Me with a stick poking at LinuxMint : hey, wake up, do something, you have piled-up enough money under the bed already
What are you looking for? I just use Mint because it works for my old hardware.
It's cool so many people are going with arch based distros. I've been on vanilla arch and had nearly zero issues. I like the idea of the optimizations Cachy provides but I'm not certain how much of a difference that would make and if that'd be worth it. I suspect it's not a crazy large difference and therefore any flavor of arch including vanilla is probably sufficient, let alone all the successful distros that aren't arch based.
Funny that Flatpack is one of the most popular distros.
It makes sense. Steam can be kind of a PITA to install natively on some distros with all of the ancient dependencies.
What does CachyOS have over Bazzite?
The biggest difference, I think, is rolling releases. For gaming, I don't really understand why anyone would prefer slower update cycles since there are frequent updates that fix compatibility or increase performance.
CachyOS is set up to install everything needed for gaming from the main Hello app. Once the Winboat and Gaming one-click installs are run, it just works. I got an itch.io .exe game running by double clicking the .exe. For Steam, I just needed to choose a default Proton compatibility package to use in the app and after that it's been seamless.
CachyOS is apparently "optimized" for gaming performance—I don't pretend to know what that means or how much of an impact it has. I don't really care about eking out a tiny bit more performance, tbh. But I'm super impressed with how well everything just works and (as a bit of a power user) how completely customizable things are, so I can install just about anything I need easily.
For gaming, I don’t really understand why anyone would prefer slower update cycles since there are frequent updates that fix compatibility or increase performance.
Which game uses host system libraries? I think you have a wrong impression how things work in Linux gaming outside of Tux Kart these days. Valve maintains their own set of Linux containers called Steam Linux Runtimes and their entire point is to be relatively slow moving. Just have a look at all the package dates at https://repo.steampowered.com/steamrt4/images/latest-public-stable/sources/
On top of that, almost every game is a proprietary Windows application. So it runs on top of Proton which sits on top of the latest Steam Linux Runtime.
It's similar with FOSS games where the foremost distribution outlet is Flathub and software published there relies on Flatpak Runtimes which are also relatively slow moving.
CachyOS is apparently “optimized” for gaming performance—I don’t pretend to know what that means or how much of an impact it has.
Barely any unless you're installing FOSS games from their own repository for the reasons I outlined initially.
I’m super impressed with how well everything just works
And that's what's important.
"Frequent updates" sounds to me like "breaks frequently".
I'm using an Intel card, which is still seeing problems fixed with every update. But I've been on the road of bleeding edge before and it's been one messy problem after another.
If I can strike a balance between latest and stable, at the cost of a slightly slower update speed, I'd prefer that.
It's not a piece of shit atomic distro. Holy fuck that entire concept is toxic.
Ragebait.
Hopefully, someone does a comparison of SteamOS Desktop vs CachyOS, when the time comes. The latter is what I am considering if SteamOS Desktop isn't quite flexible enough or has a gotcha of some kind.
Must...resist...distro...hopping
I've been comfortable on Bazzite for a couple years now but this is giving me the itch.
I recently switched to it because I wanted to finally have a good try at wayland with a distro made for it, and wow was I blown away, cachy is the closest I've ever been to a "it just works" OS (including every windows version I've used, from 98 up to 10), just a couple hardware specific issues that I have fixed (except for one). I also really like plasma, I'm mot committed to it but it was nice to come back to it after using mint for a while. I still wouldn't recommend it to a newcomer but damn, it's good.
um. I install and use systems all the time with no hardware issues.
Good for you buddy! What does that have to do with anything, though?
Nobara is my kingdom. Had a pretty bad experience with cachyOS...
Pretty much the same performance but Fedora stability. My only issue is that the major release upgrade path has been janky for some users.
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