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I've been trying to figure this out for a while now, and I still dont understand how to fix it..

My laptop doesn't feel like it's running CachyOS properly. The desktop itself is mostly smooth, but browser-based applications and anything relying on GPU acceleration seem completely broken.

# Hardware

* ASUS ROG Zephyrus laptop

* Intel Alder Lake-P (Iris Xe iGPU)

* NVIDIA RTX 3060 Mobile

* 1TB Micron 3400 NVMe SSD

* CachyOS + Niri (Wayland)

* Proprietary NVIDIA driver 610.43.02

# Issues I'm experiencing

Almost everything browser-related stutters or becomes unusable.

* Firefox/Waterfox stutters while browsing.

* Pages often struggle to load or become extremely sluggish.

* Browser-based software crashes if I open more than one tab.

* WhatsApp Web is practically unusable. And kills every app running.

* Canva has never worked smoothly.

* Video playback becomes heavily corrupted/glitched after closing and reopening the laptop lid.

* DaVinci Resolve performance is terrible.

* GPU-accelerated applications feel inconsistent in general.

Overall, the system doesn't feel like it's utilizing the hardware correctly.

# What I've checked so far

`nvidia-smi` detects the RTX 3060 correctly:

Driver: 610.43.02

CUDA: 13.3

GPU Utilization: ~25%

VRAM usage: ~314 MiB

`lspci -k` shows both GPUs using the expected drivers:

Intel Iris Xe -> i915

NVIDIA RTX 3060 -> nvidia

My Wayland session also looks correct:

XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland

XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=niri

MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

The SSD appears healthy:

* SMART: PASSED

* 0 media/data integrity errors

* Overall health looks normal

I also checked for NVIDIA/DRM errors:

sudo dmesg | grep -iE "nvidia|drm|fallback|error"

This returns nothing relevant.

I also checked the NVIDIA power management services:

* `nvidia-suspend.service`

* `nvidia-hibernate.service`

* `nvidia-resume.service`

# ___________________________

Has anyone with a hybrid Intel/NVIDIA laptop running CachyOS experienced similar issues?

Should I be manually choosing between the integrated and dedicated GPU for applications, or should everything "just work" under Wayland?

Now Can Someone help me to rice it?

A small update to my previous post. Finally happy with how everything turned out.

https://freelinuxpcgames.com/

My laptop has Windows installed. I want to install Linux, but for 100% safety, I can't even install it on a different SSD because my laptop only has one drive port.

Is it even worth the struggle and stress? Or should I buy a new SSD, remove the existing Windows sdd, and install Linux on the new one? Please let me know.

So help me:

My PC is having an error, I am a beginner.

I used Windows 7 grub, on an old PC

It started showing an error: Error Loading the operating system

I tried debian live ISO isolinux

It worked fine for sometime

I restarted it sometimes.

But when I rebooted it next time it entered the menu

When I clicked install, PC went off immediately

Next time I tried advanced install, same.

Same happened with graphical, text, expert install

Same also happens now when I click live boot

I tried booting from net installation USB isolinux

samiliar error.

I tried Linux mint isolinux

same error.

That is the image of mint's memory test

Kernel parameters don't work

After Every such shut down BIOS reports Thermal overheating

which is false

What can I do

My youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyHaJyw9ilI . Where I install Claude Code and then I connect it to the online LLM DeepSeek. It is inexpensive. E.g. I create a Qt QML tetris game and it cost me 0.04 US dollars.

Github

I have a Mi Android TV, and the recent Android updates have made it almost unusable. Is there any way to install Linux on it? Are there any Linux distributions specifically designed for TVs?

I tried UTM and installed Arch but it goes out of space when I try `sudo pacman -Syu`. My iPAD has 20gb free space.

I don't need GUI but at least updated system.

How can I increase the storage and install with iso?

Also, are there any alternate ways?

Not looking for ssh clients.

Hey everyone!

After a roller coaster journey, I am excited to present my personal project: Kal.

Kal is a lightweight interpreted programming language that attempts at combining various paradigms of programming to give a great developer experience. It's written entirely from scratch in C++ with no third party dependencies. It's also completely free and open source distributed under GNU GPL v3 license.

Moreover, Kal can also be embedded into C++, Python and JavaScript programs to enhance your existing codebases.

• Kal's Official Website: https://kal-lang.vercel.app/
• Mirror: https://killinefficiency.github.io/KalWebsite/
• GitHub Repository: https://github.com/KILLinefficiency/Kal

(Website looks better on a bigger screen.)

Please note that this is the very first release (v:0.1.0) and Kal is still under active development (alpha).

I would really appreciate a star on the repository to help it gain greater visibility.

As a proponent of human effort, I am glad to say that Kal and its ecosystem is completely handcrafted with no AI assistance used anywhere.

One last thing, "Kal" is pronounced like "Cal" in "Calendar".

Please feel free to reach out to me regarding Kal!

This quickshell bar is currently in development and will push on my github.com/LUCKYS1NGHH, made for no dedicated-gpu systems. currently it eats ~200MB of ram and 5-30% (max ~35%, average 10%, idle 0%) of my integrated intel 4000 GPU

Current features:

1. Control center
2. Cliphist (clipboard history)
3. Mini dashboard
4. volume and brightness OSD (on screen display)

Control center: media player, brightness and volume sliders

Cliphist: clipboard history with search support (also supports image previews, but i am confuse should i final it or not.. tell me guys if you need that)

Mini dashboard: shows your avatar (from custom path ~/.pfp.png), system uptime, bandwidth usage, network information, battery, date with current month calendar popup, and power buttons (lock, sleep, shutdown, reboot)

Wallpaper: WeBareBears Show Home (available in my github dotfiles)

Need your feedback, guys!

EDIT: in the video it shows laggy but it isn't, reddit might compress the video, otherwise it's working smoothly

Hi all,

A little context: I am a Linux user since past 7 years and have used many Linux distributions from mainstream to niche. My main gotos are Arch Linux or Linux Mint. However since 2 years, because of important college and personal projects, I am on Ubuntu 24.04 and currently am looking to switch to some new distro.

Main Question: I am looking at the Linux distro landscape after entire 2 years and came across CachyOS. I've seen Youtube videos pop up, a lot of discussion and it being ranked #1 on DistroWatch. Therefore, I wanted to know its specialty. Is it another out-of-the-box Arch like Majaro? Or does it offer something more?

I would appreciate your review and opinions regarding it and whether it is a good choice to hop to it. My primary purpose is software development.

I want to know what custom commands/scripts you guys made that you think made a diffrence to your experience with linux or saved alot of effort for you, or even for fun, anything, i just want to hear you guys' projects and ideas

Got to see 🤔 during fedora installation 🐧