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It genuinely doesn't matter. Your FPS will be almost the same regardless of what distro or desktop environment you use. It might matter on VERY low end devices like ones with 4gb of RAM, but other than that, just use whatever you're comfortable with.
The point of a gaming distro isn't performance but just setting up everything you need like drivers and important apps that could be useful in gaming - like Lutris and mangohud and stuff.
oh, I thought it was preformance and custom kernels with bore and stuff that boosts the fps
It will never make changes as greater as 20% in the most extreme cases. Those tend to be just pre-configured to maximize such gaming performance, often at the cost of security, compatibility and stability. Most of those stuff could be adapted to other distros, and tend to be actually. If a change or piece of software made such important benefit to playing games, without any huge drawbacks, be sure it will surely be soon integrated in other distributions.
oh yeah you can install the kernels and stuff on other distros and install mangohud and gamemode or whatever
I feel like BORE actually seems to lower input latency compared to EEVDF (kernel default). Might be just placebo on my part though
i said bore bcs its default of my distro cachyos
The distro doesn't matter.
Historically, your choice of desktop environment could affect FPS due to interference from desktop compositors, but most desktops these days are smart enough to disable compositing when full-screen apps (games) are active, or have a very fast compositor, or don't have one at all.
oh yeah desktop envoirments as well matter not just distros i mentioned distros bcs some was designed to be lightweight + their desktop is lightweight