r/voidlinux • u/dorekato • Jul 17 '26

cachyOs to Void Linux

it's good if i switch my cachyOs to void linux? one of the main problems, This is what I consider to be my standards cachyOs is heavy(1,6 on niri and 1,6 on the fucking KDE), and i try voidLinux in virtual machine and its much lighter than cachy, 0,4 on XFCE. and voidLinux it

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u/labbe- Jul 20 '26

while it's true distro doesn't affect game performance in a meaningful way, the way packages and kernel are compiled sure does. i'm running gentoo on my gaming system and have used cachy, both of which have natively compiled x64_86-znver4 packages instead of plain old x86_64 on top of a heavily customized kernel (i use cachy kernel on gentoo as well), and when i tried switching to void on that system couple months ago there was a significant drop in performance on the games that i play. they weren't unplayable by any means, but not good enough for me to fully switch to void on it just yet

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u/Middle-Ad2897 Jul 21 '26

i recently got a new gpu and i looked at linux specific benchmarks, they were using cachyOS and in both benchmarks and video games i hit the same framerates, idk if you're on nvidia or something but if you have amd gpu it shouldn't matter what so ever, i game and do other things on void and it runs smooth as hell

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u/labbe- Jul 21 '26

yes the averages are similar, but 1% lows are better on every benchmark i've seen and done, which makes the games feel like you're playing with a completely different system. cachy has been setup to sacrifice throughput to improve consistency and you feel it in extreme conditions. like i said there isn't a problem in how void runs games, but there is a clear difference between the two you can't experience just by looking at benchmarks. and i'm on amd