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CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB (boilingsteam.com)
submitted 4 months 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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[-] kurcatovium@piefed.social 1 points 4 months 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.

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