r/cachyos

New user, around 1 to 2 months on linux/cachyos. I usually do updates using cachy update. The number of updates on the shelly tray icon is more than cachy update and the drop down menu says these updates are from the AUR. For instance, pacman/cachy update shows that librewolf is updated, but shelly tray icon says there is an update from AUR to a new version for librewolf (i installed from the cachy repo, as checked with pacman -Qi). I have AUR disabled since i don't really use it and have any AUR packages, apart from jacks and heroic, which i did not know were pulled from there (did not explicitly install using shelly or paru).

So is it normal?

My rig is a 7800x3d, 32gb, 4060ti and Asus B650eme wifi and im considering switching to cachy cause im way too fed up with microslop bs. But here's the problem, my motherboard come with a wifi+bluetooth card from mediatek MT7902 and i have heard that mtk has huge driver issue on linux so im still hesitant about switching. I can hook up to Ethernet but i need bluetooth for all my audio so anyone on the same hardware can you give your experience. Im totally new to linux and im willing to learn.

I’m someone who experiments a lot with different hardware and keep a USB with CachyOS in my drawer for when I need to troubleshoot or mess around with partitions.

I’ve had many situations where I’ve tried booting another OS via USB and it just doesn’t work, so I’ll give the ole Cachy USB a go, and it always works, no matter how weird the hardware I’m using is.

I think it just goes to show how advanced chwd is.
It’s always such a relief when it does boot up and proves I’m not insane and that there’s just an incompatibility with the other USB I’m trying to boot. Usually driver related.

The biggest reach it has made was booting with a 20 year old GPU that doesn’t come with drivers on other OSes.
It’s also given a great sanity check when booting on an old af Mac mini, which ultimately saved my ass because someone completely wiped the drive in it and it no longer could boot Mac OS either.

Does anybody else keep a Cachy USB for similar reasons?

Below are my problem:

1 - Freezes randomly without gaming.
2 - Steam does not open properly frequently, the window looks broken and I had to close it and open again.
3 - Helldivers 2 freeze (requires terminate app) or black-screen with maxed fans (requires turning off PC via power button)

I was using linux-cachyos-nvidia-open 610.43.02, changing to nvidia-580xx-open-dkms 580.173.02 does not solve it.

I also tried different Proton versions, including CachyOS native, problem still persist.

***Swicthing to X11 from Wayland solve all these issues.

My Specs are AM5 Ryzen 7 7800X3, Nvidia RTX5060Ti, 32 GB RAM. I am running on CachyOS, KDE Plasma.

I am new to Linux and I saw some comments saying X11 is weak in security and it is recommended to use Wayland. Therefore, i wish to revert back to Wayland but freezes and crashes are too annoying.

I hope someone have a solution to this.

Thank You

I'm running Cosmic on CachyOS, and I find it impressive. I'm using an older ASUS ROG laptop with 16 GB of RAM and SSD; everything works perfectly.

Fastfetch shows version 1.0, even though the terminal reports version 1.2. I believe they are on a version beyond 1.0, but nothing directly related to Cosmic shows up via pacman, and I don't want to force it—it's working too well as it is ☺️

I just want to express my appreciation for the work put into the Cosmic DE; after getting tired of KDE and GNOME, it feels really fresh.

EDIT: SOLVED!

I dont care about the files in the drive, it's just an additional drive for when I still had windows. I got the documents backed up and I won't need the files anyway, never needed it in 3 years. how to I format it for use with cachyOS?

https://preview.redd.it/4uocpo1y7fbh1.png?width=689&format=png&auto=webp&s=aab3e55435d423cdfb643981fa40cd7dbbdc431c

https://gitlab.com/cscs/sera

Hi everyone!

Quick specs (laptop):
CPU: I7 13700H
GPU: Nvidia RTX 4070
RAM: 32 GB DDR5

I am a happy CachyOS user for the past year or so. Recently I decided to play some Elden Ring with proton. Game suggested ultra settings for my PC and while I was inside the cave at the beginning of the game, it was stable 60 fps. But now on the open world it drops to some 40-50 fps. Looking at nvtop it shows 90-100% load and only about 50% effective load. The power draw is something around 65 W out of 115 W power limit and 140 W boost limit.

What could be the problem here? I tried various versions of proton - proton experimental, hotfix, cachyos native, cachyos slr, older cachyos, GEproton. Same problem every time. CPU load is max 30%, none of the cores is being maxed out on 100%.

BTW: I also tried downgrading Nvidia drivers back to the pre december migration to nvidia-open yet the problem still persists.

Is it normal to have updates literally every single day? There has not been a single day when i have been using this operating system where there hasnt been updates (i mean the one's i do by typing sudo pacman -Syu)

After 3 months of making the full switch, dropping dual boot and just going flat out with CahcyOS quality of my PC time increased 10 fold. I love my PC again. I had 0 issues switching from one ecosystem to another. Never experienced a crash and my pc is on like 20/7. I am an update guy, so far had only positives out of the rolling updates. My motherboard ethernet port was not working at first, as I was unlucky enough to have some specific series of a port that was broken in Linux's world, I had to use proprietary usb to ethernet converter.. IT GOT FIXED IN A MONTH IN A RANDOM UPDATE (well to me seemed random). Now again using the MB eth port. Out of all software from Windows the only thing I had hard time replacing was Ableton, went with Bitwig boy was I amazed. Snappiness of Cachy is unmatched. At first I was sceptic about using konsole for everything, but damn is it transparent.. IT SHOWS EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE WAITING FOR. Shows exactly what it changes and what it does. No bull**t placeholder text "preparing files...". If something breaks, it write exactly what and why (happened few times my auto updater wouldn't finish because some dependency was breaking another dependecy, waited few hours tried again and it just goes through).

GAMING! Counter-Strike 2 FLAWLESS performance, heck even smoother. World of Warcraft fluid. 165 hz and 280hz monitors working without any issues.

It simply is THE OS to go to.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been using my desktop PC for about 1.5 years now. For the first year I was on Windows 11, and for the last ~6 months I’ve been on CachyOS. Throughout that entire time I’ve been using WiFi without any real issues — stable connection, good latency, and high download speeds.

However, for about the last 2 weeks I’ve started experiencing a strange issue.

At completely random intervals, my WiFi suddenly shows “limited access” / connectivity issues. It only lasts a few seconds, and then everything goes back to normal automatically. But it happens often enough to be really noticeable, especially when gaming or during Discord calls where even a short interruption is annoying.

On top of that, I’ve also started experiencing very high latency spikes (around 100–300ms, sometimes even higher) during normal use, which I never had before. This makes online gaming and voice calls noticeably unstable even when the connection is technically “working”.

My setup:

• OS: CachyOS (fully up to date)
• Router: FRITZ!Box 6660 Cable
• 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz are combined under a single SSID (band steering enabled, I assume)
• WiFi channels are set to automatic
• WiFi adapter: TP-Link Archer TX20E AX1800 (PCIe)
• Bugreport Link - https://paste.cachyos.org/p/aff17eb.log

What’s strange is that this setup worked perfectly for over a year without any drops or instability. The issue only started recently, without any major changes on my side that I’m aware of.

Has anyone experienced something similar on CachyOS? Any ideas what I should check first — driver issues, power saving settings, router config, etc.?

Thanks in advance!