CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB

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.

  • cholesterol@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Dependencies…? I remember accidentally installing entire DEs back in the day because individual packages required their entire native environment. So external maintainers basically had to ‘extract’ some packages from the dependency bundle to make them available without installing the entire native DE. Isn’t that sort of how it still works?

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I remember accidentally installing entire DEs back in the day because individual packages required their entire native environment.

      Either packaging bug or user error.

      So external maintainers basically had to ‘extract’ some packages from the dependency bundle to make them available without installing the entire native DE. Isn’t that sort of how it still works?

      No.