May be a mean sounding question, but I’m genuinely wondering why people would choose Arch/Endevour/whatever (NOT on steam hardware) over another all-in-one distro related to Fedora or Ubuntu. Is it shown that there are significant performance benefits to installing daemons and utilities à la carte? Is there something else I’m missing? Is it because arch users are enthusiasts that enjoy trying to optimize their system?

    • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 day ago

      There are some benefits, but its situational and only affects you while your hardware is very new. Eventually the base kernel catches up in most cases.

      • ruffsl@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I’ve observed some notable improvements when benchmarking with the CachyOS kernel on NixOS via Chaotic’s Nyx using moderately old hardware:

        https://programming.dev/post/38304031

        Haven’t yet tried replicating the same comparison on newer hardware, but would be interested to see what others have tested. Any observations?