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| 860ac0 | Viraj Alankar | 2025-08-05 06:06:18 | 1 | # Distros |
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| 3 | ## CachyOS |
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| 651041 | Viraj Alankar | 2025-08-06 06:25:22 | 5 | Generally my distro of choice for both servers and desktops is [CachyOS](https://cachyos.org/). The main reason is good defaults and it runs fast. |
| 860ac0 | Viraj Alankar | 2025-08-05 06:06:18 | 6 | |
| 7 | ### Servers |
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| 9 | A rolling distro for a server is not too much of an issue for me as I do development on servers and I want up to date packages. I take snapshots, update all packages, and reboot daily ([Ansible config](https://github.com/valankar/ansible/blob/master/cachyos.yaml)). |
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| 11 | #### Efficient resource usage |
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| c42457 | Viraj Alankar | 2025-08-06 06:42:06 | 13 | For a VPS without much RAM and disk, the default zram (compressed swap) and btrfs compression is a great setup. Docker containers mostly doing nothing can sit in compressed swap, and large Docker images take up less of the filesystem. |
| 860ac0 | Viraj Alankar | 2025-08-05 06:06:18 | 14 | |
| 15 | ### Desktops |
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| 651041 | Viraj Alankar | 2025-08-06 06:25:22 | 17 | CachyOS has the best performance of any distro I've used, and it just works on all desktops I've tried. The default KDE setup is good and just works. |