TL;DR: Is there really a performance benefit to a gaming distro over a regular distro? Or is it more of a “this is the least work” to get setup?

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I run EndeavourOS on my desktop and haven’t had any issues with performance. I just like playing with new things and learning from the experience.

I’ve seen loads of people recommending Bazzite as a gaming distro for various reasons. It’s gotten to the point that I installed it on a second SSD to do my own testing but I’d still like to see others perspective.

From my research, there doesn’t seem to be that much performance to be gained (generally speaking). I’ll be testing this on my own hardware but is this generally true?

I think a big draw (especially for new users) would be that these distros would require very minimal work to get up and running into a game.

I think the TL;DR at the top best describes my question. I’ve just been thinking about this and haven’t been sure how to express it in a clear manner for others to understand. Also, this video got me thinking more.

EDIT:

Glad to see that I’m not alone in my thinking. Biggest benefit of a “gaming distro” is the convenience of having everything setup and there is no real performance difference.

    • GolfNovemberUniform
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      5 months ago

      https://piped.video/watch?v=aHt8qIOMiTc

      I like this one. It’s quite new (so you don’t say that the situation has changed) and I think it explains quite well. I can’t give you many links because I don’t have much free online time anymore. I guess you can try to find more comparisons and real researches by yourself and I do apologize for the inconvenience

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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        5 months ago

        Interesting channel, he also reacted to TheLinuxExp.

        Valve uses KDE, for Gaming. The so called “gaming” highly relies on Windows software translation stuff so I assumed it also has to do with optimized compositors.

        Lets see.