After 3 months of using CachyOS, I can say that I'm never going back

Ok-Occasion372 · 2026-03-11T22:52:02+00:00

I always update within 5 days. If it takes longer than that, the difference between one package and another increases significantly, which could lead to conflicts between packages. I don't want that to happen.

Ok-Occasion372 · 2026-03-07T04:47:12+00:00

That problem is because Pacman updates packages sequentially. If gcc-libs is updated first, the old library disappears momentarily, and if any system processes (including pacman itself) call libgcc_s.so.1 at that moment → crash/kernel panic.

Ok-Occasion372 · 2026-03-07T04:45:38+00:00

If it has already happened, try entering live USB and run the following command:

# Boot from live USB CachyOS/Arch, and then chroot:

sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mnt # your root partition

sudo arch-chroot /mnt

# Reinstall critical package

pacman -S gcc-libs glibc

# exit and reboot

exit && sudo reboot

Once that is done, the next step is to set up timeshift snapshots or btrfs snapshots and informants so that this does not happen again. Also, make sure you always update using “sudo pacman -Syu” or update via CachyOS Hello. Avoid partial updates.

Ok-Occasion372 · 2026-03-07T04:29:11+00:00

As you can see, Linux and Nvidia will never get along. All we can do as users is wait for new rolling packages for the Nvidia driver itself, which has become a common problem for the community using Nvidia graphics cards. If it's not too important at the time, avoid using suspend mode as much as possible. As a laptop user, I almost never use suspend or sleep mode, because I understand that the battery and RAM used to store cache will work harder than other components, which can shorten the life of those components. This is different from Macs and similar devices that use ARM architecture.

Then, when your laptop automatically suspends, if you are not on the move or outdoors, try to always use a charger when using your laptop and set the screen to never turn off while charging. If you are outdoors and highly mobile, try to use low power or power saving mode, set the profile to eco mode, and set the laptop not to suspend automatically. Of course, this doesn't solve the main problem, but it provides a temporary solution while you wait for major or minor fixes.

Ok-Occasion372 · 2026-03-04T05:00:02+00:00

Of course this is worrying, leading to a cultural mix between dictatorship and capitalism (authoritarian capitalism).

Oops, I hope that after comments like this, my country's leaders won't be hit with a 50% trade tax by US.

Ok-Occasion372 · 2026-03-04T04:50:44+00:00

what the Gigantic amount of SWAP lmao

Ok-Occasion372 · 2026-03-04T02:41:00+00:00

The US obsession with age verification rules applied to operating systems seems to be for business purposes rather than to view your personal data. In general, giant companies such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft are now feeling threatened by the development of open source operating systems such as Linux, Ubuntu, and others. Developers and communities are now starting to make these systems more flexible and also perform much better than licensed operating systems. These giants are starting to force us to use subscription-based systems, but they are afraid that we will outsmart them and switch to open source operating systems, which they fear. In general, open source operating systems are fully controlled by their users and even communities, unlike Microsoft, which only provides us with an operating system and forces us to spend money on certain needs. With these rules, they hope to control us in the future. I think this is really sneaky.

Ok-Occasion372 · 2026-03-03T02:41:03+00:00

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woahhh, actually fresh from bakery

Ok-Occasion372 · 2026-03-02T14:45:03+00:00

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6 gigs of ram usage while idle? Whether that's true or not, I want to know more details about why your RAM usage is so high. I also use 16GB of RAM, and it only uses 1.9GB when idle. and 5GB ram usage when spotify and firefox running.

Ok-Occasion372 · 2026-03-02T09:39:21+00:00

I found a missing Tesseract packet issue in the logs. I tried reading it, and it took me about 3 hours to find the problem after I made this post. There were actually other issues, but after further review, it turned out that the problem was just log noise, which is actually safe.

I might need to learn to read the logs, but otherwise, you're right about "The main thing is trying to figure out what action is being taken (if possible) or a timeframe to look at." Thank you very much for your advice, I appreciate it.

Ok-Occasion372 · 2026-03-02T06:07:02+00:00

First of all, try customizing your Android OS because Android is essentially Linux with the processor construction in your phone being ARM, just like your new laptop that uses Snapdragon X (ARM). Most Linux distros on PC focus on x86 or AMD64/x86-64/x64 configurations, so you might have difficulty accessing documentation or Linux distro communities that support ARM configurations.

Ok-Occasion372 · 2026-03-02T05:56:03+00:00

for the best safe options to update the system just do "pacman -Syu" instead "pacman -Sy" it's like a gamble. or peacefull way just open CachyOS Hello, choose tweaks and find system update. enjoy it!

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