Many years ago I tried different distros often. Manjaro (Arch based) was one of my favorites, but I always returned to Linux Mint. Mostly because it works and most importantly… updates don’t render my system useless. I really liked Manjaro, which I haven’t even tried in years, but eventually an update screwed up my system.
So I really haven’t looked at other distros in years.
Anywho It seems like MS Windows 11, is really causing an uproar with MS trying to force users to fall in line and obey. It seems like there was a TPM 2.0 hardware requirement to use Windows 11. No sooner that I say this that MS dropped the requirement. Basically because there is an alternative, such as Linux. So people were lamenting the death of Windows 10, as in MS ending support of it.
At any rate it’s caused people to look at alternative OSs. Not so great for MS. So lately I’m seeing a lot, way more than usual (at least in my feed) of videos dealing with gaming on Linux. And I came upon this one…
CachyOS is an Arch-based distro with optimized performance settings, especially for gaming. I’m sure there are other, but this is the first to get my attention.
I guess I’m more petty than Linus, because of the name CachyOS. The OS part drives me crazy. They’re not the only ones to do this. I guess the CachyOS developers must be pretty smart. They created, in a very short amount of time an OS with the power of Linux. Linus created and refined the Linux OS over many years. But the developers of this new OS, only created it in 2022 and it’s 1st release was in 2024, accomplished the same as Linus in a fraction of the time. Wow!
It’s NOT a freaking OS… it’s a distribution!
I personally never cared about Arch, but with Steam endorsing it, I should at least consider it.
I do enjoy games. But not heavy into them. One thing stands out in watching clips of video games is how ridiculously fast the players move in these FPS. And they never tire. So a 5’3″ out of shape player can easily defeat a 6’3″ fitness instructor. Very realistic… NOT! No wonder video games are so popular.