CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution

I've been using Linux since the mid-90s and Linux almost exclusively for the last couple decades and I have only one question, aren't most Linux distros fully customizable? I currently run Fedora on my desktop but I've run everything from Slackware to Red Hat to Debian to Knoppix to Corel to Suse to Arch, you get the idea, and I've found all of them nearly equal in the customizability department. Is there a distro out there that actively fights customization?

This was the one to finally stop getting me to distro hop. Cachy is very easy to use and very well maintained. The performance is usually the selling point people talk about, but it's also very customizable and beginner-friendly (especially for an arch-based distro).

It uses an online installer that lets you choose the desktop environment, boot manager, file system, among other things. You can follow the defaults if you're new. Once you install it, it also comes with a few helper applications that can quickly set up things you'd want to use, like a one-click button that installs all the gaming packages you want to use and their flavor of Proton which is (allegedly) faster than the default.

They also have a really good wiki which I contributed a bit to and a very active community if you need help. All around, 10/10 would recommend to anyone. I managed to convince my friend who's new to Linux to use this instead of Zorin and he's had a great time.

During CachyOS installation, select "i3" as desktop environment and look how many of the accessory programs die from linking errors. That should not happen with a package manager with dependency management.

For those of you who are a little bit more adventurous - The custom CachyOS kernel is also available within a Portage overlay:

https://github.com/Szowisz/CachyOS-kernels

Which enables you to run a Gentoo based system on the kernel modified by the CachyOS kernel team through a ebuild for the official sources on GitHub.

When emerging it deals with all necessary dependency flags and configuration for you, just a little bit tinkering with USE flags required.

I've seen this be popular but I'm a little sceptical as to the effectiveness of their optimisations. Does anyone have some examples, anecdotes?

Bazzite (Fedora atomic), CachyOS (Arch), PikaOS(Debian), Nobara(Fedora), (Pop_OS - Ubuntu), it's nice that there's a gaming version of pretty much all major distros at this point so everyone can have a familiar base, hopefully they all survive

Funny I've been poking with the latest ISO last night in a VM. ZFS on root with mirroring and boot environment is seamless, which to me is a huge enabler for a rolling release with fast update cycle, so I want to try it deeper. Currently on fedora kde spin which has a lot of quircks, with Cosmic coming out soon I'll probably switch.

Happy CachyOS user for more than a year now. I can highly recommend it! I use for gaming mostly.

Using CachyOS for all my work for around 18 months now. Super stable, fast and up-to-date always, highly recommend it.

People need to stop making Meme distributions. There will be so much grief once people figure out that what they wanted is a good, stable operating system and what they got is a franken Arch, which will inevitably fail in unpredictable ways and for which there is miniscule support.

The Arch forums rightfully warn against this and do not want users of these distros, since all these distros are inevitably broken in their own weird ways.

There are multiple very reasonable distros. There is absolutely no need to make these forks.

I wish they had a working ARM port

Two years ago switched permanently from Win11 to Mint. It was ok, but craved something more bleeding edge. After two dozen distro hops landed on Cachy. Might try Gentoo at some point.

> features the optimized linux-cachyos kernel utilizing the advanced BORE Scheduler for unparalleled performance.

Never heard about BORE scheduler. It is an additional patch to the kernel ? How stable is this ?

I'm using CachyOS on a Strix Halo machine. It's pretty good, certainly a lot easier to get on with than I found Ubuntu Desktop.

How does it compare to DHH’s Omarchy? Looking for opinions from those who tried both.

Made by russian unfortunately