Funnily i actually had Bazzite running before i distrohopped to CachyOS. But i havent done any benchmarks tbh. I’ve seen a few comparisons made by others over the last two years and the differences seem to be negligible. Like 3-5% at best between all the tested distros. But the top spots werent even consistent through all the different tests.
tl;dr no
Yeah, mirrors my experience with similar parameters(CachyOS, Zen3, RDNA2). On average games seem to run more or less the same and maybe even slightly better. But so far it only really mattered in like two cases where i slightly missed the performance target on windows and the 5-15% performance uplift on Cachy were actually noticeable.
IMHO the main takeaway shouldnt be to switch to Linux because of better performance. Like 8-9% more performance on average for free is nice(atleast with this specific testing scenario). But its hardly noticable in most cases. I would rather focus on driving the point home that if you want to switch to Linux anyway you dont have to worry about performance regressions atleast with an AMD gpu.
Otherwise i feel like CPU bound games seem to profit the most. IDK if its just less overhead, better scheduling or what. I’m barely knowledgable enough to just spit out dangerous half-truths.
I fucking love appimages. I dont have any issues with Flatpak. I just like appimages more and i can get them for almost all of my stuff. So idk if flatpaks won. But i also dont care.
Shit, now i dont own Xboxes(?) anymore. :'(
The part where you take a breather. Assess the situation. Try to find a solution. Ask for help in a forum or discord channel. You know things you do when encountering a problem with something you’re not familiar with.
But i’m under the impression that you dont argue faithfully. So i’m going to fuck off.
Have you ever organized an event? Have you ever attended an event? Like what part isnt to get here? Installing a fresh OS while you do other stressful things or just other things which need your attention is a stupid move.
Then on top: Have you ever done something which you are inexperienced with while beeing distracted by other things which need your attention? While under time pressure. In what world isnt that detrimental to anything you want to do.
And yes i’d argue the chances of having the same outcome with a different OS is a lot higher with these circumstances UNLESS you have like 20 years of experience like he does with Windows.
Linus literally just asked chatgpt what to do and then decided against his own already gained experience and chose Pop! again. He calls himself mR tECh tIpS. He could atleast use the competency he actually has. I dont think he is a bumbling fool. But he sure as hell acts like one when it comes to anything Linux.
And the playful incompetency and antics are part of the identity of the channel. I get that. Its Top Gear for PC and tech related topics. But in this video it just feels like he has zero interest in the challenge and openly tries to make Linux look bad. I’m sure somebody will argue he just plays a fool to provide a cautionary how not to approach a switch to Linux. But i dont see that. The video isnt setup like that. He doesnt react like that. He seems genuinely surprised that when you install an OS with which you arent experienced with in middle of a LAN party it wont work out. While beeing the organizer of the party AND beeing filmed for a video. Yeah, no shit it didnt work out.
Its a wild video tbh. Switching your OS on your own LAN which you organize? This is already a high stress situation and then he expect it to just work out of the box with barely any time or patience to give it a fair try. If a Linux veteran would do this for shits and giggles as just a guest things still could have gone wrong but he probably would have atleast the experience to fix things.
But this isnt even a Linux issue. Imagine installing Win11 for the very first time without decades of Windows experience because you are eg a Mac user. The chances are pretty high that something goes wrong and you wouldnt have any clue how to fix them in like half an hour.
Normalizing the use of ChatGPT for decisions doesnt sit with me well in general. But especially for Linux stuff its such a bad choice. I may be a luddite and AI hater. But i actually have tried those damn chatbots and they fucking suck for Linux questions. Their answers are more often than not atleast missleading, outright wrong and sometimes just outdated.
I could shit on linux all day for all the real issues it has. But at some point i just skipped every Linus segment because it was unbearable to watch his antics.
The segments with Luke and the helmet guy were pretty good tough.
I see MX518 with dents. I upvote.
Biggest difference is probably that ALVR works on top of SteamVR while WiVRn uses opencomposite/xrizer/vapor instead. SteamVR seems to be somewhat broken and buggy on Linux atm and just having to not use it can be a plus depending on the game. In theory this should also result in some performance gains in certain titles.
ALVR is easier to “install” but then completly overwhelms you with its settings. WiVRn is way cleaner in regards to the user facing settings. Most of the important settings are even done within the headset .apk which is a nice QOL improvement. Installation on CachyOS took a lot more time until i figured it out though. Getting the WiVRn-server, wivrn-dashboard, lib32-wivrn, xrizer, lib32-xrizer, opencomposite etc of the AUR. That lib32 stuff is needed for certain titles like the HL2 VR mod.
Imagequality is more or less the same. Latency is maybe a bit better on WiVRn but hard to tell between different programs. Pico Connect, Virtual Desktop, ALVR, WiVRn all provide wildly different latency readouts in my experience. 60ms seems to be the best case i can achieve with my current setup with WiVRn which feels similar to 35ms in Pico Connect or 40-50ms in VD. But WiVRn sometimes just gives me 15-30ms more latency for whatever reason. Then i need to restart the server, the app, my whole pc until it just works again as expected. In some games i just get constantly 100ms but still feel just fine. In other games 80ms feels horrible until it gets back down to 70ish ms.
In general the WiVRN/Xrizer/lib32 combo is so far the most reliable in my case. Got almost every game working with it(Hitman VR, SW Squadrons Epic Store Version and Race Room Racing Experience are the only duds so far). ALVR/SteamVR shits the bed way more often by not picking up a VR title. Steam Link just doesnt want to establish a VR connection at all on my setup for whatever reason.
On most days i’m pretty happy with the current state of VR on Linux. On others i ask myself if it wouldnt be quicker to just spin up a dualbooted Win LTSC install instead of troubleshooting for 2-3 hours again.
Edit:
https://lvra.gitlab.io/
https://db.vronlinux.org/
Also i forgot to mention wayVR which is awesome in combination with WiVRn. Its not perfect but i think i like it even more than VD for in VR desktop use. Atleast when everything works which it does most of the times until it doesnt.
https://github.com/wlx-team/wayvr
its pretty good!
gib analysis in comments pls
amazing writing. x11 will be dropped 2027 but dont worry yet because until then 2026 is happening. thanks, didnt expect that!
I have a LG CX and a AMD 6900XT. I just settled on some random noname adapter cable since i never could find reliable enough information on the net regarding VRR(irc you need atleast a rx7000 series amd card for that). Everything works on my setup except VRR. Atleast on the CX remote you can press the green button seven times to get an overlay that shows if 10bit, vrr, hdr, chroma subsampling, etc is in place. Helped me a lot when i tried to dial in everything.
Like 4k120 HDR VRR is perfectly possible with hdmi 2.0 bandwith. It will just be subsampled down to horrible 4:2:0…
I killed several really well going conversations in the past by mentioning that one of my hobbies is to play racing games with my plastic toywheel.
Like dont get wrong i’m fully aware that its not a sexy hobby. But if thats enough to tank an otherwise well going conversation for you then i’m not interested either way.
Uuh, could have been /boot/efi ? I dont know anymore. It was a few weeks ago and in an adhd induced rush to fix that problem now and now was until 3am.
I was dualbooting of two seperate nvme drives for each os. Worked pretty well for almost a year until i distro hopped. But for some reason my windows boot partition was located on my linux drive which i purged entirely while installing the new OS. Because why would be there any windows component on my linux drive, right?
Recreating the windows boot partition on the correct drive was more complicated than anything i ever encountered on linux so far. Took like 5 hours and funnily enough was only doable via a terminal.
Also there isnt a reason left for me to put up with microsofts bullshit. A few weeks ago i got a racing game with VR and wheel support running in an afternoon. The title is even abandonware so i had to grab some repack with a windows only installer.
Biggest reason was because Bazzite is immutable. Great idea in theory but in practice it actually made a few things more difficult for me. Mostly because of simracing and VR stuff. The things i wanted to do are possible with Bazzite but i was just to dumb to do it. CachyOS is a bit more involved in the setup process i would say. But their wiki is great and guided me very well. Beeing arch based i could get a few things(again simracing and VR) i wanted to do just from the AUR which made it a bit easier.
I would say Bazzite has more guardrails which is great until you want/need to overcome them and then it gets more complicated. Thats how i feel at least. With CachyOS you are free to do whatever you want to. But its also easier to fuck up. But so far with the help of the wiki and their discord for a few quick questions everything worked out for me.
Oh, but KDE broke not once but already twice since last august after updates. No biggie with limine and snapshots. Just reverted to the last working version in 2 minutes and my system was working again. In both cases i just updated again after a few days and everything was fine. But Bazzite never broke for me once tbf!