CachyOS, the performance-focused Arch Linux derivative that gained popularity among handheld gamers before Valve published the SteamOS ISO, has issued its August 2025 release. The development team posted a blog entry outlining the new version and its changes. The distro retains its similarities to Valve´s user interface while continuing to offer native NVIDIA support and a focus on performance for gaming on Linux.
The most visible user-facing addition in this release is packages.cachy.org, a web-based package curation service that lists packages in the standard CachyOS repositories. The service offers repository filtering and search fields for package name and description. Each package entry displays the last update time and the architectures for which the package is available. The new site is intended to make it easier for users to inspect repository contents and track package updates without local queries.
On the gaming and graphics side, CachyOS ships with built-in tooling to help users enable modern super sampling technologies. Users with AMD RDNA 3 GPUs can enable FSR 4 using Proton-CachyOS, a forked and modified version of Valve´s compatibility layer. NVIDIA and Intel users can take advantage of built-in DLSS and XeSS upgraders to force the latest versions of those vendors´ super sampling implementations. The release also includes the usual set of bug fixes, stability improvements, and general package updates noted by the developers in the announcement.
