CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB

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.

  • versionc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    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.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 days 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.

      • kurcatovium@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        14 hours ago

        What’s that crap you’re talking about? I installed CachyOS about month ago and it’s pretty bare bones out of the box. I’m definitely no minimalist, but compared to some other distros I’ve tried over the years (mint, Ubuntu, tumbleweed, solus, fedora, etc.) it feels almost empty. It doesn’t even include browser or libreoffice at default. Just honestly wondering what’s the bloat.