So,

As I have used AI, read load of cachyOS forum articles, as well as Reddit posts, every time someone cannot reboot and enter bios, they have always been Acer laptops.

Well guess who installed cachyOs on an Acer laptop, this guy!

Does anyone know if cachyOS is going to try and resolve this, if there actually is a solution or a hardware issue that cannot be fixed with Acer laptops?

I have read some articles stating:

1. Acer does not trust Arch based disotros from the BIOS level.
2. You need to turn off secure boot
3. cachyOS creates too many EDI partitions that confuses the bios.

Only way to fix this is:

1. Remove the SSD, reset the bios with the CMOS removal.
2. Remove secure boot after above.
3. Install a different OS on Acer laptops.

And probably more that I am forgetting. Sounds like cachy's install process is just confusing the BIOS so it hangs at the Acer logo during boot if you try to access the BIOS. Anyone have any new ideas to try?

1. Jamming F2 or other keys does not work.
2. running CLI commands like "systemctl reboot --firmware-setup" does not work.
3. Use Plasma KDE and setting it to reboot into UEFI on next reboot does not work.
4. etc.

thanks for reading, but because Acer is just a major laptop brand, I was surprised to find this out because I bought this laptop to specifically install this OS on it.

EDIT:

SOLVED:

Please read this article:
https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/no-bios-access-after-cachyos-install/32156/10

The command:
```
sudo efibootmgr -b 0002 -B
```

Mine too was the same entry within the CLI of 002. That being said, digging deeper into what this command is doing:

• NVRAM Entry vs. Disk Files: This command does not delete any bootloader files from your hard drive (such as files in /boot/efi or the ESP partition). It only removes the pointer inside the motherboard's non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) that tells the UEFI firmware: "Here is an OS named X located at path Y on disk Z."
• Why It Solves the Acer/UEFI Lockout Bug: Some buggy motherboard implementations (notably on certain Acer, HP, or Lenovo laptops) crash or hang on the boot logo when trying to enter the BIOS/UEFI setup screen if an NVRAM boot entry contains metadata, arguments, or paths their proprietary firmware parser cannot handle. Deleting the specific NVRAM entry stops the motherboard's setup utility from choking on that entry, restoring your ability to access the BIOS setup menu.
• How CachyOS Still Boots Afterward: If your NVRAM entry for CachyOS is removed, modern UEFI systems will fall back to the generic fallback path (e.g., /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI) or rely on your primary bootloader (like systemd-boot or GRUB) to discover and launch the OS.

I know this post is going to get a lot of hate but I truly have never used Linux before. Every time I bite the bullet I always find myself going back to Windows 11 just for how familiar it is having been on Windows OS in general forever. Is there anyway to get it to mimic Windows as close as possible in the way it looks? I've tried installing and tinkering with github Windows 11 Plasma styles and such but they always look off or dont fully support cachy and it brings in alot of bugs. any suggestions? Im ready for the switch 🙏

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.

Anybody know why this might be? I switched from Windows to CachyOS a few months back - and love it. It has a nice feel, looks good and for the most part runs well. However I do have a couple of recurrent issues that I can't resolve.

The main one is around speed. I've noticed that download, update and install speeds can be painfully slow, and often clog up my system. For example when using Steam, or a torrent application such as Transmission - the download speed seems to be much slower and variable than when on Windows, and during the installation of a game, my entire system slows down.

I've run an internet speed test, so the issue isn't there. I'm using a BTRFS file system, which could be the issue? I'm not overly familiar with it but some desk-based research suggests CoW could be the culprit.

For reference I'm running the 7.2.0-1 kernel, on an AMD4 system (5800X3D, 32GB DDR4 3200, 9070XT)

Yesterday everything worked fine.
I worked remotely, using OpenVPN and KRDC.

Today, stutter and freezes all day,
Desktop started corrupting and then noticed Better Blur DX doesn't work anymore. Several attempt to fix and reboots did nothing.

The only difference from yesterday was that I installed Roon and Tidal. I guess my idea of dropping windows was perhaps a bit premature 😅

I did mess up the locale a bit, as I had assumed I needed to install to Languages to have them available from keyboard. Could this be it?! I did revert it back..

I feel like I have to re-install everything already 🤦 Not too impressed..

I'm new to CachyOS and I'm trying to decide between GNOME and Hyprland

Been tinkering trying to fix some issues with my os (cashy), not really knowing what I'm doing. This happens, no idea what I've done or if I can fix it. Annoyingly my uni course just restarted and I have work to do plus a bunch of important docs stored on this laptop. I can't get a terminal and it just freezes after I enter encryption PW. Is there a way or do I just cut my losses and reinstall. I totally deserve this, it's been on the blink for ages and I didn't make a back up.

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

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!!

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 ?

A few days ago, I was playing a game through Lutris with my Gamesir Cyclone 2, no issues at all, but I had to AFK for a couple hours, and I left the game running cuz I did not want to lose any progress. When I came back to it though, it would not recognize my controller's input after turning it on again.. I didn't think much of it at the time and thought it would work again on a restart.. but it has not worked again since. Games through steam do pick up my controller's input without any issues, but none of my Lutris games are recognizing my controller's input at all. I made sure Steam controller input is disabled (it was never enabled to begin with but I also tried enabling it just in case with no success) and have restarted multiple times already.. I have found no solution to this so far, can someone please help me

I know that end4 dots is a complete dot file with all configurations while noctalia is only a shell. But I want to delete end4 dots completely along with the dependencies and then install Noctalia Shell and do my own ricing around noctalia shell... I am kinda new to this stuff so, how do I migrate completely from end4 dots to noctalia without reinstalling linux

I initially installed Mint on my new mini PC because it's stable and "just works" and it's great and all, but I'm starting to really feel the lack of an AUR and more packages in general, so I've switched to Cachy and I installed Cinnamon, same as Mint because my mini PC can't handle Plasma or anything Wayland and I don't like tiling systems. And I installed Pluma, which I've also been using on Mint and enjoy.

On my Mint system, when I Search in Pluma, a text entry box appears at the bottom of the Pluma window, which is what I like. In Cachy for some reason, when I Search, it brings up a separate popup window for searching.

Why is this different when it's still Cinnamon and Pluma, same as Mint? And how can I change it to the Mint-like Search? I don't see an option in the settings unless I missed it.

How do I fix this?

❯ sudo pacman -Syu

[sudo] password for :

:: Synchronizing package databases...

cachyos-v3 125.4 KiB 117 KiB/s 00:01 [---------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%

cachyos-core-v3 115.1 KiB 96.6 KiB/s 00:01 [---------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%

cachyos-extra-v3 4.3 MiB 471 KiB/s 00:09 [---------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%

cachyos 522.4 KiB 181 KiB/s 00:03 [---------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%

core is up to date

extra is up to date

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 protobuf (36.0-1.1) breaks dependency 'libprotobuf.so=35.1.0-64' required by clementine

~ 13s

❯

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

Hey, sorry if this has been answered or has an obvious answer I’m just not seeing anywhere but is there any timeframe that I can update the deckify kernel to 7.2 in the kernel manager? I’m on a legion go s and seeing every other version be updated to it but not this one.

Thanks

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...

Can some of you who use Catchy OS as a daily driver relate your experiences with tasks like audio/video editing, office tasks, and other common tasks?

I read a lot about gaming, but I do not see too much about everyday tasks.

I was a plan ing on installing Open Madriva (back to my Mandrake roots). But was somewhat underwhelmed by the experience. So instead of doing an Arch install, I was thinking if trying Catchy.

I booted it up in a VM, but I don't think that gives me a good reflection on bare metal performance.

today i had an update to cachyos-lts and related functions that would suddenly stop progressing through the regular cachy-update tool. shelly had managed to get them done after resetting the pc, but now this alert showed up when some unrelated programs had updates ready. is this related? will this harm my operating system or will this fix itself with a future update? any help is appreciated.

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.

How do I install amdvlk on cachy? running sudo pacman -S amdvlk shows me this error:

error: target not found: amdvlk

warning: 'amdvlk' is a file, did you mean -U/--upgrade instead of -S/--sync?

thanks!

Edit: think I need to clarify why I want amdvlk 'alongside' radv. I want to use fsr4 via optiscaler in doom dark ages but in radv it tanks the fps very badly. Until that issue is fixed, amdvlk is the way to go it seems for this game. So, saying use radv wont help me.
Also, `VK_ICD_FILENAMES="/path/to/.json" command to use the amdvlk files crashes the game instantly for me. I can post the crash log if someone wants to take a look

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.