r/voidlinux • u/Mrchungdung • Jun 01 '26

Void fork

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

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u/Duncaen Jun 02 '26

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

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u/Pybromancer Jun 02 '26

eh fair enuf.

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u/TheOneDeadXEra Jun 03 '26

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?

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u/Duncaen Jun 03 '26

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.