Windows forced me to upgrade to 11 so I went for cachyos instead and I’m blown away by how great it is.

CachyOS is also great for gaming, but calling it "a gaming distro" is underselling it for people who do not care much for gaming. It's a highly optimized general-use distro that is also great for gaming.

But by default it does not install any gaming-related packages, so calling it a gaming distro is wrong. It has a shortcut to install everything most people would want for gaming, and the team also tunes it in ways that benefits gaming, and they also have their own Proton fork called Proton-CachyOS that is in my opinion the best one. Right now it is still based on a relatively old Experimental version because the main dev behind it is taking a break, but it's normally very up-to-date on everything including new features and fixes.

Plenty of people do not want the "bloat" that actual gaming distros include by default and CachyOS is the best of both worlds. Pretty clean by default, with easy access to gaming tools if you want that.

Use the distro on a libreboot computer 🇬🇧 to visit peertube.wtf 🇩🇰

It's awesome! Totally! Not just for gaming though. It's a "normal" Linux too.

But a yr ago I tried it on a 2ND nvme and left winblows there for "when nothing works". I am a massive nerd, with many self written tools and I have a very precise demand of my machine and how it behaves.

Never tried Linux desktops. Only ever uses it for servers.

Well, the windows drive is still there, but I never ever booted it again. Even made a VM of it for super-quick emergencies. Never started it.

Everything works the same or better. Most of my tools were basically fixing windows, don't need them anymore. And except destiny2 I can game every game with basically zero problems.

And I game at least 5hrs a day. Sometimes a but of tinkering is helpful (rarely needed). Especially if you want to run a side-app like cheatengine or some map-tools or whatever else.

Long story short: cachy is awesome! Being a German adds a nice bonus flavour.

I'm using it for a few months now. Coming from Kubuntu, I noticed that everything seems much faster/more responsive.Love it. Its not a pure gaming distro though. It's arch-based, but with easy install and configuration, you have access to the whole Arch repo.

And of course as a bonus I can now unironically say "I use arch by the way*

Not just a gaming distro. This works great for everyday use, as well. If you have an older system, it will breathe a little life back into it, as well.

Happy "costumer" here.
Been using boring old Arch for 4 years on a desktop. But I have a second hand 8 year old laptop that I didn't want to spend to much time setting up and installed CachyOS on it. Everything just works.
After using it for a while I decided to add the CachyOS repo on my desktop, with instructions from the CachyOS wiki, and I'm now running the CachyOS kernel.

Is your Linux distro running?

i get fomo seeing linux distros being loved by people. unfortunately with intel macbook, i have little options for using linux.