The April 2025 ISO update is out today for CachyOS, the Arch based Linux distribution known for its aggressive out-of-the-box performance on modern hardware.
The April 2025 ISO re-spin for this rolling-release distribution built upon Arch Linux isn’t a particularly major update. It does have a fix for module crashes on ASUS laptops and the Limine bootloader support has been improved upon.
Besides being known for its performance, CachyOS has been one of the few Linux distributions pursuing a nice handheld experience for the likes of Valve’s Steam Deck and the ASUS ROG Ally and Legion Go devices for portable/handheld gaming. With the April update, CachyOS brings audio profiles to the ASUS ROG Ally X and Lenovo Legion Go handhelds.
Also for the CachyOS Handheld Edition is replacing gamescope-plus with Valve’s upstream Gamescope compositor code. The upstream Gamescope code should now be providing a better experience.
Also new to CachyOS for April 2025 is adding the OCCT tool to the ISOs to help in offline hardware stress testing.
More details on this month’s CachyOS ISO refresh via CachyOS.org.
