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So a better scheduler for gaming distros

CachyOS is not a gaming distro, it is a performance distro, and this is from the mouth of its own developers. Everybody thinks their scheduler is the best - there’s probably a meme about it somewhere, you’d probably get more aggressive scheduling with gamemode than regular cachy because gamemode expects you to be playing a game when you use it… and fyi gamemode is used by default in applications like lutris.

SteamOS is a desktop distribution now, that means full compatibility - at least once they start supporting nvidia. Maybe when they supported only the steam deck they could afford some targeted optimizations, but the more systems start running SteamOS the wider the target will have to become.

CachyOS is most definitely not “as close as it gets” to SteamOS. Cachy is performance driven whereas SteamOs much like Bazzite is compatibility driven. Valve’s main goal is for their distribution to run on everything, performance is a low priority.

better scheduler

That’s not a thing, the words you’re looking for are “scheduler optimized for gaming at the cost of performance in other domains like power consumption”, you also don’t need it because common programs like gamemode already do this.

Plus game is free so it’s not like they’re actively getting money from me

They might not be getting money from you, but they’re getting a lot of other things like harvesting your data, advertising (like this thread)… Always remember that free to play is a business model, not a charity.

Just like every project, you engage with it only as much as you want to. You can just use the arch install script, update pacman every couple of weeks and stop there.

It speaks to your willingness and eagerness to tinker with your systems, that’s pretty much arch’s core audience.

If you like to mod games you’ll probably want arch linux as it’s heavily modular - you choose everything. You can use the archinstall script to get you setup or follow the installation guide.

I never mentioned publishers, in fact indies do not even have publishers. Can you stop with this whataboutism ?

30% is industry standard

It was an industry standard, that’s been changing for a while, just take a look at how much fire google and apple are taking over their stores.

but valve are good and kind and shit rainbows so they deserve money

Valve is a corporation, it might be less bad than the rest, but at the end of the day gabe is still sifting mai thais on his 500 million dollars yacht.

95% of the players on pc are on steam, if you don’t publish your game there you’re just shooting yourself in the foot - this has very little to do with the quality of the service valve provides and everything to do about their monopoly on the market. Would devs like to pay a smaller cut to valve? Sure, but it’s just the cost of doing business, you go where your customers are.

It’s hard getting recognized on steam too.

Does steam provide a good service? Sure. Is it worth the 30% cut they take? Absolutely not. Gamers don’t realize the amount of money valve is making off them. What we need is a good old fashioned bill at every purchase detailing how much money these rent seeking stores are extracting from you.

I don’t want the 90 services and bloated platform steam offers, I want to play my game and pay the developers.

Wine has been able to run on wayland for a while now, though upstream wine uses a different wayland pipeline than proton-ge that uses em10/wine-wayland.

Ubuntu’s GNOME is quite different from the vanilla GNOME you’ll find in fedora.

It’s against their interest to offer this as they have everything to gain by making you install their proprietary application and capturing you inside their ecosystem where they don’t have to compete fairly. Would Steam be in the position it’s in if you didn’t have to install it to download your games?

How is it a scam? They’re offering a service and asking for a price. It’s the same thing everywhere in software, if you want longer support you need to pay up.

That’s already a thing though? It’s up to the applications to implement their shortcuts through xdg-portal.

Bazzite is downstream from fedora, which i’ll remind you is partially handled by red hat, aka a large ass company with “a lot of money to throw into things”. The bazzite developers only handle a smaller portion of the maintenance that distributions require, and really only as much as they want and are confident in handling.

We’re not talking about the same thing. GNOME did get rid of titlebars, most core applications use sidebars and the rest use headerbars - which are better integrated titlebars. I suggest reading the article.

You do know the reason GNOME is pushing CSDs is to get rid of titlebars right?

It’s a none issue these days because toolkits and engines are gonna implement their own decorations anyways and for everyone else there’s libdecor.