I don't think we have any of those things Linux, that's why we're there. Except file indexing, but I only know of Baloo which is annoying if you're on KDE. But i can be easily turned off
Automatic updates are absolutely a thing on some distros, but you can change the schedule to be outside your gaming time.
outside your gaming time.
I know all those words, but they don't make sense in that order
I have made a service for automatic updates and deduplication myself. And if someone uses their gaming rig for something like database programming they could use this to start and stop a heavy database as well.
Linux is as light or heavy as you want it to be.
As far as base services go Linux doesn't really have that many that would be resource hogs.
For giving CPU preference to your game you can use nice. For keeping pages of memory from being invalidated you could maybe use mlock but I have no experience with that tool. Unnecessary use of the GPU would probably be the biggest drag. For your distro or desktop environment you should see if it has a "game mode" or any settings you can toggle that normally use the GPU.
gamemode is a simple program to do all that stuff for you. Calling it is built into some games like those by Feral Interactive. And it is available in game helpers like Heroic and Lutris.
It also has the ability to run custom commands when starting and quitting your games. I'll be using those.
Bazzite runs gamemode by default
I think if you switch back to the original target that depends on those services they should start again?
Like systemctl isolate yourtarget.target and then a systemctl isolate graphical.target to return to normal operation
Isolate will stop any services that aren't required by the dependency chain.
Some of these might be user services though, in which case you'd need to create a user target
It's possible that you don't need to use isolate though, and can just start a target that conflicts and then instead of stopping it, start graphical.target
Yes, you're right!
In my case starting timers.target stops my gaming.target and restarts all the timers gaming.target had stopped.
Edit: I don't want to use isolate because I'd rather blacklist the services I don't want.
Sorry for the series of edits. Yeah, just starting timers.target or graphical.target again when you're done without using isolate seems like a pretty good strategy!
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