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PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨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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snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I went from mint to cachy because it just works better for games. Mint is alright though.

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Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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- PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.
  
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AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨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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- PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨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.
  
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