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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mandolrain@lemmy.world 16 hours agoFor 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
muhyb@programming.dev 16 hours ago
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
You can game just fine on any distribution.
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.
Viceversa@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
But it’s the same on Mint. I don’t get it, What are the particular advantages of Cachy?
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Is it the same on Mint? It isn’t for me. On Cachy, the welcome screen has a pick for Apps/Tweaks, then “Install gaming packages”. That’s the difference.
Mint has a welcome screen, but it is very generic. Driver manager, software manager, etc. Sure you can install everything to make it work fine, but Cachy leads you straight into it with that one click and you are gaming within two minutes of OS load. Mint will take a bit longer. And I think it removes some of the package guesswork as well, especially for new users.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I went from mint to cachy because it just works better for games. Mint is alright though.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I’d have to go parse through the script, though I’m certain someone else here already knows, but amongst other packages, proton, wine, steam and video drivers seem to be what it installs. I had to do all that manually on Mint and since it was my first Linux system I set up as a gamer I am sure I have some package versions set differently/incorrectly. Cachy takes the guesswork out of it.
I am olde and have been building gaming systems for many years. CachyOS is the easiest OS that I’ve ever set up. Am in a game playing within minutes. Even Windows was never so easy.
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.