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Yeah, mirrors my experience with similar parameters(CachyOS, Zen3, RDNA2). On average games seem to run more or less the same and maybe even slightly better. But so far it only really mattered in like two cases where i slightly missed the performance target on windows and the 5-15% performance uplift on Cachy were actually noticeable.
IMHO the main takeaway shouldnt be to switch to Linux because of better performance. Like 8-9% more performance on average for free is nice(atleast with this specific testing scenario). But its hardly noticable in most cases. I would rather focus on driving the point home that if you want to switch to Linux anyway you dont have to worry about performance regressions atleast with an AMD gpu.
Otherwise i feel like CPU bound games seem to profit the most. IDK if its just less overhead, better scheduling or what. I'm barely knowledgable enough to just spit out dangerous half-truths.
Is there a difference in performance between CachyOS and Bazzite?
For me it was just better support, on my flow z13 bazzite kept freezing the screen, I guess its a reported issue with the display manager. Cachyos doesn't have that issue probably because its much more up to date so fixes have been applied and they take a while to get to fedora then bazzite
I wonder if my Logitech G29 wheel would work with Cachy.
FWIW, I have some nice Logitech peripherals, and as far as I can tell, they do not have a management app for Linux. My KB and mouse are stuck in RGB mode, no custom color and no custom sensitivity or button macros.
I'd guess the wheel itself will work fine, but anything beyond the default controls and settings is going to be questionable.