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Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by dminik »

xutopia wrote: post #14
mrinterweb wrote: post #2

I few months ago, I backed up my windows gaming machine and overwrote the partition with CachyOS. Haven't looked back. Gaming performance and compatibility has exceeded my expectations. Just a much better experience overall. I feel sorry anytime I see someone using Windows.

Wait... what's gaming like? Can you describe it for someone who only ever could play Unreal Tournament back in the day on Linux? What games are available? Do you use emulators or stuff like Wine?

Wine has evolved a lot, but there's an entire community dedicated to improving games specifically building Proton, essentially a Wine fork focused on games, including big contributions from Valve.

This has made many old and modern games playable without issues. On Steam or Heroic Launcher, running a game has mostly become as simple clicking install and later play.

That being said, it's not all peachy. There's not really been much progress on native Linux gaming outside of Flatpak/Steam Linux runtime. Many native games run worse or with issues.

And Proton/Wine isn't perfect. Many games need tweaks or may not work without glitches. And games with anticheat don't work more often than they do, on purpose.

Still, depending on what games you play and hardware you own it has become entirely possible to ditch Windows and not suffer for it.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by kridsdale1 »

xutopia wrote: post #14
mrinterweb wrote: post #2

I few months ago, I backed up my windows gaming machine and overwrote the partition with CachyOS. Haven't looked back. Gaming performance and compatibility has exceeded my expectations. Just a much better experience overall. I feel sorry anytime I see someone using Windows.

Wait... what's gaming like? Can you describe it for someone who only ever could play Unreal Tournament back in the day on Linux? What games are available? Do you use emulators or stuff like Wine?

In the last few years, Valve has made incredible progress with their equivalent set of API wrappers to what Wine does. Apparently (not experienced first hand) it’s like 97% of the way there, now.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by sshagent »

xutopia wrote: post #14
mrinterweb wrote: post #2

I few months ago, I backed up my windows gaming machine and overwrote the partition with CachyOS. Haven't looked back. Gaming performance and compatibility has exceeded my expectations. Just a much better experience overall. I feel sorry anytime I see someone using Windows.

Wait... what's gaming like? Can you describe it for someone who only ever could play Unreal Tournament back in the day on Linux? What games are available? Do you use emulators or stuff like Wine?

if you have a steam account, and you open it on Linux most of your games will be present to be played. Most of them will just work. Those that don't you can look up details on protondb.com.

as mentioned above if you play any competitive games that come with anti-cheat features, then you won't be able to join in the fun. So if you don't care about those games, you'll be fine.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by goodburb »

It's not just a gaming and performance distro, it includes QoL fixes on modern hardware.

On my Lenovo laptop, fixes that would take over a day to enable and patch on most distros:

  - Wake from sleep

  - Nvidia GSP firmware workarounds and correct version OOTB (proprietary)

    - Mouse lag/jitter
    - External display hotplug
    - DDC/CI over type-c

 - Embedded controller power profiles from taskbar with correct TDP limits for CPU/GPU

 - Battery charge limiter support right from KDE settings

 - Working `switcherooctl` in hybrid graphics mode on AMD

 - Firefox with video decode acceleration (YouTube) on almost all GPU models
Another gaming feature that is otherwise useful in workstations is the external scheduler support.

Currently using BPFland which makes multitasking as responsive as idle while compiling Yocto/Chromium in the background.

Windows, Mac (mini M1), and kernel built-in scheduler Linux jank and become almost unusable (Ryzen 5800H).

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by frantathefranta »

sshagent wrote: post #24
xutopia wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait... what's gaming like? Can you describe it for someone who only ever could play Unreal Tournament back in the day on Linux? What games are available? Do you use emulators or stuff like Wine?

if you have a steam account, and you open it on Linux most of your games will be present to be played. Most of them will just work. Those that don't you can look up details on protondb.com. as mentioned above if you play any competitive games that come with anti-cheat features, then you won't be able to join in the fun. So if you don't care about those games, you'll be fine.

> if you play any competitive games that come with anti-cheat features, then you won't be able to join in the fun.

I'd say it's a majority of games that won't work if they require anti-cheat, but some will.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by keeganj »

cowmix wrote: post #5

Running CachyOS has overall been great for me in the past year but the AUR supply chain attack (or whatever it was exactly) was a little unnerving.

Yeah I really enjoyed Cachy but the model of using the AUR to install third party applications just seems broken. I don't want to have to trust some random install script maintainer in addition to the 3p app developer. And sadly I don't have the time and attention to spare to review the AUR scripts of apps every time I update.

I switched to Kubuntu to keep KDE (which I really found I enjoyed from Cachy) while using a more stable and familiar ubuntu base. It's not one of the "gaming" distros but I haven't noticed any major drawbacks with the games I play.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by thom »

lordleft wrote: post #17

I switched to Bazzite from CachyOS and while I really appreciate how accessible it is, the immutability of the core OS doesn't do enough to scratch my Linux tinkering fix. So I'll probably install this in a few days.

I loved Bazzite for hardware compatibility out of the box but the necessity of flatpak made it enormously inconvenient as a general machine. CachyOS sounds worth checking out if I still want to game but also occasionally do real work.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by therein »

JasonSage wrote: post #13
folkrav wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel sorry every time I'm stuck going back to Windows. And admittedly, the situation is not even comparable to how it was ~25 years ago when I first started playing around with Linux, most things I want to do with a computer just work on Linux nowadays. There are still such things that just are not there yet - but for most of them, it's not necessarily Linux's fault. If we limit the conversation to gaming specifica…

I think the situation with anti-cheat on Linux is changing. Studios are putting resources into anti-cheat that will work on Linux. If I'm being a bit cynical, I could say this is "just" because of Steam Deck and Steam Machine, but I think the number of potential players switching to Linux right now outside of the Steam ecosystem is starting to be worth considering.

The only way they could even consider making it work would involve blessing certain kernel builds, and their integrity would need to be verified. If I am able to swap out the kernel, anti-cheat cannot be effective.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by code-blooded »

cowmix wrote: post #5

Running CachyOS has overall been great for me in the past year but the AUR supply chain attack (or whatever it was exactly) was a little unnerving.

I've been CatchyOS curious, but AUR is exactly what's been keeping me using Fedora.

I hope official, veted Arch repositories grow over time.

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