u/ColdFreezer

The benefit of having it is so minimal. All it does is give you a boot splash screen. However, it can make your system hang on boot or shutdown. It’s happened to me 3 separate times on CachyOS.

I don’t understand why it’s installed by default on some distros. It’s purely for eye candy but when it goes wrong it’ll prevent your system from booting. Awful awful trade off.

There’s nothing wrong with installing it yourself if you like it, but it should never be a default in its current state.

My PC has started to randomly shut off. I don't know what's triggering it at all.

It doesn't seem to shut down under load. I've tried a full benchmark and a power benchmark and it was stable. If I'm playing heavy titles it runs fine. It is not thermal throttling. It's 100% a hardware issue, this happens under linux and windows, there's no logs that explain why it shuts down, it just shuts down.

The 3 times its happened on linux I would just open up firefox, after a few seconds it just powers off.

There's no overclocks, everything is running at stock.

I think it's either a motherboard issue or a PSU issue but honestly, I have no idea. I don't know why it just shuts down. All the times it's shutdown I wasn't running anything heavy, I was on my desktop or just using a browser. I cannot consistently replicate the issue.

Sometimes after it shuts off it prevents me from turning it back on until I wait a bit.

I built it 6 months ago. It's been fine until a few weeks ago.

Here are my system specs:

CPU: 9950x3D
MOBO: Asus x870E Gaming Plus Wifi
PSU: Corsair HX1000
GPU1: 5070
GPU2: 3070
Ram: Crucial 32gb 6000mhz (I did not enable expo, it's running at stock)

Any advice would be appreciated.

My phone is on iOS 18.0. I think my Watch is on WatchOS 11.4, I don’t know how to check as it can’t be paired with my phone. It keeps telling me to update iOS.

Is there anyway to pair it without updating?

On my watch it just says I need to be on iOS 18.0 or higher but it just won’t pair despite me being on iOS 18.0.

Let my friend borrow my watch to try it out. They’re on iOS 26, I guess when it paired to their phone WatchOS updated.

I’m on iOS 18. I cannot pair my watch back to my phone, it says I need to update iOS.

Is my watch effectively useless now? I don’t want to update to iOS 26.

I don't know if its just my machine but pacman keeps exiting with code 1 and the install fails. Is the installer working fine for anyone else?

Here are my logs
https://paste.cachyos.org/p/159ba46.log

Here's the line I think is wrong, It seems like a dependency conflict with mesa and mesa-git

2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "Enter a number (default=1):" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "looking for conflicting packages..." 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "warning: removing 'lib32-mesa-2:26.1.0-1' from target list because it conflicts with 'lib32-mesa-git-26.2.0_devel.222169.e3beb262bd4-1'" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: ":: mesa-git-26.2.0_devel.222169.e3beb262bd4-1 and mesa-2:26.1.0-1 are in conflict. Remove mesa? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: ":: mesa-git-26.2.0_devel.222169.e3beb262bd4-1 and mesa-2:26.1.0-1 are in conflict" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]:     .. Target cmd: QList("pacman", "-S", "--noconfirm", "--noprogressbar", "--needed", "--disable-download-timeout", "cachyos-hello", "cachyos-kernel-manager", "cachyos-packageinstaller", "cachyos-settings", "cachyos-micro-settings", "cachyos-wallpapers", "dnsmasq", "dnsutils", "ethtool", "iwd", "modemmanager", "networkmanager", "networkmanager-openvpn", "nss-mdns", "usb_modeswitch", "wpa_supplicant", "wireless-regdb", "xl2tpd", "bluez", "bluez-hid2hci", "bluez-libs", "bluez-utils", "bluez-obex", "pacman-contrib", "pkgfile", "rebuild-detector", "reflector", "paru", "shelly", "accountsservice", "bash-completion", "ffmpegthumbnailer", "gst-libav", "gst-plugin-pipewire", "gst-plugins-bad", "gst-plugins-ugly", "libdvdcss", "libgsf", "libopenraw", "plocate", "poppler-glib", "vlc-plugins-all", "xdg-user-dirs", "xdg-utils", "efitools", "nfs-utils", "nilfs-utils", "smartmontools", "unrar", "unzip", "awesome-terminal-fonts", "noto-fonts-emoji", "cantarell-fonts", "noto-fonts", "ttf-bitstream-vera", "ttf-dejavu", "ttf-liberation", "ttf-opensans", "ttf-meslo-nerd", "noto-fonts-cjk", "alsa-firmware", "alsa-plugins", "alsa-utils", "pavucontrol", "pipewire-pulse", "wireplumber", "pipewire-alsa", "dmidecode", "dmraid", "hdparm", "hwdetect", "linux-firmware", "lsscsi", "mesa-utils", "mtools", "sg3_utils", "sof-firmware", "cpupower", "power-profiles-daemon", "upower", "alacritty", "btop", "duf", "fsarchiver", "git", "glances", "hwinfo", "meld", "nano-syntax-highlighting", "fastfetch", "pv", "python-defusedxml", "python-packaging", "rsync", "wget", "ripgrep", "micro", "nano", "vim", "openssh", "ark", "bluedevil", "breeze-gtk", "cachy-update", "cachyos-emerald-kde-theme-git", "cachyos-iridescent-kde", "cachyos-kde-settings", "cachyos-nord-kde-theme-git", "char-white", "dolphin", "ffmpegthumbs", "filelight", "fwupd", "gwenview", "haruna", "kate", "kcalc", "kde-gtk-config", "kdeconnect", "kdegraphics-thumbnailers", "kdeplasma-addons", "kdialog", "kinfocenter", "kio-admin", "konsole", "kscreen", "kwallet-pam", "kwalletmanager", "partitionmanager", "phonon-qt6-vlc", "plasma-browser-integration", "plasma-desktop", "plasma-firewall", "plasma-nm", "plasma-pa", "plasma-systemmonitor", "plasma-thunderbolt", "plymouth-kcm", "powerdevil", "plasma-login-manager", "spectacle", "xsettingsd", "cachyos-handheld", "plasma-keyboard", "v4l-utils", "cachyos-hooks", "cachyos-keyring", "cachyos-mirrorlist", "cachyos-v3-mirrorlist", "cachyos-v4-mirrorlist", "cachyos-rate-mirrors", "chwd", "linux-cachyos-deckify", "linux-cachyos-deckify-headers") Exit code: 1 (no output) 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [2]: WARNING: [PYTHON JOB]: "Command 'pacman' returned non-zero exit status 1." 2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "Enter a number (default=1):" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "looking for conflicting packages..." 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "warning: removing 'lib32-mesa-2:26.1.0-1' from target list because it conflicts with 'lib32-mesa-git-26.2.0_devel.222169.e3beb262bd4-1'" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: ":: mesa-git-26.2.0_devel.222169.e3beb262bd4-1 and mesa-2:26.1.0-1 are in conflict. Remove mesa? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: "" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]: [PYTHON JOB]: ":: mesa-git-26.2.0_devel.222169.e3beb262bd4-1 and mesa-2:26.1.0-1 are in conflict" 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [6]:     .. Target cmd: QList("pacman", "-S", "--noconfirm", "--noprogressbar", "--needed", "--disable-download-timeout", "cachyos-hello", "cachyos-kernel-manager", "cachyos-packageinstaller", "cachyos-settings", "cachyos-micro-settings", "cachyos-wallpapers", "dnsmasq", "dnsutils", "ethtool", "iwd", "modemmanager", "networkmanager", "networkmanager-openvpn", "nss-mdns", "usb_modeswitch", "wpa_supplicant", "wireless-regdb", "xl2tpd", "bluez", "bluez-hid2hci", "bluez-libs", "bluez-utils", "bluez-obex", "pacman-contrib", "pkgfile", "rebuild-detector", "reflector", "paru", "shelly", "accountsservice", "bash-completion", "ffmpegthumbnailer", "gst-libav", "gst-plugin-pipewire", "gst-plugins-bad", "gst-plugins-ugly", "libdvdcss", "libgsf", "libopenraw", "plocate", "poppler-glib", "vlc-plugins-all", "xdg-user-dirs", "xdg-utils", "efitools", "nfs-utils", "nilfs-utils", "smartmontools", "unrar", "unzip", "awesome-terminal-fonts", "noto-fonts-emoji", "cantarell-fonts", "noto-fonts", "ttf-bitstream-vera", "ttf-dejavu", "ttf-liberation", "ttf-opensans", "ttf-meslo-nerd", "noto-fonts-cjk", "alsa-firmware", "alsa-plugins", "alsa-utils", "pavucontrol", "pipewire-pulse", "wireplumber", "pipewire-alsa", "dmidecode", "dmraid", "hdparm", "hwdetect", "linux-firmware", "lsscsi", "mesa-utils", "mtools", "sg3_utils", "sof-firmware", "cpupower", "power-profiles-daemon", "upower", "alacritty", "btop", "duf", "fsarchiver", "git", "glances", "hwinfo", "meld", "nano-syntax-highlighting", "fastfetch", "pv", "python-defusedxml", "python-packaging", "rsync", "wget", "ripgrep", "micro", "nano", "vim", "openssh", "ark", "bluedevil", "breeze-gtk", "cachy-update", "cachyos-emerald-kde-theme-git", "cachyos-iridescent-kde", "cachyos-kde-settings", "cachyos-nord-kde-theme-git", "char-white", "dolphin", "ffmpegthumbs", "filelight", "fwupd", "gwenview", "haruna", "kate", "kcalc", "kde-gtk-config", "kdeconnect", "kdegraphics-thumbnailers", "kdeplasma-addons", "kdialog", "kinfocenter", "kio-admin", "konsole", "kscreen", "kwallet-pam", "kwalletmanager", "partitionmanager", "phonon-qt6-vlc", "plasma-browser-integration", "plasma-desktop", "plasma-firewall", "plasma-nm", "plasma-pa", "plasma-systemmonitor", "plasma-thunderbolt", "plymouth-kcm", "powerdevil", "plasma-login-manager", "spectacle", "xsettingsd", "cachyos-handheld", "plasma-keyboard", "v4l-utils", "cachyos-hooks", "cachyos-keyring", "cachyos-mirrorlist", "cachyos-v3-mirrorlist", "cachyos-v4-mirrorlist", "cachyos-rate-mirrors", "chwd", "linux-cachyos-deckify", "linux-cachyos-deckify-headers") Exit code: 1 (no output) 
2026-05-09 - 19:43:48 [2]: WARNING: [PYTHON JOB]: "Command 'pacman' returned non-zero exit status 1." 

I have a proxmox host with a dedicated GPU. It’s right beside my TV so I thought to make a gaming VM.

I don’t really plan to run most games directly on it right now but might later on. For now, I’m mostly just planning to use it as a moonlight client.

The main things I care about is how easy it is to use on a TV. It would be nice if I could just mostly use a controller to control it. I have a keyboard and mouse if needed.

Bazzite seems like a good choice.

I’m also considering Debian or just using CachyOS. Not sure what DE I should use, am leaning towards KDE for now.

Any advice would be appreciated