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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
CachyOS skipped the Open Gaming Collective, and gamers rewarded it by making it the top Linux distro on Steam… 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. …
… Cyberpunk 2077 was also a solid win for CachyOS, achieving a 98fps average with a 1% low of 76 FPS. Windows 11 scored an average of 91 fps and a low of 63 fps, making CachyOS the clear winner for rendering a very graphically intensive game. However, it wasn't all good news for CachyOS. …
… Arch Linux is great, but CachyOS does the job better Ultimately, CachyOS is Arch Linux but specifically designed for gamers. …
… CachyOS is beginning to take performance wins over Windows The stats don't lie OPkay, so that's why Linux as a whole is getting better at gaming. But why CachyOS specifically? Well, CachyOS is designed with performance in mind. …
… That’s why CachyOS stands out here, because it makes Linux feel like the default and Windows feel like the backup plan, which is probably how it should’ve been all along. CachyOS CachyOS is an Arch distribution that makes running Windows VMs a trivial, one-click trick. See at CachyOS