CachyOS bills itself as a Blazingly Fast & Customizable Linux distribution and that seems to be winning it friends. In the last month, it's the number one distro on the popularity chart on the widely-used DistroWatch comparison site.

We know, it's not a great indicator, but it's still an interesting change and shows the project is attracting attention – the good way.

CachyOS offers the UKUI desktop mostly only seen in Ubuntu Kylin. It's pretty, and unusual, and pretty unusual

One of the last times that we mentioned DistroWatch rankings , we got a chorus of disapproval on various open sourcey social media. Up to a point, the criticism is valid. DistroWatch's rankings don't prove anything. The site itself acknowledges this:

The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted

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