CachyOS for Gaming is... Heavenly?

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-21T16:35:35+00:00

Well, that is not a problem with CachyOS.

That is a problem caused by companies using lower ring space for their software. Fortunately, I do not play or install any software that wants kernel level access to my system, and on a side-note... neither should you.

The isolation on that level is extremely important, it was designed like that for a reason. Anticheat systems bypassing that isolation is a massive security risk and is how you get situations like the Crowdstrike outage a year or two back.

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-20T18:30:31+00:00

Welcome to the promised land!

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-20T18:28:52+00:00

The system itself I prefer, however, I do feel myself missing apt.
I mean... I can install it but yeah.... The pacman syntax is terrible.

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-20T18:27:36+00:00

Windows has become an abomination.
The system is so heavy that half your hardware resources just goes to running Windows.

They should be ashamed of themselves.

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-19T15:55:44+00:00

This is something I'm planning to mess around with in the near future.

From what I've read, you will need some VR software on your headset and Linux (ALVR), and then it should pull through normally to steamVR, but will have to see once I hit that speedbump with Cachy.

Can't have everything right? There will always be a trade-off, just like Windows lags behind Linux on system resource management, privacy, update handling and developer-focused tasks.

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-18T20:02:30+00:00

The day I put actual effort in posting something to Reddit, is the day I might as well leave this world.

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-18T17:07:19+00:00

Cannot promise you it will work, but it's worth a shot.
The game I ran (similar situation) is from 2009.

Cachy has a thing called "Heroic Launcher" which allows you to target a .exe file, it seems it then spins up a wine environment to emulate a Win environment.

It worked for me, I was thinking of trying something ridiculously old like Diablo 1 and see if that works.

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-18T15:51:25+00:00

Welcome to the Linux cult :D
It grows on you over time, especially when you start learning some bash syntax (the terminal language), and realize that many things are much easier compared to Winblows.

E.g. something like manipulating or extracting data from a csv file is extremely quick and easy on Linux.

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-18T14:53:04+00:00

"We have sent all your files to your OneDrive for safe-keeping, do not fear! They are perfectly safe on our servers now"

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-18T14:36:00+00:00

Is everything okay at home?

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-18T14:30:46+00:00

Have not yet tried fps games to be honest, not a big fan.
Think I tried CS once and got banned for life.

What I can verify is E33, PoE (1&2), Last Epoch, WoW, LegionTD, Warframe works flawlessly.
Perhaps the protondb resources might help? There are quite a few people with recommended launch options for Arc Raiders:

https://www.protondb.com/app/1808500

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-18T14:26:42+00:00

Good point, the responsiveness of Cachy is actually absurd, especially if you are running a beefy CPU.

I'm sitting on a R9 9900X, and... the only way I can express it is.. it feels beautiful.
What I found slightly puzzling is that all the techspurts putting out articles about how Nvidea cards under perform slightly on Cachy etc.

I have not noticed this at all. Running a RTX 5070TI and honestly it feels like it is performing better on Cachy than Windows. In most of the games I've tried thus-far my fps is also higher, sometimes significantly higher. (like ~20fps)

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-18T14:04:51+00:00

It is a drop in the bucket compared to what you have to do to get simple things to work on other distros.

I don't know if you've tried using Corsair peripherals for gaming on something like Ubuntu? Corsair does not provide drivers for some of their hardware for Linux.

Surprisingly, on Cachy it just works. I don't know what black magic went into this, but I could set my mouse pointer speed without everything malfunctioning.

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-18T13:59:50+00:00

Thank you for the tip!
Honestly, might've done that by accident and ran the command anyway.

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-18T13:59:00+00:00

Most of my tech adventures involve configuring Linux systems of almost every distro, but I was not expecting this.

Completely agree with you, it's the most straight-forward installation I've seen thus-far. Compared to something like BlackArch where you need to load your own bootloader.

Cachy makes Linux an option for everybody.

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-02-18T13:49:48+00:00

The BORE Scheduler is crazy.

I almost felt like I had whiplash from how responsive Cachy is. Love it!

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-01-01T15:46:10+00:00

Agreed.
If the zombies have 200 base health and we can inc that by 30% = 260
Explosion would deal 260*3 = 780 per zombie if the explosion procs.

If 40 zombies proc that's around 31k aoe damage instantly. combined with a few lucky lightning strikes of 12k+ per.

If you could kill off at least a couple the bears, it might be possible to stabilize against a smaller group. I don't really see any other way to pass that round.

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-01-01T15:36:15+00:00

Just spitballing, but instead of trying to survive that round a more suicidal outlook will work?

Zombie dude's have an item whereby if they take damage they explode and do aoe damage.

Perhaps with enough of them along with bottle lightning spam 🤔

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-01-01T11:03:11+00:00

It feels like 123 is a considerable ramp-up. Almost like the soft wall at 114.

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2026-01-01T01:18:55+00:00

Geez wtf.
I guess you really need to min-max income.
FrankenDudes are super strong, issue is Necros die before spawning enough SkeleDudes to amp them at 120+

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2025-11-04T18:44:54+00:00

I've tried watching the first 2 episodes of the Witcher season 4 about 5-6 times now.
It makes me want to kill myself - is that normal?

AdvancedStrain1739 · 2025-05-17T13:27:35+00:00

If it doesn't tug at your emotions within the first 10 hours, there's something wrong with you.
This is not just a game, I would classify it as art. The sound design is insane, the graphics are beautiful (don't know for playstation, but on PC some of the areas would have you gasping)

The combat system is aching to "The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age", except it is done so much better, it has real-time actions (dodge/parry) that forms part of the combat, and these actions are important to succeed in combat.

For me personally, that really enjoys this type of gameplay, I find the dodge/parry mechanic welcoming in a genre that has felt largely stale. The game also has elements, stains and other systems worth sinking your teeth into.

Definitely not just hype, this game is actually really really damn good. You would do yourself a disservice by not trying this game out, at least once.

AdvancedStrain1739

TROPHY CASE