It’s the year of Linux on my desktop.

Windows is getting worse, while gaming on Linux is getting better. I’m gonna move my desktop to CachyOS. Wish me luck.

  • calliope@retrolemmy.com
    41·
    2 days ago

    Here’s his reasoning from the article:

    an Arch-based distro optimized for gaming on modern hardware, with support for cutting-edge CPUs and GPUs and an allegedly easy setup.

    I installed Cachy recently too and I really like it, after using Mint and Arch for several months (and many others previously).

    • Emi@ani.social
      13·
      2 days ago

      I somewhat broke my Linux mint Debian edition and decided to distro hop a bit. So I wanted to try popos but when trying to install it the windows and everything were broken like when you dragged the windows it left shadows and you couldn’t see anything on it. So I ended up with CachyOS and so far that was awesome. Especially like that you can just clone the bottom panel which I struggled with on mint. The only “problem” I have with it is that there’s no app manager like on mint just octopi that is too minimalist and doesn’t seem to search well and some apps I assume aren’t for arch so looking for some app manager to install that would be similar to mint or just more noon friendly, just normal GUI. Well, there’s my short story of finding CachyOS is good so far.

    • devfuuu@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 days ago

      What really are these magical “optmizations” besides installing the default packages available on every distro?

      • Irate1013@lemmy.ml
        6·
        2 days ago

        There’s a bunch of gaming/performance settings out of the box ranging from custom helper scripts to ananicy-cpp kernel scheduling tweaks and more. Here’s CachyOS’s page on the “tweaks” they have: https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/cachyos_settings/

        They also include an easy to use kernel manager that gives users a lot of options for kernel customization: https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/kernel_manager/ (I may have spent some amount of time borking my system with it… repeatedly 😅)

        And they have package repositories that are optimized for newer hardware like Zen4/5 and AVX512 instruction sets: https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/optimized_repos/

        I’ve been using Cachy for a while now and it’s been great for gaming. I don’t use it for much else tho. As a sysadmin by trade, I do like the support for ZFS on root (which varies between other distros). Although it was a bit tricky to set up, now it’s running smoothly and my snapshots/backups are working great.

      • Atlas@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        In practice I’ve noticed very little difference between cachy & other distros in terms of performance.

        I think it’s mostly convenience & marketing. I’ve run most mainstream distros and cachy definitely worked “out of the box” for gaming. I don’t think it’s worth swapping for if you’re already using Linux.

        Nothing wrong with cachy, I just don’t think there’s any special magic I’ve noticed that sets it apart from arch.

      • calliope@retrolemmy.com
        2·
        2 days ago

        I’m not exactly sure, but a few things have worked better out of the box than other distros.

        For example, it boots up faster than any of the other “simple” distros I’ve tried in some time. I tend to like lightweight things that seem to install a “bare minimum” to start, and Cachy appears to do that. It was dead simple to install my favorite window manager, even using X11 instead of Xorg.

        The equivalent minimal mint installation took considerably longer to boot, using pretty much my same settings.