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CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB
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this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2026
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I've thought about making the switch but what holds me back is stability.
I don't mean stability from a software perspective. But from a distro perspective. Distros come and go all the time. Four or Five have stable enough support through community developers and industry sponsorships that they've managed to become large enough and supported enough to be considered Evergreen Distros for lack of a better word. In other words, distros where the support base is large enough to be considered "too big to fail" (Ubuntu, Mainline Arch, Manjaro, Fedora, Gentoo, etc...)
The rest eventually just fade away. I've always avoided distros that are maintained by a small community of enthusiasts because enthusiasm goes away really quickly once the real work of maintaining a distro rolls around.
I won't pull the trigger on any small community project until I'm reasonably sure I'm not going to have to jump to a new project a year from now when the developers get tired of it and move on to something else.
bruh, no Debian?
Debian's the grand-daddy from which the others all were born.
Asking the real questions.
Or Suse
Yggdrasil Plug and Play Linux!
The stability issue is why I am waiting for SteamOS Desktop. I don't want to distro hop, I just want to install a single OS and never have to worry about it for the rest of my machine's life.
All of the recent gaming focused distros felt this way to me, it's why I'm sticking with good old tried and tested vanilla Fedora with OpenSUSE as my backup option if RedHat ever fucks it up. I don't want a toy to play with but a tool that just works and that I don't have to think about and that's exactly what Fedora is.
I like CachyOS but I don’t see it’s worth it to reinstall the OS for 3-5 extra fps on an rtx 4070 laptop with ryzen 9 8945h with 32 gigs of ddr5. It probably might make sense on much older and/or weaker hardware. I mean I can just switch to the cachyos kernel on current Arch install if I want but I am just too comfortable with my current setup.
You can switch back to arch pretty easily and also just upgrade from arch. That's the real benefit of cachy is standing on the shoulders of giants like Arch.