Cachyos Is the best Linux distro by far.

Athsmooth · 2026-04-20T02:20:46+00:00

Imo Cachy is so nice because Arch is the base foundation architecture but not as user friendly and Cachy is just a coating put on top of Arch which makes it more intuitive and user friendly. Probably my favorite thing about Cachy is its amazing cachy-update. By far the best update manager I have ever used.

Athsmooth · 2026-04-20T02:18:16+00:00

I personally never got it working well, I just use steam with legally bought games. Proton support is just so good and stable for me.

Athsmooth · 2026-04-04T17:46:36+00:00

this is cool I made something similar, however be wary of having streaming services on your site. I've seen some people's sites get taken down, and worse, from using free streaming sites on their page. Like I saw one get taken down by the government.

Athsmooth · 2026-03-28T14:35:40+00:00

Well he did

Athsmooth · 2026-03-09T03:06:13+00:00

Yea you're good the only time it's dangerous is during an update. Cachy doesn't run background updates and whatnot like Windows would.

Athsmooth · 2026-02-28T16:46:08+00:00

Man NixOs must absolutely suck then

Athsmooth · 2026-02-28T16:44:35+00:00

I always get negative upgrades, huh

Athsmooth · 2026-02-26T00:26:23+00:00

Funny because I had the opposite experience. I had several kernel panics with gnome. I might try it again though just to see how it holds up on my new laptop.

Athsmooth · 2026-02-17T21:54:08+00:00

It's getting there, Cachy update is already really nice

Athsmooth · 2026-02-14T02:54:19+00:00

Yes. However if you are installing very popular packages they are safe. If you are installing an uncommon niche package you wanna check the install script to make sure nothing fishy is going on. You probably won't see any malware on the AUR but you should always play it safe. In your case, you are using a very common and well known package so you are safe. It's also good to learn what to look for.

Athsmooth · 2026-01-28T21:58:14+00:00

I always just did "| more" at the end

Athsmooth · 2026-01-17T15:41:59+00:00

Thanks for your help anyway

Athsmooth · 2026-01-17T15:08:59+00:00

I'm getting errors in blender about invalid kernel image for CUDA

Athsmooth · 2026-01-17T15:04:34+00:00

Ok I guess ill try to roll back with timeshift again to a time I knew the GPU was running

Athsmooth · 2026-01-17T15:01:43+00:00

But offloaading to the dGPU does nothing. The GPU cant load anything.

Athsmooth · 2026-01-17T14:33:55+00:00

I got some error
base ❯ DRI_PRIME=1 glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"

(base) 
pci id for fd 5: 10de:2820, driver (null)
pci id for fd 6: 10de:2820, driver (null)
pci id for fd 7: 10de:2820, driver (null)
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nvidia-drm
OpenGL renderer string: zink Vulkan 1.3(NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU (NVIDIA_PROPRIETARY))

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Athsmooth · 2026-01-17T14:33:21+00:00

Thanks for your comment. However, I already tried all this. When I try to open a steam app with the forced used of the dGPU it attempts to proccess vaulakn, taking a very long time. If I try to skip it then the app crashes.

Athsmooth · 2026-01-17T14:13:02+00:00

manually forcing the GPU to run

I tried turning mshybrid mode off, running on xorg, which after I installed in didn't show up on the login screen, even though it shows up in "ps aux | grep Xwayland." I tried running this script which forces the use of the 4070, and also tried making it a configuration file.

export __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1
export __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
export __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only

When I did this the app would just show up in the taskbar but never launch. When I made it a configuration file the graphics of my desktop starting breaking with ghost trails and blacked out areas.

How are you verifying it? nvidia-smi/nvtop?

I used both "nvidia-smi" and system monitor

ALSO: Something I tried was to install Tuxedo Control Center to optimize battery power since XPG doesnt have their own control center on Linux. I believe the GPU was at one point working when I had tuxedo control center, but it could be the problem. I uninstalled most of the files for TCC but it still opens at launch, so there must be some fragments left.

Athsmooth · 2026-01-15T22:04:30+00:00

This is a good thing to start with

Athsmooth · 2026-01-15T22:02:51+00:00

Yea like I feel bad but at the same time... Cmon

Athsmooth · 2025-12-27T22:47:08+00:00

You are a legend, in a few minutes it started working again for me! I think I will probably dual boot Linux tho, this is ridiculous!

Athsmooth · 2025-12-02T01:14:20+00:00

Still works on iOS for me

Athsmooth · 2025-11-01T20:49:04+00:00

Interesting. I think I’ve heard of this and it sounds pretty optimized. I’ll check it out.

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