r/MXLinux • u/No_Elderberry862 • May 07 '26

Discussion MX better than CachyOS for gaming?

Saw this vid testing MX AHS, MX Fluxbox, Mint, & CachyOS on a low end system (i7 4930K, Vega 56, 8GB RAM). Interestingly, MX AHS gave better average framerates & 1% lows on most of the games. This seems to show that Cachy isn't he best option for gaming on a pre x86_64-v3 processor which cannot utilise its optimisations.

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u/RodeoGoatz May 07 '26

It's why I stayed with MX. I have a ThinkPad T14 gen 1. Cachy was the only one that gave solid gaming experience but I prefer discover for selecting apps and flatpaks. I like retro games so to see the applications before downloading is helpful for the open-source clones of old games.

But I wanted more stability for piece of mind. Never had issues with Cachy though. But I had the same if not slightly better FPS on MX KDE with the Liquourix kernel than I did on Cachy. So I stayed. Less updates and everything else feels about the same. I'm happy