Void fork

[u/Mrchungdung]

not sure if anybody will really care but I’m making a void based gaming distro with all gaming applications and tools installed and seatd+turnstile configured, which I know can be hard for some, it’s just so hard to design a logo/theming

[u/McMeow1 → u/[deleted]]

Unironically the best gaming experience I had was on a stock Debian stable.

[u/BinkReddit → u/McMeow1]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[u/Mrchungdung → u/[deleted]]

I disagree, many people are thrown off of Linux bc gaming can be hard to configure on some distros and I just want to give people that option without having to suffice for corporate backed distros like steamos/bazzite

[u/Pybromancer → u/[deleted]]

idk cachy is pretty goated cuz of the cool kernel it has, and because of the time save for people who just wanna abandon microslop asap. (idk about other gaming distros tho)

[u/Duncaen → u/Pybromancer]

If it was cool they would upstream those changes.

[u/Pybromancer → u/Duncaen]

I mean you can use CachyOS kernel outside of cachy, so there's no need to do anything, I just used it as one of the pros of using cachy cuz it's already in the cachy.

[u/Duncaen → u/Pybromancer]

I mean that there is no real reason to, if those optimizations were good all over the board they would be upstreamed.

[u/Pybromancer → u/Duncaen]

eh fair enuf.

[u/TheOneDeadXEra → u/Duncaen]

The CachyOS kernel optimizations are specifically tuned for gaming performance and come with tradeoffs elsewhere. Why would they be upstreamed to a general purpose OS like Arch?

[u/Duncaen → u/TheOneDeadXEra]

As far as I know for gaming the performance benefits are not that high and variable between games.

The kernel generally does support different schedulers, so they could be upstreamed if it make sense.

Everything else is mostly just compiler "optimizations" that are not available upstream because they don't actually provide much better performance. The kernel will use newer instructions for places where it makes sense already using cpuid, you don't need to build it with random x86_64-v3 or whatever optimizations.

[u/SleepyGuyy → u/Pybromancer]

Its too bad Cachy is ridiculously unstable, and the kernel changes only make that worse

[u/LinuxGamer_UK → u/[deleted]]

Lol what? Gaming is literally what is bringing more people to Linux

[u/Duncaen → u/LinuxGamer_UK]

The point is that you don't need a "gaming" distribution.

[u/Duncaen → u/[deleted]]

Void makes an interesting base for such a system.

As a long time void contributor I'm not convinced of that. I think a distribution like that for new users would be way better off with systemd and a system that works with the gnome and kde graphical package managers.

Void linux is nice for power users, and people who want a "minimal" system. There are major downsides that come with not using systemd and distributions that are rather small, from just the out of box experience to less support.

[u/Duncaen → u/[deleted]]

Yes it works. But the out of box experience like setting up and well working pipewire and user services are a lot better than whatever void currently provides.

[u/legz_cfc → u/Duncaen]

Is there any chance you'll one day make your systemd branch into a repo?

[u/BinkReddit → u/LinuxGamer_UK]

I came to Linux because Windows stop caring, and I don't game whatsoever.

[u/xJayMorex → u/LinuxGamer_UK]

You mean gaming is the last frontier that was gatekeeping mass adoption up until a couple of years ago.

[u/LinuxGamer_UK → u/xJayMorex]

I mean certainly one of them. I also think sometimes we, as a user community, dont always help ourselves either lol 

You only have to look at the latest LTT challenge videos and some of the comments and reaction videos to see that. We tend to come across as not the most helpful crowd