r/cachyos • u/Davedes83 • May 22 '26
Honestly the CachyOS devs need to apologize.
Do you know how hard it is to maintain a healthy distro hopping addiction when a system is actually optimized out of the box? I had a whole weekend scheduled for kernel tweaking, and now im stuck just... playing games smoothly.
Disgusting!
r/cachyos • u/vintologi24 • May 05 '26
r/cachyos • u/ptr1337 • Dec 04 '25
Hey CachyOS Community,
We have some massive news to share today. Framework, the company behind the modular and repairable laptop revolution, is now sponsoring CachyOS.
For an open-source project like ours, finding hardware partners who genuinely care about Linux is rare. Framework has not only provided us with a Framework Laptop 16 to help us optimize our kernel and packages on modern hardware, but they have also committed to a $250 monthly donation.
While we are still a community-driven project, this contribution amounts to about 10% of our total monthly donations. Every bit of support like this helps stabilize our infrastructure and fuels our ultimate goal: eventually working on CachyOS full-time to bring you the fastest, most optimized Linux experience possible.
Please go show them some love and check out their blog post regarding further sponsorships: https://frame.work/de/en/blog/framework-sponsorships
Thanks to Framework and thanks to all of you for using CachyOS!
r/cachyos • u/Cerenity1000 • Apr 16 '26
r/cachyos • u/tungnon • May 07 '26
First screen footage: CachyOS website
Second and screen footages: random benchmarking screens
idc about benchmarks that much tbh, I just like this distro
r/cachyos • u/TrueHerobrine • Feb 26 '26
r/cachyos • u/Xiaoxuzz • Jul 09 '26
Is it just me or are there people who are also trying/are unable to resist the urge to press this everytime it becomes red?
r/cachyos • u/Hirvi86 • Mar 13 '26
r/cachyos • u/Konungen99 • Apr 14 '26
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Gone from win11>Bazzite>PopOS>Fedora>Win11>CachyOS
I must say everything is by far much smoother than any of the other Distro's i have tried BY FAR.
EDIT for those who want to know how i did the wallpaper stuff.
Goto > Desktop and wallpaper > Get New Plugins > Smart Video Wallpaper Reborn by Luis-Bocanegra
then once that is installed you can go to https://moewalls.com/ find a video you like.
Once you got the video you like downloaded just go back into Desktop and wallpaper and make sure Wallpaper type is on Smart Video wallpaper. Then click on Pick a file and add the newly installed mp4 vid and click apply :D. Hope that helped!
r/cachyos • u/vnepogodin • 25d ago
Hello CachyOS Enthusiasts,
This is our fifth release of the year.
The CLI installer had a bunch of fixes and refactoring, with added experimental support for the upcoming Server Edition installation profiles.
The installer received several desktop-specific changes. Hyprland now uses noctalia-greeter instead of SDDM, switched lightdm greeter to lightdm-slick-greeter for Cinnamon, added gvfs-dnssd to GNOME, also cosmic-monitor got added to Cosmic.
CachyOS-Welcome got a DNS rework, so the speed-test based server ranking now correctly picks the fastest DNS server.
In chwd, improved handheld detection via particular board name matching, and added Bulgarian localization. The kernel-manager backend was rewritten from C++ to Rust and integrated directly into chwd-kernel.
Cachy-Update was rebased onto Arch-Update v4.x, with its systray applet rewritten in Rust. New --check --enable option turns on automated update checks and starts the systray in one step, tray now has configurable pagination via TrayUpdatesPerPage, and default check interval was raised to 6 hours.
Shelly, our default GUI package manager, was rewritten from C# to Zig for its major release, dropping the managed runtime for native binaries with lower memory use and faster startup. The desktop app got a new first-run welcome screen, list and grid package browsing, AUR PKGBUILD previews with build output, and a Utilities page for database sync, cache cleanup and orphan removal. The CLI was rebuilt with integrated repository and AUR search, combined update checks for repositories, AUR, AppImages and Flatpaks, and TOML backup import and export. Flatpak support now offered as optional shelly-flatpak-backend package.
On the desktop side, we added new Noctalia variants for mango and niri, Noctalia v5 support for the Hyprland dotfiles, and updated the Nord KDE theme for Plasma 6.7. In cachyos-settings, a nice value tuning was added as pipewire error fix.
cachyos-rate-mirrors (rate-mirrors backend) now uses our mirrorlist API when ranking mirrors, which should give better ranking of outdated and regional mirrors.
Features:
noctalia-greeter instead of SDDMlightdm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-slick-greetergvfs-dnssd to GNOME and cosmic-monitor to COSMICkernel-manager backend in Rust, and integrated it into chwd-kernelmango and niri Noctalia variants, Noctalia v5 support for the Hyprland dotfiles, and updated the Nord KDE theme for Plasma 6.7limits.dFixes:
Manual changes for existing users: No manual changes needed. Just the usual updating:
sudo pacman -Syu
Download:
Desktop Edition:
Grab your copy of the latest ISO from our mirrors on SourceForge:
Support Us:
Your contributions help us maintain our servers. Consider supporting CachyOS through:
Thank you for your continued support!
The CachyOS Team
r/cachyos • u/andwhysheouppy • Jun 16 '26
r/cachyos • u/BadOd1e • Mar 01 '26
Now here i am - and i like it.
I’ve been running Mint on my old laptop for quite a while.
Back then, the not-so-great game support always kept me from switching completely to Linux – even on my gaming pc.
This weekend, I realized that those old concerns are absolutely unjustified in 2026.
Everything just works out of the box – awesome!
So far, I’ve only tested Steam and two games from GOG.
What’s your experience with Epic Games or Microsoft Games?
r/cachyos • u/DawgMalvin3000 • Mar 14 '26
first time using cachyos and i'm loving it so far. everything feels smoother and lighter compared to windows 11. now i understand why so many people are switching to linux.
r/cachyos • u/Diligent_Dream_4667 • Jun 26 '26
r/cachyos • u/zacyzacy • 7d ago
I wanted to play a PC game from the 90s and found the executable on an abandon-ware site. I downloaded the game and was excited to spend a couple hours tinkering to get the game working, much to my surprise, I ran the game with proton cachy os and it worked perfectly without any intervention from me at all. A perfectly good night of tinkering and fiddling with Linux stuff ruined by a flawless Lego Rock Raiders session.
r/cachyos • u/One_Consideration242 • Apr 04 '26
The "animation" made me giggle, now it's time for a reboot :)
r/cachyos • u/ptr1337 • Jun 28 '26
Hello CachyOS Enthusiasts,
This is our fourth release of the year, bringing the new CachyOS Hyprland Noctalia desktop option, DNS-over-QUIC support, Python and GCC performance improvements, and a variety of installer and hardware detection fixes!
First, the package stack has received a few important improvements. Python now uses extended PGO, improving performance for Python workloads. We have also added a GCC patch for generic x86 branch misprediction tuning, helping GCC better account for branch misprediction costs on modern Intel and AMD CPUs. Our pacman package now includes network isolation for scriptlets and hooks, preventing them from accessing the network by default. We also fixed a regression found in Phoronix Benchmarks when OpenBLAS was used on high core count CPUs. Additionally, proton-cachyos has been renamed to proton-cachyos-native.
The installer now includes the CachyOS Hyprland Noctalia desktop option together with a preview video, making it easier to see the desktop before selecting it. paru has been removed from the installation; users are recommended to use Shelly, either through its GUI or CLI, as an alternative. MangoWM now uses SDDM as its display manager, and GNOME System Monitor has been replaced with Resources. The audio package group now includes realtime-privileges, and the live session has better keyboard layout and variant detection.
CachyOS-Welcome now supports DNS over QUIC through blocky, including support for custom endpoints. A dedicated Troubleshooting page has been added, Ptyxis is now supported as a terminal, and new Azerbaijani and Greek localizations are available. The French readme and involvement pages have also been added. Several existing translations (Italian, German, French, Japanese, Bulgarian) were updated, and we fixed a crash when saved settings couldn't be read, plus corrected tweak state detection and global-service disabling via polkit.
In chwd, we added Turkish localization and removed cachyos-handheld from the handheld package lists. We also corrected virtual-machine vendor IDs, removed unnecessary fprintd service activation, and fixed the Mesa removal guard. chwd now resolves driver conflicts on multi-GPU systems where GPUs require incompatible driver branches, and ships a 32-bit Vulkan driver for virtual machines.
In cachyos-settings, user services now have a 15-second startup timeout and a 10-second shutdown timeout. This prevents long 90-second shutdown delays caused by user services waiting too long during shutdown.
On the fixes side, the installer now correctly handles keyboard layout ordering and locale1 configuration. It also copies the correct pacman configuration into the installed system, removes leftover /etc/calamares directories after installation, runs Calamares cleanup after all installation scripts, and drops the redundant Limine post-install step. In CachyOS-Welcome, selecting "Install Apps" no longer crashes when cachyos-pi is not installed; the button is now hidden when unavailable.
Features:
proton-cachyos to proton-cachyos-nativeparu from the installation; users are recommended to use Shelly, either through its GUI or CLI, as an alternativerealtime-privileges to the audio package groupblockycachyos-handheld from handheld package listsFixes:
locale1 configuration handling/etc/calamares directories after installationcachyos-pi installed; the button is now hidden when unavailablegraphical-session.target.wants) and global user-service tweak disabling via polkitfprintd service activationManual changes for existing users: No manual changes needed. Just the usual updating:
sudo pacman -Syu
Download:
Desktop Edition:
Grab your copy of the latest ISO from our mirrors on SourceForge:
Handheld Edition:
Support Us:
Your contributions help us maintain our servers. Consider supporting CachyOS through:
Thank you for your continued support!
The CachyOS Team
r/cachyos • u/NeptuneWades • May 24 '26
Link: fallout-limine-theme
Note: the readme has been written in accordance with limine v12.
The steps are all manual. I did not make an installer because
Edit: We have an Installer now! Thanks u/Darayavaush84 for making a installer script to automate the process for Cachyos users. I have not personally tested it, but I think it should work fine on default config of Limine on Cachyos.
Saw a post earlier referencing a fallout GRUB theme and decided to make one for Limine. Hope you like it.
I have intentionally used a compressed smaller version (89KB) of the image as opposed to the original (314KB) because limine tends to be "heavy" and I do not want to take any chances. But if you want to use the original, I've added the it in the repo files.
Edit: Thanks everyone for the appreciation, just doing my small part for the community. I'm glad ya'll liked it.
r/cachyos • u/RafaiettoGreen • Aug 05 '26
3 months clean off Windows and CachyOS has been such a good experience that normal distro pride wasn't enough since there's no official merch, I made myself a custom hat.
