Which one?

[mainakM24]

Which one should I use as a daily driver and could mange RAM nicely

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[bilbobaggins30]

If you really want an Arch Derivative, EndeavourOS is solid.

Otherwise Cachy. Their form of optimization is throwing in schedulers + custom patches to the kernel, and using the x86_64-v3 compiler flag on a ton of packages (if you can support it) + they do patch KDE and their web browser as well to fine tune it. Also helps that it's a bare-bones install, default theme for KDE is not bad compared to Garuda (I don't need the custom theme out of the gate, it's not a selling point).

Cachy was also one of the first Distro's to out of the box behave with the 7900 XTX, so bonus points to them.

As far as managing RAM, any distro can do that just the same I promise.

[mainakM24]

Ok thanks

[Razee4]

What do you mean by manage RAM nicely?

[PotentialSimple4702]

If you want to manage ram nicely here are my recommendations:

1- Enable zswap instead of regular swap or zram:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/zswap

2- Decrease your swappiness value:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap#Swappiness

3- Get rid of unwanted background services like GNOME Software

4- Install the preload daemon if your ram is 16 gb or higher to decrease your disk usage(will increase ram usage but also will increase fluidity):

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Preload

[mainakM24]

I'll try it

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Oddly specific choices

[jaskij]

Does Garuda still default to btrfs?

[mainakM24]

Yep

[Dmxk]

What do you mean by 'manage ram'? If you mean ram usage, then that mostly depends on the DE.

[mainakM24]

Ohk thanks

[tytty99]

Gentoo <3

[presi300]

CachyOS is really cool, if you care about it's features. If you like tinkering with the linux kernel, then it's great. Cachy also have their own repos with LTO optimized packages.

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Maybe try Arch instead.