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[Question] Which will give you more fps lightweight distros or gaming distros (proton and native) (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Mwa@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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Hi so i have been thinking to my self which type of distros gives fps boost is it gonna be gaming or the lightweight low resource usage
I cannot find anything its just all revive your old pc and its seperate
Pc specs:
mid-high end anything that is classified as "gaming"

for example garauda/ cachy(ik this isnt a gaming distro but alr) vs smth like antix or mxlinux

thanks for any answers,

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[–] simple@lemm.ee 31 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It genuinely doesn't matter. Your FPS will be almost the same regardless of what distro or desktop environment you use. It might matter on VERY low end devices like ones with 4gb of RAM, but other than that, just use whatever you're comfortable with.

The point of a gaming distro isn't performance but just setting up everything you need like drivers and important apps that could be useful in gaming - like Lutris and mangohud and stuff.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

oh, I thought it was preformance and custom kernels with bore and stuff that boosts the fps

[–] AceSLS@ani.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like BORE actually seems to lower input latency compared to EEVDF (kernel default). Might be just placebo on my part though

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i said bore bcs its default of my distro cachyos

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