Looked into Siduction - seems to be a small project operating over Debian Sid, which I call a recipe for disaster when actually deployed as a home system. Sid is not meant to be stable, and you’re unlikely to get much support. And a small community project is unlikely to patch everything faster than Debian itself.
Debian Sid should not be seen the same way as Arch or other rolling release distros - the former is supposed to be broken, a bug here and there is a non-issue at this point of Debian development lifecycle. Arch and others are expected to actually be used as end products, so critical bugs are rare.
I had some counters in mind to the things you’re saying here. But I don’t feel like bothering. So I will just say the big problem with everything you’re saying, is that you’re arguing against using Debian.
Meanwhile just last night Elden Ring on my Trixie desktop went brrrr.
In no way I do! I used Debian on my machines, and it’s a brilliant distro for its purpose. Which, to my mind, modern gaming is just not.
Debian will absolutely run games, though. The problem is, will it work well with newer titles, released after the respective Debian release? Elden Ring is 4 years old, after all. It was released in the Debian 11 era, and we’re on 13 now.
In any case, if you mostly play slightly dated games and don’t mind small performance drops due to older drivers, why not just stay on Debian Stable, like you do now? It will serve you just fine, and your system will be rock solid, unlike Sid. The performance gains from CachyOS kernel optimizations are normally not that big, and comparable to what you lose by not having the newest drivers. Just play on Trixie if it fits you :)
Looked into Siduction - seems to be a small project operating over Debian Sid, which I call a recipe for disaster when actually deployed as a home system. Sid is not meant to be stable, and you’re unlikely to get much support. And a small community project is unlikely to patch everything faster than Debian itself.
Debian Sid should not be seen the same way as Arch or other rolling release distros - the former is supposed to be broken, a bug here and there is a non-issue at this point of Debian development lifecycle. Arch and others are expected to actually be used as end products, so critical bugs are rare.
I had some counters in mind to the things you’re saying here. But I don’t feel like bothering. So I will just say the big problem with everything you’re saying, is that you’re arguing against using Debian.
Meanwhile just last night Elden Ring on my Trixie desktop went brrrr.
In no way I do! I used Debian on my machines, and it’s a brilliant distro for its purpose. Which, to my mind, modern gaming is just not.
Debian will absolutely run games, though. The problem is, will it work well with newer titles, released after the respective Debian release? Elden Ring is 4 years old, after all. It was released in the Debian 11 era, and we’re on 13 now.
In any case, if you mostly play slightly dated games and don’t mind small performance drops due to older drivers, why not just stay on Debian Stable, like you do now? It will serve you just fine, and your system will be rock solid, unlike Sid. The performance gains from CachyOS kernel optimizations are normally not that big, and comparable to what you lose by not having the newest drivers. Just play on Trixie if it fits you :)