CachyOS is Making Leaps in the Distro ranking used for Gaming, and Ubuntu is sinking (Video): youtube.com/watch?v=J_r9eiOUWJ…
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Linux Distros for Gaming: CachyOS is Taking over (ProtonDB data)
Companion article here: https://boilingsteam.com/distro-for-gaming-cachy-os-takes-over/Video for the performance comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...YouTube
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Cameron Bosch
in reply to Boiling Steam • • •I disagree with Bazzite being "not useful" if & when SteamOS becomes generally available.
Also, it's a right shame with Pop!_OS. They could have just released a temporary release with a rebase to Ubuntu 24.04 for underlying packages, but they didn't...
Finally, I wouldn't recommend Linux Mint for gaming for several reasons: First, I've seen reports that there are issues with Cinnamon with Proton and/or Wine having poor gaming performance...
Manolo
in reply to Cameron Bosch • • •Cameron Bosch
in reply to Manolo • • •@Manu_breizhou That may have been an older issues then.
Still, having older kernel and Mesa versions isn't great for gaming.
Boiling Steam
in reply to Cameron Bosch • • •Cameron Bosch
in reply to Cameron Bosch • • •...Second, the distro packages are really old, leading to some situations where the system may have reduced performance and some newer hardware not even being able to boot.
Third, I'm not a fan of the direction Linux Mint is heading. It feels like they're swimming against the GTK tide and Cinnamon has become a mismatch of GNOME apps, GNOME app forks, and header bars and menu bars.
Finally, I prefer KDE, so I cannot use Linux Mint. Personal preference of course.
OKD 🚴 📷
in reply to Boiling Steam • • •So this is Protondb data about people comitting their results and reports there?
Because I did four reports back in 2020-2023, when I was using Linux Mint Debian Edition. I only sent them in, because I was able to get games running using workarounds and wanted to share them.
I never made a report for Fedora, because everything worked since I use it.
The steam hardware survey (which should be more accurate) still shows a large portion of Ubuntu machines. Fedora isn't even listed there most of the time.
It's interesting to see what's popular on protondb and it matches other data (like a steadily growing Bazzite share which matches with their increased number of downloads within the last months).
Still, not sure how accurate it is.
OKD 🚴 📷
in reply to Boiling Steam • • •And good to know about the Pop_OS stagnation.
Pop_OS still gets recommended to new Linux users.
Boiling Steam
in reply to OKD 🚴 📷 • • •OKD 🚴 📷
in reply to Boiling Steam • • •there are still distro news articles about it and I also assumed it was still alive and recommended it.
Because it was one of the Ubuntu based distributions that came with the nvidia driver preinstalled, which is the first big obstacle for beginners in most distributions.
Luckily the person I recommended it to picked Bazzite instead.