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Is cachyos the best distro for gaming support? (all amd) (is.hardlywork.ing)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/linux_gaming

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Was looking into Nobara, realized its a solo dev, wondering if cachy is the best pick for compatibility. I play a lot of different stuff , use blender, controllers, flightsticks, etc. Not really into flightsims rnow and im dualbooting for now so its not a major issue on that front. Just want most steam games and controllers, drivers, etc. to work and get the best performance.

Update: Went with Cachyos for now, but first sign of any issues and I'll switch to bazzite since it seems to be safer and more reliable. Havent had any issues so far.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You can always try it in a VM first. Works pretty well that way, and you can get a taste of what you can expect. I did that to practice my setup and make sure certain software worked.

If you want some of the CachyOS upgrades but also want something a little unique, PikaOS is Debian but custom built for gaming. It uses a lot of the same package optimizations of CachyOS, uses their kernel, but it also borrows from Nobara. It has the best helper apps and updater, IMO, and unlike Debian, it's rolling release and has up-to-date GPU drivers. It even has the same kernel picker and scheduler chooser that Cachy has.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I just used gparted in cachy to shrink and make a new partition for it, was easy enough, I tried vmware but I just didnt like that there was no easy way to reuse that install, would rather just commit to dual booting and it was easy enough (had to manually create the boot partition and format the drive, theres a yt video since the automatic process failed, did exactly what the automatic process says it does)