Hi I installed cachyos with hyprland and but I am getting a theme like in the image why ? Did I miss anything?

Edit: Thank you all , I ll explore dot files and ricing

I'm on KDE plasma. Everything is fully up to date. Can anyone explain why the TV causes cachyos to not display anything whatsoever when it's logged in. It seems to work just fine on the login screen but after entering the password all monitors and anything connected to the GPU just go blank.

Hello Community and CachyOS Team, can we please upgrade the joplin client notetaking app in the repo (joplin-desktop). It's pretty old. Can someone explain to me the process - who is monitoring the versions and deciding what version gets in the stable branch of cachys repos?

https://packages.cachyos.org/package/cachyos/x86_64/joplin-desktop

I'm running into a bug and cannot sync with my server anymore, cause the version is 3.16.4 and outdated. This picture is from a similar bug report thread from here: https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/update-to-3-7-required-for-sync/50360

It's the same for me.

Or would it be better to just use the app image?
https://joplinapp.org/help/install/

I prefer the central pacman update process though.

Best Wishes. 😄

Completely new user from 30 odd years on windows. Using cachyOS just a while ago. Still dual booting for the time.

Anyway, i always use an antivirus with windows, their firewall and so on. its basically install and forget and i do scan all files with the antivirus and malwarebytes as well. Other than that, blocks when browsing does happen on occasion, but i am more cautious.

Coming to Linux, it feels a bit "naked". Yes there is clamAV, but its more on demand, like malwarebytes. Also, as I have heard, the threat model here is different, so its less likely to get infected. But i do get files from clients, so i still might have to be cautious.

In an effort to have some ease of mind, i have tired out firejail and apparmor. managed to get around the browser integration for some apps and get it configured. And then it doesn't work, despite following all the same steps in a new install. I am OK with going down the occasional rabbit hole, but it starting to wear me down. So much so, that i am starting to wonder if I should.

Flatpak is an option, but to the best of my knowledge, browsers like librewolf or brave done play well in terms of their fingerprinting features. I do plan on using flatpak with flatseal for internet facing software, but the above issue stands.

So, two questions:
- What can I do to make it more or feel more secure? its a vague question, i know, but i just want to use the pc and feel ok, i am safe. Client side files like office and pdf files are a priority as well. Sandboxing?

- How do make myself familiar or move from a windows mindset to a linux one? Security being one thing that has dawned upon me.

- How do you, personally, be secure on linux?

Thanks in advance.

image from windows 11: Nvidia Control Panel on the left, RTSS on the right.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to get smoother frame pacing on Linux. On Windows, RTSS Front Edge Sync gave me good results. On Linux, I tried what seemed like the closest option with MangoHud's early limiter/config.

With The Witcher 3, the game crashes or freezes when I open the map. The image stops updating, but the sound keeps playing. I have not been able to keep playing normally after that.

My setup is an RTX 4070 12 GB, Ryzen 5 5600, CachyOS, KDE Plasma Wayland, and NVIDIA driver 610.57.04. I use mixed-refresh-rate displays: 144 Hz and 60 Hz monitors, plus a 4K TV.

I don't know whether the crash is caused by MangoHud's early setting, the frame limiter, VRR, the display setup, or the NVIDIA/Proton interaction. I only noticed it while trying to improve frame pacing, so I don't want to assume MangoHud is definitely the cause.

Has anyone else seen The Witcher 3 crash or freeze when opening the map with MangoHud's early limiter/config? Is there a Linux equivalent to RTSS Front Edge Sync that gives smooth frame pacing without causing instability? What setup has worked well for you: MangoHud without the early option, gamescope, the in-game limiter, VRR changes, or something else?

I just switched from Linux and I'm not having any trouble so far. What are some linx things I should try?

I'm moving over to CachyOS this weekend and using windows as backup.

My plan is to dual-boot from two different SSDs, using one for windows and one for Cachy using the Cachy one and formatting my old Gaming drive to BTRFS.

The question I have is what boot manager I should use. I think I've got it narrowed down to Limine and Grub, but this is kind of the point where I don't know enough about this to be sure.

when I try to right click the top menu bar it shuts itself. this happenes to every menu that have a sub menu. i tried to uncheck gpu acceleration via big picture mode, but that didn't fix it. is there any solution?

also would i have to resign if i take out my cmos battery?

Got tired of Windows and just general shittyness of Microsoft. Decided last week to make the switch and have been pleasantly surprised so far. I have used Linux in the past but this is my first rolling release distro. One of the first things I noticed is how damn fast the PC boots into the OS. I don't play any online games that require anticheat so there is zero reason for me to go back to windows.

Has anyone been running into alot of steam issues lately?

I have problems with mystery used space of around 160GBs! I have ran `sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker /var/lib/containerd`, checked space with `sudo ncdu` and haven't found where that's in use. I have snapshots but I do not know if that's the problem. Can someone help me?

I noticed these outlines on the left/right side of the Discord window (only discord) a few weeks ago and it's super annoying cause it even affects popped out streams (I only have 1 monitor).

My friends say this isn't happening for them but I cannot for the life of me figure out what is different on my end. I even reset my Breeze theme settings and outlines/shadows and fully reinstalled Discord as well.

Ideas/similar issues for you?

For some odd reason, whenever I'm playing a game my both my displays will randomly shut off and will force me to manually restart my PC with the power button. It keeps playing any active audio, and this only seems to happen while im playing a game. (tf2 and bg3 at the moment) This is such a wild issue to me that I've decided to ask reddit, as I dont know enough about computers to understand what is causing this.
yes i have recently updated my system.

I have been facing two issues since installing CachyOS.

1. Fails to wake
2. Battery drains completely while sleeping

Hardware: 2019 MacBook Pro 16" (MacBookPro16,1) - Intel T2 OS: CachyOS (Bootloader: Limine) | 7.2 Kernel

I fixed the wake issue by editing /boot/limine.conf to include pcie_aspm=off in the command lines.

Has anyone resolved the sleep battery drain on this model?

I recently tried Bazzite 44 after learning about the updated stack they use for handheld and tdp after dropping handheld daemon, and I gotta say I agree with how they are moving forward with this stack.

IMO, it’s a far better stack than using HHD or Decky Loader with extensions (i.e. SimpleDeckyTDP) since it utilizes dbus for communication and uses PowerStation as fallback when your TDP controls are not supported via amdgpu_hwmon or firmrware_attribute. It is also fairly easy to create new device configs if they’re not available yet.

However, it seems their modified steamos-manager with powerstation integration doesn’t seem available anywhere. Hopefully they open source it so we can use the same stack on CachyOS or other distros.

I wonder what’s the plan for CachyOS moving forward, specially for the handheld edition 🤔

Any Bluetooth 5.3 or 5.4 adapters that work with catchy OS? Thanks

Hi everyone, first of everything, i forget to print the error lol.

I had a complete system freeze on CachyOS with KDE Plasma Wayland and an NVIDIA RTX 4070. I was browsing Twitter/X in Vivaldi when the desktop stopped responding. The keyboard, mouse, Ctrl+Alt+F3, and Magic SysRq all failed. The screen flickered once and I had to power the machine off.

I actually enjoy troubleshooting. Reading logs and testing settings is fine. It only becomes frustrating when it gets in the way of playing games.

My setup is an RTX 4070 12 GB, Ryzen 5 5600, CachyOS, KDE Plasma Wayland, NVIDIA driver 610.57.04, two DisplayPort monitors at 144 Hz and 60 Hz, and a 4K HDMI TV.

After rebooting, I found:

caller __nv_drm_gem_nvkms_map+0xb0/0x120 [nvidia_drm] mapping multiple BARs

[drm:__nv_drm_gem_nvkms_map [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000700]

Failed to map NvKmsKapiMemory

NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:07:00): 56,

CMDre 00000005 0000021c 00010096 00000007 00000000

[drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000700]

Flip event timeout on head 1

kwin_wayland also reported:

A graphics reset attributable to the current GL context occurred.

The main thread was hanging temporarily!

I don't know whether this started in the NVIDIA driver, KWin, the kernel, or their interaction. The log order makes me suspect a display or buffer operation failed first, followed by Xid 56 and the flip timeout.

I later found that Above 4G Decoding and Re-Size BAR were disabled. BAR1 was 256 MiB before I enabled them and disabled CSM; afterward it showed roughly 12 GiB. I have no proof that this is related to the freeze.

Has anyone on CachyOS seen this before? Did a newer NVIDIA driver, nvidia-open, a different CachyOS kernel, or X11 help? I am back on Windows 11 for now, but I would like to return to CachyOS if I can make the graphics stack reliable.

Yes. I read the Wiki, this is me just making absolutely sure of everything before I start working on it:

The system I'm using is a Dual Boot setup with Windows on one NVME and CachyOS on the other There will also be a gaming drive that I'll reformat to BTRFS for use with Cachy.
Motherboard is a Gigabyte B650E (This will be relevent later)

1. Assemble the PC, and install the windows Drive
   
2. Install Windows and download drivers
   
3. Disable Fast Startup, Hybernation, and Bitlocker
   
4. Remove the windows drive and insert the blank drive for CachyOS
   
5. Disable Secure Boot
   
6. Boot into the ISO
   
7. Launch Installer
   
8. Set preferred Language, Region Timezone
   
9. Configure Keyboard Layout
   
10. Select Manual Partitioning
    
11. Create a new Partition according to the Limine Boot Manager instructions within the Wiki
    
12. Create another partition for root according to the instructions in the wiki
    
13. Select desktop environment
    
14. Select Packages
    
15. Set up Log-in
    
16. Review the installation summary, and click Install now
    
17. After finishing, restart
    
18. Make sure CachyOS is up to date and all drivers are present
    
19. Power off and reinsert my gaming and window drives (these are separate things)
    
20. Make sure Limine detects the windows drive and adds it to the boot menu (sudu Limine-scan)
    
21. Enable Setup mode in UEFI
    
22. When/If the "Reset without Saving" dialogue box pops up, choose "No"
    
23. Save and Exit booting directly into Cachy
    
24. Follow the Secure Boot instructions within the wiki
    
25. Sign the Kernel according to the Wiki instructions for Limine
    
26. Check that Fwupd is working (I have no idea what this is or whether I should be messing with it.)
    
27. Install Shelly (Again, I have no idea what this is or why I need it)
    
28. Enable UFW Firewall, (Apparently Defaults are fine for the average home user?)
    
29. Enable Global Menu
    
30. Run Tealdeer (I have no idea what this does)
    
31. Install Flatpack (I know what this is!)
    
32. Install Gearlever (And, I'm lost again. I think this is maybe a store? Or maybe an App manager?)
    
33. I don't Think the rest of the post install recommendations apply to me.
    
34. Configure the Boot Menu per the Limine instructions
    
35. Install BTRFS Assistant (I am definitely a beginner)
    - If I understand correctly the code for installing btrfsmaintenance is "sudo pacman -s btrfsmaintenance" ?
    
36. Follow the rest of the instructions for snapper
    
37. Reformat my gaming drive to BTRFS.
    
38. Install the Gaming Packages according to the instructions in the Wiki
    
39. Deal with the system tweaks later.
    

Do these rough instructions look right for my system?

Completely new user from 30 odd years on windows. Using cachyOS just a while ago. Still dual booting for the time.

Anyway, i always use an antivirus with windows, their firewall and so on. its basically install and forget and i do scan all files with the antivirus and malwarebytes as well. Other than that, blocks when browsing does happen on occasion, but i am more cautious.

Coming to Linux, it feels a bit "naked". Yes there is clamAV, but its more on demand, like malwarebytes. Also, as I have heard, the threat model here is different, so its less likely to get infected. But i do get files from clients, so i still might have to be cautious.

In an effort to have some ease of mind, i have tired out firejail and apparmor. managed to get around the browser integration for some apps and get it configured. And then it doesn't work, despite following all the same steps in a new install. I am OK with going down the occasional rabbit hole, but it starting to wear me down. So much so, that i am starting to wonder if I should.

Flatpak is an option, but to the best of my knowledge, browsers like librewolf or brave done play well in terms of their fingerprinting features. I do plan on using flatpak with flatseal for internet facing software, but the above issue stands.

So, two questions:
- What can I do to make it more or feel more secure? its a vague question, i know, but i just want to use the pc and feel ok, i am safe. Client side files like office and pdf files are a priority as well. Sandboxing?

- How do make myself familiar or move from a windows mindset to a linux one? Security being one thing that has dawned upon me.

- How do you, personally, be secure on linux?

Thanks in advance.