What is CachyOS doing so well that other distros don’t?
Finally I will be able to run my Windows Games virtualized on an optimized Linux kernel that is better virtualized on a Windows OS
Man, this distro really blew up. I remember around 2 years ago hearing about it for the first time, and then was like “oh maaaaan, not another arch/endeavourOS/Garuda/manjaro”. Anyway, it’s been my main distro for around 2 years now and I’m never going anywhere. lol
I still don’t get it why would I want it over Arch.
Same with Manjaro then that went down in flames so I switched to catchy lol
I just did the Steam monthly hardware survey.
Linux was just shy of 4% and CachyOS was the largest Linux distro.
I thought the exact same thing as you. It went viral in the Linux community quickly.
Surprised bazzite wasn’t in there as much
I’ve thought the same until recently. Clearly not a flavor of the week and here to stay for a long while. Which is great in Linux land.
It’s pretty damn solid. I’ve been running it on my Framework 13 AMD 7040 for years, and I recently acquired a 64GB Framework Desktop and it’s running like a dream on it. Definitely recommend it for (mostly) effortless Arch.
Followers follow.
Finally looked into using CachyOS features on NixOS and it is indeed possible.
Edit: Looks like I have some haters downvoting objectively innocuous comments that I make. Lemvotes exists you know?
Woah nice! We need this to be used on more systems. I’d love to see this applied to more traditional immutable Linux - Bazzite in particular should benefit immensely.
What are the interesting kernel features?
I see zfs mentioned and custom optimisation flags, but those seem pretty easy to do in nixpkgs. I didn’t look at the patches.
I guess the binary cache is nice if you want that specific kernel config.
It depends on which one you pick. There are plenty of optimizations that aren’t offered on standard nixpkgs NixOS kernels like BORE.
Ps. Actually follow the link I posted for the actual info you weee looking for.
It uses the BORE scheduler: https://github.com/firelzrd/bore-scheduler
