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CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB (boilingsteam.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Nils@lemmy.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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It is also first in the Distrowatch rank

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=cachyos

I distro hopped to it from Bazzite a couple of months ago, and I could not be happier.

If you try the installer, be careful when selecting multiples DE/WM as the conflicts were not listed anywhere for the installation process.

Picking a single environment and then adding the others later was what worked for me.

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[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

Only different config, since it's based on arch.

They have their own pacman-mirror, pacman is set up to download a lot more in parallel and they set the scheduler formerly known as "cachy", which is supposedly really good for a snappy UX.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's a lot more than that. It doesn't fork Arch like Manjaro, but they have tons of custom and extremely convenient and useful packages in their repos. It's also a living "optimization experiment" in the vein of Intel's Clear Linux (may it rest in peace).

Theoretically, you could replicate it in vanilla arch, but I can't imagine how many man-hours it would take.

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