u/Dunocat639

Hello, I'm going to reinstall CachyOS on my PC (with dualboot with Windows 11 although I almost don't use it) and I'm between EXT4 and BTRFS filesystems. I already know all the features that BTRFS has and its benefits (because I like because it saves space, for exemple), and that EXT4 is a little bit faster because it's simpler, but my concern is that I read that the BTRFS CoW (copy on write) is bad for games and causes stuttering. Is that true?

I had this FS on my previous install and the only issue I had was bad 1% lows but I don't know if it's because of that.

I also read that I can disable CoW only for my Steam library but then I will loose the compression thing so I'm not sure.

I hope you can help me.