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You certainly can and I have several distros, but Cachy seems to be well suited with gaming. I am very sure I could tweak Mint to be comparable, but out of the box Cachy is a better gamer. One or two clicks and it’s all set.
I went from mint to cachy because it just works better for games. Mint is alright though.
But it’s the same on Mint. I don’t get it, What are the particular advantages of Cachy?
Is it the same on Mint? It isn’t for me. On Cachy, the welcome screen has a pick for Apps/Tweaks, then “Install gaming packages”. That’s the difference.
Mint has a welcome screen, but it is very generic. Driver manager, software manager, etc. Sure you can install everything to make it work fine, but Cachy leads you straight into it with that one click and you are gaming within two minutes of OS load. Mint will take a bit longer. And I think it removes some of the package guesswork as well, especially for new users.
Immediately after installing the OS, I installed the proprietary version of the video card driver (two clicks), and that’s all.
I am happy for you and don’t really care what OS you use as I’m not here to convince you. Sometimes the video driver is not all that is required to make games work. It is definitely not all that is required to further optimize a system for gaming. Especially on older hardware. How many clicks to do the stuff listed below? Still only two clicks on Cachy so I’m stating they make it easy.
Copious amounts of other gaming/system config info on their wiki, but the gaming packages include:
Proton-CachyOS - based on Proton’s bleeding-edge branch and applies a number of modifications on top of it. - Steam has it listed for use.
Wine-staging patches/Wine Fullscreen FSR Includes video and audio codecs for game cutscenes Support for umu-launcher including UMU-Protonfixes Adds early hotfixes/workarounds for games Gaming related libraries
Tools - Gamescope, GOverlay, MangoHud Launchers - Steam, Heroic Games Launcher, Lutris, Faugus Launcher
Edit: BTW, I game on Mint too. But after sampling Cachy on a test box, I’ll be changing that on my main system.