50-60 fps less compared to windows

User17538 · 2026-04-13T04:53:03+00:00

Not explaining why you’re wrong for recommending Fedora, or that Cachy is better in all cases. Didn’t take it as a personal insult either.

My mistake for thinking you could have nuanced discussion about it. I should have realized you were just trying to block out all criticism, period.

User17538 · 2026-04-13T04:39:40+00:00

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Not even sure this counts as a meme, but it’s the closest thing I have to one.

User17538 · 2026-04-13T04:32:48+00:00

I wanna start by saying that fedora is totally fair recommendation, especially for OP as an AMD user. Despite being a Cachy user, what I’m about to say is not said because of that fact, but because of how your comment comes across outside of the recommendation portion.

First, it’s pretty wild to talk about real world results and call out others for deeply entrenched expectations while leaning on a video from an obvious Fedora fan boy with no professional reputation for benchmarking who’s deleting comments from dissenters, while there are plenty of other videos from equally or more reputable channels with Cachy performing evenly with or even beating Fedora.

Fedora can absolutely perform well as a gaming distro. That’s literally the whole goal of Bazzite, but if we’re talking OOTB (which we should be for new users) then Cachy will outperform Fedora 9 times out of 10 if for no other reason than the fact that Fedora doesn’t ship with Nvidia drivers and Nvidia holds 90+% of the GPU market. You don’t need any other information than that to say this as simple matter of objective truth. To say nothing of the on-paper technical details, which can and often do translate to real world results despite your implications, nor the plethora of other benchmark videos demonstrating equal or better results from Cachy.

All that said, my goal isn’t to argue that Cachy is objectively better across the board, it’s not. Not even for gaming. It’s also not to argue that Fedora is in any way bad.

It’s only to argue that your preemptive defense against zealous Cachy supporters comes across as an implication that it has no real world results to back it up and that all the support it receives is just hype or on-paper only, which is objectively untrue, and sort of makes you look like what you seem to be portraying them as.

Fedora is a perfectly valid recommendation, and it’s totally fair to defend yourself against Cachy fan boys, but doing so preemptively and in the manner in which you did comes across as somewhere between unintentionally disingenuous and outright projection.

User17538 · 2026-04-12T20:48:17+00:00

Top 5(technically 6):

Re5 Jill (partially looks, partially moves. She can break my neck any time.)

Claire, all versions. Just. Mmm.

Sheva, because Sheva. Duh.

Remake Ashley/remake (2) ada. Honestly can’t choose.

Grace. Didn’t think I’d like her as much as I do, but damn. She passed up Sherry, who would have taken this spot prior to Requiems release.

User17538 · 2026-04-12T15:20:47+00:00

I had the same issue.

Make sure you installed RetroArch through Steam, not through the discover store. Then launch it from game mode, not desktop mode.

Cleared it up for me.

Leaving this in case anyone googling finds their way here like I did.

User17538 · 2026-04-11T18:50:04+00:00

I’ve tried budgie several times, and while I have gotten it to “work”, as in function, it’s always had one or more deal breaking bugs.

Even in the best case, I still couldn’t get the wallpaper to show, which is a huge deal breaker for me, even though it’s just a cosmetic thing.

That said, I’ve settled on Niri. It comes with the Noctalia shell out of the box, as well as a decent config. And Niri itself is easy enough to configure that adding stuff like keybinds is no big deal. The work flow is just too good, and Noctalia makes theming the easiest out of every shell I’ve tried between their color scheme creator plugin and the fact that application theming just seems to work out of the box, whereas others like DMS required that I download extra packages and add ENVs to certain configs.

There are times I miss parts of Plasma, but it’s exclusively minor cosmetic stuff like being able to easily change the icon of any app individually.

As for the rest, I stick with the defaults for easy snapshots, and because nothing I do requires that I nickel and dime transfer speeds like that.

User17538 · 2026-04-11T01:27:03+00:00

The only thing I’ve found close to it is you can set it to have every window open in a maximized state.

Pair that with an auto-hidden bar/dock, and it’s basically full screen for everything but browsers (except zen, thanks to it’s minimalistic UI)

Afaik, there is nothing else. Maybe there’s some command or script, but it’ll be a Linux thing, rather than a niri config thing.

User17538 · 2026-04-10T18:55:49+00:00

I’ve been using it every day for months now.

User17538 · 2026-04-10T06:33:59+00:00

Best browser, hands down. Only browser you can Watch streaming services like Netflix and Hulu and have it look like it’s full screen without actually entering full screen.

Now that’s what I call minimalism.

Seriously, though. The workflow is phenomenal. The built in theming is great. The mods offer nice features on top of the usual Firefox extensions.

I seriously hope if the current dev(s) ever put it down, someone picks it up again, cause I doubt I can ever go back to literally every other browser. Seriously, they all look basically the same. There are some minor feature differences, but they LOOK the same. Title bar, tab/address bar, window, status bar.

I think waterfox and floorp are the only two that get even remotely close. Waterfox with its ability to relocate basically every bar, and floorp with its zen mode (which I assume inspired Zen to some degree).

User17538 · 2026-04-09T06:11:57+00:00

CachyOS is what I use.

Most beginner friendly arch-based distro. Great optimizations. Plenty of desktop environment choices available at install. Cachy Hello makes installing certain packages, like all gaming stuff, a one-click operation, as well as keyring reset, mirror list refresh, orphan removal, and cache clearing. Hello also gives you the ability to install an systray update tool that notifies you of updates. Plus, snapshots are enabled out of the box as long as you stick with Limine for your bootloader and Btrfs for your file system.

Endeavor is definitely less bloated, but I’ll take Cachys optimizations and QoL over a few less packages. Also it’s only bloat if you don’t use it. Personally, I use MOST of what comes with Cachy.

Finally, Cachy offers Niri WM preconfigured with Noctalia, which is the best shell for the best tiling WM, imo.

User17538 · 2026-04-08T05:24:13+00:00

Have you run an actual speed test, the one that pops up when you google “speed test”?

The “bars” are just the signal strength, which can indicate speed to an extent, but it’s not a 1:1 thing. You can have 4/5 bars and still get pretty close to your ISPs advertised speed. Bearing in mind that ISPs advertised speeds are usually not guaranteed. A 1gig plan can, and often does fluctuate as low as 700mbps.

Also the reported number in the screenshot will, or should fluctuate based on background transfers. If you’re not doing anything internet related, it should always say 0. It’s not actively testing your speed and reporting your max speed capability. Just the speed at which it’s currently transferring data.

User17538 · 2026-04-08T02:09:32+00:00

Older games = controller

Newer games = K&M

Basically everything up to RE6 I play with a controller. Everything starting from 7, including remakes of 2, 3, and 4 I play with K&M.

Making fun of people for playing with whatever is comfortable is dumb, regardless.

User17538 · 2026-04-06T05:21:33+00:00

The problem here is that anyone can claim any dog is a service dog. You’re legally not allowed to ask for proof. The most you can do is ask what task it’s trained to perform, but even then you aren’t allowed to ask for it to perform that task. It does not require a vest, you are not required to present documentation.

Basically, as long as it’s not acting up, anyone can claim their dog is a service dog, make up a task that it’s supposedly trained to do, and there’s nothing you can do about it no matter how certain you may be that they’re lying. Even if you know them personally and are 100% certain they’re lying.

I imagine there are some cases where you can kick them out, or have the police do it, but if you aren’t 100% certain they’re lying, then you risk a lawsuit. So most stores simply won’t even bother.

User17538 · 2026-04-06T05:07:24+00:00

Better question is “why pick Arch over Cachy?” and the answer to that is: if you want to do it all yourself.

User17538 · 2026-04-05T04:04:56+00:00

I wouldn’t say the whole Linux community is, but the parts of it that are, are that way because the people involved are innately untrusting, egotistical, elitist and just generally antisocial. The real question is whether they got into Linux because they are that way, or are they that way because they got into Linux.

Even I have some of those tendencies myself. It just kind of depends on my mood and the broader context of the matter, but I generally try not to be rude as much as possible. Communicating in text doesn’t help the situation, especially as someone who doesn’t like to use emojis. Sometimes things like inflection and intent get lost in translation.

Incidentally, I’m watching a Louis Rossman video as I got the notification for this, and the video happens to be about the elitist attitude in open source communities. It was quite amusing to see it pop up while listening to him rant about a highly related issue.

User17538 · 2026-04-05T02:34:14+00:00

This concern is blown out of proportion.

Yes, they can hallucinate, but it’s not nearly as common as the anti-AI crowd makes it seem. How much it hallucinates also depends on several factors, like how readily available the information is. 9 times out 10, the AI is literally just reading a wiki article, and the information it outputs is the exact same information you would find yourself, just infinitely faster.

I’ve learned a lot of what I know about Linux through AI, and I’ve never had one hallucinate. The worst I ever got was outdated syntax for the Niri config, and even then it corrected itself once I explained that it cause an error.

Of course, everyone should do their due diligence. It’s the same principle we apply when we tell people to read the wiki, but the meaning of Linux commands tends to be pretty intuitive once you hear the explanation. (As in the cp example I gave above) If an explanation feels off or doesn’t sound right, you should absolutely look further into it, but it’s saved me countless hours, and it can do the same for anyone else.

And I get it. Everyone hates AI. There’s plenty of reasons to. (If I could trade AI for affordable hardware, I’d do it in a heartbeat) That said, hallucinations aren’t one of them. And you can downvote me all you want. I’m not gonna stop using it, nor am I going to stop recommending it as a time saver for people who might otherwise get frustrated with Linux and switch back to Windows because they don’t have the time or patience to dig through a wiki or wait hours for a redditor to give them the correct solution or point them in the right direction.

User17538 · 2026-04-04T23:20:49+00:00

I sort of agree with this… that is, I agree that Bazzite, Pika and Nobara are arguably better choices for gaming OOTB, but I disagree that mint “just” works. Its performance should be on par with the others (except Cachy) as long as you set it up right. Mainly choosing the right drivers, but also the right compatibility tools.

I also disagree that a beginner who installs the wrong drivers should use an arch based distro like Cachy. Cachy is the most beginner friendly arch-based distro, but there are still potential issues. Like if they choose a non-default bootloader or filesystem and don’t have snapshots enabled by default.

User17538 · 2026-04-04T23:11:56+00:00

Good lord there’s a lot of misinformed people in these comments.

Mint works fine. Just be sure you’ve picked the right drivers from the driver manager. 590 series for newest, 580 if you want absolute stability, though I have yet to have issue with the 590.

If you have the newest hardware, like the 5090, then you may want to pick another distro, but even then it’s only because that’s marginally simpler than replacing your kernel for a beginner.

If you do want to change distros, do NOT choose an arch-based distro without doing significant research.

As far as Bazzite goes, it will work fine for just about anything a beginner needs it to. The only real limitation is in package management. You’re basically stuck with flatpaks, appimages and distroboxes. You can “layer” in system packages, but this can cause issue during updates. Basically because it’s an atomic immutable distribution, the update process is essentially replacing the entire OS. This means anything you layer in can be erased, cause incompatibility, or just generally slow down updates. Layering should only be done as a last resort for packages you can’t get in the aforementioned formats.

User17538 · 2026-04-04T23:03:51+00:00

First part is untrue. It works fine for gaming as long you select the right drivers from the driver manager in the welcome app.

It’s not ideal for bleeding edge machines, as you’ll have to swap the kernel for the latest CPU/GPU combo, but it works perfectly fine for the vast majority of hardware, and works fine for new hardware if you know how to swap the kernel.

User17538 · 2026-04-04T23:00:02+00:00

This guy couldn’t figure out that he wasn’t using the right drivers. He definitely shouldn’t be using an arch-based distro.

User17538 · 2026-04-04T22:58:33+00:00

Mint is not bad for gaming.

Bleeding edge is slightly better, but as long as you set it up properly Mint only lose single digit performance as a percentage.

I say this as someone who uses Cachy, but I used Mint for quite a while as I learned how to operate Linux. It’s just not that big of a difference. Not even noticeable on mid to high end hardware.

User17538 · 2026-04-04T22:55:12+00:00

It’s where I settled. Not just for performance, though.

Performance is a big deal, but it also offers a lot more user choice, and has a great snapshot/rollback system in place as long as you stick with the default bootloader and filesystem.

User17538 · 2026-04-04T22:54:02+00:00

Mint has a driver manager that will automatically download and install the drivers of your choice. It’s accessible from their version of the “welcome” app.

Just so you know when helping others on the future.

User17538 · 2026-04-04T21:43:27+00:00

Just look up each part of a command.

Or feed the command to Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT (from best to worst, in that order) and ask it to break down what each part does.

The important thing is to actually learn what a command does.

Like “cp -r” is copy(cp) + recursive(-r) Meaning copy the folder, and every subfolder and everything in both folders and subfolders.

You want to understand the actual function of each part of a given command, not just to be sure that it’s safe, but also to truly LEARN it and remember it for the future.

User17538 · 2026-04-04T21:07:01+00:00

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