With Linux you'll run into more of "the drivers for this old hardware are shit" moreso than it won't work. But what you have isn't even remotely old. You'll be fine. CachyOS should work just fine.
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No lol wtf
OK, I got the idea Catchy was unfriendly to older tech from this article.
Maybe I misunderstood or the info is out of date. I got cold feet when the provided terminal command returned "Not Supported" for my CPU . Perhaps I didn't run that correctly.
grep -o 'x86-64-v3' /proc/cpuinfo && echo "Supported" || echo "Not Supported"
And yea, I already installed it in a VM and it worked well as soon as I gave it more than the default 2GB RAM. I know that should really have answered my question, but like I said.. cold feet.
anything core 2 duo/quad or newer will work fine, you only need newer processors if you'd like to make use of the optimized packages..
I once tried running Cachy on a first-gen i7 from 2009. It seemed to run fine, though obviously couldn't take advantage of the newer instruction sets.
Best bet is to try running from a live USB. If it boots, you'll be able to check its compatibility with all your components.