After 4 months of intensive CashyOs use
Hi all, I made to switch from Winbloat 11 to CachyOs on 2026-01-04 and the full switch on 2026-01-23 as my daily driver.
The first 3 weeks or so I was dual-booting but after 3 weeks I was convinced Cachy checked all my boxes of what I wanted. So I nuked Winbloat on my nvme and installed a fresh copy of CachyOs with Limine + btrfs. Then I formatted my other drive from ntfs to ext4 to host most of my games.
This setup has run flawlessly for this entire period, there were perhaps 2 issues in all this time but the Cachy team resolved those within minutes. (Login issue & secure boot issue), although I was not affected by secure boot issue.
So again I would like to thank anyone directly or indirectly involved with this fantastic project!
For the new users thinking of switching and think updating is scary or the terminal is scary, well it's not :)
Probably 99% of all the things you can do via programs.
For example:
- Shelly - to install stuff
- Btrfs Assistant - Configure a drive to mount on login
- Cachy-Update - Update system & software
My system specs are far from ideal for Linux because of NVIDIA but despite that most of my games run fine.
The games I played in that time-frame are:
OverWatch, Path of Exile 1, Path of Exile 2, Windrose, Factorio, Shapez 2, Terraria, Subnautica 2, Civilization VI and Mahjong Soul.
Out of all these games Windrose & Subnautica 2 needed some tinkering, Windrose was most stubborn one. Also the performance on those titles was not excellent.
My relevant system specs for those curious:
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 [Discrete]
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (16) @ 5.05 GHz
If you have any questions for me let me know in the comments!