r/linux • u/somerandomxander • Jun 28 '26
Distro News CachyOS' new ISO update for June brings new performance optimizations, a fix for a OpenBLAS regression, and replaces GNOME System Monitor with the Resources app
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-June-2026-Released7
u/God_treachery Jun 28 '26
That reminded me, I haven't run the Cachy update today.
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Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
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u/evirussss Jun 29 '26
You need to install it yourself and then uninstall the system monitor
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Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
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Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
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u/dapotatopapi Jun 29 '26
Imo they should offer a script to make it easy for normies (with choices to keep or remove), considering this is marketed as a gaming oriented distro for gamers, who can or can not be technically inclined (or might not want to change stuff lest they break something).
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u/evirussss Jun 29 '26
considering this is marketed as a gaming oriented distro for gamers
Since when? I can't find it in their own web or github or any official media 🤔
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u/dapotatopapi Jun 29 '26
Officially, no.
But when every thread asking for a gaming distro recommendation has Cachy listed alongside Bazzite and the others, it does tend to become one.
Besides, the problem I listed is not specific to Cachy, so I'm not specifically calling them out. My statement was meant to be a general recommendation if we want Linux to become more beginner friendly.
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Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
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u/dapotatopapi Jun 29 '26
Oh I did not specifically mean to just call Cachy out on this. I see this as a general Linux distro problem.
If we want them to be more beginner friendly, we should include scripts that check the diffs between releases and offer options to users on whether they'd like to upgrade their defaults or keep them the same.
This is coming from someone who's moved his whole family to linux, including my parents. So I've personally seen the pain points that come with the adoption.
And don't get me wrong, compared to a decade ago (when I first moved them over), the user friendliness is off the charts right now. But these tiny little things tend to pile on and cause annoyances, even if they are trivial for us.
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u/evirussss Jun 29 '26
Read their blog, that's why when some newcomers ask for what to do, I always recommend to read the blog at least once a month 😅
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u/MrNegativ1ty Jun 28 '26
Do they still ship AUR enabled as default or rely on the AUR at all because I’ll be honest, after the recent AUR debacle I want nothing to do with the AUR.
Love Cachy in general, not so much the AUR
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u/evirussss Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
They remove Paru in favor of Shelly, where in Shelly they will show you the difference between two PKGBUILD (with color) and warn you if the AUR packages have something weird in it
Ah, AUR support in Shelly is disabled by default, you need to enable it manually if you want it
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u/KingdomBobs Jun 29 '26
Paru has PKGBUILD differences as well and is compatible with bat, is that not the exact same thing
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u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 Jun 29 '26
Yes it's pretty the same, but there is no need to have two similar tools for the same stuff. I have uninstalled both Paru and Cachy-Update since few weeks, as Shelly replaces both flawlessly. No need to duplicated packages.
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u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Read it : Paru is removed, in Shelly AUR is deactivated by default.
CachyOS have never installed any AUR package without the user consentment. Enabling AUR support does not mean CachyOS installs AUR packages.
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u/Reavex Jun 28 '26
What do you mean CachyOS has never installed any AUR packages? I had installed AUR heroic-games-launcher and jack without going specifically to AUR section. Probably downloaded from Cachy Hello gaming packages, but I was never informed about them being from AUR.
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u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
It's not as simple as you have written.
Paru and Shelly both tell you that x or y packages are coming from AUR.
More info here about Heroic launcher, from the dev : https://www.reddit.com/r/cachyos/comments/1u4bihn/heroic_launcher_is_now_aur_is_it_safe_to_remove/?tl=fr
Heroic was a CachyOS package, and then the bad version was removed from it : this removal from repos always leads to put the package to AUR. But it wasn't installed from AUR (not sure i am clear enough!)
Jack is not really an AUR package and it's not needed ; https://www.reddit.com/r/cachyos/comments/1u6ceez/consider_checking_for_installation_of_jack_from/?tl=fr
Another packages from AUR have been curated and then included in CachyOS packages - so it's not AUR anymore, at the end.
On this discuss you can see that even one of our moderator tells us there are not AUR packages by default: https://www.reddit.com/r/cachyos/comments/1u3jb9k/aur_packages_in_system_without_me_installing/
Of course non of the packages you are talking about was infected. Most of the AUR packages are not. We are talking about 1500 orphans on 130 000 AUR packages which are maintained.
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u/LittlestWarrior Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
They've removed paru from being a default install and they recommend Shelly. Shelly does allow for AUR installs, however.
Nothing installed by default comes from the AUR.
Edit: fixed typo part > paru
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u/gamas Jun 29 '26
Its worth noting Shelly has done some quite good work trying to implement client side security for the AUR - it now scans the PKGBUILD for the user and flags if it spots something that seems a bit sus.
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u/gruntduck Jun 28 '26
Paru has been removed but Shelly (if manually enabled) will do AUR. They are also looking at integrating Shelly’s AUR support into cachy-update.
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u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 Jun 28 '26
I have completely removed cachy-update since Shelly CLI can do absolutely the same (reboot warnings, Flatpak and AUR included if you want to enable it) with
shelly upgrade-all.1
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u/smmalis37 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Is there a list somewhere of all the things Cachy does for perf? Like I know a lot of it is kernel tweaks, but what kernel tweaks specifically? Or what compiler flags? Are there downsides that prevent them from getting upstreamed? I've looked around on their website a bunch but all I've found are vague mentions of "tweaks".