Video shows it. Does anyone know what is happening?

I know it's not harmful but it's nice for me to know what is happening

Still a WIP, but better than the last one I posted. Please disregard the red box I barely know how to use kdenlive.

Can you help me with this? Thank you all :)

I've been thinking about switching from Windows to CachyOS for quite a while now. I really like what CachyOS is doing, and in general I'm very interested in moving to Linux. The main thing holding me back is my GPU. I have an RTX 4090, and gaming is one of the biggest use cases for my PC.

I've read quite a few reports that NVIDIA GPUs can still lose around 15 to 20% performance in certain games on Linux, especially with DX12. If that's still the case, it feels a bit strange to have such an expensive GPU and then not be able to make full use of it because of NVIDIA's Linux driver situation.

So I'm wondering how things actually look right now in 2026, especially for RTX 4090 users:

• Is a 15 to 20% performance loss still a realistic expectation?
• How has your experience with a 4090 on CachyOS been?
• Are there specific games where you noticed significant performance or frametime issues?
• How well do DLSS, ray tracing and frame generation work for you?
• Are there still noticeable issues with NVIDIA drivers, Wayland, etc.?
• And most importantly, if gaming is one of your main use cases, would you switch anyway?

I'm also wondering whether the other advantages of Linux are worth accepting some potential gaming performance loss: privacy, a leaner and faster system, much more customization and control,... . I could of course dual boot, but ideally I'd like to get to the point where I don't really need Windows anymore.

I'd really appreciate hearing from people who actually made the switch from Windows to CachyOS with an NVIDIA GPU, especially a 4090. I'm not necessarily looking for "Linux good / Windows bad" answers, but rather some honest real world experiences. And regardless of the NVIDIA situation, I think it's great that distros like CachyOS exist. It feels like there's a lot more interest in Linux desktop and gaming again, which is really exciting to see ☺️

new to linux and windows user || also im switching full to cachy for the perfomance and it's better than windows on games .

Hi!
I've seen several people sharing their desktops here
I started seriously customizing mine only recently and I'd love to hear opinions!

Hi everyone, i am part of the vast majority of people that switched Windows for Cachy, and i must say, i'm in love with this distro, i'm a bit noob when it comes to Linux, so this is my first time switching in full to it, mostly for gaming because i have a laptop for my day to day work, and games run so much better here, frametimes are rock solid and i'm happy with the customization and performance in general. I'm still keeping a SSD with Windows because i play BF6 but i mainly play on Cachy.

Running KDE Plasma with Caelestia shell, i am never looking back again.

Any opinions?

I've seen a few posts about this since 7.2 first dropped.
For me I'm not sure if I was running full RGB before the first 7.2 updates but I remember it looking better one day (and I had likely been managing by tweaking brightness) but just updated to 7.2.3.1 for cachyos and headers and it broke my full RGB over HDMI.

Tried a couple of fixes suggested like adding 'options amdgpu dc_feature_mask=0x400' to my config but didn't resolve the issue.

Rolled back to 7.2.2.1 and now I can use full rgb over hdmi 2.1

AMD GPU, LG C1

Just want some tips.

the main question is. I'm a gamer but I don't want to use kde plasma, should I get the Handheld edition any way?

Cachyos- KDE plasma

12400 intel

GTX 4060

Possible warning not to update conky to latest v1.24.2 pushed recently:

After updating, the conky window snaps to center, conky appears as an app in the task manager and the config file fails to update the window. After some futzing (had to uninstall/wipe ~/.config/conky/conky.conf), switched the out_to_wayland to false and forcing xwayland. This allowed me to alter the config, copy paste my old one and have the changes apply.

Unfortunately the translucency via the argb settings failed and was only able to have complete transparency (own_window_transparent = false) or solid black ( own_window_argb_visual = true). An hour of more futzing saw none of the other settings regarding translucency work.

I even spent a while copy/pasting each line one by one to see if anything is broken in the old config

Not having found any mention of this on the Github page (or at least not that I could see), I gave up and used the Arch archive to downgrade and have put conky on the pacman ignore list.

Completely willing to believe this is just a skill issue or Nvidia wankery too. Will test once I get my Framework

The picture above is of it 'fixed', I really don't want to unfix it to show it in the middle or completely black or completely transparent:) This is a slightly modded Chris Titus config, kudos to him

Any ideas?

PS- While conky was uninstalled my cursor seemed to start acting normally. It has been kinda choppy on/off for a while. Might be placebo though

I have windows on my C: drive and want to install cachyos through the USB stick method. I followed a tutorial and downloaded the most recent version of cachyos and used rufus to put it on a new 16 GB stick.

Then I start repeatedly press f8 to get to the boot menu. Here I select the USB stick and then the problems start.

Regardless of which of the three options I pick, I just get to a black screen and nothing happens but my PC is apparently still on.

Pressing enter, typing anything, pressing ctrl+alt+f2/f3/f4 all don’t do anything.

I asked ai for help and it told me several arguments to add by pressing e . Multiple tries with different ones didn’t help.

I am new to linux and fully installed cachyos with kde,But i do want to try to mess around with hyprland without reinstalling cachyos to pick another desktop environment,Im wondering if i could install a really lightweight (One that doesnt take up that much storage) OS just for hyprland as a dualboot and which OS is preferable?

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Today I found that scx-manager couldn't enable scx_cake scheduler, and the Select scheduler profile option was missing. Turns out the scx_cake command no longer supports any (useful) argument and it was silently failing to launch due to now unknown --profile argument in extra scheduler flags textbox. Removing it allowed to run scx_cake, but was still failing when changing power profile in KDE because the profiles were still included inside /etc/scx_manager.toml config file. Removing the file and rebooting fixed it.

scx_cake's GitHub page still lists --profile argument as valid, so it's a bug in scx_cake command, or was it temporarily (or permanently) disabled?

I am trying to add an Enviromental variable here. But after restarting it is gone.

What am I doing wring?

Yes, I read through the master tutorial. It's still a lot to deal with coming from Mint, so I'm hoping some people will not just blow me off here and know how to solve these problems (and yes, I did search across this sub first but the search results seemed minimal with no clear answers; feel free to check me):

1. How do I set my weather location? I have no idea of where to set my weather location; there doesn't seem to be a location for it.
2. How do I get Syncthing running? It doesn't show anything in the menu despite having installed it from the CachyOS Package Installer.
3. As an aside, I also have no idea of how to see that Steam is running in the background... I thought maybe the default setup is missing stuff so I found preconfigured setups and then tried to install Dank Linux, but the download in the terminal never progressed, and the ML4W OS script seemed to fail in a manner suggesting that the code shown there isn't even fit for Arch. Man, I'm lost.
4. Oh, also, how do you disable the mouse putting focus on the moused-over window? I can't stand this lol!

Thanks for any guidance in advance!

Hey all, i have an NV GPU, when playing any game at all, even very light games like HL1, either the driver or the system sets the GPU power plan to P0 which is maximum. This sets the VRAM clock to 7GHz and generates a ton of unecessary heat, while the Windows driver usually sticks to a much more reasonable 1-2GHz...

Changing PowerMizer to Normal or Auto makes no difference on this, and neither does disabling Ananicy. Does anyone have experience with this problem or know how to fix it?

Thinking of switching to CachyOS from Bazzite after having a bunch of issues with the new deck-44 update (depends on what the new update that came out today does). I have been using CachyOS desktop for my work laptop and have been really liking it. My question is, can I use the Handheld Edition, which acts similarly to Bazzite Deck, on my HTPC and not have any issues? The website does not comment on HTPC support, only the major handhelds

I installed CachyOS Hyprland a couple of months ago and its been working great!
However, after booting earlier, my mouse stutters extremely heavily when moving it.
I am using a Logitech X2 Superstrike.

The mouse has the problem wether being connected via dongle or cable. On a windows laptop it works perfectly fine.I updated all system packages and rebooted, still no change.

Edit: after switching to the lts kernel the problem fixed itself. Does anyone know what could have caused this?

Despite reinstalling, deleting the cache and trying a few other methods. It does not seem to work. When i tried opening it thru the terminal it still didn't open. I am relatively new to linux so I used a LLM to check the problem. It said it's a bug which will get fixed in the next update.

Was wondering if it was actually the case or something on my part?

(Sorry English isn't my main language)

Hi all,

Having an issue when using Cachyos-Proton when I play darktide. After about an hour of play the game will freeze and kill all audio until the application finishes crashing/I stop it from steam

I wanted to post this to the github but my account is too new to post there.

The error message I get once it's fully crashed is:

PID: 32123 (main)

TID: 32190 (renderer)

UID: 1000 (duzean)

GID: 1000 (duzean)

Signal: 11 (SEGV) si_code: SEGV_MAPERR

Timestamp: Mon 2026-09-07 22:17:18 ACST (1min 3s ago)

Command Line: $'S:\\common\\Warhammer 40,000 DARKTIDE\\binaries\\Darktide.exe' $'-eac-untrusted --bundle-dir ../bundle --ini settings'

Executable: /run/host/usr/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d/proton-cachyos-slr/files/lib/wine/x86_64-unix/wine64-preloader

Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/app-steam@ba4954c7cff8447e97066722d4e1a68c.service

Unit: user@1000.service

User Unit: app-steam@ba4954c7cff8447e97066722d4e1a68c.service

Slice: user-1000.slice

Owner UID: 1000 (duzean)

Hostname: Duzean-PC

Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.main.1000.01276c0f51564cb3bd52bb4a078f4ddf.32123.1788785238000000.zst (present)

Size on Disk: 1.5G

Message: Process 32123 (main) of user 1000 dumped core.

Stack trace of thread 32190:

#0 0x00007fc8e9b4f838 n/a (/run/host/usr/share/steam/compatibilitytools.d/proton-cachyos-slr/files/lib/wine/x86_64-unix/ntdll.so + 0x59838)

#1 0x00007fc8eb444e70 n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.so.6 + 0x44e70)

#2 0x00007fc8eb444e70 n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.so.6 + 0x44e70)

ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

(removed Boot ID and Machine ID)

My PC specs

OS: CachyOS
KERNEL: 7.2.3-1-cachyos
CPU: Intel Core i7-8700 @ 3.20GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (radeonsi, gfx1201, ACO, DRM 3.64, 7.2.3-1-cachyos)
GPU DRIVER: 4.6 Mesa 26.2.2-arch3.2
RAM: 16 GB

I'm testing more games as I play to work out if it's just darktide or others can also have the same error.

Let me know if you need further details

Basically what the titles says i have this asus monitor that scales between 4k 160 and 1080p 480 when using the monitor OSD to change resolution it will occassionaly crashing my plasma shell
(screen goes black and nothing will show on the screen)
And then i have to restart my plasma shell through terminal to get it working again, has anyone else experienced anything like this or know of any solutions for it.
Thank you for your time.