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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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[–] gothic_lemons@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The hell is zram?

[–] cyberfae@piefed.social 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know how you can compress files? It work for ram as well.

[–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Downloaded more ram, got it

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

Oh god the meme is true

[–] Captain_Stupid@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Basically it compresses your data in the RAM. Needs a little more work form the CPU but it is still faster than swap. fyi

[–] gothic_lemons@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Interesting thank you!

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

They should have called it cram. Lost opportunity.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

The hell is zram

It something than claims to handle swapping better on low ram systems.. I never noticed much difference on the lower spec machines I tried it on.