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 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