--- title: Linux is the only OS that respects your aging gaming... description: Linux is increasingly the best OS for gaming on older hardware, outperforming Windows in some benchmarks. CachyOS, a lightweight Arch-based distro, is posting... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-is-the-only-os-that-respects-your-aging-gaming-hardware-dtnrknl1q twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Linux is the only OS that respects your aging gaming hardware | daily.dev og:description: Linux is increasingly the best OS for gaming on older hardware, outperforming Windows in some benchmarks. CachyOS, a lightweight Arch-based distro, is posting... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/linux-is-the-only-os-that-respects-your-aging-gaming-hardware-dtnrknl1q og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DtNrknl1q.png og:image:alt: Linux is the only OS that respects your aging gaming hardware og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Linux is the only OS that respects your aging gaming hardware **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Linux is increasingly the best OS for gaming on older hardware, outperforming Windows in some benchmarks. CachyOS, a lightweight Arch-based distro, is posting better in-game benchmark numbers than Windows. A Valve engineer named Natalie Vock fixed a Linux kernel issue where the OS improperly evicted game data from VRAM on GPUs with 8GB or less, causing performance degradation. The Linux community's focus on optimizing for existing hardware rather than pushing upgrades makes it uniquely suited for aging gaming PCs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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