I usually don't like gaming distros, but honestly, PikaOS has been the project I've been more interested in lately since they are making some nice tools like:
A device manager similar to Windows Device Manager
A kernel manager
Falcond, an auto gamemode tool (since manually adding gamemode is annoying, but this one also lets you use different profiles for different games for different sched-ex schedulers and provides an easy way to force 3D V-Cache optimizations)
A welcome app that doesn't look like shit while having useful options (like giving the option to install popular apps like Discord or gaming stuff from there, and getting codecs or other setup stuff)
A pretty cool installer
And quite a bit of this made it to Nobara, which is cool also—so a gaming distro that actually makes their own tools to improve the experience I can get on board with.
Either way, I don't like gaming distros that do nothing but be a rice, basically. But if it does its own thing that can improve the desktop experience for people or the gaming experience (like auto gamemode instead of manually enabling gamemode for games), I can get behind those distros. So, hope it succeeds so it can do more innovative stuff.
The big thing Pika brings that it shares with other distros (so far Nobara mostly) is tools that I think help the Linux experience. Like, if you don't need to manually add gamemode for games and have something in the background detect when Proton or a Linux native game is being run and it does the optimizations needed for gaming, that is already very beneficial—especially for newbies who are used to Windows now having gamemode enabled by default. And I think Mac does the same when you run a game.
A device manager GUI app that can properly stop and disable devices, along with adding custom drivers or changing out device profiles, is beneficial.
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