Hello everyone! Have been having CachyOS installed for a few months but just found the forum today and decided to join. I am running Openbox wm because I like simple ways of doing things. I come from other Arch based distros such as EndeavourOS, Mabox, Archbang, LinuxHub, and Omega. All of the afore mentioned along with CachyOS and PCLinuxOS are multibooted on the same laptop.
A bit about my user name. Shortarc is for my welding interest and experience; and flyer is for my flying interest and experience. Anyway, thanks for letting me join up!
Iām an old fart, still fiddling with computers and cursing at compilers.
I booted my first linux some time around 1994, when I was in high school.
I used to be an unix administrator (AIX, Solaris, *BSD, Linux) but
nowadays Iām a bureocrat who is forced to use all kinds of MS products.
My favourite distro used to be Debian, but few years ago I switched to Arch,
and last week I found myself installing CachyOS. So far everything looks good
and Iām seeing a real speed difference comparing to my previous setup.
Iāve been using CachyOS for a little over three months now and I love it. I make YouTube videos for my channel, which I will not shamelessly plug unless asked, and I love making videos about CachyOS. I currently installed Niri with the Noctalia shell and it has really taken my experience of the distro to the next level. Thanks for all the good work! I wish I could contribute somehow, but alas, I am not a programmer. Maybe one day Iāll figure out how, until then, Iāll keep spreading the good word through my YouTube channel!
Hi! Itās Marty here! After more than 30 years with Windows although I had tested the very first versions of Linux in the 90s but not too userfriendly at the time. And over the years I have tested different distributions but without ever really getting hooked, without ever really finding the right fit. And I came across CachyOS and this is the revelation! I think I found the distro that suits me. Now weāll just have to learn how to tame the beast.
Thank you to all contributors for their wonderful work!
been out of the OOS scene for a few years but have mostly ran freebsd, OpenSolaris, SmartOS, some gentoo, arch once or twice .. so happy to now try out CachyOS on a X1 Carbon 7th gen lappy.
went for Niri with noctalia shell as i didnt want to just go back to tiling window managers like i3, dwm and the likes and am liking the scrolling aspect to it very much
big kudos to the devs for their work and the community in general for their contributions!
Iām Anousjka a 57 yo woman from the Netherlands, who likes computers, plays Fortnite on a PS4 and also maintains a blog https://www.girlonlinux.nl/ (or at least tryās to from time to time)
Yup, there are women on Linux. Sorry to crush the boysā only dream *grin*
After long consideration, I decided on March 25th, 2025, to make the big switch and ditch Windows.
A short intro: I was running Ubuntu perfectly fine and tuned to my likingās until i took a peek on Distrowatch and noticed CachyOS.
Never heard about or seen the distro so i did some reading and of coarse as curious as i am getting an iso file was the next logical thing to do.
Long story short, it didnāt take long for me to kinda fall in love with it
That was two days ago.
Made backups of the important stuff and installed CachyOS today
Fun is, i tried many distroās but Arch or Arch based is a whole new adventure for me
My MSI Katana is my main, and i also like to play with two old laptops, a Fujitsu Amilo and a tiny asus eeepc 901, both are Debian boxes atm.
1999-made dude here, been a loyal ubuntu adept since 2014, yesterday Iāve installed CachyOS after running into a ton of problems with Kubuntu 26. Itās been a smooth ride so far, everything I throw at it just works. I like this distro very much and it seems to be fast and reliable, many thanks to maintainers. RESPECT!
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I started testing linux with Slackware/Floppy but did not go further than installation, tried again few years after suse which at the time was easy to install but did not really use it, tried also Mandrake ā¦ but I have to say I really started to use Linux with Arch. I love it for years but wanted something a bit less rough for everyday use and focused on performance wihtout losing the rollout ideaā¦ bingo found cachyOS!
Hi, I am a long time Windows user since the windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 6.22 days. My first Linux experience was Slaxware that booted off the CD way back in 2004. Then when I couldnāt figure out how to install it to the HDD. I gave up for about 4 years then heard about Ubuntu during the Jaunty Jackalope era. Worked ok but it felt odd used it for about 2 months then tried the next release and gave up when they went to Unity. Was a hardcore Windows XP, Windows 7 and 10 user. Then in about 2009 or 2010 I used Linux Mint during the Katya release and Isadora. Wine was at version 1.2 to 1.3. Used it here and there. Then came back to it after a few years and fell in love with Mint last two versions and WINE worked so much better than I remember. Had it installed on a second NvME. Then I find out about Wayland and that x11 was obsolete. Tried it on Mint and it kept on crashing with Wayland. Then I read about Cachyos and tried it on older Ryzen 3900x 12 core cpu with 1660 super. What powerful sorcery is this? So I threw Cachyos on my Ryzen 9950X3D system with 5060ti and I am blown away on how much better it performs in the games. Windows 11 pro isnāt that smooth in gaming. I just play CSS, Dead by Daylight and L4D2. Also some console emulators.. How is this possible this team pulled every bit of performance that seems to surpass Windows 11 Pro? I want to see what happens when I throw it on a AMD FX 8320 with the 1660 super card that is in it just for laughs. I am sure it would play somewhat good too. I learned about Proton and Proton GE and now Cachyproton I canāt believe how well that even works now.
There is a few questions I got.
Does this have a system restore or in Linux Mint kind of Timeshift?
Next does anyone else have issues with their Ethernet having huge latency with an ASUS TUF 870E plus WIFI. This also happened in Linux Mint too. The work around was boot Windows first then just restart and boot into Linux and it would be fine. Only happens from first power on or cold boot.
Will there ever be a software manager to install more apps like Mint has?
Edit: Found Arch Store works great!
Now need to find a fix for the Realtek Ethernet adapter for this board so I donāt have to boot into Windows first to fix the issue.
Users may note that this big introduction thread is not an appropriate place for support.
If you need help then use the search function for any existing related topics and if necessary create a new one - making sure to include relevant details*.
* - If in doubt the link from sudo cachyos-bugreport.sh is a good start.
Not often that I post publicly, anywhere. However, I felt my experience with CachyOS warranted this.
Iāve work on OSX from the beginning, Windows from v1, Redhat from the start, Mandrake, Debian from the start, Gentoo, Ubuntu, MintOS, CentOS, Proxmox, and AmazonLinux. Haveā¦ geez, 30+ years just on linux distros alone (just realized that). Out of all of them, Windows, and Gentoo have really only been used for my main rigs, with OSX and Windows for for mobile workstations. Mainly have use Linux for Servers, rather than a useful desktop solution.
The largest reasons for not going Linux on my main rigs is gaming and Windows proprietary apps I require for work (SSMS as an example). This seems to have changed now. 2 of my 3 main rigs are now running CachyOS (am writing this on one of them). As it stands, Every game I play works on this distro (Satisfactory, MSFS 2024, Star Citizen, StarRupter, etc.). The performance is matched with Windows and I really have not needed to do any major tweaking for all this. Plus, using virt-manger for a Windows VM when absolutely needed, does provide native windows feel.
In all, cudos to the team for creating this Distro and adding all the performance tuning to it. It truly is the first distro that I can do everything on and my last rig will end up with it soon.
Hello everyone. Iām here as i used Arch from the beginning and now i come to cacgyos to tune up and imrpove performance and security of my favorite distro
