• Rustmilian@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Nah, it’s literally just Arch Linux with the tweaked Linux zen-kernel, a crap ton of eye candy and a few GUI tools.
        You could use the zen-kernel on a plain Arch base add their GUI tools (likely just by adding their repo to pacman.conf) and likely achieve better results/performance because you’re not using resources on the flashy desktop effects and background processes instead having more available for the game.
        Better yet, you could start with Garuda and strip it down and disable much of the resource heavy effects and achieve the same thing more or less.

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          I like that it takes automatic backups of my important stuff with btrfs because I’m too lazy to do it myself. I think that’s the main reason it runs heavier. Probably better to do it your way if you know what you’re doing.

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            No, it has nothing to do with BTRFS.
            BTRFS is barely slower than EXT4; you wouldn’t even notice the difference.
            I use BTRFS on Arch with a plain KDE plasma desktop and it has no such slowdown experienced with the Garuda equivalent.
            I believe it’s because they enable a bunch of resources heavy effects, such as wobbly windows and have a few extra background processes; things not enabled or included in a plain Arch install by default.