I've been using Windows since i was born, and even "RICE"ed the hell out of it.......and got bored. So, i switched to CachyOS.....AND I LOVE IT SO FAR!!!

I'm using the default hyprland setup that comes with noctalia shell.....and it looks pretty, ngl. I might switch to waybar later, when i have enough knowledge. You guys guide me on these tings....y'all are awsome 🔥

[N.B. Yes, it's true....it CAN GAME! 😈 Using steam withh no issues so far.....just gotta learn how to install my Fitgirl packs using wine.]

A lot of people recommend new users (and just in general) to go with the big main distros like Fedora, Arch, Debian, Ubuntu or Mint, because they say "who knows if flavour of the week distros still exists in 5-10 years".

So i asked myself today, what would happen if maintenance for CachyOS just halted completely? Would it be necessary or recommended for most users to reinstall a different distro, or would the updater simply just grab the new packages from vanilla arch repos and everything is just fine?

Ok. This is probably massive skill issue on my part (possibly amplified by progesterone effects and me being tired right now).

I wanna try shelly.

I install it via pacman. Launch the GUI.

I enable AUR

Try to install AUR package (both with the cli command and the GUI)

Failed to download package sources
error: AUR operation failed
error: BuildFailed
:: Transaction failed.

I look in the docs / wiki. Nothing related to that issue.

I look in the github issues, nothing related to that issue.

Try with another AUR helper, It works.

...

I enable appimages.

Open the GUI, select the appimage section.

"Drag and drop appimages here to install"

I drag and drop the appimage. Nothing happens.

I click the "+ install appimage" button, select an appimage file.

error: AppImage operation failed
error: AppImage operation failed
error: AccessDenied
:: Transaction failed.

I try to install it with the cli. Same error.

I look in github issues / discussions. Nothing related to that issue.

I look in the appimage section in the shelly wiki.

It mentions installing appimages through two methods : static url or repository

Says nothing about how to actually use any of these two methods.

Search for github issues / discussions. Nothing related to that issue.

...

I click on "updates" in the GUI

"Impossible to execute shelly check-updates. Check the cli output and retry"

I run "shelly check-updates" in the cli.

It gives a list of installable packages whose name are close to "check-updates"

...

What ? Am I completely stupid ? Is this an elaborate prank ?

it's very appealing to me but i know can do SO much more. i give myself a solid C...

edit: i have an empty widget on the top left that it seems is an input method panel? not sure what to do with it. I kinda like the way it looks though. just a tiny mysterious black hole...

Edit: the picture was intended to be at the end of the post body, my bad.

Ran the usual sudo pacman -Syu

This one in the logs in interesting:

```

[ALPM] upgraded libcdio-paranoia (10.2+2.0.2-2.1 -> 10.2+2.0.2-3.1)

[ALPM] installed pdfio (1.6.5-1.1)

[ALPM] upgraded libcupsfilters (2.1.1-4.4 -> 2.2.1-2.1)

[ALPM] upgraded libresidfp (1.2.1-1.1 -> 1.2.2-1.1)

```

pdfio is availble on the cachy-repo (extra-v3), but on running pacman-Qi pdfio the source is unknown:

```

pacman -Qi pdfio

Installed From : None

Name : pdfio

Version : 1.6.5-1.1

```

The reason I checked this, is because Shelly claims this to be from the AUR (maybe because the source is not registered or something?)

Is this a bug where the source is not registered? Pacman for sure did not (and cannot) pull this from the AUR.

It is from the extra-v3 repo: <inset picture>

it feels very off and for windows i don't use mouse acceleration and when i turn it off in linux it doesn't feel the same as windows. even with the right sensitivity it still feels off.

Though this might interest some people.

I recently Benchmarked a Lenovo T480 across multiple Linux Distros and Desktop Environments plus Windows 11

Not this is a older 8th Gen intel so the results show bad performance more than a more advanced processor.

I wasn't surprised by the poor Windows performance (a local install without MS account so minimum BG activity) but what did suprise me was how little the Desktop Environments were influencing results in the Linux Benchmarks.

Anyway here they are.

Specifically a Pro 9985wx on trx50 with 1TB of Ram. If it does are there any weird quirks I should look out for? Where can I find documentation for this config? Thank in advance, All help is appreciated.

I just switched. I have an ntfs partition. SO I am trying to merge some free space with this partition. So I was taking backup in case something goes wrong. And along the way I kept deleting files. Old ISOs and media files. I get error trash full. And when shift deleting to permanently deleting files it stopped working with unable to delete errors. Emptying trash does not give any error. It just does not do anything.

So I rebooted and the trash was empty. So I started again. Deleting stuff, but again noticed that trash still won't empty. Why is this happening? (nvme: WD BLACK SN770)

Also dolphin does not show my Linux partition as a mounted device. I won't mind it much, but now I have no idea how much space is left in my Linux installation partition.

How do I get the gen 4 astro a50 headset mic to work on linux?

As the title states, I do a lot of work with music production but also for fun as a bedroom guitarist. I want to use a guitar amp simulator plugin of mine while playing along to YouTube, but when I go to do this I only get audio out of the plugin and nothing else will play any sound and YouTube videos won't load properly because of it. I've briefly looked into the stuff with pulse, jack, and pipewire but it all seems very overwhelming with no real guides. Is this possible to do on Linux? Any help would be appreciated.

Any ideas and help are welcome.

Rescently installed GOG via Faugus, but the GUI was chopped and shifted, went back to Heroic for GOG. But today I installed Rockstar Launcher to play RDR2 and the GUI is also shifted.

This white stripe is shifting the launcher downwards and mousehover is also shifted.

Is this normal for Faugus or is this a GUI problem with my installation?
Using default CachyOS with KDE Plasma, no ricing (all AMD HW).

first off all i compared gaming on windows 11 and cachyos. and windows 11 was far better in term of fps, i tried frostpunk and sekiro and both were laggy in cachyos while windows was far better is that because of integrated gpu? i heard cachyos was faster in term of gaming or that what i thought

I know this question has probably been asked a lot but i want to mod payday 2

if this changes anything I'm using the noctalia hyprland shell

I recently installed cachyos on my Acer Nitro v16 AI and now when i try to boot into UEFI to change boot order it just freezes

trying to boot into firmware from the grub interface does the same thing

is there a way to fix via Konsole or am i SOL?

Can't update getting :: Synchronizing package databases...

cachyos-v3 125.4 KiB 1529 KiB/s 00:00 [----------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%

cachyos-extra-v3 4.3 MiB 22.8 MiB/s 00:00 [----------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%

cachyos-core-v3 is up to date

cachyos 522.4 KiB 4.77 MiB/s 00:00 [----------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%

core is up to date

extra 8.5 MiB 28.7 MiB/s 00:00 [----------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%

multilib is up to date

:: Starting full system upgrade...

resolving dependencies...

looking for conflicting packages...

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)

:: installing curl-impersonate (2.2.2-1) breaks dependency 'curl-impersonate=2.1.1' required by python-curl_cffi

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

The update has been aborted

Anyone have a solution for me? Already tried removing them keeps telling me they break dependencies.

I can't stop spinning uncontrollably when I play any type of FPS or shooter. I can't stop spinning, and clicking both M1 and M2 makes my character spin slightly too, which I don't know why this happens. This happens on most FPS games.

Whenever I try to move my mouse, my character usually looks up and starts spinning.

I have two printers, a HP and a Canon. Today both printers fail with message: universal filter failed

After enabling debug i see this in cups' error_log:

E [01/Sep/2026:23:58:15 +0200] [Job 193] cfFilterChain: pdftopdf (PID 3306) stopped with status 1
E [01/Sep/2026:23:58:15 +0200] [Job 193] universal filter failed.
E [01/Sep/2026:23:58:15 +0200] [Job 193] Job stopped due to filter errors; please consult the /var/log/cups/error_log file for details.

I tried reinstalling qpdf, cups-filters and cups-pdf but to no avail.

I don´t print that much, think last time was about two weeks ago, working just fine. Today i get this.

Any ideas?

Uso CachyOS con plasma KDE.

Tengo dos impresoras Brother HL 1212 W y no logro hacer que funcionen por la red wifi.

No soy usuario experimentado.

Es más, me animé a pasarme a Linux porque gemini me guía.

Pero esto es lo único que no estoy logrando que funcione.

Algún secreto que deba saber? Lo agradeceré mucho.

Se que todos hablan en inglés acá. Pero no es mí idioma nativo y tengo miedo de expresarme mal.

Los leo!

Saludos!!

i played today first time and this is happening from the start iof the game it doesnt end tried diffrient protons and commands none worked cachyos 7.2.2-1 kde plazma 6.7.4 cpu r7 5800x gpu arc b570 16gb ram 3200 THATS ONLY GAME THAT KEEPS HAVING THIS PROBLEM

I'm having a weird issue currently that I can't seem to launch any applications or do much of anything right now without getting an error like this one. Does anyone know how to fix this or what even started this weird error?