yep.. It's in nobara too. I think it's just built into KDE. I leave it on.. It doesn't seem to ever happen with my normal use.... yet it's still there if I need it.
As far as I'm aware, the cursor becoming gigantic is not a bug but a feature to help you locate your cursor on screen in case you can't find it, similar to MacOS. I don't know if its KDE or CachyOS specific though.
Been using cachyOS since a couple of weeks on my secondary laptop and its noticeably faster and snappier than endeavorOS i ran previously on it. Since both are Arch based i can only say the optimizations the CachyOS team made really work wonders.
@@LukasZuercher-zt7kjthey don't just optimize their kernel, they optimize the cpu scheduler, kernel parameters and package size. Every package in their repos is heavily compressed to save disk space.
Yup ive never really liked kde cause qt is so finniky and the global theming never really worked for me. But ive recently been trying it out on opensuse since its so stable. But i do love xfce and x11 window managers alot. @@cameronbosch1213
I have been playing around with CachyOS lately on a few laptops. I am impressed, it is a nice system. I primarily use Fedora to run my business, but use Arch for some of our specific devices. Like EndeavorOS as well, and have used it in the past. May end up running CachyOS at home for a while to get a real feel of it.
The most interesting thing that have CachyOS is the kernel manager AND the sched-ext manager. Not sure if the performance gains are noticiable in a VM, but I assure you that in a Desktop intensive task system it's AMAZING (gaming, editing...). Be sure it's enabled and take a closer look at it ;-)
fine fine fine, I'll install it, jeez! I only just installed picaOS, but I've been wanting to standardise my OS across devices, and cachy might well be the way forward. I've been running endeavour on my laptop, and while I've been very impressed by it's snappiness, I have been extremely impressed by the changes to the kernel that pica has implemented, and I understand most of those are ported from cachy.
I'm using Cachy OS for gaming on my separate gaming PC. Xfce Edition I'm using and have only had one issue which was sound, after an update. Sound kept cutting out, so reinstalled PipeWire and all it's dependencies, rebooted and sound returned. Fantastic OS for gaming on, as it is already setup with their own gaming custom kernels. Arch is fantastic for gaming on anyway, but the Cachy Team add even more.
I'm really impressed with cachyos. Having ms core fonts installed was a nice surprise. I had do distro hop until i wait for cosmic and pop to come out.
Dt they have btop installed on default and its fastfetch by default cause neofetch is dead lol. They really keep up to date and they have a application for btrfs settings. And they have a bunch of schedulers and bunch of customizations. Its my main os works amazing ootb. And there website documentation is top class.
I still haven't installed CachyOS over my Win11 SSD; sort of hesitant for now. But looks good thanks for the review DT; I am use to ext4 filesystem but is btrfs better or good for some niche need, hmm.
It is actually pretty good it has snapshot so you can fallback in case something breaks and compression changes where your disk space doesn't eat it up like ext4 there is alot of changes in it i think cachyos wiki says what it has.
@@GuilhermeSilva-pn6rm Ya that is a good point, but then I also read ext4 is faster than btrfs; I guess added those extra features will slow it down. But those features simplify backup snapshots and also get compression; a trade off.
Well mint is currently number 1 on distrowatch. Its one point ahead of MX Linux as of 11:26 AM CT. Hopefully it can stay that way. no reason for MX Linux to be close to Mint xD
As far as Im aware the biggest thing Cachy does to differentiate themselves from other Arch based distros is the kernel. The Cachy team make a bunch of gaming focused tweaks to the kernel. Basically Cachy is the Nobara of Arch. The Cachy kernel (or at least parts of it) are used in other gaming focused distros like PikaOS.
@@paultapping9510 TBH Im no expert at this but I saw a review of Pika the other day and it said that either it was using the Cachy kernel or it was using parts of it. The review of Pika was by A1RM4X. He does Gaming focussed reviews of Linux distros on his channel www.youtube.com/@A1RM4X
What's important to note is that the repos of cachy are not the same as the arch repos. They may have a lot of the arch packages but not all, because they offer highly optimized versions and some of them may not be included. Some packages are also not found in the AUR, because they are included in the arch main repo. I ran into this with midnight commander. But you can still compile it yourself. To be fair everything else worked ootb. In addition some packages like lutris etc. can be found unter "gaming-meta" - so you don't have to install all packages for gaming like written in some documentations for example the vulkan drivers - which is different from arch. It's not "beginner-friendly" - BUT i got a rice up and running with all the bells and whistles from scratch in like under 2 hours. So if you kinda know what you're doing cachy offers good value.
8:38 I think that's a feature, not a bug. You wiggle the mouse and it becomes bigger, so you can find the mouse more easily. You can probably turn it off somewhere in the KDE configuration
It doesn't, if you install the snapper support it does pre and post pacman snapshots automatically though. It's about the only thing I miss from opensuse is the bootable ones.
I have this installed and seem to be sticking with it. I hop from distribution to distribution and like some but then move on when I read about another that looks interesting. This one I seem to be sticking to. I just need to remember to check the updates but usually do those daily as a lot of updates come our for it which I know arch bases this would happen but I have not had issues doing this as it just works and lets you know if you should do a restart or not.
ZFS install via Calamares is the killer feature for me. Ironically, I've been using CachyOS on an MS-01 for most of this year, had a problem trying to remove all Qt5 packages (doh, don't even think about it), couldn't reboot, tried the latest CachyOS ISO, and it would not start up either. I had an older ISO lying around, and it did boot up, allowing me to fix my package problem. ATM I am sus of the 241110.iso on an i9-13900H machine.
The big deal on this distro is that it has a handheld-specific installer spin for devices like the ROG Ally and Lenovo LegionGo to replace WIndows with something closer to SteamOS.
The cursor getting large like that is normal.. If you move the mouse fast it will blow it up, to help you find it.. It's in the settings:, you can turn it off.
Why can't someone make a Void-based distro? I've got an idea for it. Rewrite xbps-src in Makefile. Have a custom kernel with HAMMER2FS support. Have an alternative repo like Artix's with packages not available in the Void repos eg Hyprland, VSCodium etc.
@@toxiccan175 I just left ideas here for anyone who has spare time and wants to spend it Andreas Kling-style the easy way. Otherwise, It would be more impactful contributing to the BSD desktop instead of making yet another linux distro; .
Fish is just so good at certain things out of the box, but it’s not POSIX complaint🤦♂️. I don’t know why they made it that way, but it’s an opportunity wasted
It's in the name. (F)riendly and (I)nteractive (SH)ell. They can't make something that's friendly and interactive and POSIX compliant at the same time. Tbh it doesn't even matter. You could use fish as default shell and make scripts in bash, and no one will be hurt in the process.
Also Elementary OS just released update 8.0! If you're up for it DT, would you be willing to make a video showcasing the new update? Cheers from Mississippi!
Arch is terrible.. It's not user friendly at all. It's for people who like to run their OS as if it's a video game... where they can "tinker" with it all the time as it breaks.
it's the only arch repo with optimized packages for x86-64-v3 or x86-64-v4 instruction sets. the custom kernels are also quite good for gaming (better than tkg). a lot of settings out of the box done right like vm.swappiness. popular aur packages like mesa-git are compiled for you if you'd like and optimized for v3/v4. i don't see any arch distros doing anything like that besides cachyos.
@@calholli EndeavourOS is basically an Arch installation with nice extras, it uses the default Arch kernel. Garuda has multiple GUI apps to manage the system, it uses the zen kernel and has the chaotic-aur. CachyOS also has some GUI tools, it has its own custom kernel, and also its own repo of packages optimized for specific cpu architectures. All 3 of them are indeed Arch-based distros, but they're fundamentally different from one another.
8:41 That's a Plasma 6 accessibility feature - you jiggle the mouse enough times and the cursor blows up to let you know where it is.
Shake cursor
yup, i think macOS has the same feature by default
Yeah this is cool I have on my KDE ArcoLinux 🙂
yep.. It's in nobara too. I think it's just built into KDE.
I leave it on.. It doesn't seem to ever happen with my normal use.... yet it's still there if I need it.
The only actual bug I suppose is there doesn't seem to be a limit to how large you can grow the cursor
As far as I'm aware, the cursor becoming gigantic is not a bug but a feature to help you locate your cursor on screen in case you can't find it, similar to MacOS. I don't know if its KDE or CachyOS specific though.
It's KDE specific since Plasma 6.1 by default.
It’s part of KDE. You can disable it in the settings
From KDE
Who even needs a computer mouse?
fun fact, its only in Wayland session
Been using cachyOS since a couple of weeks on my secondary laptop and its noticeably faster and snappier than endeavorOS i ran previously on it. Since both are Arch based i can only say the optimizations the CachyOS team made really work wonders.
yea and they snappyness is what sold me. like no other arch distro i tried 😊
I'm pretty sure they optimize their kernel and stuff.
@@LukasZuercher-zt7kjthey don't just optimize their kernel, they optimize the cpu scheduler, kernel parameters and package size. Every package in their repos is heavily compressed to save disk space.
@@josephlh1690 Aren't 'snappy' and 'heavily compressed' mutually exclusive?
Before watching the video and using CachyOS for the last four months + short answer = YES!
From what I heard they are taking different paths for Nvidia drivers and it works better
Even shorter answer: No
@@emacsking4310 Why the hate?
@@Handsomeskull It works effortlessly!
The enlarged cursor thing is a kde setting.
Correct, since Plasma 6.1. I always disable it.
Yup ive never really liked kde cause qt is so finniky and the global theming never really worked for me. But ive recently been trying it out on opensuse since its so stable. But i do love xfce and x11 window managers alot. @@cameronbosch1213
Idiote
I have been playing around with CachyOS lately on a few laptops. I am impressed, it is a nice system. I primarily use Fedora to run my business, but use Arch for some of our specific devices. Like EndeavorOS as well, and have used it in the past. May end up running CachyOS at home for a while to get a real feel of it.
Been using CachyOS for a few months, I find this to be the perfect distro for me.
The most interesting thing that have CachyOS is the kernel manager AND the sched-ext manager. Not sure if the performance gains are noticiable in a VM, but I assure you that in a Desktop intensive task system it's AMAZING (gaming, editing...). Be sure it's enabled and take a closer look at it ;-)
fine fine fine, I'll install it, jeez! I only just installed picaOS, but I've been wanting to standardise my OS across devices, and cachy might well be the way forward. I've been running endeavour on my laptop, and while I've been very impressed by it's snappiness, I have been extremely impressed by the changes to the kernel that pica has implemented, and I understand most of those are ported from cachy.
vim is installed, and bat, by default btw. And v3 cpu compilation options for a LOT of packages.
also v4 now too
I'm using Cachy OS for gaming on my separate gaming PC. Xfce Edition I'm using and have only had one issue which was sound, after an update.
Sound kept cutting out, so reinstalled PipeWire and all it's dependencies, rebooted and sound returned.
Fantastic OS for gaming on, as it is already setup with their own gaming custom kernels. Arch is fantastic for gaming on anyway, but the Cachy Team add even more.
I'm really impressed with cachyos. Having ms core fonts installed was a nice surprise. I had do distro hop until i wait for cosmic and pop to come out.
Dt they have btop installed on default and its fastfetch by default cause neofetch is dead lol. They really keep up to date and they have a application for btrfs settings. And they have a bunch of schedulers and bunch of customizations. Its my main os works amazing ootb. And there website documentation is top class.
Here on CachyOS - Cosmic desktop and loving it ♥
LMAO, I was just watching your year old one of these because I want to try cachyOS. Perfect timing DitroTube,. Perfect timing lmao.
Cachy is ok.. But Garuda is better IMO.
I ended up running Nobara though. It has built in overscan sliders for my odd screens. can't beat that.
Thanks! Try it , yes, it looks like this distro might work out on my test system.
I've been using it for a few weeks, I like it.
I still haven't installed CachyOS over my Win11 SSD; sort of hesitant for now. But looks good thanks for the review DT; I am use to ext4 filesystem but is btrfs better or good for some niche need, hmm.
It is actually pretty good it has snapshot so you can fallback in case something breaks and compression changes where your disk space doesn't eat it up like ext4 there is alot of changes in it i think cachyos wiki says what it has.
@@GuilhermeSilva-pn6rm Ya that is a good point, but then I also read ext4 is faster than btrfs; I guess added those extra features will slow it down. But those features simplify backup snapshots and also get compression; a trade off.
Well mint is currently number 1 on distrowatch. Its one point ahead of MX Linux as of 11:26 AM CT. Hopefully it can stay that way. no reason for MX Linux to be close to Mint xD
Mx linux devs are pretty shady, they probably do some weird stuff.
personally i prefer MX to Mint when it comes to Xfce implementation, but these Distrowatch stats actually don't mean anything
@@penguin2137 Also the fact that MX doesn't use systemd. That's the biggeest reason I've used MX before.
been using this the last year now, it's been great, quick and stable with fantastic devs and support
Stable?
@@folksurvival yup, has been for me
Ite insane how fast the AUR is on Cachy. Takes way less time to install and update software on this thing. Really optimized.
It's optimized to be terrible.
I still enjoy manjaro. Currenmtly using straight Arch Linux NO GUI on my M1 Max in a VM. Love it
As far as Im aware the biggest thing Cachy does to differentiate themselves from other Arch based distros is the kernel. The Cachy team make a bunch of gaming focused tweaks to the kernel. Basically Cachy is the Nobara of Arch. The Cachy kernel (or at least parts of it) are used in other gaming focused distros like PikaOS.
oh! I didn't know they shared a kernel, I'm running pica atm and it is noticbly better than stock debian at gfx.
@@paultapping9510 TBH Im no expert at this but I saw a review of Pika the other day and it said that either it was using the Cachy kernel or it was using parts of it. The review of Pika was by A1RM4X. He does Gaming focussed reviews of Linux distros on his channel www.youtube.com/@A1RM4X
What's important to note is that the repos of cachy are not the same as the arch repos. They may have a lot of the arch packages but not all, because they offer highly optimized versions and some of them may not be included. Some packages are also not found in the AUR, because they are included in the arch main repo. I ran into this with midnight commander.
But you can still compile it yourself. To be fair everything else worked ootb.
In addition some packages like lutris etc. can be found unter "gaming-meta" - so you don't have to install all packages for gaming like written in some documentations for example the vulkan drivers - which is different from arch.
It's not "beginner-friendly" - BUT i got a rice up and running with all the bells and whistles from scratch in like under 2 hours.
So if you kinda know what you're doing cachy offers good value.
Did you see Mint knocked Mx Linux out of the #1 spot on Distrowatch DT.
Their documentation is also great!
8:38 I think that's a feature, not a bug. You wiggle the mouse and it becomes bigger, so you can find the mouse more easily. You can probably turn it off somewhere in the KDE configuration
Cachy offers really outstanding performance. Loving it.
Yeah, when it comes to being a terrible distro, Catchy performs really well.
@emacsking4310 care to share how your experience was with CachyOS?
@@emacsking4310 Terrible? Hateboi much?
Looks like one of the most novice friendly arch distros I seen on here, the installer and GUI package manager are set up exactly how they should be.
Hey DT? was wondering if you'd take a look at elementary OS 9
I am gonna watch to discover what is your strong and complicated password. Greetings from Brazil my dear friend
manjaro has the hello application too and i belive a few other distros has it
Curious about their snapper setup. An arch distro that automatically sets up proper bootable snapshots would be nice.
It doesn't, if you install the snapper support it does pre and post pacman snapshots automatically though. It's about the only thing I miss from opensuse is the bootable ones.
Fish is amazing
I have this installed and seem to be sticking with it. I hop from distribution to distribution and like some but then move on when I read about another that looks interesting. This one I seem to be sticking to. I just need to remember to check the updates but usually do those daily as a lot of updates come our for it which I know arch bases this would happen but I have not had issues doing this as it just works and lets you know if you should do a restart or not.
Thanks 🙂
ZFS install via Calamares is the killer feature for me. Ironically, I've been using CachyOS on an MS-01 for most of this year, had a problem trying to remove all Qt5 packages (doh, don't even think about it), couldn't reboot, tried the latest CachyOS ISO, and it would not start up either. I had an older ISO lying around, and it did boot up, allowing me to fix my package problem. ATM I am sus of the 241110.iso on an i9-13900H machine.
The big deal on this distro is that it has a handheld-specific installer spin for devices like the ROG Ally and Lenovo LegionGo to replace WIndows with something closer to SteamOS.
#HeyDT! Why do you have Threadripper ? What led you to pick/choose/get that ? What would be the ideal CPU to upgrade to ?
Best CPU i5 2500K
since it has btrfs, im wondering if it comes with timeshift or snapper.
Is the CachyOS kernel any different than Xanmod kernel?
The cursor getting large like that is normal.. If you move the mouse fast it will blow it up, to help you find it.. It's in the settings:, you can turn it off.
His new strong and complicated password be like: dtdt 😂😂😂
In the morning.
Ok so what does this distro offer that any other distro doesn't?
What would compel anyone to switch!
@@monkeysausageclub Probably the optimized x86-64 v3 packages and the graphical installer on an Arch base.
It’s supposedly optimised to be really fast
If you can't do research instead of making a negative comment than don't use it nothing is stopping you. Your comment is completely unnecessary tbh.
@@GuilhermeSilva-pn6rm I ask this of every distro, what does it bring to the table that cannot be done in any other distro.
Heck yea Dt with another cachy video!!! Best arch distro
Why can't someone make a Void-based distro?
I've got an idea for it.
Rewrite xbps-src in Makefile. Have a custom kernel with HAMMER2FS support. Have an alternative repo like Artix's with packages not available in the Void repos eg Hyprland, VSCodium etc.
You should do it
@@toxiccan175 I just left ideas here for anyone who has spare time and wants to spend it Andreas Kling-style the easy way. Otherwise, It would be more impactful contributing to the BSD desktop instead of making yet another linux distro; .
CachyOS Hello has a button to install Snapper support.
I need myself some enlightenment!!!!
You skipped past the bootloader part, most importen part of the installer.
Does it come with chaotic-aur enabled by default?
Other than the optimized packages for newer x86-64 CPUs, what does this have to offer over EndeavourOS?
A special kernel with optimizations and other patches, mostly
I thought it was called CatchyOS.
There is no reason to move from Arch + I3 Wm + Neovim + Tmux 😅
The only thing CrappyPOS is good at is being the worst. Its over Cachychuds.. Arch Linux won.
Fish is just so good at certain things out of the box, but it’s not POSIX complaint🤦♂️. I don’t know why they made it that way, but it’s an opportunity wasted
It's in the name. (F)riendly and (I)nteractive (SH)ell. They can't make something that's friendly and interactive and POSIX compliant at the same time. Tbh it doesn't even matter. You could use fish as default shell and make scripts in bash, and no one will be hurt in the process.
Opensuse, Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu. Everyone else is just noise.
manjaro works better in a vm
Also Elementary OS just released update 8.0! If you're up for it DT, would you be willing to make a video showcasing the new update? Cheers from Mississippi!
CachyOS vs RebornOS. Anyone?
Garuda or Nobara are better.
Arch
Arch is terrible.. It's not user friendly at all. It's for people who like to run their OS as if it's a video game... where they can "tinker" with it all the time as it breaks.
Just another Arch based distro. All these distros are the same.
it's the only arch repo with optimized packages for x86-64-v3 or x86-64-v4 instruction sets. the custom kernels are also quite good for gaming (better than tkg). a lot of settings out of the box done right like vm.swappiness. popular aur packages like mesa-git are compiled for you if you'd like and optimized for v3/v4. i don't see any arch distros doing anything like that besides cachyos.
Well you didn't watch the video or simply didn't do any research.
Yep.. same as Endeavour and Garuda..
At least Garuda gives you a wacky layout if you like that sort of thing.. It was fun for a week or two. lol
@@calholli EndeavourOS is basically an Arch installation with nice extras, it uses the default Arch kernel. Garuda has multiple GUI apps to manage the system, it uses the zen kernel and has the chaotic-aur. CachyOS also has some GUI tools, it has its own custom kernel, and also its own repo of packages optimized for specific cpu architectures. All 3 of them are indeed Arch-based distros, but they're fundamentally different from one another.
make a video on the apple vission pro please