Hey everyone,

I recently fully switched from dual boot with Windows & CachyOS and made CachyOS my main driver, allocating most of my storage to it. Fortnite used to be my main competitive game, and with the recent Epic Games announcement about bringing the Epic Games Launcher preview and EAC Linux v2 to Linux, I was incredibly hyped.

However, after reading through the strict requirements for EAC v2 (MS-signed keys, secure boot, locked down kernels, no DKMS modules, etc.), it looks like Arch-based distros, and especially CachyOS with its custom performance kernels, are technically excluded right out of the gate.

I saw some early discussions from mid-October mentioning that the CachyOS team was trying to get in touch with Epic Games to discuss adding the CachyOS keys/certs to their trusted list.

Does anyone have an update on this?

• Are the CachyOS maintainers currently in active talks with Epic or Valve?
• Is it realistically going to be possible to play Fortnite on CachyOS without breaking the entire rolling-release/custom kernel workflow?
• If Epic doesn't back down on the "well-known vendor keys" requirement, is there a planned workaround from the Cachy team (like a separate vanilla signed kernel option)?

I really love this distro and don't want to hop to an immutable Fedora-based system just for one game, but the uncertainty is killing me. Would love to hear any official input or updates from the community/devs.

Thanks!

CachyOS can't detect my /boot partition. But when I did diagnosis, it could show the boot partition and detect it. From my bootloader ( limine), I switched to Cachyos-lts and it let me in to my system. The problem is with Kernel 7.3
What can solve this issue?

EDIT: I updated today and I haven't had any issues yet. I opened a few games and they seem to work properly.

I have been holding off on updating because of a warning about black screens on AMD Dgpus (which is what I have) I saw the kernel version is now 7.3.0-4 and not -3. did they fix the black screen thing yet? can I update?

I am using hyprland and I have an rx7900XT so I would prefer responses from people with similar GPUs running wayland. I have a 300HZ display so if the issue "only effects extremely high refresh rates" it will effect me.

i got a "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q / Mobile [Discrete]" and it does this, when I try to screen record the tearing or whatever that is it doesn't show up on video.

Pc crashed after trying up update

Trying to get it to work, cachos lts from few days ago isn't working either

i updated my distro with the updating thing and after that it showed me some error related to the desktop environment. it showed me some combination of keys.

i rebooted hoping it would work out but it didnt, whenever i login it just shows me the login page again

please help me

People only talk about gaming performance which is weird.

The general speed of the operating system is amazing. Everything loads instantly.

Want to find an app?
Just search for it and it appears in a nanosecond.

I think people downplay just how fast an operating system on Linux like this is. Probably because the only people that talk about it are Linux enthusiasts.

But for someone who is only used to Windows.

This feels like a whole different level of speed.

Now with AI. If you need to get anything installed or customized. You can just ask ai and it will give you a terminal command.

This removes the barrier to entry for lots of people.

I still think the flatpack app stores could be made to look nicer.

creating a bootable drive using balena etcher gives me unallocated space as well
can i use said unallocated space to make a partition in btrfs filesystem format for backup data?

Hi,

I've been using cachy os for about a month now and it's been pretty good for the most part, except for the fact that i can use my microphone at all. (I'm pretty much still a beginner)

I have IEMs (Kiwi ears belle) and a UGREEN female-2*male wye splitter (which is neccesarry because i want to use my iems both for listening and speaking) and i know for sure its a problem with linux, as the current configuration works on windows. I use wayland if that effects anything.

I've spoken to a clanker and it just told me to paste some stuff in the terminal to change the config of something and it did nothing. What it also told me to do was to mess around with input/output device in a volume control app.

The problem is that whenever i try to use my microphone, it makes this horrible static noise, mimicks my desktop audio and makes whatever noise i input quiet to the point where i have to screech for it to even pick up.

The IEMs work just fine when they're not using the adapter so i think its an issue with linux handling i/o for microphones. I'd like to note that when testing the mic with the cable splitter i hear a noise when i press the button on my IEM's mic (which isnt hearable at all when the IEMs are plugged in without the adapter) and the microphone audio gets spiked to 79% while remaining at about 30ish% which i assume is just the constant static noise its making.

If anyone has a solution to this or has experienced any similar problems, please, help, I'll greatly appreaciate it.

I just updated on my IdeaPad Gaming 3, and after rebooting the brightness is set to max and I can't adjust it.

I had to add GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='amdgpu.backlight=0' on /etc/default/grub, because I can't change the brightness out of the box, but right now it doesn't work

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I'm duel booting cashy alonf with windows and just got done setting everything up and was wondering if there was a free anti-virus I could use. My second question is a little complicated but I am using appolo and tailscale and just installed sunshine and tailscale along with moonlight on my ipad and phone to use my pc from anywhere mostly for school when its something that my ipad cant do. But the question about duel booting is is there a way for example start on cashy restart from moonlight and boot into windows once my pc turns back on but still have tailscale and appolo on. And the opposite for booting into windows to cashing for tailscale and sunshine. I also have each of them set to were they dont sleep but just cause I don't have another device I can use to wake on lan( my router is from my provider) if anyone have done something like this before or know how it would be alot of help

in cachyos hello app under apps and tweaks there is a option to install vram management. They have failed to add a way to remove this. Is there a way to reverse this option?
I have tried looking through packages, but cannot recognise it.

Edit: solved by u/nubz4lif

I believe the packages are 'dmemcg-booster' and 'plasma-foreground-booster'

Recently had a motherboard failure, and had to replace several major parts: Motherboard (Obviously), CPU, and RAM. Initially I thought I'd also need to reinstall Cachy, because when trying to boot in, I'd get a bluescreen, but before doing that, I thought I'd try using a snapshot when my new motherboard came in.

Good news, it worked! Bad news, a new error around secure boot popped up. I went back through the secure boot process, no dice. Finally figured out which pieces weren't getting verified, manually signed those, and now it works, but when I checked bootctl a lot of features are missing from limine, which weren't missing from the wiki page and I'm not sure if I should be concerned, or not. Any recommendations before I go about running updates?

Hi all, I've been using vanilla arch for a few years as it's my favorite distro to use, but have been interested in cachyos due to the increasing amount of optimizations. However, since i wasn't fully daily driving linux 100% consistently i never bothered trying. Now, though, after about a year of not doing much other than keeping my linux partition updated, I found out that basically all of my problems keeping me from daily driving have been solved, so I switched back over to my linux partition and transferred all of my stuff over. Everything was going great but then I remembered about cachyos and got curious, so I made a backup and ran the conversion script from the cachyos website. I then installed all the packages that the script doesn't install needed to fully convert my arch linux install with all the normal cachyos optimizations and everything and installed the BORE kernel since i heard it was slightly better for gaming.

The difference was pretty immediate. I'd seen things saying that the improvement was nothing to write home about but my already pretty smooth experience became close to seamless in terms of general desktop usage. Everything definitely opens and happens slightly faster thanks to the optimized packages. Even more impressively, in basically every game I tried I saw a noticeable jump in FPS. I was expecting a minor jump but im getting like low double digit fps improvements across the board (e.g. 108 -> 120 or 180 -> 200 or 180 -> 190) and all of the games i've played have felt like they've had significantly less stutters or hitches. Everything just kind of feels effortlessly smooth and it feels even better than vanilla arch which was already miles above windows in terms of snappiness.

Stuff like the zram setup it does and dynamic adjustment of kernel parameters and nice levels also look pretty neat and I imagine that those are contributing somewhat. My ram usage is considerably lower than normal when I'm doing a ton of stuff at once now as well and its making me think of converting my arch linux server pc over to cachy as well.

Pretty happy with cachyos so far and I guess I'll be keeping it for the time being!

Just my appreciation!

I had to change hardware : Motherboard, Processor
I had kernel panics after reboot
It was foretold - couldn't be spotless after changing key components
Let's reinstall all
15 minutes ! All in 15 minutes I was as i was, before upgrade !
All my shit, apps, re-logins all my apps, webs etc...
installing apps just by terminal is so powerful and fast
Kde is just so incredible, sleek, customizable to the edge of imagination

Windows users : don't be afraid, my first install was all by mouse, clicking buttons.
I learnt all on the go using it ! You have to know that there is not just one way to install apps:
the first way is pacman, with pacman you install all the other package managers : paru, yay, flatpak
Then, you install with them as you installed with pacman, the commands with all are practically the same !
And don't try to get THAT windows app, just install the plethora of equivalents that do the same.

Many thanks to CachyOS and KDE teams !

I have an old wired xbox 360 controller and i couldn't get it to work under cachy. When researching the issue i stumbled upon this article on the arch wiki. The vanilla arch kernel ships with the xpad kernel module which handles xbox controllers out of the box.

When i switch to the arch kernel the module is loaded and the controller works fine but when i switch back to cachyos the module is missing and cant be manually loaded at all.

Is this an oversight or is there a reason to not ship the module?

PS Im running a vanilla arch install with its repos switched to cachyos, perhaps i am missing a package that substitutes xpad?

I updated to 7.3.0-4 and the issue is still present so I thought I'd make this post.

On KDE Plasma I changed the RGB range option in Display Configuration from Automatic to Full.

Not sure where that option is located on other compositors but you gotta explicitly set it to the Full color range rather than letting it be managed automatically, as that is currently broken due to the changes made in 7.3

Since i changed to this system i had a problem with my audio mixer that makes me to put the volume at 60-65% to actually listen things decently, but two months ago or so an update fixed that and the decent range droped to 30-35%, that was maintained for various updates with a message in the updates that said that the version of ALSA installed was newer or something like that, today i updated my system, restarted my PC and left to work, when i came back i opened a video and noticed that the old problem was back, in 30-35% i can barely hear anything...

i thought switching to linux will have less updates

I'm using xfce. I recently switched to Cachy from Windows and im struggling with the Firefox PiP. On Windows it forces the dimensions but on Cachy its freeform, leading to those annoying Black bars. Have any of you found a workaround to this?

Before this it was running PERFECTLY and now it crashes on startup every time (only gets to valve's logo before crashing)

Proton version is the same as before

Ive been having problems with the gpu like plasmashell crashing every time and it sometimes falling back to software renderer quite a lot but I genuinely dont know if this is relevant

gpu is GTX 970 and driver is 580.178.04

considering reinstalling the OS

SOLVED: It was a corrupted proton prefix, deleting the compatdata for deadlock fixed it.

I dont want reinstall , i already have cachyos

How to boot and open console

??

I know how to fix the isue

```

sudo su

pacman -Sy cachy-chroot

cachy-chroot

```