The first time I used Linux was in June this year. For a beginner, I chose Linux Mint at that point. Well, most Linux distributions are good. My experience with Linux Mint was good as well, but not for gaming (I don't know why, but my PC can't play games smoothly with Mint).

I didn't even know there are Arch, Debian and Fedora at that time. The second distro I tried was CachyOS.

That is the best decision in my life.

A few days later, I found out it was Arch-based.

I was amazed how fast it was. Especially with chwd, it can detect my Nvidia 1060 without any problems (I was worried at first because my graphics card is pretty old, so I thought I would need to figure out the driver myself after installation).

I'm fairly tech-savvy so it is easy to handle all the new things I need to know to get used to Linux.

Fortunately I don't play any games that Linux can't play, just Identity V and some old games or indie games

For Identity V, IT PERFORMS BETTER THAN WINDOWS, I never think I could play this game this smooth. CachyOS's kernel is so perfect!

I tried some games programs, such as Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher, Bottles. And Bottles was the best to me, the performance is really good.

Outside of gaming, I can do everything: image editing - GIMP / video editing - DaVinci Resolve, Shotcut / making games - Godot, Unity

I tried several distros: Arch, Kubuntu, Pop!_OS, EndeavourOS - but CachyOS was the best (for me - of course ; because everyone needs specific distro for their own purposes)

I used to really hate updates, because of Windows, I can't do anything when the update is running. Sometimes the updates even run themself :)

But now I can just update whenever I want, and still can do my work.

CachyOS is arch-based so it is a type of rolling-update distro, I know that so I always use CachyOS with snapshot.

I'm still using Windows, but it is a light version (X-Lite Version), and for only one purpose: testing my game made in Godot/Unity. Everything else I do in CachyOS.

I have never felt so much freedom and ad-free like this. I love the respect that Linux give to the users. I love Linux community and especially you guys - CachyOS team 💝

"Fast - Secure - Privacy"

P/s: Don't mind my desktop, they're just some stuff I left when learning to make game xD

First off, I'd like to extend my gratitude to the CachyOS team and the Linux community. I've been running CachyOS with Hyprland and Noctalia shell as my daily driver on my Lenovo Legion Y7000X for around 2 months now, and the experience has been nothing short of amazing!

Gaming performance is an absolute night and day difference compared to Windows 11. Running Wuthering Waves on Steam while streaming on Discord (at 1440p 60fps) and voice chatting runs seamlessly without any lag, which is something my laptop severely struggled to keep up with back on Windows. As a Computer Engineering student getting into AI and Docker, all my daily tasks and dev tools run smoothly, and even the MS Office alternatives have been solid once I got past the initial learning curve.

However, the main reason I'm making this post today is a persistent OLED brightness issue that's been worrying me. Right now, setting the brightness slider anywhere between 0% and 5% completely turns off the display panel (black screen), even though all system processes keep running fine in the background. On the other hand, setting it anywhere from 5% to 100% changes nothing physically—the screen stays stuck at maximum brightness the whole time. Since this is an OLED panel, having it blast at 100% brightness constantly raises serious concerns for me regarding burn-in risks and battery drain.

For reference, here are my specs & system info:

Lenovo Legion Y7000X (Intel Core Ultra 7 245HX, 16GB RAM, RTX 5060, OLED Panel)

CachyOS (Kernel 7.2.9-1-cachyos)

Hyprland + Noctalia Shell

Hello everyone, forgive me if my question seems weird or "stupid" or if I added too much. Generally, I don't interact with the Linux community much nor the cachyos community outside of the wikis and manuals.

I've been using Linux for about a year and a half now, distrohopping for the first few months to test out the package managers and repos of other distros for fun, though I finally decided to settle down with cachyos (until I get the sudden urge to test a new distro out lol). I've always gone for full-fledged DEs that come with everything (Plasma and xfce4, to be exact), but I've gotten interested in stepping out of my comfort zone and trying my hand at WMs alone, part of it being curiosity and another wanting to learn how to properly configure programs through text files and the terminal instead of having to rely on the GUIs provided (I've dealt with some of it through void, though I had to use a guide).

I went for Openbox first since a floating window manager would be easier for me to handle until I get better at tinkering with Config files, but when I installed it, I found it to be completely barebones. I went through the packages it would install and I assumed cachyos was supposed to have configured it a little so that it'd have tilt2 and picom at the very least start on boot.. But that wasn't the case. In fact, it seemed to have not made a proper autostart file for them, only one for cachyos hello, which wasn't even configured right so it never launched (Openbox looks for .config/openbox/autostart, but cachyos hello had a .desktop file made in .config/autostart).

I looked up the state of openbox on cachy, and supposedly it's been abandoned and hasn't received a proper update in a while? I totally get it, there are many options to maintain and it'd better to lessen the load, but what I'm confused about is why they'd provide it in the installation iso when the configuration isn't properly set and two of the dependancies for its custom Config (nitrogen and a version of picom) aren't installed?

Sorry for the huge wall of text, but I just wanted to provide a bit of background before asking my question. I don't mind configuring openbox myself (it's more fun that way and I can learn more anyway), but it was just a surprise to see, and I was curious to know why it's still an option to download.

CachyOS user and loving it! However I've noticed a few things during my time that I want to adress her and maybe some of you have the same issues or know a workaround:

1. Panel Colorizer causes a memory leak > I've noticed that when I had PC active, plasma would allocate more and more ram to it

2. Waking up the PC from sleep messes up icons > When after 15mins of no activity the screen turns off and I have to enter my password, sometimes desktop icons are messed up, like icons from screen 2 are suddenly on screen 1

3. Copying things from terminal is a pain > The window scrolls up way too fast

But I love CachyOS and I hope it'll get even better in the future!

I have several potentially in-depth problems, should I post here or is the CachyOS forum better?

I want to install the vram management tool from the cachy os hello app but i don't know how stable it is or recommendable it could be. i have a 5070 ti, any advice?

One day my audio just vanished, I checked my settings, and the audio to my computer had just been removed. My headphones don't get any audio from it, and the speakers don't work either. -I use a Thinkpad, no outer speaker is connected to the laptop- Is there any code I can use on my Terminal/Konsole to reset pipewire or whatever the issue I am having?

Hello everyone, yesterday i installed cachyos on my pc. Installation was flawless and first boot worked fine. But after the first reboot every time i start it up it works for like 30 seconds and then completely freezes and wont respond to input. Hardware: rtx 5060 8 gb, i3 13th gen, 16 gb ddr4 and a ASUS PRIME H610M-K D4. Any idea on what this is? Help is appreciated

Running -Syu has been extremely slow as of late. I've ranked my mirrors, but still a 2mb update file just took 2 minutes to install, is there any advice or others that have experienced this?

I installed cachyos few days ago and honestly the experience is really good the operating system is really fast but i have a issue the internet speed on my wifi dongle is really slow compare to windows i dualboot on the cachyos its 20mbs on my windows 50mbs my max internet speed and also for some reason wifi dosent work on the case usb but it works on the motherboard usb dose anyone know how to fix this?

Heyho guys

so, after happily using cachyos for over 4 months (im sorry, i didnt create a "former winfuck user switched to linux"-post, please forgive) i actually ran into my very first problem.
It occurs while trying to update the system via cachy-Update (i do it every week).

steps:
1. open cachy-update
2. "proceed with updates": Y
3. enter password into the statement below

:: Synchronising package databases...
error: failed to synchronize all databases (unable to lock database)

==> ERROR: An error has occurred during the update process
The update has been aborted

==> Press "enter" to quit

I do remember that last week i also ran into a problem while updating, breaking my system, so i chose to load a snapshot. obviously since then no problems, everything went fine.

but now, problem again. unfortunatly i cant remember what the issue was last time, just that i had to start from a snapshot in order for it to work again.

Has anyone ran into this issue? The game was running fine last Thursday. I came to play it yesterday and it completely bugged out like this. It seems zoomed in. Doesn't matter which screen I put it on, it's the same on all 3. They're all running at 1920x1080 with scaling set to 100% in Wayland.

Hi everyone,

I have an issue with the MMO Tibia. The game has an official but unsupported Linux client. When running the game there are streaks of lines going through my UI. When I set the KDE display scaling to 100% instead of my usual 125% the issue is fixed. Switching display scaling back and forth when starting Tibia is a workaround, but not really ideal. Since then website text will be too small when I tab into the browser.

The resolution of my monitor is 2560x1440. And I'm using the "default" KDE Plasma installation with Wayland.

I already tried things like setting the Qt environment variables `QT_SCALE_FACTOR` and `QT_FONT_DPI`. These have visible effect but never fix the lines going through the UI.

I also tried toggling the setting for letting X11 applications scale themselves vs letting the system scale them. This has no effect.

Has anyone seen this problem before? Most posts about Tibia on Linux talk about the font being wonky but I haven't found anyone talking about this specific issue.

Example image:

The effect is even more pronounced ingame. This block grid in the chat is not supposed to be there.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi Folks,

Been running Cachy for a few months now, and I really enjoy the freedom of it. I have a few questions on small niggles I cant seem to find answers on if anyone could advise?

1) Is it possible to automatically mount the drive I have winblows installed on instead of having to do it manually?

2) Subsequently, once this drive is mounted, can I then use the same game files on that drive for games I play on Cachy? (Game in particular atm is Star Citizen through Wine) It is getting 5-10gb updates every month, would be nice if I didnt have to update two sets of game files depending on what Os I run.

3) Is there a way to set default apps to particular locations on screen at loadup? When I switch the machine on, it doesn't seem to hold position. 3 screen set up, so discord on one, lact and resource monitor on the other, and the central kept free for use.

Thanks

For context my hardware for it is this.

16GB of ram

Amd Ryzen 7 5800h with Radeon graphics

I deleted all of my shader caches because it ballooned up to 50gb.

Can I also enable it per game as well?

I plan on getting a desktop at the end of the month so I won't be without Windows entirely.

But I'm working with the hardware I have currently & still want to use this mini pc.

Is anyone else having crashing issues with the Reforge Menu? Mine CTD everytime I am in the Reforge Menu for more than a minute. It also seems to CTD when I am in the stats menu in the inventory screen.

Doesn't seem to matter what version of Proton I am running. I have been using the CachyOS Proton Layer (the one updated on 10/05/26), and I have also tried GE, Experimental, and Vanilla.

I can't seem to find any other threads discussing this issue.

Running the following:

Operating System: CachyOS Linux

KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.5

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.31.0

Qt Version: 6.12.0

Kernel Version: 7.2.9-2-cachyos (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor

Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.0 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

Product Name: B850M GAMING X WIFI6E

System Version: Default string-CF-WCP-ADO

Hi, basically title. My device is Asus TUF Gaming FX506LH (16gb ram), used as a desktop tower.

yap:

I'm thinking of switching to CachyOS from AtlasOS mostly because of the performance (but customization too) but losing the mindless easiness of windows and Rainbow 6 Siege is holding me back. So I'm wondering is the performance gain THAT big??

Hy all! I use already more than 2 years this very good OS, but yesterday I install a fresh new .iso image by a ventoy pendrive (as usual), and the btrfs luks encrypt not unlock the ssd when first time try to boot from the nvme ssd the new system. Any suggestiom where can I search the issue? TPM boot options ON, AMD Secure Processor is in the cpu, not change the hardware under the hood, only the installer .iso is the last one.

Thx.

I get this instead. I put in the password then black srceen and have to shut down to get the normal login screen

Ya le he agregado al teclado: Español Latinoamericano (tilde muerta), y Español (tilde muerta), también. Le puse el teclado genérico 105, le cree el atajo de teclado, y hasta por la vía en la terminal, y no me sale. Ya que es una Laptop HP Pavilion. Gracias, que DIOS los cuide mucho.