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Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025 (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Virual@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 4 days ago (1 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 4 days ago (2 children)

What kind of out of the box things?

[–] Virual@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 4 days 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/

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A big one IMO is it defaults to building aur packages for the native CPU, which base arch and endeavorOS do not. There isn’t really any benefit to not doing so, as aur packages are going to be installed locally anyway.

Also fish is the default shell and I love fish