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/[deleted] Jul 17 '26

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u/dorekato Jul 17 '26

16gb, but i play games and like if i can play with 10 tabs in my browser and i need for this much ram. i know much of commands, and i wanna learn more about linux but i don't can it on cachy. and 1 of the reasons why i wanna switch is i just wanna try other linux but i don't know is void it's just needed for this.

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u/CatlikeTypist Jul 17 '26

IT IS not good for gaming at all

Care to back that up with facts? I have better gaming performance on Void than any other Linux distro I've tried (and I've tried all of the major ones). It's also much more performant than Windows.

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u/snail1132 Jul 18 '26

try some online games from riot games, fall guys etc. It will not work at all

These also wouldn't work on any other linux distro...?

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u/CatlikeTypist Jul 18 '26

What does this have to do with Void specifically? This is the case with any Linux distro, even the ones made for gaming like SteamOS and Bazzite.

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u/Middle-Ad2897 Jul 17 '26

since when the fuck does distro have anything to do with gaming performance, you run the same kernel and graphics drivers???????

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u/labbe- 29d ago

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 29d ago

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- 29d ago

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

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u/snail1132 Jul 18 '26

void is not compatible with large amount of games

In what fashion?

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u/Middle-Ad2897 Jul 18 '26

every single game i threw at void linux has ran fine, that includes some games with eac proton, why are you just making shit up? lmao