Improve Performance and Responsiveness

2 - Proton optimizations

• For proton we can use either Proton-Sarek or Proton-CachyOS.

• For Proton-Sarek you can use PROTON_SAREK_PROFILE=agg profile to gain performance in some games.

• For Proton-CachyOS you can try using PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 to see if performance improves.

What do these 2 actually do?

• The agg stands for "aggressive" and disables graphically intensive features to gain performance. More on that at Proton-Sarek profiles section.
• NTSYNC is a Linux driver introduced in kernel 6.14 that implements some of the NT Kernel (the kernel Windows still uses today) API calls to dramatically reduce overhead when running Windows games through Wine/Proton.

Feral Gamemode

Feral Gamemode is a piece of software that optimizes system performance for gaming by temporarily adjusting settings like CPU priority and I/O operations.

On ubuntu you can install it by running these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samoilov-lex/gamemode
sudo apt install gamemode

You can use it by using gamemoderun %command% in steam or gamemoderun *game* outside of steam.

3 - DE/WM Optimizations

While these are not really "optimizations" Windows Managers and some Desktop Enviroments can reduce ram usage and make the system more responsive, while these may not have a significant impact on your performance or have any at all the lesser ram usage and minimalism may appeal to some

Xorg based Dekstop enviroments and Window Managers:

• LXDE Small Note: for some fucking reason the site is flagged as unsecure

• LXQT (Just LXDE but with QT support)

• XFCE

• DWM

• i3

• Openbox

• bspwm

• Awesome

Wayland based Window Managers:

• DWL

• Hyprland

• Swayfx

• Niri