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I have my NixOS set up the same way, with the CachyOS kernel and the CachyOS Proton for Steam.
on another machine I have regular Arch but also uses the CachyOS Kernel and I also use the CachyOS repos for that. Honestly it's CachyOS without all the extra bloat. And that's my own gripe about CachyOS itself. its' great, it just comes with a lot of crap attached to it making the install one of the longest out of any distro I've ever used. they really need to trim the fat on it.
What I would suggest to people is install Arch with the CachyOS Kernel and Repo. you'll essentially have CachyOS without all the crap.
What's that crap you're talking about? I installed CachyOS about month ago and it's pretty bare bones out of the box. I'm definitely no minimalist, but compared to some other distros I've tried over the years (mint, Ubuntu, tumbleweed, solus, fedora, etc.) it feels almost empty. It doesn't even include browser or libreoffice at default. Just honestly wondering what's the bloat.
Can you share your nix config to get cachyOS kernel + proton?
I use this: https://github.com/xddxdd/nix-cachyos-kernel
Word of warning though, if the guy maintaining this decides he doesn't want to maintain it anymore than you're boned.
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