{"id":206932,"date":"2026-01-27T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/the-popular-arch-based-distro-cachyos-gets-a-new-release-with-a-significantly-reworked-installer\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T07:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:20:08","slug":"the-popular-arch-based-distro-cachyos-gets-a-new-release-with-a-significantly-reworked-installer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/the-popular-arch-based-distro-cachyos-gets-a-new-release-with-a-significantly-reworked-installer\/","title":{"rendered":"The popular Arch-based distro CachyOS gets a new release with a significantly reworked installer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/01\/the-popular-arch-based-distro-cachyos-gets-a-new-release-with-a-significantly-reworked-installer\/\">The popular Arch-based distro CachyOS gets a new release with a significantly reworked installer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/01\/the-popular-arch-based-distro-cachyos-gets-a-new-release-with-a-significantly-reworked-installer\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/01\/the-popular-arch-based-distro-cachyos-gets-a-new-release-with-a-significantly-reworked-installer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-27 07:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CachyOS madness hasn&#8217;t quite caught on for me, but I definitely want to take a good look at what all the fuss is about soon &#8211; and there&#8217;s a big new release. An Arch Linux-based distribution, with an aim to be powerful but user-friendly enough for anyone to play with it.<\/p>\n<p>With the CachyOS January 2026 Release as the first of the year, it&#8217;s filled with good sounding changes, and perhaps a great time to actually check it out with a significantly reworked installer, which also now includes bootloader selection and helpful info.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uploads.golmedia.net\/uploads\/articles\/article_media\/thumbs\/10701111731769515606gol2.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uploads.golmedia.net\/uploads\/articles\/article_media\/thumbs\/9549187061769515604gol2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For the new ISO download it now uses Wayland along with the newer Plasma Login Manager. On top of that the ISO ships with a stable Linux kernel, along with an LTS kernel they say will &#8220;improve compatibility for newer devices and hardware&#8221;. The GNOME installation also saw lots of work to clean it up.<\/p>\n<p>NVIDIA support saw a bunch of tweaks with this release too, like better handling for older GPUs.<\/p>\n<p>Their own Proton-CachyOS, which is a fork of Valve&#8217;s gaming compatibility layer Proton specifically for use with CachyOS also saw some upgrades like support for FSR4 ML Frame Generation on RDNA4 and RDNA3 cards. Along with D7VK officially now part of Proton-CachyOS.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s available in a traditional Desktop build or Handheld edition which acts a bit more like SteamOS and Bazzite.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Installer:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Moved bootloader selection to Calamares; management is now consolidated into a single package.<\/li>\n<li>Architecture detection is now performed <strong>before<\/strong> the base system installation to reduce download size.<\/li>\n<li>GRUB now uses LUKS2 for encryption.<\/li>\n<li>Pass \u2014needed to pacman to avoid installing packages twice.<\/li>\n<li>Use single-level compression on NVMe for Btrfs<\/li>\n<li>Removed xorg dependecies on Wayland desktops environments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Switched to plasma-login-manager for the ISO environment.<\/li>\n<li>The ISO now contains both Stable and LTS kernels. The Stable kernel is selected by default.<\/li>\n<li>Switched the ISO session from X11 to Wayland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Netinstall:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Plasma&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/01\/the-popular-arch-based-distro-cachyos-gets-a-new-release-with-a-significantly-reworked-installer\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular Arch-based distro CachyOS gets a new release with a significantly reworked installer https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/01\/the-popular-arch-based-distro-cachyos-gets-a-new-release-with-a-significantly-reworked-installer\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/articles\/tagline_images\/2116826970id28386gol.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,71],"class_list":["post-206932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-arch-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206934,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206932\/revisions\/206934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}