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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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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You will not see much difference in performance. This is from 2022 but should still be true?

https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-linux-perf/5

I think it has some improvements in kernel settings but in day to day, you wont notice them.

[–] cmrss2@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah very outdated, newer benchmarks show CachyOS performs even better now, but still not significantly better in day-to-day use