@boilingsteam I certainly don't doubt the Arch family being the most used for gaming. Timely driver updates has been a driver for better gaming experiences for many years.

I wonder if its numbers here are propped up a bit due to its users being more likely to report on successes and failures or taking extra steps to ensure that things are running as they should or better. This would lead to higher numbers on a place like ProtonDB.

And I suppose the inverse would also make sense, with Ubuntu/Mint users having more of a "what I see is what I get" mindset and being less inclined to document experiences.

@jakub_neruda I think Arch people can be really enthusiastic about how well their system works for them and it can affect their objectivity when recommending their distro to Windows refugees.

It CAN be exactly what someone is looking for, but that it doesn't happen overnight shouldn't be omitted from the rec. There's a road to be traveled beforehand, converting familiarity from one thing to another, and beginners would be in a much better starting position knowing the truth of that from the outset.

For instance, if the person tried to run the appimage from the terminal, the output would tell them that they needed fuse2. But I doubt many new users would think to do that because it's absolutely not a familiar behavior on Windows.

@jakub_neruda That's Arch based ideology for you. Very little is done by default. "Install it only if you need it."

I'd bet Appimages are one of the least used ways to use software on Arch based systems so fuse2 understandably falls outside of the things not present by default.

The philosophy has its drawbacks(like being less beginner friendly) but on the whole I think people end up being very satisfied with the system they ultimately end up with because of how closely it suits their needs.

@dpplggr This is a decent article that goes into some good reasons why an Arch user would find CachyOS a desirable shift.
https://www.xda-developers.com/ran-arch-year-before-realizing-cachyos/

As someone who's also used both, I generally agree with what is said. You need to be willing to let it take the wheel from you on a few things, but chances are that you ultimately end up better off for it.

#cachyOS #archlinux

@PatrickQuin I believe the swap to zsh should be as easy as:

chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh

Since CachyOS ships with a config for it already in place(if you didn't deselect it in the installer, which almost no one does), even though the default shell is fish.

https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/post_install_setup/#changing-the-default-shell

@fell @egosoft These cloud saves also correspond to locations in your storage. Steam syncs the cloud saves from theae locations.

If you follow the link to the announcement that EgoSoft put in their message and scroll up a little you can see where they are for each of the client types.