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[–] VivianRixia@piefed.social 74 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (20 children)

I've not heard of CachyOS, but to capture 2.54% of the steam linux market feels significant. It jumped right past other established Arch-based distros like Endeavor and Manjaro.

[–] Virual@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've been using it for a while now, and it's genuinely so good. Before this I was using EndeavourOS which was also a great distro, but I realized that I was basically putting in work to do things CachyOS does out of the box, so I switched and it's been great.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What kind of out of the box things?

[–] Virual@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 month ago

Well, I started using their repos for their x86-64-v3 optimized packages and builds of popular packages from the AUR. Later I started using their kernel because it pulls in upcoming features and is compiled with optimizations like ThinLTO and AutoFDO and has a more advanced scheduler. I also like how Cachyos comes with things like zram pre-enabled and scripts for things like zink and NGX. It's basically just a ton of small things like that, some that I don't even know about yet, that makes CachyOS really nice and easy to use.

https://wiki.cachyos.org/cachyos_basic/why_cachyos/

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