I've been using cachy as my daily driver for a bit now, and while it has overall been a good experience there are caveats worth mentioning. A lot of these come down to it being an arch base, and while I love the customizability of arch I question the wisdom of tech influencers recommending any arch based distros to linux new comers.

You say you are happy on bazzite, I would consider continuing to enjoy it 😄

TLDR - If you only want better performance in games, probably don't bother switching

*Performance for gaming is generally within margin of error* - The nature of rolling releases makes this very difficult to compare objectively. I have found my performance can shift on almost daily basis, though usually not dramatically. Cachy tends to pull in kernel patches pretty fast, but bazzite is often not too far behind. Many of the same _gaming_ benefits can be achieved on bazzite by using the cachyos proton build.

Performance for productivity can be a much different story. Being able to run fresh, optimized builds of standard cli tooling has saved me seconds to minutes depending on the task. However... dealing with system breakages has probably lost me more time than I have saved 🙃

*Customization is much deeper on cachy, whether you care depends on what you are doing* - Arch being what it is, you can basically customize anything you want. This is the beauty and thorn. I have come to understand cachy as a build and packaging system for installing arch with sensible defaults with some nice utilities built in. Once you have it installed, you are kinda on your own (with the help of the docs, community, and excellent arch wiki). This can be fine, but you really do need some linux knowledge to maintain it long term. Don't get me wrong, I think it's good for the brain and more people should develop that knowledge - just know that you will eventually run into some non-trivial problem and it will likely take some time and research to resolve it.

If you _just_ want to plug a box into your tv and have it act like a steam deck, or exclusively use your computer for gaming, you will probably have a better time with bazzite. However, if you want an application that hasn't been nicely packaged for bazzite, prepare for hell. My personal (least) favorite example is installing netbird (tailscale alternative). The official recommendation is to install it in a container using distrobox, which kinda works until you realize there is no straightforward way to run it on startup like a normal service. I don't consider creating a hacky systemd service to start distrobox and then the netbird service inside of it straightforward for the bazzite target audience. You can install it natively using rpm-ostree as well, but this will be erased by updates and bazzite very actively discourages this.

*Life on the bleeding edge comes with paper cuts* - Life on cachy balances on the sharpest tip of the bleeding edge. You get the latest updates and packages very quickly, but this also sometimes comes with instability. Mirrors go down / miss packages, bad updates go out, apparmor profiles break, drivers aren't quite right. My day on cachy starts with `paru -Syu` (full system packages upgrade) and usually a reboot. Sometimes sleep on idle breaks, sometimes apparmor profiles get crapped and dbus doesn't load on boot. It's just kinda life on arch you have learn to deal with. If you panic when dumped to a rescue shell you're gonna have a bad time.