The gaming Linux distro everyone’s switching to just made sudo way more secure with your fingerprint
The gaming Linux distro everyone’s switching to just made sudo way more secure with your fingerprint
Publish Date: 2026-04-27 00:41:00
Source Domain: www.xda-developers.com
Summary
- CachyOS Apr 2026 lets you use fingerprint scanners for sudo, boosting convenient superuser security.
- Octopi replaced by Shelly for GUI installs from AUR, Flathub, and AppImages – easier setup for new users.
- You can update your CachyOS install by running ‘sudo pacman -Syu’ in the terminal.
2026 has been a great year for CachyOS, and we’re only a quarter of the way in. Earlier in the year, we saw CachyOS dethrone Arch Linux as the top distro for reports in ProtonDB, which ended a year-long reign and showed a pattern of people checking out CachyOS for their gaming needs.
Now, the April version of CachyOS has been released, and one of its key features is better sudo protection. Now, if you really want to stop people from running superuser commands on your system, you can lock it behind a fingerprint scanner for an extra layer of security.
Related
CachyOS just shipped Linux 7.0, and it has some extra performance tweaks added to the mix
Some of them are from Linux 7.1’s kernel.
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