Was looking into Nobara, realized its a solo dev, wondering if cachy is the best pick for compatibility. I play a lot of different stuff , use blender, controllers, flightsticks, etc. Not really into flightsims rnow and im dualbooting for now so its not a major issue on that front. Just want most steam games and controllers, drivers, etc. to work and get the best performance.
Update: Went with Cachyos for now, but first sign of any issues and I’ll switch to bazzite since it seems to be safer and more reliable. Havent had any issues so far.
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I tried Cachy, settled on Bazzite. Best decision ever.
What didn’t you like about cachy? I like it rnow, curious why you switched, are you gaming primarily?
Cachy is just another distro for power users / enthusiasts. For people that want to tweak everything. Universal Blue spins are made for people that want their PCs to work for the user, not the other way around. They are unbrickable. Arch is a rolling distro, and thus it requires more maintenance than any other distro. If the user doesn’t want to learn everything there is to know about a Linux system, Arch based distros aren’t a good fit.
It sounds like this will be your fist time running Linux. In that case I would recommend against using CachyOS or Arch. Those distros are meant for experienced users that are willing to solve problems on their. In the words of the Arch wiki:
Whereas many GNU/Linux distributions attempt to be more user-friendly, Arch Linux has always been, and shall always remain user-centric. The distribution is intended to fill the needs of those contributing to it, rather than trying to appeal to as many users as possible. It is targeted at the proficient GNU/Linux user, or anyone with a do-it-yourself attitude who is willing to read the documentation, and solve their own problems.
In general, you can have a good gaming experience on almost any distro. The main limitation is probably running brand-new hardware, which can be a bit difficult on some of the slower distros (Debian, Ubuntu LTS, Mint, …). There are only very minor performance differences between distros.
If you’re a new user that wants to use a fast-moving distro with many options for customization, I’d recommend Fedora (e.g. Fedora KDE).
I’ve done a decent amount of Distro hopping with an all team red PC, and CachyOS is fantastic. I recommend Bazzite for people who want no bullshit, OOTB experience. But if you don’t mind minor tinkering, CachyOS is just too good at what it accomplishes. Their gaming meta package, which has custom wine & proton builds, is is such an easy way to milk out that last bit of performance. Their kernel manager and Firefox fork are also just so well done. Not to mention they’re ahead of the game for things like the upcoming NTSYNC in Linux 6.14. Last but not least their default Cachy kernel is the cherry on top.
I’m convinced, going for it
You can always try it in a VM first. Works pretty well that way, and you can get a taste of what you can expect. I did that to practice my setup and make sure certain software worked.
If you want some of the CachyOS upgrades but also want something a little unique, PikaOS is Debian but custom built for gaming. It uses a lot of the same package optimizations of CachyOS, uses their kernel, but it also borrows from Nobara. It has the best helper apps and updater, IMO, and unlike Debian, it’s rolling release and has up-to-date GPU drivers. It even has the same kernel picker and scheduler chooser that Cachy has.
They’re all pretty much the same now as far as distributions go. Kernel and driver versions paired with whatever versions of wine/proton are what will get you better performance now.
If you want to stay more towards the bleeding edge of things, go with a faster releasing rolling distro. Fedora or Arch, but the former unless you’re really familiar with what you’re doing.
Bazzite is the best currently, based on fedora so it’s up to date, atomic so it stable AF
Atomic has nothing to do with stability. Really wish these kids who have no idea about it would stop with that noise.
it means if you break your system you can rewind to a previous working stable configuration and it makes it slightly harder to muck around with os level stuff helping prevent breakage, also many apps are containerised further limiting their side effects on the os’s stability
is that the noise you were talking about?
Lol. I’m not asking if it is. I’m saying it has absolutely no impact on the stability of a system at all. You’re also confusing stability and reliability, so there’s that.
If OP isn’t handing out root passwords, no standard user is going to be able to affect a normal mutable system either.
Y’all a bunch of hypequeens 😂
Yes. In the last few years “stable” gets thrown around an awful lot for bleeding edge Arch, Tumbleweed, etc. Anything people feel their system didn’t crash so it counts as being stable…