Small sample set aside, the performance differences here are much bigger than I’ve seen in previous linux comparisons. Something has to be off right? Curious if anyone is able to reproduce these results.
I hate to keep being in these threads saying the same thing, but new people need to know:
THERE IS NO APPRECIABLE PERFORMANCE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANY LINUX DISTRO FOR GAMING
Doesn’t matter if it calls itself a “gaming” distro, or it wins by 10% in some benchmarks here and there. Any distro can be tuned like any other distro in every single way. No distro has any proprietary bits that make it better than another, and even if they did, you’d see devblogs or GitHub scripts you can one-shot to tune whatever you’re running to perform similarly.
Save yourself from falling for the hype, and save yourself the time of sitting through videos like this.
30min video, 10mins of promotions… nope
The main reason to use cachy is not the performance. Its the lack of the absolute cancer that is a normal arch install. But cool that it actually does come with gaming configs that make a difference.
archinstallstraight from the ISO is cancer?Yes, a non graphical installer is inacceptable if you are trying to get normie people to switch to it from windows.
I for one, would not suggest a Windows user to go straight to Arch. An Arch derivative, maybe.
That’s why they said they would recommend CachyOS. ;)
I did however go from Windows to Arch. It wasn’t a bad experience, and using command line isn’t a big deal (to me at least.) But I am not the average Windows user. (Background in IT, for over a decade now. And I enjoy this stuff.)
So mileage may vary.
CachyOS is nice, I have used it; and I quite like it. I still use vanilla Arch for my machines outside of my steam deck.
I personally know 3 people that have switched from lifelong windows to Cachy as their first linux experience and have had minimal issues. None beyond anything you would have on other distros. Im not using it myself, but i know it does what its supposed to, it just works…
I swapped off Windows to Mint at the start of the year but I’m looking for my next distro for my next system. So far I’m pretty set on CachyOS. Fingers crossed I get a similar experience.
Arch isn’t meant for normies though, so they don’t have to cater to them.
Normies aren’t meant to be using Arch. Go get that popular piece of shite distro instead. Or better get Fedora or popos. Or Mint. Or whatever the next guy recommends. Like, FreeBSD, or better OpenBSD.
The TUI is still a lot better than having to type in terminal commands in the correct order…The downside is needing an internet connection to get archinstall going in my opinion. CachyOS’s installer has a tendency to fail as well. Which is something that isn’t often talked about. I had so many weird experiences with it, like it failed to install the kernel, boot loader, etc. Garuda Linux is probably the best for those with a desire to tinker to be perfectly honest. A good starting base that doesn’t fail at all.
Recommending any Arch based distro to a normie is basically a nonstarter and kinda unhinged behavior to be totally frank. It would be better to direct them to Mint, Fedora, or even Bazzite (depending on their needs).
Typing terminal commands is actually the easiest and the fastest way to install a Linux system. It’s just not a normie way, obviously. For the folks that know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it, it’s just really simpler than walking through a GUI.
Yeah doubt Arch will be making any 4K 3D rendered graphical installers anytime soon. Sorry normies.
Well thats why Cachy exists, for sane people :)
I got curious which installer CachyOS uses, and it looks like they just use their own fork of Calamares. To be fair, there is a Calamares installer for Arch as well, its just not included in the ISO. If it got enough popularity votes from the AUR, they would probably consider including it in the ISO, but there doesn’t seem to be any demand for it.
Makes me wonder how it compares to Garuda, which is more gaming-tailored and has a graphical installer.
Garuda suffers from having absolutely dog shit defaults and tools compared to cachy for new Linux users.
Not even talking visuals.
Cachys custom scripts, tools and helpers make Garuda look like a fucking joke from a professionalism standpoint. And makes cachy infinity easier to get going and use day to day for a new Linux user.
Cachyos is about as new user friendly as you can physically get on arch short of SteamOS.
If your an advanced user then both Garuda and cachy might as well be carbon copies. Its just a starting point for us. Everything’s getting fiddled with anyways
Garuda defaults feel like you’re fixing someone else’s computer and you have to remove all the toolbars
