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Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by everdrive »

Bender wrote: post #59
everdrive wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried it with BTRFS and had really terrible performance. I ended up trying ext4 and it was not appreciably better. I don't know the make and model of my SSD, but I'm sure it's a not-very-impressive SSD. Unencrypted with EXT4 was the only thing that offered good performance. Mind you, I'm really happy with CachyOS, but I don't really understand why this is a problem and it doesn't seem to be an issue others are havi…

Maybe this is something you have already checked but first get your device with blkid or whatever you prefer, then sudo smartctl -x /dev/nvmeXXXX Look at the temperature when you are pushing the IO really hard. Some devices will throttle when hot. Is this on a laptop? Do you have any indoor pets that have fur? Yaks shed a lot this time of year.

I'll check that out. In my case I had moved straight from Fedora and was using LUKS + EXT4 -- with no issues whatsoever. Further, rather than losing some write speed, my system will actually hang quite aggressively. It seems to be CPU-related, but perhaps it's disk reads that are hanging? (or maybe both) My PC case is also not extra-hairy :)

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by officeplant »

folkrav wrote: post #64
officeplant wrote: post #49

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>Audio production is also kind of a no-go I always see this as a yes and no. Yes if you didn't start giving up on mainstream DRM encumbered audio production 10-15 years ago you aren't going to be ready to switch. Those people have sunk too much into their work flows and collections of licensed plugins. No if like me you gave up on those tools and found new ones, because I didn't like the direction things were going w…

I just haven't found anything on the amp sim side that remotely approaches what NeuralDSP gives me. Similar to drums, haven't found any libraries that sound remotely as good as something like GGD. I've replaced most of my "simple" effects plugins with free stuff, sure, but VSTi/libraries have been more of a miss than a hit for me. I started around the same time you did. Back then it barely was thinkable to even consi…

Yeah for drums I still rely heavily on my sample library I've built up from other hobby music friends, sound library cd/dvd purchases, and freesound.org digging. But it works for IDM/Industrial stuff I do.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by Caboose8685 »

joe_mamba wrote: post #55
goodburb wrote: post #25

It's not just a gaming and performance distro, it includes QoL fixes on modern hardware. On my Lenovo laptop, fixes that would take over a day to enable and patch on most distros: - Wake from sleep - Nvidia GSP firmware workarounds and correct version OOTB (proprietary) - Mouse lag/jitter - External display hotplug - DDC/CI over type-c - Embedded controller power profiles from taskbar with correct TDP limits for CPU/…

Question to the Arch Linux veterans out there. Is CachyOS better than EndeavourOS or vice versa? From what I read Cachy comes with a lot of proprietary repos and gaming stuff already installed along with a custom kernel tuned for gaming performance which makes it more bloated and less stable than vanilla Arch distros like Endeavour which just ships with the bare minimum quality of life tweaks over installing arch fro…

CachyOS takes the default arch repos and re-builds packages targeting CPU generations and their instruction sets. There are no proprietary repos. Cachy has their own personal repo where some packages not in arch repos are built.

Gaming stuff is NOT installed by default, but there is a button in the Hello app new users can click that installs 2 meta packages that install almost everything one might want for gaming. Take a look at it in a VM and see for yourself.

The performance increases from their kernel + optimized packages are small but noticeable to me. Give their wiki a read-through: https://wiki.cachyos.org/

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by Caboose8685 »

officeplant wrote: post #52
docsaintly wrote: post #45

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I also just moved from Linux Mint to Cachy and haven't had to use a single AUR package (yet). I use some relatively obscure programs too.

CachyOS does pull some packages from the AUR into the CachyOS repo, but they state that they go through a validation process first.

To clarify, the packages in the CachyOS repo from the AUR are manually reviewed by a team member before inclusion and updates.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by Caboose8685 »

ElijahLynn wrote: post #38

TIL about Shelly. https://github.com/Seafoam-Labs/Shelly-ALPM In the release notes they said they removed Paru and are recommending Shelly instead. I like that I can manage Flatpack and AUR! Gonna give this a try!!

Shelly also has static analysis for AUR packages that looks for all the common, shifty ways a pkgbuild might try to give you something bad.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by Bender »

everdrive wrote: post #71
Bender wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe this is something you have already checked but first get your device with blkid or whatever you prefer, then sudo smartctl -x /dev/nvmeXXXX Look at the temperature when you are pushing the IO really hard. Some devices will throttle when hot. Is this on a laptop? Do you have any indoor pets that have fur? Yaks shed a lot this time of year.

I'll check that out. In my case I had moved straight from Fedora and was using LUKS + EXT4 -- with no issues whatsoever. Further, rather than losing some write speed, my system will actually hang quite aggressively. It seems to be CPU-related, but perhaps it's disk reads that are hanging? (or maybe both) My PC case is also not extra-hairy :)

To benchmark the encryption if you suspect CPU related, try

    cryptsetup benchmark
though it's more useful if it was run prior on your previous OS installation. For storage, fio [1] may be useful but that is a much more involved topic and having baseline tests run in your former OS that you said worked fine.

[1] - https://fio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fio_doc.html

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

5G_activated wrote: post #63

I wouldn't recommend CachyOS personally. If you wish for a distribution with a traditional read and write filesystem and new features and package versions I'd recommend Fedora, which I always end up going back to. Personal preference, but I like my software to have as little patching or customisation done by my distribution as possible, and to be able to use it as upstream intended. This is a longstanding benefit of…

There is no single 'upstream'. Furthermore I'd give a shit about intent. That's just their opinion.

The garish themes can be ignored, deinstalled, avoided by choosing an appropriate environment.

The fuming about Shelly? Yah, hrrm. Had some of that, too.

Solution? yay -Rd shelly You are not forced to use it, and it can be deinstalled. The moment it's not optional anymore, I'm gone.

Don't use the community spaces, if you can't handle spoiled brats chasing the latest fads.

Bazzite is bloat (conceptually). Fedora no good. RedHat neither.

Always felt sluggish to me. Haven't tried since years though, but don't intend to either.

Not missing anything from 'there'.

There is a TUI-client called concord for the terminal, where you can disable all the gifs, movies, memes, cat pics, avatars, whatever. That's making it much more bearable :-)

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

WD-42 wrote: post #6

Another era, another Arch based distribution. This one seems particularly attractive to Windows refugees especially gamers. The default desktop looks very much like Windows: even the wallpaper is one of those blue gradient 3d wave shapes. I tried it in a VM and I don't think I can deal with the jank. The default install comes with 3 different GUIs for installing software, all of them confusing and inconsistent. Apps…

Ahem! Even old unix-users can find success with it, by simply not using/deinstalling the yank and relying on pacman and/or yay in the terminal. Shouldn't be that difficult for someone from another era?

The only things left installed are cachy-os-hello, and the kernel-manager. They are useful, and don't break things. Though one could do, without them too.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by folkrav »

gausswho wrote: post #31
folkrav wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel sorry every time I'm stuck going back to Windows. And admittedly, the situation is not even comparable to how it was ~25 years ago when I first started playing around with Linux, most things I want to do with a computer just work on Linux nowadays. There are still such things that just are not there yet - but for most of them, it's not necessarily Linux's fault. If we limit the conversation to gaming specifica…

A balanced take. You name several exceptions that don't work seamlessly on Linux. Recognizing that, I'll note: - Bitwig 5.x (haven't tried the latest 6.x) is working really nicely for me now across several NixOS machines (I'm using BitwigBox so that yabridge smoothes out VST integration). - Le Mans Ultimate is working for me now. It would hang on loading a track until a month or two ago (GE Proton recommended).

For sim, its mostly the modding and third-party utilities that I can't be bothered to make work hehe. Maybe I just didn't spend enough time searching for alternatives, or maybe they just didn't exist, but I couldn't be bothered to spend the time to make them work last time I tried.

Re: CachyOS June 2026 Release

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Post by folkrav »

snapplebobapple wrote: post #66
folkrav wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel sorry every time I'm stuck going back to Windows. And admittedly, the situation is not even comparable to how it was ~25 years ago when I first started playing around with Linux, most things I want to do with a computer just work on Linux nowadays. There are still such things that just are not there yet - but for most of them, it's not necessarily Linux's fault. If we limit the conversation to gaming specifica…

Printing is still a disaster on linux, but in linuxs defense, its also a disaster (n windows just a but less of one

Interesting, I've always had the opposite impression - CUPS has always made it quite easier for me to use whatever printer I had at hand instead of having to hunt down drivers off the manufacturer's website, only to find out they stopped supporting it back in the Vista days.
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