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

But if the LLM stays in the V-RAM or even just stays in normal RAM does it still benefit from zram? I thought that only helped when the ram was not enough.

So I'd say it is more likely the bore scheduler + better drivers.

[–] cyberfae@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's all three! Cachy OS sets it up where it applies to both regular ram and vram. Even if just using a swap in ram, it will still be much faster than swapping to disk. Plus to the application, it looks like it has more ram/vram than there is physical ram/vram.

[–] Captain_Stupid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yes but my previous OS had zram setup as well, unless PopOS was using a worse compression algorithm, zram was not the main player here. Also there is no such thing as zram for vram unless you are talking about hardware compression.