It really isn’t. I’m not digging on PopOS, but articles like this make it seem like there is a world of difference in performance between distributions, and that’s just not true.
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I have nothing against Pop_OS or what not, but this article gives absolutely zero info on why/how.
It’s an ads for Pop_OS! paid by System76 or it’s AI generated.
This article is total shat.
Is there really much of a difference in game performance between “game focused” distros and other ones like mint?
Not really. Nobara comes prepackaged with a plethora of game related utilities and tons of kernel tweaks and packages to optimize it for gaming, but I highly doubt any gamer could tell the difference, between it and mint in the middle of a game. Use the distribution you like that works well for you.
That’s kinda what I was figuring. I’ve been using mint for several months now and I really like it and I’ve gotten it all adjusted to my preferences. I’ve checked out pop os, but I’m not a fan of the OS layout. It reminds me of android lol.
I’d argue it’s more about having all the things preinstalled rather than the tweaks. Having steam ready with all the proton versions available in the compatibility drop-down (including GE) plus heroic, gamescope, mangohud, etc. waiting to be discovered, that all reduces friction for newcomers.
Agreed. Long time Linux user here. The distro is just supposed to get you near what you want or need. There are science distros for different science labs. Because there is a certain set of tools and software that all the researchers would be using. And likely, the distro is not useful for anybody else. I think there is only the big gaming distro issue because, gaming hasn’t really been a huge thing on Linux. Now it is, and new people to Linux have no clue what all is needed or what all is possible. Most don’t even realize they could install and switch DE’s without having to “distro hop”. But, 100% agree with you.
Oh I see, that is pretty handy. It was kinda annoying and unintuitive to get mangohud running.
Depends what “much” is but there can be a measurable difference if the distro comes with it’s own kernel, like cachyos.
Between different distros on the same kernel the difference in performance is negligible.
Maybe Imma consider it when Cosmic becomes the desktop.
The current stable release is a Gnome fork abomination and the current alpha has a trillion issues. Absolutely terrible for games.
I’ve never used it myself, but I’ve also never heard a bad word said about it. Seems to be a pretty solid little distro.
