{"id":229617,"date":"2026-03-31T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/i-switched-to-cachyos-and-im-not-sure-if-i-want-to-go-back-to-vanilla-arch\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:30:30","slug":"i-switched-to-cachyos-and-im-not-sure-if-i-want-to-go-back-to-vanilla-arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/i-switched-to-cachyos-and-im-not-sure-if-i-want-to-go-back-to-vanilla-arch\/","title":{"rendered":"I switched to CachyOS, and I\u2019m not sure if I want to go back to vanilla Arch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/switched-to-cachyos-not-sure-if-i-want-to-go-back-to-vanilla-arch\/\">I switched to CachyOS, and I\u2019m not sure if I want to go back to vanilla Arch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/switched-to-cachyos-not-sure-if-i-want-to-go-back-to-vanilla-arch\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/switched-to-cachyos-not-sure-if-i-want-to-go-back-to-vanilla-arch\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-31 10:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Installing Arch Linux almost feels like a rite of passage and a trial every Linux user undergoes at some point. It\u2019s a grueling process, but one that teaches you the nitty-gritty of your system, helping isolate issues a lot faster. Elitism jokes aside, Arch Linux has always been a fantastic distro, but only once you get past the initial setup, which is incredibly daunting. This is where Arch Linux-based distributions come into play, with EndeavourOS having been a consistently popular option for quite some time now.<\/p>\n<p>One of the (relatively) newer Arch-based distributions is CachyOS, an easy-to-install derivative that also happens to promise more optimized, performant packages. It sounds like a perfect match, and it almost is.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI replaced GNOME with the new COSMIC, and it feels like the future of Linux<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">It&#8217;s fast, furious, and somewhat bonkers, but it gets the job done. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"cachyos-feels-like-an-easier-arch-linux\">\n                        CachyOS feels like an easier Arch Linux<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"simple-setup-and-installation\">\n            Simple setup and installation<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>               &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/switched-to-cachyos-not-sure-if-i-want-to-go-back-to-vanilla-arch\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I switched to CachyOS, and I\u2019m not sure if I want to go back to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/03\/flow-z13-cachyos.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,71,79],"class_list":["post-229617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-arch-linux","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229617"}],"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=229617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229619,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229617\/revisions\/229619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}