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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (20 children)

I've not heard of CachyOS, but to capture 2.54% of the steam linux market feels significant. It jumped right past other established Arch-based distros like Endeavor and Manjaro.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (5 children)

they offer some optimisations to the kernel and the packages that are supposed to yield a tiny bit better performance.

an incredibly small thing that rubs me the wrong way more than it probably should about their setup is that they set Plasma animation speeds to much higher values than the stock Plasma desktop uses. sure, it could be just a part of their customisation tweaks the same way using fish as the default shell is, but it feels like a cheap trick to reel in the "I installed it on my desktop and it's soooo much snappier" review kind of people. like, if your work is as good as you claim, you shouldn't need to artificially make the improvements seem bigger than they really are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If it feels snappier, it is snappier.

It's like saying it's cheating to use instanced rendering to display millions of asteroids when it's not even real draw calls

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it's like making the car audio play wind whooshing noises when accelerating to make it feel faster.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

If the goal is to make it feel faster, yeah.

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