>>19430How is this for gaming? I don't know if I'd use it for gaming. It seems like it's more designed towards realtime applications like video/audio production which might not play well with typical games. I'd love to hear if you're using this kernel config for gaming and how it fares compared to more typical configs.
I've personally found the default Gentoo kernel config and Debian's pre-compiled kernel to be just fine for playing video games over the years. I won't get into details about my own autism kernel config. But I will say kernel config never seemed to have much effect on games no matter how slim I made it or how much I compiled in. I mostly just got better boot times and better resource usage under certain advanced applications like a/v work.
The gaming situation is much like Windows world in Linux. The vast majority of games you're going to play are either going to be running through wine, proton (wine) with steam's 32-bit libs or via Windows VM. Hence why I keep that away from the rest of my system now.
I haven't attempted to game on a kernel tuned for real time in some time but from what I do remember it either did nothing or hurt my overall FPS. But not by much. Depended on what else I had running in the background.
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