🚀 CachyOS is a performance-optimized Arch Linux distribution with CPU-specific package builds, advanced kernel scheduling, and an effortless installation — delivering measurable speed gains without sacrificing simplicity.
It’s the forced upgrade, boatware, and lack of lack of privacy that drove me to swap. I blindly picked hyprland as my DE because the preview looked cool without knowing what a tiling DE was, It took me 3 days but I finally got it configured and everything is so snappy and fast. I’m never looking back
The argument is that “Oh, Windows updates once a month and you hate it? Well, CachyOS has several updates every day which makes it much worse”.
But the real issue with Windows updates is how distruptive, forced, slow, and broken they are. Microsoft gives you some freedom to choose when to update, but sooner or later it’ll say “Oh you’re doing something important? Nope, time to restart right now” if you delay it too long.
I actually update my CachyOS system far more often than I did Windows, but I am in full control of it. But the truth is, while I would recommend people on CachyOS or any rolling release distro to update at least every 1-2 weeks, you can easily go a couple of months without doing so.
Yeah I update once a month max, and it’s like 5 minutes… a windows update I did on my work computer the other day was an hour and a half of unusable computer.
Windows is just another level of horrible updates. CachyOS might have lots of updates, but you don’t have to do them and they’re also a hundred times faster AND you can use your computer while the update happens. It’s just nothing alike.
I was blown away by how much faster BG3 loads. The last time I had used Linux was when I was in college in 2008 and I kept running into incompatibility issues and after a while i swapped back to windows. I was half expecting a battle when I installed cachy but everything worked right out of the box (ignoring the fact that I picked hyprland without knowing wtf I was doing)
Windows forced me to upgrade to 11 so I went for cachyos instead and I’m blown away by how great it is.
It’s great - but, to be fair, if you hated updates and restarts in Windows, you are not going to like cachyos :)
It’s the forced upgrade, boatware, and lack of lack of privacy that drove me to swap. I blindly picked hyprland as my DE because the preview looked cool without knowing what a tiling DE was, It took me 3 days but I finally got it configured and everything is so snappy and fast. I’m never looking back
Huh? They’re a thousand times better in Cachy. Why wouldn’t anyone like them if they hated windows updates?
The argument is that “Oh, Windows updates once a month and you hate it? Well, CachyOS has several updates every day which makes it much worse”.
But the real issue with Windows updates is how distruptive, forced, slow, and broken they are. Microsoft gives you some freedom to choose when to update, but sooner or later it’ll say “Oh you’re doing something important? Nope, time to restart right now” if you delay it too long.
I actually update my CachyOS system far more often than I did Windows, but I am in full control of it. But the truth is, while I would recommend people on CachyOS or any rolling release distro to update at least every 1-2 weeks, you can easily go a couple of months without doing so.
Yeah I update once a month max, and it’s like 5 minutes… a windows update I did on my work computer the other day was an hour and a half of unusable computer.
Windows is just another level of horrible updates. CachyOS might have lots of updates, but you don’t have to do them and they’re also a hundred times faster AND you can use your computer while the update happens. It’s just nothing alike.
Don’t really notice.
Just
sudo yay -Syuwhenever something doesn’t work anymore. 3-4 mins of unnoticeable background updating later, done. It’s not even a thing.I just type
yayand it updates.-Syuis for pacman.Had to lookup what yay was. Does pacman not do the job?
pacman is Arch Linux’s package manager. yay is a wrapper around pacman that uses the AUR.
Metal Gear Solid Ground Zero runs like a dream on it.
I was blown away by how much faster BG3 loads. The last time I had used Linux was when I was in college in 2008 and I kept running into incompatibility issues and after a while i swapped back to windows. I was half expecting a battle when I installed cachy but everything worked right out of the box (ignoring the fact that I picked hyprland without knowing wtf I was doing)