CachyOS

This is like Arch but more noob friendly, has more programs in the cachyos repositories compared to arch repositories which reduces the need for the AUR, and has optimized performance for different versions of x86_64 cpus. It was the main GNU/Linux distro Ronin used until he moved to Artix. I did not had any major issues with Cachy and has caused me less issues than with GNU/Linux Mint due to how debian and ubuntu based distros have software in their repositories that are out of date and older compared to software in arch based distros. This is an issue if you want the latest graphics drivers for video games. If you have a new gpu that is less than a year old and are using older debian or ubuntu version of mesa, that GPU will not work properly or at all. It can also be problematic for programs like yt-dlp which is a cli program that downloads videos from youtube. If not on the latest yt-dlp version, you cannot download videos from youtube.

Late March 2026 update: Avoid cachyos now since they will censor you on their forums if you oppose age verification and call you either a radical or a racist. They have a code of conduct that says that you cannot say anything bad about LGBTQABCDFG people or else they will ban you from their forums and will ban you from contributing to their repositories. Use Artix instead.

You can also manually add cachyos repositories to artix if you want to use their kernel or extra packages in their repositories.

Step 1: You need to first enable arch extra and multilib reposities on artix

Step 2: Manually add CachyOS repositories

Make sure to not include their core repositories.

Your pacman.conf file should look like this

#Artix
[system]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

#[world-gremlins]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[world]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

#[galaxy-gremlins]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[galaxy]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the lib32 repositories as required here.

#[lib32-gremlins]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[lib32]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

#Cachyos
[cachyos-v3]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/cachyos-v3-mirrorlist

[cachyos-extra-v3]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/cachyos-v3-mirrorlist

[cachyos]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/cachyos-mirrorlist


# Arch
[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

Step 3:

Now type in your terminal

sudo pacman -S linux-cachyos linux-cachyos-headers

or if you are using doas (more minimal version of sudo)

doas pacman -S linux-cachyos linux-cachyos-headers

Now cachyos repositories are added to Artix.

[See also]

• Arch
• Artix
• Debian
• Ubuntu
• Mint
• Distro

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