r/cachyos

Hello, please excuse my poor English; I'm extremely new to Linux and new to CachyOS. I've used Windows for as long as I can remember, but recently seeing some Windows-related things were bothering me, Many close friends recommended Linux to me, and I always refused, but I decided to try it recently. I'm looking for a normal OS, for everyday use and playing games, I came across CachyOS, which I found interesting, but I wanted to know more about it and if, even as a newcomer, I could use it, and if the difficulty scale is high or if it's worth it, because I had become interested in the OS.

I’ve been a Windows user for years, and the thought of linux always floated through my mind before, but I never really acted on it.

But recently, I finally got infuriated enough at Window’s AI bullcrap and the INSANE bloat. So, I did a test run of cachy on my “horrible” $200 laptop from Walmart.

oh my gosh

THERE’S SO MUCH CUSTOMIZATION, IT’S SO MUCH CLEANER AND IT MAKES THIS CHEAP LAPTOP RUN INFINITELY BETTER.

For comparison, I decided to switch from Window’s when the laptop froze booting up task manager.

Fast forward to now, I did a test run of Minecraft and got a peak of 120 FPS. This laptop has the new minimum requirements for Minecraft, and runs like a dream.

Currently switching on my desktop as well, because I just genuinely enjoy this OS so much more.

10/10 so far; it took me awhile to get the motivation to switch, but I should have done it sooner.

Mouse Buttons

A few weeks ago i went for using cachyos as my main os. Its quiet painful for a lot of reasson (which are mostly fixable i think). One of the Most annoying things is me having trouble using my mouse. So i got the Wireless G502 from Logitech. First i tried using Piper because i heared alot of good things about it but for some reasson it wouldnt regonize my mouse even after install ratbag oder what ever it was called. So swapped to using solar which is fine but i couldnt use my additional mouse buttons on top of the Mouse (Picture G7 and G8) for muting in discord (which i configured in the logitech ghub). Thats why i installed Input Mapper, in this app i made a preset which binds the mouse buttons to f15 and f16, which i setup up as my hotkeys in discord. But everytime boot into cachyos these Settings arent working not even after i apllied them again. What can i do to fix this?

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I have a big wildcard in my system, an Intel Arc Pro B70 GPU. I tried to use it with Linux Mint, which was a god-awful nightmare. I tried to use it with Pop!_OS, which went better, but still had hardware problems, where the OS simply wouldnt recognize this GPU in my computer. I spent a week on CachyOS, which was absolutely wonderful, it was the first OS that immediately recognized the B70 after installing, and i absolutely love the interface, how snappy everything runs, and everything just seems to WORK in CachyOS. I was even able to get some games running, which was nice. I couldn't do that with the other 2 distros.

It's the creative apps that were the deal breakers. Topaz Video AI will absolutely NOT run in Linux, and there doesn't seem to be a Linux-native equivalent. Various monitoring apps wouldn't recognize it and often would work with my iGPU, but then give me error messages saying it wasn't compatible with Xe architecture. Finally I tried to transcode a video using Handbrake, and it simply wouldn't use the B70 at all.

For my case, Linux is just not going to cut it on my desktop, and I have to go back to Windows, where everything just kinda works. I'm keeping Pop!_OS on my laptop, though, it runs that system beautifully. I still have my CachyOS install intact and I guess I will keep checking back to see if there's any development, but currently, there's simply not enough support for Intel discrete GPUs to use them on Linux. There's absolutely no hardware control interface, the system monitoring is a complete mess (I was able to get nvtop going, but nothing else), and the implementation is just not usable by anyone without a programming background. I'll check back in a year and see if there's any development, but for now, I will do what I can to lock down Windows so it's not constantly spying on me.

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to play some older games on a vintage laptop running CachyOS with KDE Plasma (Wayland session). I'm facing major stability issues when trying to change the game resolution to get playable FPS.

Here are my hardware specs:

- CPU: Intel Core i5-2410M (2nd Gen)

- GPU: Intel HD Graphics 3000 (Sandy Bridge, max OpenGL 3.1, NO Vulkan support)

- RAM: 8GB

- Screen Native Resolution: 1366x768

The problem:

Since my GPU doesn't support Vulkan, Proton doesn't work at all. I am forced to use native Wine with OpenGL translation via `PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1` and `WINE_VIDEOMEMORY=2048`.

Games like "Goat Simulator" and "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" (installed via DODI Repacks into a custom WINEPREFIX) launch fine at the native 1366x768 resolution inside a virtual desktop (`wine explorer /desktop=Game,1366x768`), but they lag severely on this hardware.

Whenever we try to lower the resolution to 800x600 or 1024x768 to gain performance, the system completely crashes or freezes.

- Using standard virtual desktop at 800x600 triggers a crash with: `0124:fixme:event:X11DRV_ConfigureNotify synthetic event mapping not implemented` followed by a Wine Blue Screen.

- Trying to force `-WINDOWED -ResX=800 -ResY=600` flags directly in the executable args makes the game engine crash instantly due to Video RAM / allocation errors.

- Modifying the game's .ini or .xml configuration files manually results in the game refusing to launch or crashing silently in the background.

- Tools like `gamescope` fail immediately because they strictly require Vulkan, and using old `xrandr` commands under Xwayland breaks the session.

- Setting `WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1` with custom 800x600 modes triggers a critical MESA/driver memory allocation failure and crashes Wine instantly.

Is there any known workaround, driver override, or specific environment variable that allows scaling down 3D games to 800x600 under Wayland/Xwayland for an old Intel HD 3000 GPU without triggering memory faults and Wine Blue Screens? I want to avoid dual-booting Windows if possible.

Thanks in advance for any help!

I'm wondering how I tell if packages in Cachyos Hello are AUR repositories. Or install Apps.

I read alot of people singing the praises of cachy os and how its the promised land and I like to agree.

But it requires alot of tinkering and hassling with for gaming. And some of my games I play dont work.

I think linux is good for those who are willing to pay that price and likes different ways to do things.

I dont think Linux is hands off ready for the normie gamer yet.

I think its a good distro and a good alternative but its not the holy land. Yet...

The distros Iv'e been hopping back and forth for months on are steam os, zorin os and linux mint. I want to try this even though i'm probably still considered a beginner with Linux. But I did hear something about malware.

My cursor randomly apeared one day

Hey, everyone! Hope you're all well :>

I was wondering if there is a game launcher apart from Steam that has achievements? I use Heroic, and it's great! Though, it doesn't have achievements and I was wondering if there is one with them that's not Steam. Thanks for any suggestions!!!

(Been using CachyOS for ~4 months and gaming on Linux + AMD has been really, really nice so this would be a nice addition on top!!)

KDE - xfs

Every session of the OS, Steam checks the integrity of the game files of the installed games. I don't understand the reason, maybe it's not related to the OS, but I would like to turn it off.

Maybe someone knows what the reasons for this are and how to eliminate them?

so i have installed cachyos i forgot if last year or this year.
and ive been told that they have migrated so and so to so and so and that i have to manually switch to that. is there a guide or tool to determine what my cachyos version is and what i need to do if i want the new tools
sorry if this is such a noob question