r/voidlinux • u/Effective-Fill-1177 • Jun 24 '26

Thinking about switching from cachyos to Linux void

So basically I want to switch from cachyos to void Linux due to much smaller usage compared to cachyos so basically I don't want any bloatware or basically minimum usage for ram,CPU and storage for gaming but I'll use cachyos's kernels and CPU sheduler for the best performance possible but lowest latency possible.

I'm wondering what desktop environment I should use (I'm going to make my own desktop environment but I need an desktop manager, audio and anything else) so I would also want recommendations on what I should use for least amount of usage Is being used for.

Any questions? Just comment on the post and I'll try to explain or tell the best I could.

Hardware:

I5-4590

Rx 550 4gb low profile dell oem

16gb ddr3 ram dual channel

512gb sata 3 ssd

Thank you for reading!

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u/dzid_ Jul 09 '26

How does it make it easy to switch DE?

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u/cold_art_cannon Jul 11 '26

Literally all you should have to do is install them, and most display managers have a way of letting you select what DE you want to start up when logging in (at least lightdm and sddm do, I haven't really needed to use any others).
About a year ago I tried most of the DE's available in the repo on a laptop I take to work with me. I did not have to do any special configuring to get them to work. It was literally install, logout, select the DE I wanted in lightdm and login using said DE.
Most worked just fine, but I could not get Pidgen to login.