I’ve been using Arch for like 20 years and I think CachyOS is neat.
I use EndeavorOS btw
I don’t care one bit about all of the supposed performance optimizations in CachyOS.
It is SO DANG EASY. It just works.
Yeah this is the real reason I prefer it. A sane installer, auto installing Nvidia drivers, auto setting up Snapper, a good GUI package manager that actually manages everything.
The customized kernel, and performance boosts that may or may not actually exist are just a bonus.
It has a GUI package manager? :-O
Shelly yes and they actively develop it with integrations of flatpak aur appimage and native packages
I thought it was Octopi?
Changed to Shelly in a recent update.
They also have one own graphical package manager. I didn’t install Shelly because I personally hate GTK+, but I installed that one because it uses Qt (I’m in KDE Plasma). I don’t remember the name rn though.
it has something called “Shelly” which is funny because months ago when the dev of Shelly released the thing I said “you should honestly get in contact with the CachyOS folks” and now it does have Shelly.
It’s a pretty great GUI for installing AUR stuff, packages, and flatpaks.
I use CachyOS BTW 🚀
CachyOS
Arch
More like
Arch: Actually you took most of who you are from me.
It’s up to you, do you want to make your pizza from scratch or do you want it made for you? Since I’m so bad at making my own pizza (often burn it), I choose to have it made for me.
I like CachyOS and it’s my go to if I want to use Arch. Everytime I install Arch I always forget something, always. so then it’s trying to remember what I did the last time to get something to work correctly. With CachyOS it’s just good to go for me. and they’ve really improved the install process and cut out A LOT of bloat. Before it would take forever to install Cachy but now it’s quick and the only thing I really have to remove when it’s done is alacritty and firefox. Paired with KDE it’s smooth sailing and great performance.
You can choose to install Firefox or not in the setup. It has its own checkbox in the package list.
Yes, I think it may have cured my distro hopping. I was on Fedora KDE the longest besides Cachy, but there’s a lot of little things that I like better.
The number of times I have said this… The urge to hop will return. I recommend investing in a cheap secondary piece of hardware, like an older used Lenovo Thinkpad.
OS tribalism again 🙄
Spoken like a (insert your distro) user. Stone them!
Not really, I use CachyOS, but it is funny how much people hype the performance boosts. I notice it, but not by a ton or anything. It’s mostly just Arch but easier to use and with built in tools that are helpful.
So I’m actually making fun of the tribalism.
I don’t really see how the meme expresses that.
I use Mint btw.
In the context of this meme, Mint is everyone’s childhood friend who nobody has a problem with but is a bit stuck in the past (I don’t have a Spongebob character equivalent, sorry)
Telling people what distro you use is cringe
I use arch btw
I’m not even sure what kind of distro cachy is, some kind of gaming optimised?
It has a customized kernel that supposedly improves performance. Well that, and it actually has a better installer than arch-install imo
It also uses optimization flags for their repositories, which results in better performance as well but drops support for CPUs older than i4?
No, it is separated repos:
- generic which works everywhere and
- v3
- v4
Does it auto detect your architecture to know which to install?
Yes while u installing os with gui installer it’ checking ur machine
When I used Arch on my laptop, my computer would randomly refuse to boot up at random and I had to manually fix it by booting into the installation media. After switching to Cachy I’ve never had to do that. I don’t know what black magic Cachy had to fix that problem, but I’ve never switched back, lol
tbf since you have to set up more stuff by yourself in arch it is more susceptible to human failure
before i learned of archinstall, i would install arch and after around a month the timezone would stop working
though cachy did break for me and i couldn’t update for like a month before i switched back to arch because the login manager in cachy would load forever (thankfully, it did have snapper set up so that wasn’t a big issue. i even put snapper in my next arch installation)
Meanwhile, Garuda is quietly working away in the corner watching the drama.
It’s always interesting to see what gets included in these comparisons. I started on Bazzite and didn’t like it and found Garuda was Arch based, gaming focused, worked with Nvidia already, and had a few preconfigured desktop environment choices. It was easy to set up, works great, and I’ve been very happy.
I’ve been curious about cachy but have been too satisfied to switch. I’d love to hear a critique if anyone has tried both. What am I missing?
Garuda is very, VERY similar to CachyOS. They are both gaming focused, Arch rolling releases, have their own modified kernel, have their own repos, both set up proprietary Nvidia drivers by default.
I haven’t spent a lot of time with Garuda, but I’ve found CachyOS to be an improved version of what it is trying to do. It has a bigger community, better gaming performance in every benchmark I’ve seen (they’ve also had a few bugs lately that have made Fedora benchmark better than Garuda), better general Ui responsiveness (and if you use Garuda’s Dragonized Desktop it’s even heavier than GNOME). I also don’t like that Garuda enables Chaotic AUR out of thr box. This allows random third parties to compile binaries for you, instead of building from source. This takes a lot less time to update if you have limited hardware, but you’re also probably not using a bleeding edge OS if you have old hardware. AUR is already dangerous, no need to add Chaotic AUR where you can’t even be sure that what code is being executed on your system is what is described in the package. Lastly I like Shelly a lot more than Pamac, I couldn’t even get Pamac to manage Flatpak last time I tried it, and Shelly easily manages every possible package type with ease and matches KDE’s theming better.
That being said, Linux is Linux for the most part. I did make this meme making fun of other CachyOS users for thinking the performance boosts are so mega important.
I’m on xfce, so the dragonized desktop isn’t an issue for me. Thanks for the thoughtful response. If I start running into any issues at some point I’ll look into switching over.
XFCE is generally fine and lightweight, but you may be shooting yourself in the foot there since it won’t support gaming related features like VRR or HDR. It is still on X11. If you don’t use Wayland features it may be fine though.
Oh, that’s good to know. I’ll have to look into that. I’ll admit I just went for the option that seemed the most streamlined without really researching tradeoffs.
If you do end jup switching, KDE is generally the way to go, though GNOME is usually good about depending in implementation by the distro, but Garuda is rolling so you should be good there. Some Window Managers support all Wayland features as well.
