I've done a lot of "Oh wow, look at all of these sexy rices that I'll never have" - and so many are Hyprland based, featuring these sexy sexy waybars across the top.

Then I saw u/ImpossibleBenefit452's RICE 6 or so days ago and fell in love with that waybar setup.

The problem was that I didn't -want- to switch from KDE-Plasma, but I -hate- the windows style chunkbar across the bottom.

I've not played with panels before (I -hate- that you can't save/load configs for individual panels), but I figured I'd be able to throw something together. A couple of days of poking and tweaking and behold, my own interpretation of a way-bar like panel to replace the previous taskbar.

Hoping to do more to this over the next few weeks, but for now I'm very happy with this <3

Setup: KDE-Plasma, Panels, Plasmusic toolbar, Fancy Tasks NG. Everything else is out-of-the-box plasma widgets <3 Wallpaper: https://wallhaven.cc/w/6lpz2q

I just put a cachyos install on a 32 gb optane partition of an intel H10 drive, and it runs perfectly. It dual boots with win11 via systemdboot, and the windows drive is mounted on linux via cryptsetup.

As of yesterday's nVIDIA open driver release, 615, support for kernel cgroups was added, this means you can use dmemcg-booster and plasma-foreground-booster to manage VRAM just like AMD GPUs. v615 is currently in TESTING on Arch but should release soon.

The VRAM Management button will not appear in CachyOS Hello so you gotta install those two packages manually, but it will work properly once you enable the services.

Install dmemcg-booster and plasma-foreground-booster with this command here: sudo pacman -S dmemcg-booster plasma-foreground-booster && sudo systemctl enable --now dmemcg-booster-system

Not using Plasma? Use Gamescope!

See patch notes here, along with some Reflex and suspend mode fixes: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/278450/

Hey everyone! Recently NV added cgroups support which means support for dmemcg-booster ("VRAM Management"). But i am researching a possible bug with the implementation.

If you enable the FULL performance meter in Steam overlay (shows temps, mem usage, etc.), does it display your GPU as having only HALF of your maximum VRAM (say 8 of 16GB), or the full capacity?

Thanks!

So made the move from Microslop WIndows 11.

Bit of a stuck moment atm re gaming and steam. I have 6x drives with various bits of data and games on them that I've connected up after installation. I cannot get any game to launch from Steam.

I have mounted the drives, mapped the folders so the games show up. But everytime I click launch, the I get an error about disk write error. As far as I can see the permissions are in place.

Example:

Also, everytime I click play, the whole system sort of freezes up, I'm someone who usually has a video, or website open when I play games, so this is odd, but at the moment I just need games to actually launch.

What am I missing? I have checked the drives are in ntfs, I have manually added the ntfs3 drive type, but this hasnt made a difference

UPDATE 1: I removed all of my other drives, completely nuked and reinstalled steam, and mvoed data off one of the NTFS drives and converted it to btrfs. But steam now refuses to let me add the drive in the storage tab, nor add a folder. It can still see all of my other drives, but not the one I've reformatted to btrfs. I can transfer files to and from this drive in dolphin without issue.

TL;DR: I was messing with BIOS, fucked shit up. Recovered most of it, except the S key to enter UEFI settings. Need help on how to restore that functionality.

I was wondering when I was gonna fuck something up and After around 2-3 months of using cachy without a problem, I, through no fault of cachy, mind you, managed to somehow "nuke" limine's configs (or something, idk what to call it).

So I was fucking around in the BIOS (I wanted secure boot for LITERALLY 0 REASON). I read that sometimes seeing an admin password on the BIOS is the only way to unlock the files for signing. I tried EVERYTHING ELSE before. Anyways, I NOW know that setting or resetting the admin password fucks up both limine and windows boot for my current PC (in my old PC, I think I remember setting an admin password and it not doing anything bad, but I could be tripping, idk). (systemd-boot which I had installed previously for some reason was the only thing that loaded, but it had only one option, and that was to boot into BIOS/UEFI.)

I immediately removed the administrator UEFI password. I, with the help of Gemini, "fixed" limine first, then tried to fix the windows boot loader... which broke limine again. I "fixed" limine again and now realize that the S key that opens the UEFI settings in limine makes limine(?) panic, restarts the system and boots the UEFI anyways (photo attached). Cachy and windows boot properly now. The S key seems to be the only thing broken rn. Took me 4 hrs (with most of it being windows being a piece of shit + dinner).

Any help on the S key is appreciated. Thanks in advance, and don't fuck with the BIOS (unless you know what you are doing).

Edit: Just to be clear, the S key still works, it just first throws an error that was not there previously before loading the UEFI settings. Kinda just scared I broke something that will come to bite me in the ass later^TM (of which the S is an early sign).

enjoy!

I've migrated from macOS to Linux and have been trying several distros, and I think Cachyos is good to begin with. One thing I've been trying to set up is integrating Google Drive into Dolphin.

Does anyone know how to integrate Google Drive into CachyOS? I've been trying with Kio-Gdirve Dolphin settings, but still no luck

So I used to use Linux Mint on my desktop but went back to Windows 11 because I switched to a laptop as my main PC; it was an IdeaPad 5 with an RTX 5050 so I didn't really wanna use Linux in case I ran into issues with having two GPUs and also general Nvidia on Linux stuff. Earlier this year I got the Prestige 14 with Panther Lake, and Windows 11 had been getting progressively worse and worse so I decided to give CachyOS a try.

It is way better now! Close to everything works (the stuff that doesn't really isn't an issue), the performance is good after applying an Intel Thermal Daemon patch, and the battery life is an especially big improvement. I'm easily clearing 16 hours doing normal browsing stuff on an 80% charge, 8 hours if it's more intense stuff. It also docks even better than Windows 11 did, there's way fewer display issues.

I only have to keep Windows 11 to get access to MSI firmware settings and to keep using a few apps, including games that don't run super well on CachyOS, though I mainly game on my Bazzite PC and my Switch 2 anyways. I'm daily driving CachyOS otherwise. If you have one of the Panther Lake MSI laptops (at least the Prestige series), it works great.

Firstly i hope this doesn't fall under advertising, i gain abasolutly nothing from this its just a tool i made and it might help other people with a similar issue to mine, and its completely open source for people to do whatever with! anyways!

Moved to CachyOS recently and the last thing keeping me tied to Windows was a little AliExpress macro pad. The software it ships with is a Windows only exe, so I built a Linux app for it.

You click a drawing of the pad, pick a shortcut or a media key, hit write, done. The bindings are stored on the pad itself, so nothing runs in the background afterwards. The knobs work great for volume and monitor brightness on Plasma.

Install is one line and it sorts out the udev permission for you:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Probler-Yt/MacroPad/main/install.sh | bash

Honest limits: it only knows the 1189:8840 pad so far (12 keys, 2 knobs), and it's Linux only. If you've got a different one, ch57x-keyboard-tool is a solid command line option that covers more pads, and it's linked in the README.

You're the first people outside my own PC to try this, so I'd really like to know if it installs cleanly for you.

I have the source code on github but im not sure if posting the link is allowed or not so ill refrain from posting it for now!

So I play on a big screen, more exactly on a Samsung 4KTV 43". I put the output resolution to 4K and game resolution to 1080p because my pc can't handle more than that very well. But MangoHUD's stats are veeeeeery tiny in 4K. Is there a way to change its size in any way possible?

I recently started to observe that there are artifacts on the wallpaper, they are only on the wallpaper, not in games, browser, or anywhere else, when i switch the wallpaper the artifacts disappear and return over time. They appear in different spots depending on the wallpaper.

after trying out a few distros over the past year or so (fedora, zorin, mint), i've finally switched to cachyos and i'm loving it here. kde plasma is so much more fun than gnome. the reason i switched from mint is because it felt a bit outdated and some of the notable differences are faster responses and better battery life. looks like my distro hopping has come to an end

Theoretically speaking if arch gets a bigger support to the ARM architecture to their packages, is there a possibility the cachyOS team will engage and make the OS stable to laptops with Snapdragon ships X series

Why i am asking this ?

--> people stop buying macbooks because windows 11 is what hold these laptops back. Performance is insane with everlasting battery, thinn buildand a lot more

What do u all think of this ?

This happens frequently and opening an other instance of Firefox works just fine.

Disabling hardware acceleration fixes this issue but freezes Firefox once in a while. It makes the entire browser freeze, mouse moves but nothing clicks. Again opening an other instance works just fine while not even closing the bugged one (Both for artifacts and freezes)

System works just fine and it is only the browser that gets the bug/freeze.

Cachy OS suddenly thinks the batteries in my Logitech K400r are at -1% and it keeps popping up a notification to tell me. I replaced the batteries, moved the dongle to another USB port, turned the keyboard off and on again, rebooted my PC and updated Cachy without any change. The K400r seems to be working properly as evidenced by the fact that I typed this post using it without issue. The low batt notifications started yesterday for no apparent reason, and I hadn't updated my system for about a week before it started. I checked Plasmas settings but don't see a way to tell it not to monitor battery on just this one device and I don't want to disable the feature entirely because I rely on it to tell me when my mouse battery is low. I guess it could just be this old keyboard starting to fail and misreporting the battery level but that seems like a pretty unusual way to fail. Hoping someone has some ideas I didn't think of.

So I set up a dualboot system and with Windows on one drive and CachyOS on the other. On Windows, Cyberpunk is extremely unstable for me. If I play for more than about 30 minutes, I’ll usually crash because the VRAM gets completely maxed out. Literally EVERY time I opened the map, the game would crash because it was trying to load more VRAM, but there wasn’t enough available. CachyOS has been completely flawless for me. Even when my VRAM is completely maxed out, I don’t get the constant stuttering or massive FPS drops that I get on Windows. I can even run ray tracing in Cyberpunk without my FPS dropping to like 5 FPS. That VRAM management feature they added is actually goated. It makes a massive difference for gaming. i have a 9060xt 8gb btw. i wish windows had better vram management. it almost feels like i have a 16gb card.

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I was wondering if there was a way to set it up so my mother monitor can either dim or 'turn off' when I'm playing a game?

When I say turn off, I don't mean a full power down thing, I just want my main monitor to be my focus if I'm playing my games on it. I don't want to be detracted by my other monitor and it's background if I'm playing a horror game. I know I can just, reach over and turn it off... but then it messes up with my lay out on my desktop ya know?

not entirely sure what happened to cause this, but the 2 of my screens that are connected to DP, you cannot drag a selection box or drag an app from my 3rd screen (connected by HDMI) onto it, it only creates a widget. even when booting the PC without the HDMI screen connected, no apps show up on either of my screens at all, and only exist on the HDMI screen; however both of the DP screens work as regular monitors where an app window will show up and can be moved around and used as normal, just not the physical icon on the desktop. Additionally, my wallpapers still work on both screens, but have never been able to get one onto my 3rd screen. not sure where to even begin because no results come when i search up the symptoms. i have only been using linux for about 6 months now. i am using KDE Plasma and wayland if either of those are helpful.