Companion article here: https://boilingsteam.com/distro-for-gaming-cachy-os-takes-over/ Video for the performance comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DT2Z5QY8mE
  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
    61·
    1 day ago

    CachyOS claims performance improvement by compiling its packages with CPU-family-specific optimizations. Okay, but most games are not CPU bound, and even those that are mostly spend their CPU time in game code, not distro package-provided code.

    CachyOS claims interactivity improvement by using the BORE scheduler. Okay, but that’s unlikely to help games unless you’re running other tasks that compete for CPU time while you play.

    So for most gamers, I wouldn’t expect CachyOS to offer much improvement in either area.

    • arality@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Everything you say is spot on. I’ve chased the tail of the dragon in search of performance gentoo, custom kernels, over clocking, etc. The defaults are 99.99% that other .01 just isn’t worth the effort.

    • hornedfiend@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      This is the one true CachyOS description. The distro has been gaining so much traction based on naive interpretations of what performance is.

      It’s not a bad distro, but its advantages are minimal over others. Whatever linux people pick, it will be fine.

    • dil@piefed.zipEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      It was the easiest experience I had installing and setting up different des/bootloaders to test out as a newcomer to linux. It has hella options. The wiki is also really nice and easy to use. And gaming wise, the useful part is all the packages it installs that i didn’t know about and the documentation on the wiki related to it.

      • dil@piefed.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        While everything just works, I did have to switch to lts kernel because of freezing, this freezing also occured on endeavour and mint tho.

      • dil@piefed.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        plus the plasma de in the usb immediately made me feel like i wanted to swap to linux just playing with it

    • Tundra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      72·
      3 days ago

      seems to be specific games, kingdom come deliverance (the original) stuttered & hitched badly on other distros, but cachy was 👌

      • who@feddit.orgEnglish
        71·
        3 days ago

        If you post your system specs and the distros that had that problem, it might help someone else who runs into the same thing. Or it might even hint at a cause more specific than “wasn’t running CachyOS”.

        • Railcar8095@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          If it works and the user is happy, why not Judy go with it? Surely with a ton or research you can find why it works better on cachy and with much not time you can try to replicate on a different distro the myriad of things that can be, and then spend time making sure nothing breaks.

          Or, hear me out, you can just play the game you wanted to play on the fist place.

          I’m using Bazzite because it’s the first distro where gaming wise everything just works. Only had to fight with the printer/scanner. I wanted to use other OS, but seriously, I also want to play and use my time doing something other than solving problems I’ve created.

          If catchy is a batteries included distro that people can use, even if their performance gains are questionable, let them. There’s no shame on that.

          • who@feddit.orgEnglish
            4·
            3 days ago

            If it works and the user is happy, why not Judy go with it?

            There’s nothing wrong with Judy using a distro that works well for her. ;)

            There’s also nothing wrong with sharing information so others can learn, identify patterns, and perhaps find something that works better for them.