Who is this person? Why does their opinion matter? Why are they writing about FOSS on a Billionaire’s Typewriter? Who is their audience? Why are they so concerned about recommending a corporate backed distros over a hobby distro made for hobby users?

The linked author also has account-gated articles such as The Senior Engineer’s Job in 2026 Is Code Review, Not Code Writing There is nothing in their About page and a cursory online search can’t confirm there’s a real person writing this blog.

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Me personally, I use CachyOS on my gaming computer after bouncing from popOS to Fedora to Arch to Bazzite. Cachy provides a familiar foundation while more of my games work without issues, it provides nice quality of life Arch utilities, and gives me a mutable distro to tinker with when I need to.

Is it perfect for everyone? No. Is it going through a hype-cycle? Yes. If Cachy ends up becoming unstable or insecure on my system, can I switch? Easily.

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It’s really weird to me to see a hot-dropped random blog post heavily upvoted with no discussion. Even if the blog matches the poster’s opinion, we should be careful in 2026 that we’re sharing genuine information with each other and not corporate propaganda or LLM slop posts.

There is absolutely nothing of worth in that article.

First of all, the team size is irrelevant. Even if the maintainers all end up in plane crashes or whatever, all that would happen is packages would “revert” to core Arch when a newer version is released.

Secondly, Secure Boot is a Microsoft-controlled technology that is not FOSS, and should not be considered mandatory like the author implies.

Lastly, the author conveniently doesn’t offer any evidence as to what exactly about Cachy’s “culture” (whatever that means) encourages AUR usage. The only thing I can think of is the fact that an AUR helper is preinstalled.

Not a single claim that isn’t incorrect on its face actually has any sources backing it up.

Can you elaborate on which part of this article has more worth than your average AI slop article?

This was a good read, thanks for posting. I'm on vanilla arch and I looked into switching to Cachy but the size of the team and the direct replacement of Arch specific packages stopped me. I don't know if I trust a small team, in already the niche OS of today, to maintain everything indefinitely and without issue.

This is one of those scenarios that id wish for those optimizations to come to trunk in a meaningful way than for a separate branch to exist.

Thanks for posting this blog post. It was a very interesting read. Didn't know that CachyOS was using BTRFS with bootable snapshots like OpenSUSE does with snapper.