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CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB (boilingsteam.com)
submitted 4 weeks 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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[-] gothic_lemons@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago

The hell is zram?

[-] cyberfae@piefed.social 23 points 4 weeks ago

You know how you can compress files? It work for ram as well.

[-] cholesterol@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Downloaded more ram, got it

[-] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago

Oh god the meme is true

[-] Captain_Stupid@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Basically it compresses your data in the RAM. Needs a little more work form the CPU but it is still faster than swap. fyi

[-] gothic_lemons@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Interesting thank you!

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

They should have called it cram. Lost opportunity.

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

The hell is zram

It something than claims to handle swapping better on low ram systems.. I never noticed much difference on the lower spec machines I tried it on.

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