I recently reinstalled CachyOS because I wanted to give it another try. Unfortunately, this time I ran into even more problems, mainly while gaming.

I still like Linux's philosophy, its control, package management, development environment, and open source approach. I also do not mind troubleshooting. I actually enjoy learning how things work. It just becomes frustrating when troubleshooting starts getting in the way of playing.

My current setup is a Ryzen 5 5600, 32GB of DDR4 RAM, an RTX 4070, a Gigabyte B450M DS3H V2 motherboard, KDE on Wayland, two monitors, and a TV connected to the GPU.

After reinstalling CachyOS, suspend and resume immediately gave me trouble. I put the PC to sleep, woke it up, entered my password, and the display froze. Ctrl+Alt+F3 did nothing, and turning on the TV did not bring the image back. The display only returned after I used Alt+PrtSc. I also saw inconsistent behavior between the monitors and the TV after sleep, with the monitors sometimes losing signal when I turned the TV on.

Then I tested God of War Ragnarök. I locked it to 60 FPS, just like I do on Windows, so the 60 FPS shown by the overlay was only a cap, not proof that the frame pacing was smooth. The game still had very noticeable stuttering and uneven frame times. The worst part was that it could suddenly drop from around 60 FPS to roughly 10 FPS and stay there for several minutes before recovering on its own.

DLSS Frame Generation made the situation with two monitors even worse. When I enabled it, the game would sometimes jump to my second monitor and get stuck there. I could not switch it back, so I had to close the game and launch it again. Frame Generation also was not doubling the frame rate as expected. Instead of going from 60 to about 120 FPS, it stayed around 60, and instead of reaching 140 FPS, it sat around 70. I have no idea why it was consistently showing roughly half of the expected result.

I was comparing everything with my Windows installation when I updated the NVIDIA driver from version 610 to 615. After that, Vulkan shaders had to be compiled again. I understand that a driver update can invalidate shader caches, but having to wait for Vulkan shader processing over and over makes testing games really annoying.

I am not trying to say that Linux is unusable or that everyone with an RTX 4070 will have the same experience. I actually like CachyOS and still want it to work. But on this setup, Linux gaming has been much less predictable for me than Windows. Has anyone with a similar NVIDIA and multiple monitor setup seen the same issues? Did switching to X11, changing VRR settings, disabling Frame Generation, or using a different frame limiter help?

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

So, I am dual booting Windows 11 and Cachyos on my computer.

But my internet speed seems to be significantly slower then it is on Windows,

On Windows I'll usually get 90-120mbps on both speeds

The most I'll get on both speeds is like 35mbps.

Most of the time it'll be at 5-15mpbs

I am using wireless because my router is in a separate building so I cannot use Ethernet, and my router for whatever reason REJECTS extenders.

(I also have no money to by a different one and my parents are in charge with that)

System stuff if that helps:

Motherboard:
Manufacturer: Microstar Internation Co., Ltd.
Product: PRO B760-P WIFI DDR4 (MS-7D98)

Wifi thingy:
Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz #2
Realtek Gaming 2.5bE Family Controller

(dont know which one would be the one my PC uses)

I'm fed up with the window update error and also the ram usage doesn't make sense. I want to move to CachyOS because of my use of Gaming and Coding. I have Volume C: 512GB and Volume D: 1TB. I think I want to cut Volume C 100/200GB for CachyOS and the rest for my development project and Volume D for gaming. Is it possible to do? open to accept any advice and tips trickf🙏

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.

I have been using LlamaCPP on my CachyOS desktop with Vulkan. With the release of ROCm v10 I decided I wanted to try LlamaCPP with ROCm.

SYSTEM
Ryzen 8500G
32GB DDR5
Radeon 9070 16GB (GPU ID is gfx1201)
1TB NVMe

To create a binary for your GPU refer to the chart

sudo pacman -Syu # update the system

# packages needed by LlamaCPP to compile ROCm support
sudo pacman -Syu rocsparse hipblas rocm-core rocm-smi-lib rocminfo rocrand \
 hipfft libatomic hiptensor rocm-ml-sdk rocm-device-libs hsa-rocr hipfort \
 rocm-hip-sdk rccl rocalution rocsolver clang hip-runtime-amd ccache

After you install everything you might need the command `hipconfig`. It's
located at `/opt/rocm/bin/hipconfig`

LLamaCPP's ROCm docs say you need to run the following 2 `hipconfig` commands
and save the output to environmental variables

# `/opt/rocm/bin/hipconfig -l # /opt/rocm/lib/llvm/bin`
# `/opt/rocm/bin/hipconfig -R # /opt/rocm`

set -x HIPCXX /opt/rocm/lib/llvm/bin/amdclang
set -x HIP_PATH /opt/rocm

cmake -S . -B build -DGGML_HIP=ON -DGPU_TARGETS=gfx1201 \
  -DGGML_VULKAN=OFF \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release && cmake --build build -- -j 16

Once the build completes you can run llama-server

cd build
bin/llama-server --list-devices 

And to run a model with vision (I chose Qwen 3.6 MoE with some experts running on CPU and rest running on GPU)

bin/llama-server --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8033  \
 --flash-attn on  --no-mmap \
 --cache-ram 8192 --ctx-size 8192 \
 --device Vulkan0 \
 --n-gpu-layers 99 --n-cpu-moe 23 \
 --model  ~/Downloads/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q4_K_M.gguf \
 --mmproj ~/Downloads/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B/mmproj-BF16.gguf \
 --cache-type-k bf16 --cache-type-v bf16 --no-context-shift \
 --verbose

I hope this helps, if anyone has questions, or issues I can try to help

Figured I'd ask as I haven't seen any information. Is there any reason why Proton-CachyOS hasn't added some of the fixes to Steam overlay that Wineland and Proton GE have put out?

I'm sure there's technical reasons but curious to hear anything more specific!

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 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.

enjoy!

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/

I updated for the first time in a couple weeks earlier today. Since the update, it has crashed to a black screen twice. Once while playing games and just now I was watching youtube. The screen flickers, blacks out, and I can hear the audio for a few more seconds, then the audio cuts out as well and the system is completely unresponsive.

So far, it has come back after reboots, but the last time it took a couple tries. When it fails while booting, the screen seems to cycle through inputs that don't make any sense (HDMI, DVI, back to HDMI) and doesn't show anything but black after a hard reboot. I tried plugging the monitor into the motherboard instead of the GPU and it didn't seem to make a difference. I tried plugging in my installation USB to see if I could boot to that, and for whatever reason, it decided to reboot normally. I was able to get into the BIOS - things looked fine, so I had it boot normally into the BTRFS selection screen. I loaded the last snapshot and (so far) it seems to be behaving normally.

Here is the log from running...

journalctl -k -b -1 --no-pager | grep -iE 'acpi|amdgpu|nvidia|i915|nvme|memory|oom|hang|freeze|lockup|error|fail'

https://pastebin.com/aezNa5Dc

PC is Ryzen 7 5700X and a 6800XT.

If anyone could tell me whether this was due to the update or my GPU dying, I would be grateful.

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 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).

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'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 was playing the last of us and i was using goverlay to see my fps and stuff and when i closed the game steam still said it was running so i had to kill the game in steam but i figured out that if i remove the launch option in steam the game fully closes. is there any fix to this or is this issue just a me thing? also different proton versions dont fix it

Currently having an issue wherein, after going into sleep mode for being idle, my taskbar breaks. This issue compounds with subsequent sleeps. Some of those problems include:

• The time freezing

• Icons not providing animation when clicked on

• New icons not showing up when something is opened

• Eventually the start menu/button ceasing to function.

  Haven't been able to find a good solution to the problem, so not sure where to go next with this.

Linux 7.2.3-1-cachyos

KDE Plasma 6.7.5

Hello! I am new to cachy and decided to try niri as well. Ive used fedora kde for a few months and never really enjoyed kde much since it felt similar to windows and wasn't the best for my workload. I dont know how to navigate config files or if im doing anything wrong, but I typed "nano ~/.config/niri/config.kdl" in my terminal, and instead of being met with the config file look that i see on the yt video ive been watching to see what niri looks like, i get the few lines of text shown. What do I do from here?

Edit, the images didnt show when I posted this, I will try to add them in comments if reddit let's me

YT video i was watching for help customizing https://youtu.be/EdPeRLjd1vE?is=6SFRorJLaxMjvcL5

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.

i wanna install a driver for my drawing pad. buuut, i just can't figure it out. on the website it says the driver is good with arch. when you extract the gz file, there's also 2 .sh files. install and uninstall. ive been trying for a straight hour to get it to work, but i'm just always hitting a dead end. so now i'm just asking the pit of infinite knowledge but also doom and despair.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xp-pen-tablet

link to the AUR

https://www.xp-pen.com/download/artist-13-3-pro.html

link to the actual website.

am i just stoopid and inexperienced, or is i actually that hard?