{"id":607976,"date":"2026-04-26T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/607976\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:40:10","slug":"cachyos-introduces-new-default-gui-package-manager-kyber-for-nvme-i-o-scheduler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/607976\/","title":{"rendered":"CachyOS Introduces New Default GUI Package Manager, Kyber For NVMe I\/O Scheduler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ARCH LINUX\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/archlinux.webp.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nThe April 2026 ISO refresh of the Arch Linux based CachyOS is now available with a variety of refinements, new hardware support, and other polishing.<\/p>\n<p>CachyOS is now making use of the app Shelly as its default GUI package manager in place of Octopi. Shelly is a &#8220;modern reimagination of the Arch Linux package manager&#8221; and further described via <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Seafoam-Labs\/Shelly-ALPM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its GitHub repository<\/a> for those interested in this Arch Linux GUI package manager.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>CachyOS also now supports DNS-over-HTTPS for better privacy, improved vRAM management toggle, and with CachyOS Settings the default NVMe I\/O scheduler changed from none to now using the Kyber I\/O scheduler for better responsiveness. The improved vRAM management toggle is leveraging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Valve-Better-Gaming-Low-vRAM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the work done by Valve for optimizing Linux and initially the KDE desktop<\/a> for a better experience on graphics cards with limited amounts of video memory.&#13;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/image-viewer.php?id=2026&amp;image=cachyos_april_lrg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777232410_255_image.webp\" alt=\"CachyOS April release\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This monthly CachyOS snapshot also brings various installer improvements and a variety of fixes.<\/p>\n<p>Downloads and more details on this new ISO refresh for the speedy CachyOS Linux distribution via <a href=\"https:\/\/cachyos.org\/blog\/2604-april-release\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CachyOS.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The April 2026 ISO refresh of the Arch Linux based CachyOS is now available with a variety of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7278,7277,7275,7274,7281,7279,7276,7280,7273,7284,74,7282,7283],"class_list":{"0":"post-607976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-linux-benchmarking","10":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","11":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","12":"tag-linux-how-to","13":"tag-linux-performance","14":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","15":"tag-open-source-graphics","16":"tag-phoronix","17":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","20":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}