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EndeavourOS is a terminal-centic distro (it isn't trying to be very user friendly but just easy to install and with some very important stuff included). Garuda has some modern performance improvements (preload, Zen kernel etc) and generally a lot of stuff preinstalled. Manjaro tries to be a general good easy to use desktop distro without Garuda's optimization stuff but it's quite bad at it because of poor management of the project
Awesome, thank you. Is Garuda stable enough for daily use beside gaming? Also, how much of a difference does it give in performance over others?
It really depends on your hardware. I don't think you'll have any boosts. The "Gaming Edition" can even be worse than average because of the amount of purely aesthetic whistles preinstalled. I think it's more about performance in regular tasks on modern machines. Preload will greatly improve app loading times there. For gaming just use a rolling release distro to get newest drivers. I also wouldn't recommend running GNOME because it seems to decrease gaming performance here and there. Other than that it doesn't really matter and in case something does you can install/tweak it on other distros as well
I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions.
You're welcome but I'm not much of a specialist so half of my answers might probably be wrong lol. Considering the fact that I decided to answer your questions anyway, thanking me might not be considered very fair
Hey, you helped me with something even though you didn't have to, and that is appreciated
Didn't Phoronix test this and find no difference? Latency, similarly, is the same across Kwin and Mutter.
The only thing Gnome really falls behind on in gaming is that VRR is an experimental feature in Gnome and won't be fully greenlit until next release.
Idk who is Phoronix. The benchmarks I saw showed some difference. Though they were taken on GNOME without VRR so yea that can be a reason
I've been using it daily for about a year on my primary desktop gaming pc without any issues. I love it.
As for performance, I vaguely remember phoronix doing a benchmark comparison of a few distros and in some tests it was marginally better (cannot find it now though...). For the most part though I'd say it's not as much about potential performance gains as it is ease of use for gaming. So many useful tweaks and useful programs "out-of-the-box".
Awesome, thank you. I'm kind of "shopping" around since I'll have to reinstall my distro soon