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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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[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's still an unreal to me, as I remember CachyOS failing to install twice for various reasons. One related to being unable to install the kernel correctly and, the other failing to install the boot loader, leaving me with a dead install. I prefer Bazzite, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Ubuntu for gaming. They seem like nice people, having read the CachyOS forum...But the installer is scuffed AF in my experience.

[–] jacecomix@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have to admit, installing Cachy was annoying for me. It couldn't deal with my Windows partitions or something. After I wiped my SSD completely, it worked.
Learning Linux stuff was a bit confusing too, but expected. Installer was a headache I did not expect.
(Disabling SecureBoot in BIOS was also a bit of trial and error)