easily. Also I btrfs snapshotted @ and @home just to be safe... Will try to use CachyOS a while...
I really want to use CachyOS and recently installed it again to test it out. KDE 6.1 is still way too buggy for me to use with Nvidia using X11. Constant UI glitches and stuttering when resizing windows and opening apps :/
Your videos are excellent. The content is highly relevant and demonstrates your great mastery of the subject. Congratulations!!! I have one question: you ever tried running a game engine, like Unreal Engine, to assess the performance? Once again, thank you for sharing. Good luck!
I just swapped from Bazzite to CachyOS on my Legion Go. It feels alot smoother. boot times are out of this world. I dont know if its a placebo but frame drops in games also aren't noticeable compared to bazzite.
My media PC is currently running openSUSE Tumbleweed. I chose it for stability and being a rolling release. CachyOS sounds really good though and might try it next when I redo my media PC. Thanks! 👍
Should I switch from garuda dragonized gaming edition to cachyos ? I have all team red (amd). Is garuda dragonized gaming edition a really good gaming distro? garuda dragonized gaming edition vs cachyos vs nobara 40.
The fact CachyOS has OOB support for my 4080 Super was what closed the deal. I tried to install the NVidia driver onto Fedora 40, but it just refused to work for me. I do want to dive deeper into Linux as a whole, but I need stability and usability out of the box NOW DAMMIT! I can figure out the Linux rabbit hole later, but right NOW I can't afford the downtime.
I had the same issue and found that Mint 22 beta worked out of the box. Cachy OS is better for gaming I'm sure, because Halo has fairly reduced FPS for me on Mint Cinnamon. But I'm a noob so I like the user friendliness, gonna stick with it.
Hey @A1RM4X, thanks for the video, you mentioned in stream that you run a homebrew CachyOS but that was pretty much the same, would you elaborate in that in future videos?
CachyOS is just another frontend similar to ArcoLinux, EndeavorOS, Artix and so on. When you use the the Arch repository, you'd pretty much get the same distro but maybe here and there different preinstalled toolset. I gave Arch with latest KDE another go, it feels like running an unpolished beta system. I have many nitpicks I could complain about, like the Desktop going automatically into Hibernate unless it specifically turned off or by running Gamemode. Most annoying part to me was that drag&drop is still a mixed bag under Wayland, also lately I've seen a bug that if you copy&paste a picture, if would first time paste it without issue but second time a different image will always fail. It's probably a regression since I dont remember this in earlier versions. Another thing that I cant really explain is that although I am seeing a higher FPS in certain games like Yakuza Kiwami (110in Arch Linux, 90 in Windows), the game just does not look as smooth as in Windows. They are very suttle microstutters, and frame pacing just feel junky. Also I noticed my XBOX controller in buetooth doesn't rumble at all, and I'm kind find a solution.
I tested this linux distro last night. So far so good and very lightweight. I even played games on it. But the problem was that it was lagging a lot because I run it on a VMWare machine. :/ But this operating system is so GOOD👍🏼
CachyOS is a wonderful distro when everything's working, easily my favorite of all of the ways to use Arch, I wish I didn't have to leave it due to Warframe processing vulkan shaders nearly every other day for 6 hours at a time, which mind you, is not a CachyOS specific problem, it's an issue with arch based distros in general. Either way it is a deal breaker for me.
I used Garuda and it was the same problem. Between the everyday update of the OS and the constant shader compiling, I stopped using Arch based distros. I want to play not spend my time doing maintenance.
I use my Thinkpad T430 as a distro hopping machine. My gaming PC uses Mint, cause it's.... well, it's stable, it's sturdy, it works. I want stability for my gaming PC and I like to try out distros with my laptop. If CachyOS becomes a problem, I might just switch back to Tumbleweed, cause it works also quite well.
Ce qui serait top, ce serait une vidéo sur les différences entre CachyOS et les autres distros. Pas un truc en détails, etc, mais juste pour répondre à cet aspect "maintenance spécifique à Arch" que tu abordes ici, au point 3 ou 4 il me semble. Bon t'as déjà annoncé des trucs du genre à la fin, mais cette approche me paraitrait niquel pour faire le passage. Et sinon, question accessoire, tu penses vraiment qu'avec une 1080 Ti ça vaut pas la peine par exemple ? Je sais qu'aujourd'hui NVK est pas prêt pour les architectures Pascal, mais ça risque bien d'arriver dans pas trop longtemps non ? Du coup je me dis, quitte à changer, autant être déjà sur Cachy. La façon dont tu le dis on dirait presque que tu penses que d'autres distros seront mieux optimisées pour des "vieux" PC gaming. C'est le cas ? Bref au top dans tous les cas, a+
You basically described the installation process of openSUSE. Also CachyOS is easily out-performed by their rolling release as well. There have been benchmarks about this.
I heard Intel has an OS with a similar name. It also is unbeatable in its domain, which is making blue screens. The name is "Crashy OS", it runs directly in the processor's microcode. For those with high end 13/14th gen Intel cpu, good luck, hope they will fix it or exchange it for free
I saw someone playing minecraft on a very old laptop with cachyOS and performing super well. Why would'nt you recomend an old laptop for games like minecraft?
The only problem with the AUR is that since all libraries are global on Arch, things can break very easily if you install a package with an older or more recent version of a dependency than the one the other packages on your system need. I like Gentoo's solution to this, which is to offer "slots" so that different versions can be installed simultaneously and not interfere, e.g. having llvm 19, 18 and 17 installed at the same time, thus avoiding (most) packaging conflicts. However, you need to unwind circular dependencies yourself with temporary USE flags, which is annoying, and something Arch sorts very easily. I would be interested to see what the performance difference is between native compilation (like Gentoo) and the x86-64-v4 compilation offered by CachyOS, especially with the LTO/PGO that I think might overcome the disadvantages of being generic.
I've been running CachyOS since 12/23. I only had one instance where I had to manually update the repost. Outside of this, it has been rock-solid. As of 8313024, every game on Steam works. My specs: CPU:7950x MEM:64GB GPU:7900XTX I Randomly discovered A1RM4X debuting this distro and haven't turned back. Hope this helps..
Thanks for the video, I'm a linux noob who has just spent the last 3 weeks learning and installing AcroLinux and now see this one.. Not sure if I want to spend another 3 weeks learning setitng up this one, pity I can't just keep my home folder and install this one, but I heard thats not the thing to do, so not sure what I am going to do. Anyway, thanks again, great video..
Bonjour, alors je viens de tester sur une clé USB en live. Franchement ça vend pas du rêve: le noyau met deux plombes à se charger et comme pas grand-chose d'installé dessus au départ.. L' interface kde semble pas plus rapide que sur d'autres distribs... (ref.Big Linux) Bref est ce qu'il faut absolument l'installer pour voir la différence ? EDIT: je l'ai installée en suivant les conseils de vos videos, m'en suis servi régulièrement sans pousser (je suis plutôt du genre utilisateur lambda sans besoins extraordinaires, "not gaming at all" par exemple). J'update toutes mes installs une fois par semaine. J'ai par ailleurs plusieurs instances de Mint et de Big Linux. Jamais de problem avec les updates sur ces systèmes. Avec Cachy la quatrième semaine, je fais l'update pour la quatrième fois et là, je reste bloqué pendant le redémarrage après grub sur le chargement du hook Plymouth. Je passe en mode console et au bout de quelues manips je me rends compte que Cachy a viré tout un tas de paquets qui servent à lancer l'interface graphique (dont les drivers Nvidia, pourquoi?). J'essaie un update, y a des erreurs. J'essaie d'installer les drivers nouveau y ades erreurs. Bref quoi que je fasse, je n'arrive pas à réparer le système. Comme j'ai autre chose à faire, je laisse. Je sais que je pourrais essayer de revenir à un instantané btrfs précédent, mais franchement là Cachy m'a saoûlé, j'vais même pas essayer. Ironiquement, j'ai l'impression au vu de tes différentes vidéos et de la différence d'approche que j'ai par rapport à toi (attention hein, je reconnais que tu es un utilisateur bien plus fin et avancé que moi) que je vais à l'avenir plutôt tenter les distros que tu ne recommandes pas ;-) . C'est dit sans méchanceté aucune et avec respect total de ton travail et du partage de connaissances que tu offres.
C'est simple, depuis que j'ai vu ta vidéo sur Cachy (la première il me semble), impossible d'aller sur une autre distro. Suis pas près de lacher Arch !! :)
in the last 15 days I started to have small problems with cachyOS that culminated in an update that simply broke the system forcing me to reinstall it and the installation of the last realese is even worse. I think cachyOS is having a tough time for me. It's not performing the same as before, to me it's unrecognizable. I hope they find and offer the confidence and stability they once had. But I believe that for games it continues to be unmatched.
every person I watch says something different. One person says is nobara, another person says arch, another says debian. What blows my mind is that they perform differently? Perform? you mean no one linux gets the same fps in games? even if you have same hardware with same drivers? That sucks. I understand different experiences but performance? I want to see benchmarks. Please, we want to move from windows as quick as possible. Get to what we care about. Install steam and try to run the latest games and if they don't work let us see what you go thru to get the game running. That's what pc gamers really want to see. We want to game. We don't want to spend our time looking at linux. Our life style is gaming not the OS.
@@pitape1822 thanks for reply. every time I get exited about Linux I always get discouraged by a Linux user. They always say if I'm a gamer to stay away. Microsoft is adding a lot of features I don't like and most of us gamers want to move to Linux. We got to make this shift easier.
I did see an interesting benchmark comparison between different Desktop Environments. Not surprisingly the lightweight ones tended to give more FPS. So software does have an impact on your gaming performance, even if you're using the same or similar distros. So I don't think Linux will ever have consistent FPS on every machine since there are so many software factors. As to what people recommend, I'd stick with either Ubuntu based or Arch based for the simple reason that these have the most issue fixes in online forums. They are the most widely popular and well documented distro categories.
@@minifix thanks dude. Ill try it out. what can go wrong? I'm sick of Microsoft anyway. Not only because they don't respect privacy, but they stop supporting anything old. So old games like Area 51, Timeshift and so on don't even work anymore. I'm done with them.
@@TH3_GAM3R_COUPL3 Happy to help. Honestly I've fallen in love with my Mint Cinnamon setup so much that I no longer enjoy booting Windows. And having tried Linux on and off for 20 years, this year is the first time I've experienced fewer issues on Linux than on Windows. Good luck!
Don't like it myself. in couple of days I've used it I noticed some things don't work out of the box like Appimage and ISO mounting.I am sure there's more just didn't do enough testing. Went back to ZorinOS. Zorin OS with 535 Driver actually offers the best 1% low fps in games from all the distros I have tested. Cachy OS on Alan Wake 2 and 555 drivers on a 3070 is a stutter fest on my laptop compared to Zorin and 535 drivers
I'm not sure, but this linux distro will be my main daily driver in future if Windows 10 will shutdown. Only like 69% of my steam library games work, and with proton, like 99% of the games will work, but haven't tested on main machine and only on a vm one. I'm 100% sure that will perform a lot better on my main machine (laptop) than on a vm.
Oh booyy... For the first time of my life GRUB broke yesterday completely bricking my installation. Arch-Chroot did nothing but delete my /boot/ directory which made it even worse XD Luckily I had my Home directory on a separate partition. I reinstalled my system, brought it to a state where it was and this time with systemd-boot. After years I've abandoned GRUB. I'll probably still miss some of it's features and maybe come back to it eventually. Gotta say, sysd-boot is really straight forward and very very simple.
The features sound great but in gaming it’s all about the fps. If you compare between the various kernels it’s rather obvious normal arch and zen tend to be on top, and not even by that much. It’s possible that all these scheduling tweaks just take a little resource from your games. So, just use whichever distro you’re comfortable with there’s not much to gain by changing it. That’s what i learned watching a lot of these “which distro/kernel is best”
I really liked Cachy. It was working well, until I needed to print something. CUPS was spewing out server errors, and it was driving me nuts. I haven't had printer issues on Linux, for a long time (until Cachy). I've since moved to Nobara, and am having a great experience.
Tested cachyOS yesterday but I have mixed feelings coming from Garuda, I dno if there is something wrong with my install but for the gui is like stuttering on a 7800x3d and 3060 12gb installed on a Gen4 nvme but gaming performance seems to be slightly better than on Garuda
I tried cachyos, however once I got out of gaming it wasn’t a good experience. I really don’t want to compile the open jdk, open jdk fsx, xrdp, samba, and everything I use. The aur packages are a mess, there are 10 for what I am trying to install, all with varying issues. Performance isn’t that much different then other distros, I spend less time installing and de-bloating windows with latest drivers rdp, file shares and better gaming performance in less than 40 mins on bare metal. I use Linux daily at work but for home when I just want stuff to work, Linux isn’t quite there with the desktop
I don't know if the arch maintain con is a real con. It won't be as streamline as something like Linux Mint. If that's what you are trying to explain then I agree, my mom will not be able to find out how to change a config. But I would say you don't need maintaining knowledge for CachyOS thx to all the work the devs put in it. Idk that's my opinion, maybe I need more time with it.
The only issue that I've had with CachyOS was the Gaming-Meta package. Things like Lutris did not run well for me at all, barely got anything to run. When not using the gaming meta packages, stuff works fine.
Sadly for me until full DLSS 3 and Frame Gen support is available on Linux I can't switch. I only have a 4060 and I need the FG in a lot of games and yes I know FSR works but lets be honest FSR sucks. it looks worse, it has more visual glichtes and most of the time also has worse performance. at least in my experience
You can get secure boot on this distro. I am currently using CachyOS for over a year now with secure boot enabled. You need to install sbctl, reboot to UEFI menu, enable setup mode for secure boot, boot into OS, sign the efi stuff using sbctl, add a pacman hook for automatic signing, edit grub config to enable secure boot and tpm support and turn on secure boot from UEFI utility. Then boot the OS.
for some reason all of my cachyOS installations had bugs I couldn't reproduce, but using their eevdf Kernel with base arch or crystal linux? UNBEATABLE, insanely fast
I must say CachyOS looks great. I would like to see a Comparison VS video. CachyOS Vs Nobara40.
fr i even like the default ui looks like some r/unixp*** thing
@@sesimie i can see the reason you don't like this. It's because of the desktop environment. He is using KDE Plasma, you can try other desktop environments and even tiling window managers.
Personally i like hyprland so i always go with that
@@rynn_3988I said I like it. I just want to see both Nobara40 and CachyOS compared. I love KDE Plasma.
If you like Fedora (sudo dnf install) base, with KDE or GNOME, then Nobara is for you.
If you like Arch (sudo pacman -S) or (sudo yay -S), with practically any desktop environment that automatically installs NVIDIA drivers, then CachyOS.
I personally on my setup had much issues with nobara 40. Many graphics related stuff that I don't have on cachyos. As far as I can tell, gaming on cachyos (on my particular setup) is much more smooth on cachyos. And I must tell the meta packages are very neat. On nobara many is pre installed, but in my case runs better on cachy.
I am watching this on my newly installed CachyOS, this is after your videos, it was a very painless install. Im Looking forward to your cachyOS video series, keep it up.
Great to hear!
CEO of the CachyOS enjoyers
My fav distro!
I'm running ChachyOS since May because of your Video.
Before I tested POP!OS, Mint, Zorin, Manjaro, Nobara ect. but CachyOS for my usage is the best.
Dual Boot works fine with rEFInd and didn't messed up anything. You can also set up Secure Boot.
Switching from a 512GB NVMe (xfs partition) to a 2TB NVMe worked fine.
I was able to clone that partition one to one. With the Wiki I could also install my network Brother printer and scanner with the AUR Packages.
There is also a "Zen 4/5 optimized Repository" which I actually use for my 7800X3D CPU.
I have to say it is amazing. I've been played Hunt: Showdown, Remnant: From the Ashes some DOS Classic's, Need for Speed Underground 2 ect.
Hey! What GPU do you use?
One thing regarding your last point against using CachyOS, you can still use cachy optimized LTS kernel if you want more stable experience and don't care about all the newest patches
And make sure to use the -lto kernels for maximum performance.
It's been about a month since I decided to test Linux, but which distro to install was my biggest question, I tested a few but after watching one of your first videos about cachyos, that's when the desire to install the distro shined even though I didn't know what an Arch would be. Linux.
Result, since then I have had cachyos installed as main OS, I work with programming and I love playing. To my surprise, cachyos served both of them very well, for games it really was the best experience possible, I just have to thank you.
The cachyos community and team are amazing whether on the forum or discord.
I'm really looking forward to watching the next videos, learning more every day about the distro, about Linux, about Arch and also taking advantage of the best performance for games.
Installed Cachy a week ago cuz of you homie. Thanks for introducing me to this distro.
J’ai pu tester CachyOs justement pour les jeux et j’ai été surpris de voir que nativement sans rien modifier ou configurer l’OS est optimisé. Les jeux sont fluides et j’obtiens même de meilleurs performances que sous Windows. Pourtant usager de distros a base de Debian, je sens que cet OS va rester longtemps sur ma machine. Merci beaucoup pour tes vidéos 😊
think we need a side by side performance comparison. Arch vs CachyOS
Oh man, here I was watching some of your older videos about CachyOS, considering to switch from Fedora but beating the temptation saying "yeah, Im good right now". And now you come out with this. Are you the devil on my shoulder? 😆
Fedora 40 is also pretty solid
same here
I am on CachyOS since two days.... Awesome
Avtually, Linus also very like Fedaro🤔
@@loskyertt try it, you will see difference
Mon PC va arriver la semaine prochaine. Premier PC gaming depuis + de 10ans et bien decide a n'utiliser que Linux. Merci pour tes videos, je vais installer Cachy et never look back. Merci ! Hate de voir la serie qui arrive
well, how did it go
@@fluddsskark It's been amazing. I keep a Windows partition just in case that I haven't opened once. Everything works really fine I haven't encountered any issue.
I know the pain of getting a vanilla Arch where you want it. I have even built some scripts myself for this. Yep, another one working with on the same thing as many others. Gradually changed things and migrated from different desktop envs (from Budgie to Gnome to Hyprland to Plasma). While it was great to learn about Arch (just migrated from Windows then Debian), it quickly became a time sucker to just configure low level things, like nvidia drivers, some virtualization aspects and others.
What I really appreciated your video was the clarity presenting the top reasons for using CachyOS. So much so that I quickly brought up a VM, saw that it was basically the same as what I already had. The fact that some of the optimizations that I had to script are already there is amazing.
just switched to catchy last night thanks to your videos thanks papa
u enjoying it? nobara user here, its kinda mid tier lol
@@pimpatterson its super clean i prefer it over fedora which is what i was on before
@@pimpatterson I can tell you that I had problems with nobara that made me get scared of kde and Cachy totally fixed them. Try it out. It's huge for gaming
@@pimpattersonI was on Nobara for one year. But decided to hop to CachyOS. Because I think choosing a distro that is maintained by one person is not really a good idea.
I use bazzite and cachyOS
I glanced at your other video before switching to CachyOS and I have been using it for more than a week and its great. Blazingly fast!
Thank you for this video, that’s really interesting. I used Garuda Linux in the past, which is also based on Arch. Maybe you can compare CachyOS some time with other Arch based Gaming optimized distros? They main problem I have with Arch based distros is, that they are always doing a lot of updates, almost every day. If you did not use your arch system for some time and you try to use it again, you will be overwhelmed by all that updates the system is trying to do then. And I sometimes have the feeling that this updates are struggling with themselves, a older update wants to install after a newer update is done and so on.
I only watch your videos for your accent. Just love it.
I'm using Linux since 2007 and I've distrohopped A LOT, and this is the best, most stable, I EVER used, period.
Nice work, your channel is an awesome resource
Thank you so much 👍
Salute, fully agreed with your reasons to run and use this amazing distro. Best wishes from Chile, man.
J'ai fais ma transition sur Linux il y a 2 mois et c'est principalement avec ta chaîne, que j'ai découvert en cherchant des tips, que je suis l'actu linux.
Je testerais Cachy une fois que je serais plus à l'aise.
Tu fais du bon boulot en tout cas.
looks awesome! one question: what abt security? SELinux, AppArmor?...
CachyOS Hello > Apps/Tweaks > AppArmor should be there
@@j053_art they have it included in their wiki when you install :)
CachyOS caused me to stop distro hopping! I'm at a stage now where even if i try other distros i'm back with Cachy within a few hours.
It is by far the most satisfying distro i've ever used.
I've been using CachyOS for about a year as well. For me it is the best gaming distro so far. I've tried Arch, Fedora, Nobara and a couple of other distros, but Cachy OS is the only one all my games run smoothly. I did not encounter a single game I couldn't run on CachyOS + proton-cachyos.
As a desktop I use Hyprland. And here I had some issues when I installed only Hyprland. Mainly authentication issues. I am not that advanced of a user, so I reinstalled with GNOME + Hyprland with no intention to use GNOME. And after that all is running as it should. No more issues. It was the only hiccup I experienced using CachyOS.
Thank you for your videos. You're great!
Just installed CachyOS on a spare SSD, sharing @home with my Nobara installation. Installation was without any hitches, although I had to re-install flatpak remotes without GPG signing because of gpg key issues. The @home is interoperable so far without issues, I've switch 3 or 4 times so far between using these distros and rebooting OK. I took the scheme of Cachy's partitioning of subvolumes and introduced them to my Nobara installation, whilst also copying my Nobara fstab tweaks into Cachy. So far so good, will see how it all works out, but nice to know I can switch easily. Also I btrfs snapshotted @ and @home just to be safe... Will try to use CachyOS a while...
now i'm in Endeavouros .i will buy new ssd and install cachyos for sure.and subscribed this youtube channell either
I really want to use CachyOS and recently installed it again to test it out.
KDE 6.1 is still way too buggy for me to use with Nvidia using X11. Constant UI glitches and stuttering when resizing windows and opening apps :/
have you tried using the LTS kernel boot option for time being?
@@grzes848909 I have tried lts, nothing changed. KDE feels sluggish and continues to stutter. I might even try a new install.
@@grzes848909 Just minimized this by just doing a fresh install. It's almost gone, only in some applications now.
For me KDE 6.1 with NVIDIA runs better on wayland than x11. No UI glitches and stuttering. Tested on both fedora and tumbleweed.
Your videos are excellent. The content is highly relevant and demonstrates your great mastery of the subject. Congratulations!!! I have one question: you ever tried running a game engine, like Unreal Engine, to assess the performance? Once again, thank you for sharing. Good luck!
I just swapped from Bazzite to CachyOS on my Legion Go. It feels alot smoother. boot times are out of this world. I dont know if its a placebo but frame drops in games also aren't noticeable compared to bazzite.
My media PC is currently running openSUSE Tumbleweed. I chose it for stability and being a rolling release. CachyOS sounds really good though and might try it next when I redo my media PC. Thanks! 👍
Yes you will enjoy the freedom of Arch software.
Should I switch from garuda dragonized gaming edition to cachyos ? I have all team red (amd). Is garuda dragonized gaming edition a really good gaming distro? garuda dragonized gaming edition vs cachyos vs nobara 40.
The fact CachyOS has OOB support for my 4080 Super was what closed the deal.
I tried to install the NVidia driver onto Fedora 40, but it just refused to work for me.
I do want to dive deeper into Linux as a whole, but I need stability and usability out of the box NOW DAMMIT! I can figure out the Linux rabbit hole later, but right NOW I can't afford the downtime.
I had the same issue and found that Mint 22 beta worked out of the box. Cachy OS is better for gaming I'm sure, because Halo has fairly reduced FPS for me on Mint Cinnamon. But I'm a noob so I like the user friendliness, gonna stick with it.
Im currently using CachyOS in dual boot with Windows with secure boot enabled. Seems like i finally reached nirvana😇
I must say, you have an awesome accent haha.
Thanks 😅
Nice review. It looks like they just did similar Garuda OS features.
Hey @A1RM4X, thanks for the video, you mentioned in stream that you run a homebrew CachyOS but that was pretty much the same, would you elaborate in that in future videos?
CachyOS is just another frontend similar to ArcoLinux, EndeavorOS, Artix and so on. When you use the the Arch repository, you'd pretty much get the same distro but maybe here and there different preinstalled toolset.
I gave Arch with latest KDE another go, it feels like running an unpolished beta system. I have many nitpicks I could complain about, like the Desktop going automatically into Hibernate unless it specifically turned off or by running Gamemode. Most annoying part to me was that drag&drop is still a mixed bag under Wayland, also lately I've seen a bug that if you copy&paste a picture, if would first time paste it without issue but second time a different image will always fail. It's probably a regression since I dont remember this in earlier versions.
Another thing that I cant really explain is that although I am seeing a higher FPS in certain games like Yakuza Kiwami (110in Arch Linux, 90 in Windows), the game just does not look as smooth as in Windows. They are very suttle microstutters, and frame pacing just feel junky.
Also I noticed my XBOX controller in buetooth doesn't rumble at all, and I'm kind find a solution.
I tested this linux distro last night. So far so good and very lightweight. I even played games on it. But the problem was that it was lagging a lot because I run it on a VMWare machine. :/
But this operating system is so GOOD👍🏼
CachyOS is a wonderful distro when everything's working, easily my favorite of all of the ways to use Arch, I wish I didn't have to leave it due to Warframe processing vulkan shaders nearly every other day for 6 hours at a time, which mind you, is not a CachyOS specific problem, it's an issue with arch based distros in general. Either way it is a deal breaker for me.
I used Garuda and it was the same problem. Between the everyday update of the OS and the constant shader compiling, I stopped using Arch based distros. I want to play not spend my time doing maintenance.
Considering leaving windows for this OS!
I use my Thinkpad T430 as a distro hopping machine. My gaming PC uses Mint, cause it's.... well, it's stable, it's sturdy, it works. I want stability for my gaming PC and I like to try out distros with my laptop.
If CachyOS becomes a problem, I might just switch back to Tumbleweed, cause it works also quite well.
That's truth! Great distro!
love this guy.
Ce qui serait top, ce serait une vidéo sur les différences entre CachyOS et les autres distros. Pas un truc en détails, etc, mais juste pour répondre à cet aspect "maintenance spécifique à Arch" que tu abordes ici, au point 3 ou 4 il me semble.
Bon t'as déjà annoncé des trucs du genre à la fin, mais cette approche me paraitrait niquel pour faire le passage.
Et sinon, question accessoire, tu penses vraiment qu'avec une 1080 Ti ça vaut pas la peine par exemple ? Je sais qu'aujourd'hui NVK est pas prêt pour les architectures Pascal, mais ça risque bien d'arriver dans pas trop longtemps non ? Du coup je me dis, quitte à changer, autant être déjà sur Cachy. La façon dont tu le dis on dirait presque que tu penses que d'autres distros seront mieux optimisées pour des "vieux" PC gaming. C'est le cas ?
Bref au top dans tous les cas, a+
French accent at it's best! Love!
You basically described the installation process of openSUSE. Also CachyOS is easily out-performed by their rolling release as well. There have been benchmarks about this.
Do you Stream and make and edit your videos on Linux? It would be amazing if you make a series of videos about it.
Yes I do. It is in my backlog.
Awesome, thanks!!
I heard Intel has an OS with a similar name.
It also is unbeatable in its domain, which is making blue screens.
The name is "Crashy OS", it runs directly in the processor's microcode.
For those with high end 13/14th gen Intel cpu, good luck, hope they will fix it or exchange it for free
I saw someone playing minecraft on a very old laptop with cachyOS and performing super well. Why would'nt you recomend an old laptop for games like minecraft?
The only problem with the AUR is that since all libraries are global on Arch, things can break very easily if you install a package with an older or more recent version of a dependency than the one the other packages on your system need.
I like Gentoo's solution to this, which is to offer "slots" so that different versions can be installed simultaneously and not interfere, e.g. having llvm 19, 18 and 17 installed at the same time, thus avoiding (most) packaging conflicts. However, you need to unwind circular dependencies yourself with temporary USE flags, which is annoying, and something Arch sorts very easily.
I would be interested to see what the performance difference is between native compilation (like Gentoo) and the x86-64-v4 compilation offered by CachyOS, especially with the LTO/PGO that I think might overcome the disadvantages of being generic.
hmm should i dump windows 11?
I've been running CachyOS since 12/23. I only had one instance where I had to manually update the repost. Outside of this, it has been rock-solid. As of 8313024, every game on Steam works. My specs:
CPU:7950x
MEM:64GB
GPU:7900XTX
I Randomly discovered A1RM4X debuting this distro and haven't turned back. Hope this helps..
What differences with EndeavourOS?
my hardware is 7yo still working great on daily used on latest linux-cachyos kernel with arch linux os
after months watching ur videos i just found that 1.25 speed makes u a normal person ;) ehehe
who said I was normal? ;)
@@A1RM4X haha got me
Salut, je vais surement switch sur Linux dici peu, et tes videos sont vraiment super pour maider, meeci a toi !!
Thanks for the video, I'm a linux noob who has just spent the last 3 weeks learning and installing AcroLinux and now see this one.. Not sure if I want to spend another 3 weeks learning setitng up this one, pity I can't just keep my home folder and install this one, but I heard thats not the thing to do, so not sure what I am going to do. Anyway, thanks again, great video..
If your home folder was setup in its own partition, you can keep it.
@@xwinglover Thank you for the reply, yes, I made sure my home folder is in a different partition :)
Please test the newest OpenMandriva distro 🙏
Salute
CachyOS still the best arch distro I've tried and I tried a lot of em, but I still get better performance on native arch with beta nvidia driver
Bonjour, alors je viens de tester sur une clé USB en live.
Franchement ça vend pas du rêve: le noyau met deux plombes à se charger et comme pas grand-chose d'installé dessus au départ..
L' interface kde semble pas plus rapide que sur d'autres distribs... (ref.Big Linux)
Bref est ce qu'il faut absolument l'installer pour voir la différence ?
EDIT: je l'ai installée en suivant les conseils de vos videos, m'en suis servi régulièrement sans pousser (je suis plutôt du genre utilisateur lambda sans besoins extraordinaires, "not gaming at all" par exemple). J'update toutes mes installs une fois par semaine. J'ai par ailleurs plusieurs instances de Mint et de Big Linux. Jamais de problem avec les updates sur ces systèmes. Avec Cachy la quatrième semaine, je fais l'update pour la quatrième fois et là, je reste bloqué pendant le redémarrage après grub sur le chargement du hook Plymouth. Je passe en mode console et au bout de quelues manips je me rends compte que Cachy a viré tout un tas de paquets qui servent à lancer l'interface graphique (dont les drivers Nvidia, pourquoi?). J'essaie un update, y a des erreurs. J'essaie d'installer les drivers nouveau y ades erreurs. Bref quoi que je fasse, je n'arrive pas à réparer le système. Comme j'ai autre chose à faire, je laisse. Je sais que je pourrais essayer de revenir à un instantané btrfs précédent, mais franchement là Cachy m'a saoûlé, j'vais même pas essayer. Ironiquement, j'ai l'impression au vu de tes différentes vidéos et de la différence d'approche que j'ai par rapport à toi (attention hein, je reconnais que tu es un utilisateur bien plus fin et avancé que moi) que je vais à l'avenir plutôt tenter les distros que tu ne recommandes pas ;-) . C'est dit sans méchanceté aucune et avec respect total de ton travail et du partage de connaissances que tu offres.
C'est simple, depuis que j'ai vu ta vidéo sur Cachy (la première il me semble), impossible d'aller sur une autre distro. Suis pas près de lacher Arch !! :)
in the last 15 days I started to have small problems with cachyOS that culminated in an update that simply broke the system forcing me to reinstall it and the installation of the last realese is even worse.
I think cachyOS is having a tough time for me. It's not performing the same as before, to me it's unrecognizable.
I hope they find and offer the confidence and stability they once had.
But I believe that for games it continues to be unmatched.
Ok, how to download rtx3060 driver
will probably try it with my Intel Arc
should i be scared :D?
I don't see why you would be, just make sure your drivers install.
driver for intel arc is only for ubuntu
Cachy is far the best distro for me, it makes me stop distro hopping.
every person I watch says something different. One person says is nobara, another person says arch, another says debian. What blows my mind is that they perform differently? Perform? you mean no one linux gets the same fps in games? even if you have same hardware with same drivers? That sucks. I understand different experiences but performance? I want to see benchmarks. Please, we want to move from windows as quick as possible. Get to what we care about. Install steam and try to run the latest games and if they don't work let us see what you go thru to get the game running. That's what pc gamers really want to see. We want to game. We don't want to spend our time looking at linux. Our life style is gaming not the OS.
There are almost no differences in fps among distributions. Sometimes distros with older kernels and older nvidia drivers even perform better.
@@pitape1822 thanks for reply. every time I get exited about Linux I always get discouraged by a Linux user. They always say if I'm a gamer to stay away. Microsoft is adding a lot of features I don't like and most of us gamers want to move to Linux. We got to make this shift easier.
I did see an interesting benchmark comparison between different Desktop Environments. Not surprisingly the lightweight ones tended to give more FPS. So software does have an impact on your gaming performance, even if you're using the same or similar distros. So I don't think Linux will ever have consistent FPS on every machine since there are so many software factors.
As to what people recommend, I'd stick with either Ubuntu based or Arch based for the simple reason that these have the most issue fixes in online forums. They are the most widely popular and well documented distro categories.
@@minifix thanks dude. Ill try it out. what can go wrong? I'm sick of Microsoft anyway. Not only because they don't respect privacy, but they stop supporting anything old. So old games like Area 51, Timeshift and so on don't even work anymore. I'm done with them.
@@TH3_GAM3R_COUPL3 Happy to help. Honestly I've fallen in love with my Mint Cinnamon setup so much that I no longer enjoy booting Windows. And having tried Linux on and off for 20 years, this year is the first time I've experienced fewer issues on Linux than on Windows. Good luck!
Don't like it myself. in couple of days I've used it I noticed some things don't work out of the box like Appimage and ISO mounting.I am sure there's more just didn't do enough testing. Went back to ZorinOS. Zorin OS with 535 Driver actually offers the best 1% low fps in games from all the distros I have tested. Cachy OS on Alan Wake 2 and 555 drivers on a 3070 is a stutter fest on my laptop compared to Zorin and 535 drivers
For many laptop users, Nvidia 550 and 555 have been a mess and freezing feast! I also reverted to 535 except on Bazzite where 555 is stable.
Looks promising!
I'm not sure, but this linux distro will be my main daily driver in future if Windows 10 will shutdown. Only like 69% of my steam library games work, and with proton, like 99% of the games will work, but haven't tested on main machine and only on a vm one. I'm 100% sure that will perform a lot better on my main machine (laptop) than on a vm.
Oh booyy... For the first time of my life GRUB broke yesterday completely bricking my installation. Arch-Chroot did nothing but delete my /boot/ directory which made it even worse XD
Luckily I had my Home directory on a separate partition.
I reinstalled my system, brought it to a state where it was and this time with systemd-boot. After years I've abandoned GRUB.
I'll probably still miss some of it's features and maybe come back to it eventually.
Gotta say, sysd-boot is really straight forward and very very simple.
cachyOS salesman
I ejected windows and only used cachyOS for a month on my legion go and I will never go back.
The features sound great but in gaming it’s all about the fps. If you compare between the various kernels it’s rather obvious normal arch and zen tend to be on top, and not even by that much. It’s possible that all these scheduling tweaks just take a little resource from your games. So, just use whichever distro you’re comfortable with there’s not much to gain by changing it. That’s what i learned watching a lot of these “which distro/kernel is best”
hy A1rmax when i see your video about cachyOs i see you use ext4 instead btrfs why?
Same here. Why use ext4?
I really liked Cachy. It was working well, until I needed to print something. CUPS was spewing out server errors, and it was driving me nuts. I haven't had printer issues on Linux, for a long time (until Cachy). I've since moved to Nobara, and am having a great experience.
I installed it but couldn't get my wifi card to work. 2012 macbook pro
switched from bazzite a week ago, i kinda miss the immutable aspect of bazzite, but not regreted the switch.
@@jigsaw93-b2s Nice. Can you make Catchy OS boot and login directly to Steam game mode (what Bazzite calls Steam Gaming Mode)?
Isnt this distro only maintained by 3 guys?
Tested cachyOS yesterday but I have mixed feelings coming from Garuda, I dno if there is something wrong with my install but for the gui is like stuttering on a 7800x3d and 3060 12gb installed on a Gen4 nvme but gaming performance seems to be slightly better than on Garuda
I tried cachyos, however once I got out of gaming it wasn’t a good experience. I really don’t want to compile the open jdk, open jdk fsx, xrdp, samba, and everything I use. The aur packages are a mess, there are 10 for what I am trying to install, all with varying issues. Performance isn’t that much different then other distros, I spend less time installing and de-bloating windows with latest drivers rdp, file shares and better gaming performance in less than 40 mins on bare metal. I use Linux daily at work but for home when I just want stuff to work, Linux isn’t quite there with the desktop
Ext4 instead BTFRS cause Casefold? Cause Proton and wine use Casefold?
what's the issue with BTRFS and Casefold? I'm on Garuda iwth BTRFS and haven't noticed anything strange using proton.
@@progstetheoreticaly it should BE slower, but today with nvme.... Dont notice
think you should show everyone how you set up your desktop, the one you use daily.
why no chapters?
CachyOS is awesome but i'll stick with Fedora
I don't know if the arch maintain con is a real con. It won't be as streamline as something like Linux Mint. If that's what you are trying to explain then I agree, my mom will not be able to find out how to change a config. But I would say you don't need maintaining knowledge for CachyOS thx to all the work the devs put in it. Idk that's my opinion, maybe I need more time with it.
The problem with any linux distro is it just breaks at some point and no amount of R&D will fix it.
The only issue that I've had with CachyOS was the Gaming-Meta package. Things like Lutris did not run well for me at all, barely got anything to run.
When not using the gaming meta packages, stuff works fine.
I've seen somewhere that it's a good idea to use the stock Arch gaming meta on Cachy. Maybe give that a try.
@@Crit-Chance thank you that's a good idea :)
Nobara for me fro sure !
What theme are you using @7:14?
Dracula.
@@A1RM4X that’s KDE, right?
@@Agitated_Hamster Yep!
Sadly for me until full DLSS 3 and Frame Gen support is available on Linux I can't switch.
I only have a 4060 and I need the FG in a lot of games and yes I know FSR works but lets be honest FSR sucks. it looks worse, it has more visual glichtes and most of the time also has worse performance. at least in my experience
Vanilla arch works just fine for me.
Is it safe to use a os linux os that doesn't support secure boot? I ask because I worry about rootkit malware that attacks the bios.
mint supports secure boot, fedora too
You can get secure boot on this distro. I am currently using CachyOS for over a year now with secure boot enabled. You need to install sbctl, reboot to UEFI menu, enable setup mode for secure boot, boot into OS, sign the efi stuff using sbctl, add a pacman hook for automatic signing, edit grub config to enable secure boot and tpm support and turn on secure boot from UEFI utility. Then boot the OS.
It didn't detected my touchpad on cachy os
I will stick to Nobara, Arch and it's derivatives are for powerusers while Fedora/Nobara is "new" Ubuntu/ Windows for everyone
Max other good 👍 video Papa
I want to use cachyOS to reproduce my current pc config since it's basically just a Steam Deck based of Fedora.
I saw the FPS performance compared to Bazzite ,and CachyOS won better frame rates and fps
it's heavy for old pc's?
19:20
On CachyOS, I do not like the software manager, I have to install bauh instead...
for some reason all of my cachyOS installations had bugs I couldn't reproduce, but using their eevdf Kernel with base arch or crystal linux? UNBEATABLE, insanely fast
But does it use systemd?
systemd is default, alternatives are grub and refind.