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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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[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's cool so many people are going with arch based distros. I've been on vanilla arch and had nearly zero issues. I like the idea of the optimizations Cachy provides but I'm not certain how much of a difference that would make and if that'd be worth it. I suspect it's not a crazy large difference and therefore any flavor of arch including vanilla is probably sufficient, let alone all the successful distros that aren't arch based.