If we’re talking about the RTX 900/1000 series, they’re still supported on the 580 driver branch. They’re just not getting new features anymore. Most distros package these legacy drivers too.

the CPU is never taxed, albeit undervolted with minus 30 on all cores in PBO

In case of an unstable system, the first thing I would do is disable all overclocks (including PBO, EXPO, undervolt, …)

Do you think benchmark results like these are meaningful when comparing Linux distributions?

They don’t really provide any explanation for why it should be faster than CachyOS. So I’d take their claims with a bucket or two of salt.

Due to the VLC updates taking up too many lines in our terminal, we have decided to drop VLC from the extra repository. Users who wish to play back videos can install them from the AUR.

jk

It’s a type of question that Arch/Cachy often ask during regular updates. Here it’s about replacing a package. Sometimes you also need to make a choice between multiple packages or even perform some manual actions (see https://archlinux.org/). This requires you to possibly look it up, understand the change, and make a decision. If you screw it up, you can break your system.

My point was not that this is bad. Arch Linux is intentionally and explicitly targeted at proficient users. This is part of the deal. It can even be nice, because it gives you more insight into and control over what goes on under the hood in your system. However, I don’t think this is a good experience for (most) new users.

I would not recommend CachyOS to any beginners because after installation it still behaves like regular Arch. Just from today’s update:

Replace vlc-plugin-kwallet with cachyos-extra-v3/vlc-plugin-libsecret? [Y/n]

That said, I don’t agree with your claims. CachyOS puts a lot of effort into optimizing performance (at the cost of other things, e.g. disk space, server load, support for older hardware, …), especially for gaming workloads. There have been many benchmarks that consistently show it performing better than other distros out-of-the-box. Generally, the advantage seems to be in the 0 to 15% range. Does that matter? That probably depends on who’s asking.

You are correct that all the optimizations are open for everybody to see and copy. However, the mainstream distros don’t seem to be interested in doing that for now. And applying the CachyOS optimizations (different kernel, scheduler, optimized packages for Zen 4, …) to other distros (say Ubuntu) is not really feasible or advisable for most users.

PS: I had to look it up, and of course people tried xD.

Yes, the tax is paid by the consumers. But, those consumers will probably not be willing to pay more just because the company was too slow in updating their cash registers. So the problem quickly solves itself.

I don’t see the problem. Drop the tax and if the companies can’t handle it, they continue to pay it. And once it costs them money they will fix it in 1 week instead of a year.

Yeah, I actually switched distro to get Wayland multi-monitor VRR. But, unfortunately, it seems that it’s kinda broken with my Novideo GPU :(

Seems LLM Generated as well. Because I don’t think Fortnite works well (if at all) on Linux. This just seems an LLM reassuring the Dev that it works? IDK.

Yeah, it’s for sure AI slop.

Please don’t run scripts that a random person uploaded to Github if you don’t know what you’re doing. I didn’t see anything malicious here, but most of the stuff is useless and some of it is even detrimental (e.g. the LLM “thought” the outdated Ubuntu Nvidia ppa was a good idea).

If you want to game on Debian, you can do that just fine. Installing Steam and Nvidia drivers (if applicable) should be sufficient for most people. IMO, the main issue with gaming on Debian are the very old GPU drivers (Nvidia 550, Mesa 25.0). This can be fine on older hardware, but is the reason why I wouldn’t recommend Debian for gaming in general. The script you linked doesn’t help with this at all.

If you really want these “gaming optimizations”, for the limited benefits they provide, I would recommend that you just use one of the distros that ships them. CachyOS, Bazzite, Nobara, Pop OS, or PikaOS all seem like a better choice than these scripts. At the very least the maintainers of those distros will integrate everything and perform some level of QA for you.

No, Debian is typically quite a bit older than even the Ubuntu LTS. E.g. they currently still don’t ship a Nvidia driver that supports the 50 series GPUs.

And to be more clear: OnlyOffice also did not grant permission to use said logo. They used this to try to deny people the ability to create forks, which goes against the core principles of the AGPL and open source.

He certainly claims to have used the correct Bazzite images:

A few folks have asked but yes every machine got it’s own specific install, each machine has it’s own Bazzite ISO download for their specific hardware. No cloning, no short cuts, each was treated like a brand new machine with a fresh install 🕊️. After updates installed I rebooted and checked updates again, I’ll never take PC benchmarks for granted again 😅

He also mentions that he used the “Nvidia (GTX 9xx-10xx Series)” image for the 1080 Ti system.

Of course, it could be that he messed up, but it could also be that Bazzite didn’t work as intended. It certainly wouldn’t be the first time that Nvidia drivers broke on a Linux distro.

And in case this was indeed user error, perhaps it would be a good idea to have a mechanism to let users know that they chose the “wrong” image.

It looks like most of the Nvidia systems were not running the proprietary Nvidia drivers (580/590) but instead falling back to NVK or even LLVMpipe (CPU rendering). All of the tested Nvidia GPUs are supposed to run using the proprietary driver on Bazzite. So, assuming that he downloaded the correct images, Bazzite really screwed up here.

But, unfortunately for the video, this doesn’t really show the typical gaming experience on Linux, it just highlights a Bazzite bug (?).