Arch-based CachyOS is working on a new Server Edition aimed at NAS, workstations, and hosting providers, featuring hardened defaults and optimized packages.

Here is some news that both excited me and gave me pause. In its annual 2025 retrospective, published today, Arch-based CachyOS, widely popular among Linux gamers and heavily focused on performance optimization, reveals plans I did not expect: an expansion into the server space.

“In addition to our ongoing PGO and AutoFDO optimizations, we are developing a specialized ‘Server’ Edition for NAS, workstations, and server environments. We intend to provide a verified image that hosting providers can easily deploy for their customers. This edition will ship with a hardened configuration, pre-tuned settings, and performance-optimized packages for web servers, databases and more!”

  • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
    8·
    22 hours ago

    honestly if they do this I will slap it on my server. I love CachyOS, it’s a great and solid distro and by far the best Arch fork out there. I’ve never had issues with it and while sure the install is probably the longest out of all the distros I’ve used it’s still great. Very solid team behind it.

    • piccolo@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      19 hours ago

      I love CachyOS, it’s a great and solid distro and by far the best Arch fork out there. I’ve never had issues with it

      As long you keep it updated. I left my machine powered off for 8 months and came back to being impossible to update it because the repo was missing library updates from months prior… I could never figure it out, and just nuked the install with bazzitte.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        14 hours ago

        Had the same experience with EndeavourOS. Also switched to bazzite and haven’t looked back. There was a slight learning curve, but once you figure it out, you can do pretty much anything you want to/on it.

    • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      20 hours ago

      Why would you want it? Especially for a server. If you can just use Arch. The installation part takes 5 minutes, if you’re not doing it the very first time. My very gist Arch server is about 6 years now, no need to reinstall, always updated.

        • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
          2·
          3 hours ago

          That’s why I’m asking, what’s the difference? Which defaults? I have never used CachyOS and have no idea what it brings to the table. I use Arch for ~7 years, and I’m no looking for a replacement. Especially an Arch based one. Yet, I’m curious of the difference, and why one would want Cachy, especially as a server.