CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB

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It is also first in the Distrowatch rank https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=cachyos [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.

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 Evergreen Distros for lack of a better word.

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.

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.