Companion article here: https://boilingsteam.com/distro-for-gaming-cachy-os-takes-over/ Video for the performance comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DT2Z5QY8mE
  • kewjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    flapak when i was using it on arch always had issues getting gamescope to run as the flapak version doesn’t match the version in steam. with wine adopting support for native Wayland and improvements to Vulcan layers i think flapak version may start to get more popular. but for now the main limiter is, “do i need gamescope to play?”

    • ElectroLisa@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      If I’m not mistaken the Gamescope issue in Flatpak is not caused by Arch but the Flatpak itself and how it isolates files, making games escape the Gamescope session

      • kewjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        yeah the flatpak version of gamescope is the latest version which is meant more to be used in something like lutris or directly with wine. my understanding is a bit hazy on the issue but i think flatpak steam or the Vulcan layers required a specific version or you get something about compatibility and the game would still launch but disable gamescope.

        i think the workaround was to install gamescope through pacman and then configure steam to be able to access it.