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CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB (boilingsteam.com)
submitted 1 month 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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[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

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…)

bruh, no Debian?

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

Debian's the grand-daddy from which the others all were born.

[-] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 weeks ago

Asking the real questions.

[-] SirActionSack@aussie.zone 1 points 4 weeks ago

Or Suse

[-] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yggdrasil Plug and Play Linux!

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