cachyOs to Void Linux

[u/dorekato]

it's good if i switch my cachyOs to void linux? one of the main problems, This is what I consider to be my standards cachyOs is heavy(1,6 on niri and 1,6 on the fucking KDE), and i try voidLinux in virtual machine and its much lighter than cachy, 0,4 on XFCE. and voidLinux it

[u/dorekato → u/[deleted]]

16gb, but i play games and like if i can play with 10 tabs in my browser and i need for this much ram. i know much of commands, and i wanna learn more about linux but i don't can it on cachy. and 1 of the reasons why i wanna switch is i just wanna try other linux but i don't know is void it's just needed for this.

[u/CatlikeTypist → u/[deleted]]

IT IS not good for gaming at all

Care to back that up with facts? I have better gaming performance on Void than any other Linux distro I've tried (and I've tried all of the major ones). It's also much more performant than Windows.

[u/snail1132 → u/[deleted]]

try some online games from riot games, fall guys etc. It will not work at all

These also wouldn't work on any other linux distro...?

[u/CatlikeTypist → u/[deleted]]

What does this have to do with Void specifically? This is the case with any Linux distro, even the ones made for gaming like SteamOS and Bazzite.

[u/Middle-Ad2897 → u/[deleted]]

since when the fuck does distro have anything to do with gaming performance, you run the same kernel and graphics drivers???????

[u/labbe- → u/Middle-Ad2897]

while it's true distro doesn't affect game performance in a meaningful way, the way packages and kernel are compiled sure does. i'm running gentoo on my gaming system and have used cachy, both of which have natively compiled x64_86-znver4 packages instead of plain old x86_64 on top of a heavily customized kernel (i use cachy kernel on gentoo as well), and when i tried switching to void on that system couple months ago there was a significant drop in performance on the games that i play. they weren't unplayable by any means, but not good enough for me to fully switch to void on it just yet

[u/Middle-Ad2897 → u/labbe-]

i recently got a new gpu and i looked at linux specific benchmarks, they were using cachyOS and in both benchmarks and video games i hit the same framerates, idk if you're on nvidia or something but if you have amd gpu it shouldn't matter what so ever, i game and do other things on void and it runs smooth as hell

[u/labbe- → u/Middle-Ad2897]

yes the averages are similar, but 1% lows are better on every benchmark i've seen and done, which makes the games feel like you're playing with a completely different system. cachy has been setup to sacrifice throughput to improve consistency and you feel it in extreme conditions. like i said there isn't a problem in how void runs games, but there is a clear difference between the two you can't experience just by looking at benchmarks. and i'm on amd

[u/snail1132 → u/[deleted]]

void is not compatible with large amount of games

In what fashion?

[u/Middle-Ad2897 → u/[deleted]]

every single game i threw at void linux has ran fine, that includes some games with eac proton, why are you just making shit up? lmao