Friday, November 13th 2026

CachyOS Becomes More Beginner-Friendly With New Package Installer 2.0

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Since the launch of the Steam Deck and the ensuing flurry of gaming-focussed Linux distributions, CachyOS has become one of the more popular Linux distros for gamers, thanks to its performance-oriented kernel and Arch base, but that same Arch DNA has been a deterrent for many first-time Linux users. It seems as though the developers behind CachyOS are aiming to address some of that and make the distribution less intimidating, announcing a new CachyOS Package Installer 2.0.

The new Package Installer 2.0 moves away from the largely text-based Octopi and more modern Shelly. CachyOS Package Installer 2.0 will launch with support for the AUR and Flatpak, alongside the regular CachyOS repos, and it will have a fresh new UI with a layout similar to Bazaar, the app store commonly used in Bazzite. Unlike Bazaar, CachyOS Package Installer 2.0 will have support for themes, with nine themes in total available at launch. It will also seemingly support proper app previews and more user-friendly descriptions. Alongside the new package launcher, the official CachyOS account on X also announced that a new CachyOS release is coming soon.
Source: @CachyOS on X

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33 Comments on CachyOS Becomes More Beginner-Friendly With New Package Installer 2.0

#26
Solaris17
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wNotyarDWhat the heck? What kind of oversight is this? Partition managing is a basic must in any installer!
Just to be clear that comment is off topic.

He is talking about SteamOS, which only targets the NVMe's on the steam machine and steamdeck by default. This is not a linux specific thing.
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#27
shuffy_losys
wNotyarDWhat the heck? What kind of oversight is this? Partition managing is a basic must in any installer!
It's really weird seeing a Linux distro's installer be even less serviceable than Windows'
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#28
wNotyarD
Solaris17Just to be clear that comment is off topic.

He is talking about SteamOS, which only targets the NVMe's on the steam machine and steamdeck by default. This is not a linux specific thing.
I thought Aus was talking about Cachy. And if being user-friendly is the topic, I don't think I strayed on intention, only by mistake if the post I quoted was indeed about SteamOS as you say.
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#29
Solaris17
Super Dainty Moderator
wNotyarDI thought Aus was talking about Cachy. And if being user-friendly is the topic, I don't think I strayed on intention, only by mistake if my quoted post was indeed about SteamOS as you say.
He wasnt, it was about steamOS if you go back and look at the quote, which IIRC and if I can read...is not cachy.
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#30
wNotyarD
Solaris17He wasnt, it was about steamOS if you go back and look at the quote, which IIRC and if I can read...is not cachy.
I stand corrected.
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#31
katzi
DenverI don't understand all the positive buzz surrounding
" CrashOS."

Swayed by the hype, I decided to give it a try, and unfortunately, it's a mess... nothing works out of the box the way it should. I ran into all kinds of compatibility issues, and it's not user-friendly for anyone migrating from Windows.

Fedora, on the other hand, was a pleasant surprise, it works better than expected. Every piece of hardware I’ve tried on it just works, without any troubleshooting or fiddling around in the terminal. That’s the distro that deserves the most hype.
Sounds like a Skill issue.

My only issues with CachyOS are related to hybrid graphics - which are present on *Every* linux distro thanks to nvidia.
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#32
shuffy_losys
katziSounds like a Skill issue.
Have you configured, built, and patched a Yocto build before?
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#33
JasBC
AusWolfThere are many distros with much more refined package installers, like Fedora with Discover. There's no need to reinvent the wheel, imo.
Furthermore, this is the problem with Linux. Every distro wants to do its own thing, which creates chaos.
I reinstalled Fedora 45 on my Acer Nitro Blaze 7 handheld this week and because doing terminal stuff on a handheld is painful I accepted having to use a GUI but holy hell is Discover is just such a buggy mess that I gave up and swapped it for Gnome Software. . . like it is on the level that it doesn't recognise all preinstalled programs and bugged out multiple times requiring reboots simply to update apps. . .

KDE needs to disown Discover, truly a repugnant piece of software.
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