They don’t support really old hardware which enables to ship better optimized packages by default and other performance boosts at expense of non-gamers. I have noticed multiple times that a package I wanted was not available in classic arch repos but was in Cachy’s. As far as I know it’s not that different from EndeavourOS (not that I’ve tried it). To me it really just seems like a distro that suits ME, a bit lazy tech savvy gamer, the best and there is not any visible dirt.
It arrived at the right time with the right promises.
It came up during the SteamOS craze where a lot of people were looking to switch over to Linux, but wanted something easy.
SteamOS was not yet released for anything but the Steam Deck
It has an easy installer and good GUI tooling
It comes with KDE & gaming optimizations, so it’s easy to use for people coming from Windows with no fiddling
It’s not immutable, so you can actually use your PC for anything, not just gaming
It has an Arch base and still uses arch repos (apart from their own custom packages), so it’s also familiar to people already using Linux
Unlike other distros, it doesn’t have anti-features, and doesn’t sacrifice anything for the sake of ease-of-use, while providing a very smooth experience (and welcoming to people who never used Linux).
And it came out at the perfect time - it wasn’t an old thing you had to persuade people was “good all along”; it’s a purpose-built distro made to answer the specific use case people were seeking when leaving Windows, at the exact time articles & youtube videos were hammering on Windows & Linux gaming was a huge topic of discussion.
But i am more weary of distros that have more and more obtuse extensibility and sponsoship from big orgs and corpos. They certainly are forces out there trying to shove open source in a certain direction. Coreutils did not need a fucking rewrite in any langauge, but it happened all the same because of its license.
The “extension” of WSL for CachyOS might be and admission of guilt by MS that windows is not the one and only OS to game on. Or maybe some other purpose, who knows?
What is CachyOS doing so well that other distros don’t?
They don’t support really old hardware which enables to ship better optimized packages by default and other performance boosts at expense of non-gamers. I have noticed multiple times that a package I wanted was not available in classic arch repos but was in Cachy’s. As far as I know it’s not that different from EndeavourOS (not that I’ve tried it). To me it really just seems like a distro that suits ME, a bit lazy tech savvy gamer, the best and there is not any visible dirt.
It arrived at the right time with the right promises.
It came up during the SteamOS craze where a lot of people were looking to switch over to Linux, but wanted something easy.
Unlike other distros, it doesn’t have anti-features, and doesn’t sacrifice anything for the sake of ease-of-use, while providing a very smooth experience (and welcoming to people who never used Linux).
And it came out at the perfect time - it wasn’t an old thing you had to persuade people was “good all along”; it’s a purpose-built distro made to answer the specific use case people were seeking when leaving Windows, at the exact time articles & youtube videos were hammering on Windows & Linux gaming was a huge topic of discussion.
Follow the money. There was a reason Omarchy got suddenly boatloads of cash: fascists.
Are you saying cachy is sponsored by fascists? Do you havd any source for that?
I never meant to imply it was funded by fascists.
But i am more weary of distros that have more and more obtuse extensibility and sponsoship from big orgs and corpos. They certainly are forces out there trying to shove open source in a certain direction. Coreutils did not need a fucking rewrite in any langauge, but it happened all the same because of its license.
The “extension” of WSL for CachyOS might be and admission of guilt by MS that windows is not the one and only OS to game on. Or maybe some other purpose, who knows?