Small sample set aside, the performance differences here are much bigger than I’ve seen in previous linux comparisons. Something has to be off right? Curious if anyone is able to reproduce these results.
Small sample set aside, the performance differences here are much bigger than I’ve seen in previous linux comparisons. Something has to be off right? Curious if anyone is able to reproduce these results.
Unfortunately the reviewer doesn’t seem to mention a bunch of details about how the games were actually played such as, critically, which version of Proton he used. CachyOS ships its own version of Proton which pulls in a bunch of bleeding-edge features with significant performance impacts. I’m not sure if that Proton is used by default or not though; it may depend on the specific launcher used and configuration. Without knowing that, it’s going to be difficult to attempt to reproduce his results.
Yeah, I like Nick but benchmarking isn’t his forte. In all the articles and videos I’ve come across, most distros perform similarly, usually within the margin of error for most games. I can’t imagine any set of optimizations that would lead to a performance increase on the level of a gpu upgrade. It doesn’t make sense.
Wendell talks about cachy quite a bit, I wish he’d do some testing but I’m sure he’s already busy enough.
Yeahs it’s very very rare that cachy performs THAT much better. Its normal for it to be 1-3% faster then other distros since it’s pretuned and all.
But beyond that… Iv only seen it have larger jumps like once or twice.
I hate to keep being in these threads saying the same thing, but new people need to know:
THERE IS NO APPRECIABLE PERFORMANCE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANY LINUX DISTRO FOR GAMING
Doesn’t matter if it calls itself a “gaming” distro, or it wins by 10% in some benchmarks here and there. Any distro can be tuned like any other distro in every single way. No distro has any proprietary bits that make it better than another, and even if they did, you’d see devblogs or GitHub scripts you can one-shot to tune whatever you’re running to perform similarly.
Save yourself from falling for the hype, and save yourself the time of sitting through videos like this.
Yeah but I’m dumb and I need distro maintainers to tune it for Me
#facts
You can tune any distro to any degree you want and replace everything including a custom built kernel to get performance. But you know not everyone can/wants to do that, I have a toddler so I’m not going to take a whatever Debian and install a new scheduler and whatever just cause.
You might forget that Linux desktop is growing super fast and fiddling with stuff under the hood is not that common and noobs and people with experience end up fucking things up constantly. Having something that’s performant, optimised for your use case, whatever optimisations baked in won’t break with updates and you can just install it and forget is a really big deal. This is just not something that was available.
I think you should stop the hate and allow people to be happy with the distro they like for whatever reason.
Lolol.
Your last line. Saying exactly what I’m saying, dawg.
No it’s not. Not even remotely. Words have meanings. Your and his are not the same.
He’s right and your wrong on this one chief.
The main reason to use cachy is not the performance. Its the lack of the absolute cancer that is a normal arch install. But cool that it actually does come with gaming configs that make a difference.
archinstallstraight from the ISO is cancer?Yes, a non graphical installer is inacceptable if you are trying to get normie people to switch to it from windows.
Makes me wonder how it compares to Garuda, which is more gaming-tailored and has a graphical installer.
Garuda suffers from having absolutely dog shit defaults and tools compared to cachy for new Linux users.
Not even talking visuals.
Cachys custom scripts, tools and helpers make Garuda look like a fucking joke from a professionalism standpoint. And makes cachy infinity easier to get going and use day to day for a new Linux user.
Cachyos is about as new user friendly as you can physically get on arch short of SteamOS.
If your an advanced user then both Garuda and cachy might as well be carbon copies. Its just a starting point for us. Everything’s getting fiddled with anyways
