CachyOS
An Arch-based distro tuned for speed, with packages built for newer CPUs and its own kernel schedulers. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- CachyOS team
- Created by
- Peter Jung, Vladislav Nepogodin
- First release
- 2021
- License
- GPL and other free licenses
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://cachyos.org
- Family
- Arch
- Based on
- Arch Linux
- Package manager
- pacman
- Package format
- pacman package
- Release model
- Rolling
- Release cadence
- Continuous
- Support lifetime
- Rolling
- Init system
- systemd
- Default desktop
- KDE Plasma (choice in the installer)
- Immutable
- No
- Made for
- Desktop, Gaming
- Backed by
- A community
- Beginner friendliness
- 4 of 5
- Architectures
- x86_64 (v3 and v4 builds)