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Sitting out of a project that sounds as grandiose as the Open Gaming Collective may have seemed like a bad idea, but it didn't take long for CachyOS to prove otherwise. In early March, a report indicated that CachyOS had become the most popular Linux distro on ProtonDB, a platforms that tracks Linux usage on Steam. For nearly five years, that top spot had been held by pure Arch Linux, but CachyOS has grown massively in the last couple of years, and it accounted for 21.1% of Linux users on Steam as of this report. It's worth noting that Bazzite sat in fourth place at 9.5%. That should make it o
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… CachyOS users can run the command “sudo pacman -Syu” to update to the latest release. Link: CachyOS April 2026 Release | https://cachyos.org/blog/2604-april-release/ | CachyOS
… Now, that same support has been added to the CachyOS version of the Proton compatibility layer, CachyOS-Proton version 11.0-20260519 , making enabling AMD Anti-Lag 2 and NVIDIA Reflex simpler. …
… Plus, tools like the CachyOS Package Manager, CachyOS Update, and other preinstalled software makes things a little more well-rounded out of the box. Perhaps most notable, though, is the optimization work done by the CachyOS team. …
… Those wanting to learn more about it can do so via this GitHub repository for the CachyOS rules applied. With Ananicy-cpp being used by default on CachyOS, I ran another linux-cachyos-bore run but with disabling Ananicy-cpp that can be easily done via the CachyOS Hello app. …
https://github.com/CachyOS/proton-cachyos/releases/tag/cachyos-11.0-20260428-slr Proton (SLR and Native) Updated to the most recent Proton Experimental release 11.0-20260428 First of all, I would like to thank u/Etaash-m…
I've been on Linux for about a year now, and I've seen a few distros spike in popularity. Pop!_OS and Bazzite are two that come to mind. I played around with a few when I started, but ultimately settled on the Fedora-bas…
Benchmarking the Different CachyOS Linux Kernel Flavors
Hey everyone, we recently tested the Gothic Remake under Linux with CachyOS and compared the results against Windows. The game itself runs, so this is less about basic compatibility and more about how differently the GPU…
Had been getting great MTP performance with llama.cpp on my RTX 4070 Super 12GB, until they actually merged the MTP PR. Then, performance tanked and was barely above non-MTP. So, I decided to try out ik_llama.cpp since i…
… This monthly CachyOS snapshot also brings various installer improvements and a variety of fixes. Downloads and more details on this new ISO refresh for the speedy CachyOS Linux distribution via CachyOS.org . …
CachyOS Delivers Lead Over Arch Linux, Pop! …
… CachyOS with Linux 7.0 is also feeling ambitious enough that they have enabled the new NTFS driver. The brand new NTFS driver was merged for Linux 7.1 just days ago and the CachyOS developers feel ambitious enough to already ship it to its users. The CachyOS Linux 7.0 details can be found on X . …
OptiScaler is now integrated on Proton-CachyOS version 11.0-20260506. This latest release from the CachyOS team also updates the Proton compatibility layer to the latest Proton Experimental base, but the upscaler integration is the main highlight. …
… As per the report, the update comes from a recently addressed issue in Proton-CachyOS. …
… CachyOS on X is using 5~15% as the baseline figure for the approximate performance benefits when upgrading CachyOS with its new Python package. No changes by CachyOS users are needed besides upgrading to the latest packages. …
