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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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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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).