I'm interested on your feedback, cause I need a new updated distro and I'm hesitating with the same 3 distro you use. Did you have any issue with any of those?
I was very happy with xubuntu back in the days, and also with mint ^^ I'm looking into CachyOS for the gaming optimisation, but I also enjoy the ease of use from Mint, and the lightweight approach of Xubuntu as well as it's simple and customizable UI.

I customise the hell out of Xubuntu, remove Snapd altogether. I have my own dedicated theme for it Orchis-Grey-Dark and Sardi-Ghost-Flexible icons. It took me three or so years to find the perfect theme, not just for Xfce but for other Environments too. Linux Mint I always delete their themes and icon themes, as they have horrible undershoot lines in their themes and it makes the experience, well for me unbearable.

I use mint for Davinci Resolve and as my everyday OS at the moment, but am thinking about moving onto MX-Linux Xfce, as just got myself a AMD RX 9060 XT with 16GB of VRAM. When it comes to Linux, depends on your use case. I have three dedicated gaming PC's, all with RYZEN 5700x eight cores sixteen threads, more than enough oomph to play the latest games, my chosen card for gaming is NVIDIA 4060 TI with 16GB of VRAM. The reason why I got the AMD 9060 was because got fed up with Ubuntu 24.04 based Distros, including Mint and Xubuntu having to go into safe graphics on installation, reminding me of the good old Ubuntu Gnome 2 days of old, when NVIDIA drivers were a pain to install, especially on a cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitor, the resolution would go up to 800x600 leaving you having to count the amount of times you pressed the tab button to set the correct resolution of 1024x768. Although these days with bigger and lighter monitors, when in safe graphic mode on installation, 1024x768 does display correctly, although everything larger than life.

Cachy OS Xfce version is really good, because you can pick out on the installation screen in Calamares what you want installed. I go for the minimalist as I can, still leaving Cachy OS's settings, but not installing their themes, as I use my own.

The only gripe I have had with Cachy OS is their update notification, which you can enable to be present on the panel like Mint's one but faster. It started updating from the AUR instead of just from Cachy OS repositories. Can easily reinstall and not enable the update notification, as just use terminal. I always set the terminal in Cachy back to bash, as I find Fish a funny little creature, plus used to bash, as that is where all my Terminal Alias commands are written for. Arch and Debian based systems.

The rules in Arch are weird, as I can in a Debian based Distro uninstall Thunar and have Nemo as my default, but in Arch no, but can set Nemo as default. Another gripe is opening internal storage drives, always asks for permission, but never on a external drive. Surely an external drive should have permissions to open as well? Internal drives should not need permissions, as obviously they are internal, but the problem is, is that Arch sees internal drives as a threat.

So what sort of Linux are you after? Light weight, lots of screen effects, bloated out ones???

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Just finished playing and recording for YouTube Mafia the definitive version. That was played in Cachy OS Xfce Edition. I've just recorded two parts of Mafia The Old Country, missed out Mafia 2 and three, as Mafia 2 the Definitive edition is not as good graphically nor gameplay wise as the first game. Mafia 3 Definitive Edition has copyrighted music, even when you switch off music in the settings.

Currently playing and recording Mafia Old Country in Xubuntu 24.04, which I am dual booting with Cachy OS Xfce Edition and Linux Mint Xfce 22.2 Zara is my main everyday driver. I still have Alone In The Dark 2024 version to complete, which I'll probably get around to finishing sometime next year.

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Absolutely loved playing this remake on Cachy OS, just ran as smooth as butter through Heroic Game Launcher. The music, the gameplay and even on the PS1 this game blew me away. I'm glad that Steam are getting this game, will definitely buy it again, even if it has DRM content.

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The first game was so addictive, but annoying too. The annoying part was finding the bit of dirt that was hidden somewhere and the game would not give an automatic done, until it was found. Other than that though, it's weird that such a simple concept could play with your mind, especially at meal times, yes just finishing now I would reply to my missus, but no could not finish, needed to find that bit of dirt in the playground, the playground that is absolutely huge.

Meanwhile my missus chasing me with a rolling pin, feeling like Thomas the cat from Tom And Jerry. I cannot see my wife to be's face, just her stocking legs and apron, whilst she's chasing me around the home.

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I never got to complete Dying Light, as when it turned to night time, it scared the hell out of me. Techland really gave the night time a horrible feeling of dread. It has to be the most intense time ever of any horror game. Resident Evil does not come close to the atmosphere that is portrayed in Dying Light. I will pluck the courage up to revisit it soon though.

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I picked up all the FarCry games yesterday one to six for thirty quid on Steam yesterday. Never played them before, though looking at reviews for some of them, people disappointed for some reason?
Been playing Alone In The Dark 2024 of late, not very scary in my opinion. I use Cachy OS Xfce edition as my choice of gaming Distro. I have two main PC's, Cachy OS for gaming and Linux Mint 22.1 Xfce for everyday stuff, YouTube, Emails, Amazon, banking and helping people out in various Linux Forums.

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VP9 is what YouTube turns every video uploaded into. VP9 makes 1080p video look really bad, unless whilst recording or rendering video, the bit-rate is very high, like twenty thousand or above. I record in 1440p and my bit-rate is eighty thousand. When I render in Davinci Resolve I bring down the bit-rate to sixty thousand and render to H265 using Nvenc through my NVIDIA 4060 TI 16GB of Rammage card. I record gameplay through OBS using Nvenc too. Then to shrink final video down again, without losing quality using the brilliant Handbrake, setting the constant quality to lossless and bring the rendering speed down to it's slowest, that shrinks the video right down, plus it is Network optimised, which is supposed to make it smoother uploading.

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Still have this on my PS1, original CD. Love it, charming little game, that has great music too. Just bought it on GOG, going to install it tomorrow using Heroic Launcher.

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I give Valve their due, they are quick to fix stuff. I've been using
SteamDeck=1 %command% to get The Last Of Us II to work on my Cachy OS Desktop.

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Looking forward to this and hopefully Nixxes do a better job than the last PC port? I already have 32GB of Rammage, RYZEN 7 5700x and NVIDIA 4060 TI with 16GB of Rammage. Everything I chuck at Cachy OS Xfce Edition Gaming wise it says yes I can run that every time.

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