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Tekdeb
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- on Cachyos is a gaming linux distro made in Germany🇩🇪 in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6 Sep 2026
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on Cachyos is a gaming linux distro made in Germany🇩🇪 in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6 Sep 2026
CachyOS is also great for gaming, but calling it “a gaming distro” is underselling it for people who do not care much for gaming. It’s a highly optimized general-use distro that is also great for gaming.
But by default it does not install any gaming-related packages, so calling it a gaming distro is wrong. It has a shortcut to install everything most people would want for gaming, and the team also tunes it in ways that benefits gaming, and they also have their own Proton fork called Proton-CachyOS that is in my opinion the best one. Right now it is still based on a relatively old Experimental version because the main dev behind it is taking a break, but it’s normally very up-to-date on everything including new features and fixes.
Plenty of people do not want the “bloat” that actual gaming distros include by default and CachyOS is the best of both worlds. Pretty clean by default, with easy access to gaming tools if you want that.
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on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
Yes, I think that’s a pretty accurate way to describe it.
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on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
Yes, their only point is that it looks better “in their minds”, as you say. This feature in particular isn’t meant to improve performance.
Personally I think the more subtle application of it can look pretty good, but it seems hard to control and does more harm than good. And that is even ignoring the massive performance impact that almost guarantees it to be unusable. Nvidia published some performance numbers that looked impressive, but that was using pretty agressive upscaling and 6X frame gen which is stupid because for frame gen to be decent you need a high base frame rate, which they didn’t get on anything other than the 5090 and arguably the 5080, or by pairing the GPU with a lower resolution that doesn’t really make sense for them (like you wouldn’t normally buy a 5070Ti for 1080p).
The argument is that “Oh, Windows updates once a month and you hate it? Well, CachyOS has several updates every day which makes it much worse”.
But the real issue with Windows updates is how distruptive, forced, slow, and broken they are. Microsoft gives you some freedom to choose when to update, but sooner or later it’ll say “Oh you’re doing something important? Nope, time to restart right now” if you delay it too long.
I actually update my CachyOS system far more often than I did Windows, but I am in full control of it. But the truth is, while I would recommend people on CachyOS or any rolling release distro to update at least every 1-2 weeks, you can easily go a couple of months without doing so.