Comment on Maybe it's time for Penguin

• mandolrain@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For gaming or regular use? I’ve tried both Bazzite and CachyOS on my gaming laptop. Even if I wasn’t a tinkerer I would choose CachyOS any day for gaming. Mint over Ubuntu for regular use. My 2 cents

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can game just fine on any distribution.

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    • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You certainly can and I have several distros, but Cachy seems to be well suited with gaming. I am very sure I could tweak Mint to be comparable, but out of the box Cachy is a better gamer. One or two clicks and it’s all set.

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      • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        One or two clicks and it’s all set.

        But it’s the same on Mint. I don’t get it, What are the particular advantages of Cachy?

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      • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I went from mint to cachy because it just works better for games. Mint is alright though.

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      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        One or two clicks and it’s all set.

        That’s probably great, but I don’t know what there is to set up. All I’ve ever had to do is install the packages for Steam and Heroic on OpenSuSE or Fedora. I suppose any other system is comparable.

        It seems some distributions have issues with nVidia hardware (I never had trouble, although I’m running AMD for the first time in decades at the moment), maybe that’s one thing those “gaming” distributions address. I don’t really know.

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    • mandolrain@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Agree. Some are just better suited. I mean I use CachyOS for both gaming and regular use. I was thinking more “is this a workstation or gaming rig” sort of divide. CachyOS have kernel optimizations for gaming, but smarter men than me need to say if that actually has any major impact. And its bleeding edge so you’re always 100% up to date, that can be both good and bad of course. For me it’s good. The two-click setup to have everything installed and done for gaming doesn’t hurt.

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  • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Actually for both. For gaming, both of Bazzite and Cachy is good. I mostly suggest Bazzite for newbies though if it’s gaming related. Cachy is Arch and I don’t suggest Arch to newbies.

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I encourage LMDE because it’s not downstream from Ubuntu

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• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mint. I installed it and stuff just worked.

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• Strider@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I second Linux mint.

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