Thanks for posting this blog post. It was a very interesting read. Didn't know that CachyOS was using BTRFS with bootable snapshots like OpenSUSE does with snapper.

[–] ShaunKL@startrek.website 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Who is this person? Why does their opinion matter? Why are they writing about FOSS on a Billionaire’s Typewriter? Who is their audience? Why are they so concerned about recommending a corporate backed distros over a hobby distro made for hobby users?

The linked author also has account-gated articles such as The Senior Engineer’s Job in 2026 Is Code Review, Not Code Writing There is nothing in their About page and a cursory online search can’t confirm there’s a real person writing this blog.

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Me personally, I use CachyOS on my gaming computer after bouncing from popOS to Fedora to Arch to Bazzite. Cachy provides a familiar foundation while more of my games work without issues, it provides nice quality of life Arch utilities, and gives me a mutable distro to tinker with when I need to.

Is it perfect for everyone? No. Is it going through a hype-cycle? Yes. If Cachy ends up becoming unstable or insecure on my system, can I switch? Easily.

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It’s really weird to me to see a hot-dropped random blog post heavily upvoted with no discussion. Even if the blog matches the poster’s opinion, we should be careful in 2026 that we’re sharing genuine information with each other and not corporate propaganda or LLM slop posts.

[–] Brummbaer@pawb.social 1 points 10 hours ago

It's some kind of click-farming. That's a negative knowledge article, you feel less informed after reading it.

[–] passenger@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 hours ago

I think you're overreacting.

I see CachyOS as useful for those overclocker types wanting to get that extra percent performance gain, for their gaming PC, but would not suggest it for the newcomer Linux user as a daily driver. I think this article has this kind of message. Choose CachyOS if you want potentially unstable but performance optimized state of the art OS.

Today we really can't be sure, and I hate all the AI slop articles, so I'm hoping this one isn't that. At least it convinced me that it has an expert behind it.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This was a good read, thanks for posting. I'm on vanilla arch and I looked into switching to Cachy but the size of the team and the direct replacement of Arch specific packages stopped me. I don't know if I trust a small team, in already the niche OS of today, to maintain everything indefinitely and without issue.

This is one of those scenarios that id wish for those optimizations to come to trunk in a meaningful way than for a separate branch to exist.

[–] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago

I think the only reason to switch would be the optimizations, right? For new users, the installer is probably nice.

You can get all the optimizations they made in Arch, too. It's very easy to get their custom kernel, just install linux-cachyos from AUR.

For other system settings, see: https://github.com/CachyOS/CachyOS-Settings