I’ve been seeing a lot of talk about CachyOS recently. Has anyone here tried it? It seems interesting and I might give it a go (currently on EndeavourOS) on a spare drive in my PC.
Daily drove it for a year, and it did its job fine. The devs are friendly, but to me the distro wasn’t that much more than Arch with some different kernels
I added the repos to my existing arch install sometime last year I think. It’s pretty seamless in that regard, I think I only ran into a mirror sync issue once, and it was resolved a few hours later.
My CPU supports the v4 packages, but I’m not really sure how much benefit there is for most things. (And things like tf/torch aren’t coming from the repos anyways.)
I also use their kernel. I can feel a difference between stock and zen or stock and cachyos, but I don’t think I’d be able to tell zen and cachyos apart tbh.
I definitely wouldn’t switch distros for it, but since it’s a trivial, drop in repo, I’ll keep using it.
Adding another organization isn’t ideal trust-wise of course.
First thing I did was look at a proper benchmark: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-linux-perf/1
With the exception of the gaming benchmarks coming out well on CachyOS, in many of the workloads CachyOS didn’t demonstrate any measurably better performance over fellow Arch Linux derivative EndeavourOS.
So it’s great for gamers who want to squeeze extra performance from their hardware.
You could just use CachyOS packages on EndeavourOS. https://wiki.cachyos.org/cachyos_repositories/how_to_add_cachyos_repo/
Benefits from optimizations without reinstalling the whole OS!
I’ll give that a go and see what it’s like, thanks! This seems like a stupid question, but I’ll ask anyway.
What happens to my packages installed with the default repos on my system? Will they get changed to the CachyOS optimized version when I go to update or will they remain the same? My guess is that nothing will happen but I’m not certain.
I just did this last night. I put the Cachy repo behind EOS but ahead of Arch. That keeps the look and feel as EOS but grabs optimized Arch packages from Cachy.
If you are just adding Cachy repos to EOS, you have to install the Cachy kernel explicitly if you want it.
There are not that many Cachy packages actually. Almost everything still comes from the Arch repos. The ones Cachy replaces make sense if you are expecting to juice performance ( including some NViDIA patches in the graphics stack ).
I appreciate the enthusiasm for another arch fork. I hope it works out for them and its users.
