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LTT does another Linux Challenge
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I also don't get it. How many people realistically only use their desktop PC for gaming and what's the benefit of using a "gaming" distro if the same can be achieved with minimal amount on a more versatile distro?
I'm not sure if CachyOS counts as a "gaming" distro or not, but I use that on my desktop/work machine. I'm pretty familiar with Arch (BTW) and I can do a manual setup from scratch if I need to (that's what my laptop runs) but Cachy just seemed like a way to use Arch with a simple setup and a bunch of default optimizations. So tl;dr laziness I guess lol.
I am using bazzite cause its the first distro that I didnt have to use hours of my time to fix stuff and fine tune. I normally dont switch my distro often so I never remember how all the small fixes worked
The majority? Not everyone can or wants to afford 10 gaming gadgets just to play the same games on different devices.
There are some benefits. (I haven't and don't plan on watching the video, so I don't know which they used.) CachyOS has some optimized kernels that help squeeze out more performance out of latency sensitive games. It is not earth-shattering, but there are measurable differences. One personal example was CS2. It ran fine on Fedora 42, but on Cachy there was noticeable less stutter when there was a lot of action.
Far and away, business is the primary use case for PCs, education second, art and design art likely third, and gaming (while always growing) is still niche use case for PCs worldwide.
At best, gaming has over taken media consumption as a PC task but I think that has more to do with media becoming primarily, a mobile device activity in the last decade.
I guess then we agree? Not many people can afford dedicate devices for just one use case, so a PC, in most instances will also be used for other use cases than gaming.
Thanks for the reasons for dedicated gaming distros, I wasn't aware of those.
I have misread the meaning of
onlyin your sentence. Only for gaming and nothing else, almost 0%.