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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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Any chance, have you ever used Garuda? I'm curious how CachyOS compares on the "ease of use" front. I've been on Garuda for like 3 or 4 years now as it is the only one (that I tried) that I've had "just work" for everything out of the box. My laptop had a lot of trouble with Bazzite and the nvidia drivers, but again, I don't have to do anything under Garuda besides install it, periodically run updates, and it plays games just fine with no headaches. I'm not a huge fan of the decoration choices in Garuda, and some of the stuff you mentioned like Winboat and Gaming one-click installs sound amazingly helpful... but everything is working right now so there's a hurdle to changing, lol.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Garuda "Dragonized" looks horrid, but personally I really enjoy "Mokka".

    I only disabled one or two window effects, left everything else as is. I also added some System Monitor widgets. Here's my primary and secondary screen.

    I think it looks great. Other than the unusual colour theme, nothing really gives off a "pr0 g4merzz" vibe, IMO.

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