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[-] VivianRixia@piefed.social 71 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I've not heard of CachyOS, but to capture 2.54% of the steam linux market feels significant. It jumped right past other established Arch-based distros like Endeavor and Manjaro.

[-] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 52 points 3 weeks ago

A lot of gamers want better performance, so a performance oriented distro with gaming quality of life features fills that gap. And ultimately there are a lot of YouTube channels promoting it and it kind of turned into a cool distro to use. This might explain the phenomenon.

[-] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

Is Nobara still a thing? That was the gaming distro a couple years back, last I checked.

[-] Virual@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 3 weeks ago

I've been using it for a while now, and it's genuinely so good. Before this I was using EndeavourOS which was also a great distro, but I realized that I was basically putting in work to do things CachyOS does out of the box, so I switched and it's been great.

[-] noodlejetski@piefed.social 30 points 3 weeks ago

they offer some optimisations to the kernel and the packages that are supposed to yield a tiny bit better performance.

an incredibly small thing that rubs me the wrong way more than it probably should about their setup is that they set Plasma animation speeds to much higher values than the stock Plasma desktop uses. sure, it could be just a part of their customisation tweaks the same way using fish as the default shell is, but it feels like a cheap trick to reel in the "I installed it on my desktop and it's soooo much snappier" review kind of people. like, if your work is as good as you claim, you shouldn't need to artificially make the improvements seem bigger than they really are.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not familiar with it, but I think that that could be a reasonable UI tweak. I disable virtually all animation in software where possible because I want it to be as responsive as possible and don't care about the animation. Simply reducing the time in animation is a middle ground---one still gets animations, but cuts out some of the time.

[-] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

I set plasma animations to instant every arch install anyway so personally I don’t care 😎 thanks for asking

[-] ada 24 points 3 weeks ago

I started using linux full time about a year ago. I started with Arch, but moved to Cachy really quickly when I discovered it. All of the advantages of Arch, but repos optimised for modern hardware, and a whole heap of useful pre-configured tools, like Wine/Proton, fish, snapper etc. Arch is a bare bones, pick and configure your own setup rolling release distro. Cachy is a pre-optimised, rolling release distro with lots of useful stuff right out of the box.

[-] beerclue@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I use the cachyos kernel on an otherwise plain arch setup. I don't game much, but I tried it out and just stuck with it.

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