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CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by tapoxi »

WD-42 wrote: post #6

Another era, another Arch based distribution. This one seems particularly attractive to Windows refugees especially gamers. The default desktop looks very much like Windows: even the wallpaper is one of those blue gradient 3d wave shapes. I tried it in a VM and I don't think I can deal with the jank. The default install comes with 3 different GUIs for installing software, all of them confusing and inconsistent. Apps…

My newbie recommendation is https://bazzite.gg/. It ships a very simple GUI package manager and the system silently updates in the background. It's also atomic, so rollbacks are easy and destroying the system is hard. It's not a separate distro per-se but a layer atop Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite (you can re-base to/from them without a reinstall).

It's been my daily driver for ~2 years.

The Cachy/Arch approach is more flexible, I'm fine with atomic since containerized workflows are my preference.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by folkrav »

im_down_w_otp wrote: post #9

I’m annoyed that games I play use BattleEye and the use of BattleEye prevents me from being able to switch over to CachyOS on our family gaming PC+TV setup in the play room. Doubly so because BattleEye appears to do absolutely nothing to prevent PC lobbies from becoming rife with cheaters anyway, so I don’t really get the point of it.

Agreed, anti-cheat and DRM are the last things truly preventing Linux to be a true one to one replacement for gaming in most people's cases.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by JasonSage »

folkrav wrote: post #10
mrinterweb wrote: post #2

I few months ago, I backed up my windows gaming machine and overwrote the partition with CachyOS. Haven't looked back. Gaming performance and compatibility has exceeded my expectations. Just a much better experience overall. I feel sorry anytime I see someone using Windows.

I feel sorry every time I'm stuck going back to Windows. And admittedly, the situation is not even comparable to how it was ~25 years ago when I first started playing around with Linux, most things I want to do with a computer just work on Linux nowadays. There are still such things that just are not there yet - but for most of them, it's not necessarily Linux's fault. If we limit the conversation to gaming specifica…

I think the situation with anti-cheat on Linux is changing. Studios are putting resources into anti-cheat that will work on Linux. If I'm being a bit cynical, I could say this is "just" because of Steam Deck and Steam Machine, but I think the number of potential players switching to Linux right now outside of the Steam ecosystem is starting to be worth considering.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by xutopia »

mrinterweb wrote: post #2

I few months ago, I backed up my windows gaming machine and overwrote the partition with CachyOS. Haven't looked back. Gaming performance and compatibility has exceeded my expectations. Just a much better experience overall. I feel sorry anytime I see someone using Windows.

Wait... what's gaming like? Can you describe it for someone who only ever could play Unreal Tournament back in the day on Linux?

What games are available? Do you use emulators or stuff like Wine?

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by s09dfhks »

im_down_w_otp wrote: post #9

I’m annoyed that games I play use BattleEye and the use of BattleEye prevents me from being able to switch over to CachyOS on our family gaming PC+TV setup in the play room. Doubly so because BattleEye appears to do absolutely nothing to prevent PC lobbies from becoming rife with cheaters anyway, so I don’t really get the point of it.

This has been my experience as well. My main game right now is escape from Tarkov and battle eye wont let me into official servers. I’m able to manage my stash and buy from traders just fine.

For other steam titles, popOS and proton were just fine

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by rythmshifter »

I’ve been in love with cachy since I switched from windows but this past weekend has been extremely trying after experiencing metadata exhaustion probably due to the snapshots filling up my home drive. Learned a few things and I realize btrfs is not specific to cachy, but this was definitely the hardest thing I’ve worked through since switching from windows.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by lordleft »

I switched to Bazzite from CachyOS and while I really appreciate how accessible it is, the immutability of the core OS doesn't do enough to scratch my Linux tinkering fix. So I'll probably install this in a few days.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by cr125rider »

cowmix wrote: post #5

Running CachyOS has overall been great for me in the past year but the AUR supply chain attack (or whatever it was exactly) was a little unnerving.

How many packages are you using from AUR vs the official repos though? The official repos have almost everything I need

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by wmedrano »

rythmshifter wrote: post #16

I’ve been in love with cachy since I switched from windows but this past weekend has been extremely trying after experiencing metadata exhaustion probably due to the snapshots filling up my home drive. Learned a few things and I realize btrfs is not specific to cachy, but this was definitely the hardest thing I’ve worked through since switching from windows.

I'm surprised this is the default. How good are the snapshot management tools?

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by jjice »

cowmix wrote: post #5

Running CachyOS has overall been great for me in the past year but the AUR supply chain attack (or whatever it was exactly) was a little unnerving.

The AUR is very user managed and orphaned packages can be picked up I guess to continue maintenance. Obviously, this can lead to some issues. It's one of the tradeoffs for a heavily user supplied repository of packages. You get a lot of good stuff quickly, but I personally will stick with Debian.

https://cybersecuritynews.com/arch-linux-aur-packages-compro...

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