Previously was a Manjaro gamer, and had a perfectly seamless experience.
Migrated to Fedora, got some weird new issues, but running games through Steam solves everything.
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I tried a few distros this year. Landed on vanilla arch using KDE Plasma. Love it so far. Unfortunately I do some hobbyist stuff with Fusion 360 and my friends and I started playing PUBG again so i need to boot into my windows partition for those.
Part of the Arch games, Well I don't exactly use Arch but it's A Arch based distro for Performance (Cachyos) and I love how they leverage cpu instructions
I'm seriously considering installing CachyOS on my laptop. And now I'm wondering why I didn't come around to do it yet.
If you are on another arch based distro you can also add their repos: https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/optimized_repos/
The laptop I'm using is new and I didn't bother with installing Linux on it because I was lazy and business was busy. But this weekend I'll most likely install it. Thanks for the information by the way.
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I've been on Nobara for a few years and have generally loved it. Lately I've been thinking about switching to Cachy.
I've just been a little annoyed with Fedora in general recently, and I am nervous that Nobara is not only based on Fedora, but also is maintained by only one person.
How has gaming been overall on CachyOS? Any issues with Steam, Proton, Lutris, or any other gaming-related software?
In my experience, Nobara requires way less fiddling and works out of the box. CachyOS was way more fiddly. I have newer hardware so things are a bit weird for me in general.
Do wish Nobara had more maintainers. Cachyos isn't a whole lot better in this regard either, if you wanted something for gaming that has a lot of maintainers you should probably go for Bazzite. Personally, I had issues with Bazzite as well, Nobara seems to play nicest with new hardware out of the box.
It doesn't come with any gaming apps (but can be installed manually or use their package that installs all the essentials). they also have a proton/wine fork and has patches related to gaming no issues there, and later after some updates(idk how it gets it) you will get LFX (Latencyflex) you can enable it with LFX=1 In environment variables in games and there was no issues at all in gaming (Note you can view cachyos as more of a performance distro rather then a gaming one) .
Thanks for the info!
Yw
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BtwOS is finally seeing proper representation :3
Guix! Yay!
btw
I feel underrepresented as a Void user.
Although the absurd number of hours I've played a certain popular gacha under Lutris might not trigger the Steam metrics, I demand credit for dumping 45 hours into a poorly translated RPG Maker looking project!
I've thought about Void. And LFS. And I submitted some packages for Alpine, although I'm not running it anywhere except as container bases.
Last time I really strayed from the Arch ranch was Artix, and that was TBH pretty painful on a day-to-day basis.
I'd like something like Arch but with less systemd. ChimeraOS looks promising, once it stabilizes. But how's Void treating you? How's xbps? I'm pretty in love with pacman; rolling release is a must, but IME you really only realize how good or bad a package manager is after it's too late, and you've been using it long enough to hit your first dependency hell/upgrade issue. After years of hell with RPM and deb, pacman was a godsend.
runit isn't my favorite initd alternative (dinit ftw, at the moment), but it beats systemd and I don't have a huge amount of experience with it. Do you like it?
Critical to me is being able to easily toss together package manager recipes for stuff that isn't in the official repo; I really believe in keeping systems clean by only installing through the package manager. Pacman packages are stupid simple to write and easy to work with, and yay makes things even better. How's xbps in this area?
EFS boot is easy? Stuff like btrfs boot partitions and snapper support easily available? No idiocy like trying to force users onto Wayland prematurely?
Runit works well enough for me; I've only added one nonstandard service (launch a custom tool to drive an external stats display) and it works fine. My ,xsession has to load some polkit and pulseaudio stuff but that could be because I'm not using a full desktop like KDE/GNOME/XFCE that do those things for you.''
I don't really try to do custom package recipes because I tend to ./configure;make;make install stuff I want at random.
EFI boot is no problem. I think my root is btrfs, but the /boot/efi is vfat. Refind is pretty first-class, but sometimes it has stupid conditions where it tries to default to the wrong kernel version if you have multiples installed (I think it sorts by timestamps or filenames in a way that sometimes work counterintuitively; discarding old kernels largely fixes it)
Haven't really had too many showstopper problems with xbps. I probably sledgehammer it a bit-- occasionally when it says a repo certificate is out of date, I usually end up doing a full update rather than selectively upgrading packages.
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I've been enjoying void on an old Thinkpad just to mess with. How's the gaming experience been on it? Any issues with Steam/Proton running well?
Steam runs fine. I think I had to install some Vulkan packages manually because I was getting some hallucinogenic colours in Genshin Impact (installs fine via Lutris). I have a few minor issues with games not loving losing the mouse cursor if you move it onto another display, but I think you can tame most of them by running in Gamescope so it doesn't realize there's a second monitor the mouse can leave to.
I've been considering these: Crystal, Archcraft, Arco, Exodia. Are these any good?
I've looked at Archcraft (not any of the others), and the only thing that seems unique about it is that it's riced (themed) out of the box and offers several DE options. Otherwise, there's not really anything that sets it apart from, say, EndeavorOS (which has a handful of DEs and a great install process) or CachyOS (which has a nice install process, an optimized kernel and packages, and as many or more DE options as Archcraft).
The other thing that gives me pause with Archcraft is the fact that it's maintained by only one person. What happens if/when they get burned out?
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