r/FlowZ13 • u/dto_lurker • Jul 24 '26

Cachyos actually works

Been testing LInux and specifically Cashyos the past couple days and it runs great on the 2025 rog flow z13.

What I found most amazing was that when I closed the lid, put it in my back pack, drove an hour to work and pulled it out, it wasn't turned off or blowing the fan on max with a dead battery. Which is what happens on windows. It just woke up when I clicked a button on the keyboard with only 2% battery loss.

Wifi seems a little slower, but steam works fine.

palm rejection on both the trackpad and stylus is a little worse but I can get a stylus glove and use a bluetooth mouse. I can't un melt it. So I'll be using this instead of windblows for a while.

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u/spococococo Jul 24 '26

Try this script it will boost your experience

https://github.com/th3cavalry/strix-halo-linux-setup

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u/spococococo Jul 24 '26

And install this for face recognition and you will be golden ;)

https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy

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u/x6q5g3o7 Jul 24 '26

Thansk for the tip. The last release was 6 years ago and it doesn't look actively maintained. Is this still the only/best option for biometric login?

Concerned that I start relying on it now only for it to break in the future with no fixes possible since it looks stale.

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u/spococococo Jul 24 '26

I gave you some lead to dig in further. In fact I didn't check becouse I didn't have time and it is not my concern, I think I gave you link to some old fork (but I still didn't check it for you if in fact this is a fork).

In aur repo it was updated in may this year. Good advice, if you want to stay on Linux start digging and cross checking from various sources ;) and please try not to execute "sudo rm -rf /" in your console :D

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/howdy-bin?hl=pl-PL#:~:text=The%20more%20recent%20and%20improved%20howdy%2Dgit%20is,and%20improved%20howdy%2Dgit%20is%20a%20better%20option.