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CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB (boilingsteam.com)
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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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[–] statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Must...resist...distro...hopping

I've been comfortable on Bazzite for a couple years now but this is giving me the itch.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry.

It will simply be a live environment testing.
You will not be curious about the preconfigured openbox and wayfire DE options either.

It will be a small partition to test bare metal.
You will not expand that partition later.

It will be an equal dualboot.
You will not neglect updating your bazzite and feel guilty about it and finally distrohop fully.

[–] statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I'm old enough to know that's a lie. I gave up dual booting years ago to save us all the embarrassment.