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Arch-Based Distros Dominate the Linux Gaming Scene (linuxiac.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Part of the Arch games, Well I don't exactly use Arch but it's A Arch based distro for Performance (Cachyos) and I love how they leverage cpu instructions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I've been on Nobara for a few years and have generally loved it. Lately I've been thinking about switching to Cachy.

I've just been a little annoyed with Fedora in general recently, and I am nervous that Nobara is not only based on Fedora, but also is maintained by only one person.

How has gaming been overall on CachyOS? Any issues with Steam, Proton, Lutris, or any other gaming-related software?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In my experience, Nobara requires way less fiddling and works out of the box. CachyOS was way more fiddly. I have newer hardware so things are a bit weird for me in general.

Do wish Nobara had more maintainers. Cachyos isn't a whole lot better in this regard either, if you wanted something for gaming that has a lot of maintainers you should probably go for Bazzite. Personally, I had issues with Bazzite as well, Nobara seems to play nicest with new hardware out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It doesn't come with any gaming apps (but can be installed manually or use their package that installs all the essentials). they also have a proton/wine fork and has patches related to gaming no issues there, and later after some updates(idk how it gets it) you will get LFX (Latencyflex) you can enable it with LFX=1 In environment variables in games and there was no issues at all in gaming (Note you can view cachyos as more of a performance distro rather then a gaming one) .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm seriously considering installing CachyOS on my laptop. And now I'm wondering why I didn't come around to do it yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If you are on another arch based distro you can also add their repos: https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/optimized_repos/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The laptop I'm using is new and I didn't bother with installing Linux on it because I was lazy and business was busy. But this weekend I'll most likely install it. Thanks for the information by the way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Unexpectedly outstanding distro. New favorite, by a lot.