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CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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It's not just a gaming and performance distro, it includes QoL fixes on modern hardware. On my Lenovo laptop, fixes that would take over a day to enable and patch on most distros: - Wake from sleep - Nvidia GSP firmware workarounds and correct version OOTB (proprietary) - Mouse lag/jitter - External display hotplug - DDC/CI over type-c - Embedded controller power profiles from taskbar with correct TDP limits for CPU/…

Question to the Arch Linux veterans out there. Is CachyOS better than EndeavourOS or vice versa? From what I read Cachy comes with a lot of proprietary repos and gaming stuff already installed along with a custom kernel tuned for gaming performance which makes it more bloated and less stable than vanilla Arch distros like Endeavour which just ships with the bare minimum quality of life tweaks over installing arch fro…

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Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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I wouldn't recommend CachyOS personally. If you wish for a distribution with a traditional read and write filesystem and new features and package versions I'd recommend Fedora, which I always end up going back to. Personal preference, but I like my software to have as little patching or customisation done by my distribution as possible, and to be able to use it as upstream intended. This is a longstanding benefit of…

Im with you with the Shelly thing. Tried to use for 2 days and although I like the GUI for things I don’t want to read in the terminal, I really dislike the cli. It’s just awful. But then again I just don’t use it. The other optimizations looks better though to not use cachyos entirely because of it. I’ll see how it goes in the future. To change it to pure arch isn’t that hard anyway.
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