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CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB (boilingsteam.com)
submitted 1 week ago by Nils@lemmy.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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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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[-] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

CachyOS is awesome. I just switched a few months ago after the praises from SomeOrdinaryGamer. I also wanted to use hyprland again after using plasma for sometime. It's amazing that Cachy lets me use the hyprland DE, but also has libraries to let me run kde software without the need for plasma.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

It’s amazing that Cachy lets me use the hyprland DE, but also has libraries to let me run kde software without the need for plasma.

Which distribution doesn't allow to run KDE software on non-KDE desktops? How would this even be possible?

[-] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I originally used EndeavourOS with hyprland and I tried to us kdenlive, but it would never start. I then tried to install kde-plasma, but it would never boot into the plasma DE. I went and installed kubuntu to use the kde apps, but things just work better for me on arch, like Bluetooth connectivity. So I decided to switch back to arch through Cachy.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I originally used EndeavourOS with hyprland and I tried to us kdenlive, but it would never start.

Maybe an XWayland fuckup back then when Kdenlive didn't yet transition to Wayland.

[-] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure. It was strange that plasma would crash and not boot even after reinstalling it. I think there may have been some conflicts I wasn't aware of. Either way, I have had no issues with things running properly on Cachy.

[-] cholesterol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Dependencies..? I remember accidentally installing entire DEs back in the day because individual packages required their entire native environment. So external maintainers basically had to 'extract' some packages from the dependency bundle to make them available without installing the entire native DE. Isn't that sort of how it still works?

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I remember accidentally installing entire DEs back in the day because individual packages required their entire native environment.

Either packaging bug or user error.

So external maintainers basically had to ‘extract’ some packages from the dependency bundle to make them available without installing the entire native DE. Isn’t that sort of how it still works?

No.

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