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[–] UsedCumSock@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

This is great news. Gives me hope that one day, I'll be able to play all of my games on Linux.

[–] VivianRixia@piefed.social 74 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

I've not heard of CachyOS, but to capture 2.54% of the steam linux market feels significant. It jumped right past other established Arch-based distros like Endeavor and Manjaro.

[–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A lot of gamers want better performance, so a performance oriented distro with gaming quality of life features fills that gap. And ultimately there are a lot of YouTube channels promoting it and it kind of turned into a cool distro to use. This might explain the phenomenon.

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[–] Virual@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been using it for a while now, and it's genuinely so good. Before this I was using EndeavourOS which was also a great distro, but I realized that I was basically putting in work to do things CachyOS does out of the box, so I switched and it's been great.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What kind of out of the box things?

[–] Virual@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 week ago

Well, I started using their repos for their x86-64-v3 optimized packages and builds of popular packages from the AUR. Later I started using their kernel because it pulls in upcoming features and is compiled with optimizations like ThinLTO and AutoFDO and has a more advanced scheduler. I also like how Cachyos comes with things like zram pre-enabled and scripts for things like zink and NGX. It's basically just a ton of small things like that, some that I don't even know about yet, that makes CachyOS really nice and easy to use.

https://wiki.cachyos.org/cachyos_basic/why_cachyos/

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[–] noodlejetski@piefed.social 30 points 1 week ago (5 children)

they offer some optimisations to the kernel and the packages that are supposed to yield a tiny bit better performance.

an incredibly small thing that rubs me the wrong way more than it probably should about their setup is that they set Plasma animation speeds to much higher values than the stock Plasma desktop uses. sure, it could be just a part of their customisation tweaks the same way using fish as the default shell is, but it feels like a cheap trick to reel in the "I installed it on my desktop and it's soooo much snappier" review kind of people. like, if your work is as good as you claim, you shouldn't need to artificially make the improvements seem bigger than they really are.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 18 points 1 week ago

I'm not familiar with it, but I think that that could be a reasonable UI tweak. I disable virtually all animation in software where possible because I want it to be as responsive as possible and don't care about the animation. Simply reducing the time in animation is a middle ground---one still gets animations, but cuts out some of the time.

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 week ago

I started using linux full time about a year ago. I started with Arch, but moved to Cachy really quickly when I discovered it. All of the advantages of Arch, but repos optimised for modern hardware, and a whole heap of useful pre-configured tools, like Wine/Proton, fish, snapper etc. Arch is a bare bones, pick and configure your own setup rolling release distro. Cachy is a pre-optimised, rolling release distro with lots of useful stuff right out of the box.

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago (7 children)
[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us, dozens!

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 38 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Man, if only Linux would be adopted by the masses for gaming...

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Android uses the Linux kernel but none of the familiar "Linux" stack: GNU, X or Wayland, GTK or Qt, GNOME or KDE or other DEs, PulseAudio or PipeWire, APT or YUM or other package managers, and many others that define the Linux experience. Google could replace the Linux kernel with something else tomorrow without touching the rest of Android and most users won't tell, and many apps will run as-is.

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[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Awesome. Will be interesting to see the November December numbers with unpaid Win10 support ending.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My prediction: Ten percent increase for Windows 11 with 25 percent still on 10 and barely an increase for Linux.

I hope I'm wrong.

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[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Phone is Android, PC is now Linux Mint, for gaming I use a Steam deck, and my NAS is now TrueNAS.

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Where are all the Ubuntu Core 22 installs coming from? Is there some large device or distro that uses it?

[–] stuner@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

AFAIK, this corresponds to the snap package of Steam.

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[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago
[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago

Nearly a third are coming from the Steam Deck and other Steam OS handhelds. Impressive.

[–] Goten@piefed.social 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Doing my part

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (16 children)

More people should use EndeavourOS. It's fantastic for gaming.

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not sure wtf those 97% are thinking

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[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use Debian. Does this mean I'm in the top 0.05% of Steam users?

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

I'm somewhat surprised there isn't a Fedora there, it's a pretty great and up-to-date distro. And pretty popular.

I'm also surprised Flatpak isn't higher!

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[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (12 children)
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[–] sasquash@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Huh. The Year of the Linux Handheld.

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[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Interesting to see that Arch Linux ishe most popular, even more so than endeavorOS which is way easier to install. I know Ubuntu isn't the hotness anymore but I figured mint would have jiat replaced it at the top. Apparently not. Then again power user who insults their own operating system but is also a game her might select for more advanced Linux users. Otherwise they might just dual boot or are the likes users who run it on a spare laptop.

I've been in Ubuntu user since I was 13 and I still am on my primary desktop but my old desktop which is now a utility server for me is running endeavor

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Pretty much the original comment that was here was wrong in every conceivable way, which I noticed after posting it. So I'll just post this instead.

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[–] bimbimboy@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago
[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

🙋🏼‍♂️ new to Linux gaming.

[–] Lawnman23@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’ll just sit quietly over here with my Fedora machines…

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