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CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB (boilingsteam.com)
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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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[–] versionc@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'm using NixOS and I have had no problems gaming. Getting the kernel from CachyOS is also easy enough, if you want that.

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I have my NixOS set up the same way, with the CachyOS kernel and the CachyOS Proton for Steam.

on another machine I have regular Arch but also uses the CachyOS Kernel and I also use the CachyOS repos for that. Honestly it's CachyOS without all the extra bloat. And that's my own gripe about CachyOS itself. its' great, it just comes with a lot of crap attached to it making the install one of the longest out of any distro I've ever used. they really need to trim the fat on it.

What I would suggest to people is install Arch with the CachyOS Kernel and Repo. you'll essentially have CachyOS without all the crap.