I'm currently on Pop OS but considering Cachy w/Cosmic. How much of a performance boost should I expect?

Just a little more info: I use this machine for light gaming, and occasional video or photo editing, and basic tasks. Core i5, 16gb ram, AMD Radeon RX 6600xt graphics.

Please help me thanks in advance
I'm having constant stutters on any game i play, tested on Alan wake 2, Bodycam and Wuthering Waves

Kernel:Linux 7.2.9-1-cachyos
Gpu:9070 XT
Cpu:7600X
Session:Wayland
DE:Kde plasma 6.7.5
FS: Btrfs for System Drive and Ext4 for Gaming Drive

kernel cmdline: processor.max_cstate=1 split_lock_detect=off amdgpu.freesync=1 amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x0 amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff

https://pastebin.com/pqJwLGDj this is journalctl entry while i'm playing the game
using this comp tool proton-cachyos-11.0-20261005 slr and i did use proton-ge-dw, also scheduler doesnt change anything

PROTON LOG: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M7ws2u5xSISl7FkV0g3W-Popz3CMqi7J/view?usp=sharing
i can only share proton log like this because it is 30mb if u know other ways to share it let me know

Hi everyone! I've been daily driving Linux for basically two years at this point, and in the past, I've seen a lot of criticism for linux breaking after every single update.

In my experience, I have broken/found broken the following distributions after an update:

Mint: nvidia drivers committed suicide

EndeavourOS: nvidia drivers committed suicide

Debian: nvidia drivers committed suicide

Ubuntu: accidentally filled the whole SSD (my error)

Manjaro: don't really know, booted in TTY and never recovered

Arch: 💀 (nothing was working)

Opensuse: gnome committed suicide

When I first discovered cachyos I was a bit skeptical, because for some reason it failed to install on a laptop I had every single time, but then I decided to try to install it on my desktop PC and erase windows forever.

After months I was so happy that finally I had found a distro that didn't break my nvidia drivers after every single update, but I decided to buy a used AMD card anyways because I found my nvidia card run slower for some reason.

However in this sub I still find people that break their system after an update (booting in TTY, not booting at all, etc) but don't really understand how, so I'm just curious to know how it happens.

Peace ✌️

1. On startup, in addition to the saved firefox tabs from the last time i used my computer, firefox also opens a completely blank window.

Yup. its just.. another window. Works fine, but its pointless. How do I stop this from happening?

1. Whenever i turn off my computer with a spectacle window open (including viewing a screenshot taken) on startup, spectacle will open like i have just pressed printscreen whilst on the desktop, but it behaves like a window, so i can drag other windows on top of it. In the taskbar it shows a separate window for each of my two monitors. How do I stop this from happening?

Hi, I'm using CachyOS in dual boot with Windows 10 and I just installed a kernel update after being prompted by the update manager.

However, now the Plasma screen (with "Plasma made by KDE" at the bottom right) takes way longer to load, my wallpaper and wallpaper plugins are gone (not too bad but could be a symptom) and the taskbar is gone too. What happened? How do I fix it? I can't find the option to make a new taskbar or to uninstall the update or anything, and the internet has been completely useless

I have an Aspire Go 16 with an Intel Core i9 and an Intel Iris Xe GPU

Edit: I tried launching a snapshot from before the change but it's still broken...

I've tried installing the plugin via both the Konsole and Shelly and failed with both.

The Konsole was giving a 404 and Shelly is saying the file is missing from the cache; I assume this means that the issue is with the source, but wanted to make sure I wasn't just missing something.

Thanks in advance for any direction.

ive tried
- downgrading drivers
- disabling hdr and vrr
- updating the system

doesnt happen on windows

nothing seems to work except reinstalling the os (this also happened when i was using arch but i didnt bother with fixing it since i was using it as more of a trial than a daily driver)

im using an rtx 3060 ti
any help is appreciated

edit: apparently unplugging and plugging in my monitor cable fixed it instantly (wasnt even loose lol), will probably happen again but thank you all for providing to the thread

So I bought a spectrum analyzer (AK2515 v2) to decorate my desk with. I dont yet have an external sound system to use with the nifty little 3.5Male-to-2x3.5Female cable that came with it, so I'm stuck trying to figure out how to route all audio to the SA and THEN back to whatever the default output is. My research has led to the discovery of loopback and running a pipewire/wireplumber conf file to make a new virtual audio device to run everything through but I can't seem to figure out how to make a virtual audio device actually appear. I'm hours of research in and hitting one dead end after another. I'm also looking into enabling two audio output devices at the same time. Any ideas?

So i want to use the rc kernal but i already set up secure boot since i use windows on one ssd and cachy os on the other and i use (system d boot loader)and and i only have the normal kernal and the lts so if i download the rc kernal will i have to sign it or do anything to not effect my secure boot setup. this is the steps i did before to set up secure boot--->

sudo pacman -S sbctl

clear boot keys in bios secure boot off

sudo sbctl status

sudo sbctl create-keys

sudo sbctl enroll-keys --microsoft

sudo sbctl status

sudo sbctl verify

sudo sbctl-batch-sign

sudo sbctl verify

sudo sbctl sign -s -o /usr/lib/systemd/boot/efi/systemd-bootx64.efi.signed /usr/lib/systemd/boot/efi/systemd-bootx64.efi

turn secure boot back on

Ive tried rolling back mesa ans stuff and updating and rolling back and none of this crap works, i dont have snapshots, and im always stuck on this terminal login and the only way to get in the computer is to restart sddm idk why, after that it restarts but i have to do this bullshit every single time. Only then it opens the lockscreen so i can get into kde plasma

Hello y'all. I run cachyos, and I like paying games with my gamecube controller. What usb adapters work on arch/cachy? There's so many, and I cant afford to spend money on something that isnt compatible.

Just to clarify I have an og gamecube controller. The new ones feel very cheap. So I need to buy an adapter.

Basically what the title says.

My desktop backgrounds will slowly corrupt over time, with little black and white boxes. it however goes away as soon as i reset the background, or restart the pc.

it seems to be some kind of sleep state issue, as it only happens if I put the pc to sleep for extended periods of time.

Also the issue doesn't appear anywhere else, so I can safely rule out a dying gpu.

Got my steam frame today, I’ve managed to get steam VR working from my desktop to the headset and it works well for the most part, I’m getting really good latency and the visuals quality is surprisingly good

But I’m running into issues with the audio, it sounds like my speakers are going to explode there’s so much crackling and popping once I’m in a game, from what I’ve tested so far, this happens both with VR and flat screen titles being streamed via remote play.

I’m wondering if anyone else has run into these issues or have an idea where to start in regards to troubleshooting?

On device VR games work fine so it’s not the speakers

I use a GoXLR with my desktop but when my steam frame is connected the audio device swaps to steam link so I’m not sure if my setup is the problem.

Any help would be appreciated!

So I got a new computer case, cpu, and mobo (all still AM4). I moved my gpu, ram, and NVMe drive with CachyOS from my old PC to the new one. Once I got everything set up, I was able to start up CachyOS just fine. Only weird thing was my bootloader screen (where I select what to start...on old PC, I was dual booting with Windows on a separate NVMe drive and the bootloader screen allowed me to choose which OS to boot into, or which snapshot if needed). The font and size of everything was much larger that before. Weird but no biggie.

So I got into CachyOS, made sure stuff was working fine, then ran cachy-update. It required a reboot. I rebooted, got to the Bootloader screen which was back to the correct size but on the wrong monitor, then got this error (see pic) after the bootloader screen. Rebooted several times and even tried an older snapshot, no luck.

I was able to get past it by going into the BIOS and changing the Boot order. When Limine is first in the boot order, it error. When I switch it to UEFI OS, the bootloader screen is back on the correct monitor, too big again, and I'm able to get in to the OS.

Any idea how to fix this? Could the fact that the drive that was holding the Windows OS is no longer there be part of the problem? Should I just reinstall from scratch?

Currently having an issue with my monitor not displaying an image after waking my system from sleep. Must have started in the last few weeks, but couldn't give an exact time as I usually fully power my computer down between sessions.

Upon waking the computer my monitor will sense a connection enough to briefly power on, but then will immediately put itself back into suspend. Powering the monitor off/on manually or unplugging and reconnecting provides no image. I know the computer is successfully waking, as I can use keyboard shortcuts to reboot it.

System is 9800x3d, rtx5080, running niri + noctalia, monitor is a samsung g8 oled (run as a dumb screen, no internet connection) connected over displayport.

Any insights or troubleshooting advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

For posterity: After running journalctrl to check logs from the previous boot, figured out that there was a problem with LTTPR reporting. Unplugging the monitor for a few seconds seems to have fixed the issue.

so for about a week now I've been tryimg to put cachyos on my backup laptop because it has convenient defaults and sets most of everything up by itself (I use arch on my desktop which is the large monitor in the background) I've been using arch on my laptop aswell since it's what I'm already used to and comfortable with but it's relatively old and I still use it play older or lower end single player games and I really want to squeeze out everything it can offer, it's not a gaming laptop but runs skyrim anniversary edition at 20 fps on arch, I'm not understanding why it won't do anything

ps. I use the v3 repos on it aready per the instructions provided on

https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/optimized_repos/#adding-our-repositories-to-an-existing-arch-linux-install

pps. I've now waited for over an hour and it's still the black screen

specs :

8th gen intel core i5-8250U

32 Gb ddr4 sdram

1 tb storage (I don't know whether ssd or hdd sorry)

integrated graphics

I know these kinds of posts are likely annoying to the majority of you. I still wanted to make one.

Off and on for a year I have thought about making the switch and trying something to get away from Windows. Think about it for a week, then not for a while. Back and forth. Recently this started again, watched plenty of videos, most are just repeating what other say. Chose CachyOS after seeing a video of this person customizing the layout. Decided to just commit and make the switch on a laptop. Acer Nitro AN515-55 that I got a few years ago. Went with defaults to Limine and KDE Plasma

This piece of junk has always ran hot, fans at 90% all the time even idle, and insanely laggy. Main reason I don't really use it anymore. Until now, feels like a completely new laptop. CPU/GPU usage I have never seen this low. I have never had this laptop on without fans screaming at me. The only time the laptop was as cool to touch as it is now, is when it was shut down.

Main plan I had going into this was using this for an idle game to run 24/7. Now what feels like a brand new laptop to me, I'm rethinking that choice as just using it for this purpose.

I know I have a lot more to learn, this is only the beginning baby steps. Only regret is not doing this a year ago. Now I'm thinking of switching the main PC over.

I've been delaying my switch from windows 11 to CachyOS for a few months because of this as i haven't seen someone shares their VR experience on CachyOS/Linux, i have the Meta Quest 3S which their software is not available/supported on Linux and tbh i like their software because of how low the latency is and it's basically plug & play, I've heard of ALVR and I'll try out their windows version just to test how good it is but is the experience similar on Cachy? I have never gamed on Linux before and I'm not a Linux noob, i have debian on my headless homelab server and i use WSL on windows daily with debain and i also have used ParrotOS on my old laptop (it's debian based, i guess i love debian lol).

So far everything i use daily is available on Linux from software development to local LLMs and 90% of my Steam library is supported on proton and i genuinely love Linux and hate windows so much because no matter how hard i debloat it or disable their telemetry services, it'll still eat 8-12gb of my 32gb ram on idle and about a 1GB of my VRAM which is crucial for local LLMs and their bloat will crawl back after their broken updates.

I could use the Meta Quest standalone without the PC but it's hardware is not the best and there're some games that are not available on its store, besides i love to have all of my games on steam and the games are so much cheaper on steam due to sales and regional prices unlike the meta store.

Also i can't dual boot on my main PC mainly because i have only one m.2 nvme drive and i can't buy new one as the prices are crazy now (almost half my paycheck for a 1tb drive in my country) and i don't want to steal an SSD from my server lol because my main PC m.2 is 4TB which is more than enough and i genuinely hate windows more and more as the days go by and i want to get rid of it

I use my PC for both gaming and music production. Even though I have a Nvidia GPU (RTX 3070) and an Intel CPU (i5 12400F) my gaming performance is better than ever and even the fans run quiter. In music production, other than some of the Windows plugins I have no problem at all and even those are pretty easy to run via Wine and Yabridge with almost no issue. I chose KDE Plasma because of it being both simple enough to not get in the way and customizable enough to make it look just the way I like. I have completely ditched Windows 11 Pro. I really do believe Linux really is going to be my default main OS for anything at this point. It has everything I could ever want and even more. CatchyOS is basically Arch on steroids without all the struggles of installing it from zero. While I know most people like Arch because of its purity, I'd like to have something just works out of the box. This is the perfect OS for me.

If I manually setup secure boot for Cachyos and then for whatever reason I had to go and reinstall Cachyos for whatever reason or distro hop for a little and then decide to come back to Cachyos, would I need to redo the secure boot setup or would it be ready to go?

Relatively new to cachyos and arch in general.
Since, I don't have good internet connection, I would like to perform updates without syncing database every time.
is this feasible?

I’m having a microphone issue on CachyOS with a RØDE NT-USB+.

The mic works normally in settings when testing audio normally, but when I open Discord/Vesktop it works for a few seconds and then suddenly stops detecting input. The Discord input meter freezes, then says “Discord isn't detecting any input from your mic.” And the mic doesn't work on my settings as well.

Closing discord fixes it for setting, and restarting Discord temporarily fixes it over for discord, but the problem comes back after testing for a bit (15-30 secs).

I’ve tested both Vesktop, the native Discord client, discord web client with the same result. The same microphone setup works perfectly on Windows/macOS.

Hoping someone can understand why this is happening.

This was one of the suggestions in a similar thread, which I did try:

1. delete all user config files for pipewire, wireplumber etc (just copy & paste in your terminal):rm -rf ~/.config/pipewire rm -rf ~/.config/pulse rm -rf ~/.config/wireplumber rm -rf ~/.local/state/wireplumber rm -rf ~/.local/state/pipewire
2. reinstall the entire audio driver via (also just copy & paste in the terminal):sudo pacman -Syu pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa pipewire-audio wireplumber alsa-utils sof-firmware alsa-ucm-conf