CachyOS — Distrowatch’s Top Distro Has Speed, Polish and Features

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 14, 2025,
updated Aug 21, 2025

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While it’s rare for us to go straight to the top ranking on Distrowatch for our weekly distro look, we at FOSS Force have a perfectly logical reason in making CachyOS this week’s Distro of the Week. CachyOS had a new release last month, so we thought we’d throw caution to the wind and give it a shot …er, I mean look.

An Arch-based distribution, CachyOS delivered version 250713 to the public on July 13 of this year. Because it’s a rolling release, the ISO is basically a snapshot for new users to install, while current users always remain up-to-date. According to the project’s website, the distro “offers a seamless installation process and a range of customization options to personalize your computing experience. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced user, CachyOS delivers optimized performance while maintaining its simplicity.”

A relative Johnny-come-lately to the Linux universe, CachyOS was first released in July 2021 in Germany, developed by Peter Jung and Vladislav Nepogodin. The name CachyOS originated from the Cachy scheduler, initially a CPU scheduler patch meant to improve desktop responsiveness that was developed by Jung. Later he grew interested in creating an optimized Linux distro for x86_64-v3 systems.

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Linuxiac:

• CachyOS Topped DistroWatch’s Rankings

  While DistroWatch isn’t exactly a reliable way to measure how usable a Linux distribution is—since its stats are just based on how many times a distro’s page gets opened—the numbers it shows have still always been a fun point of interest for Linux fans.

  I say this because we’ve got a new leader on the charts — the gamer-focused CachyOS — which just knocked Linux Mint out of the top spot. Mint, for its part, had claimed first place back in November last year, taking it from MX Linux, which had held onto that position for quite a while. So, at the moment, things look like this.

The Register:

• CachyOS hits the top of the Distrowatch charts

  CachyOS bills itself as a Blazingly Fast & Customizable Linux distribution and that seems to be winning it friends. In the last month, it's the number one distro on the popularity chart on the widely-used DistroWatch comparison site.

  We know, it's not a great indicator, but it's still an interesting change and shows the project is attracting attention – the good way.