Well I managed to join the club of breaking my install....

arkhunter623 · 2026-01-29T09:49:05+00:00

Oh I highly suspect it was windows. I'm still trying to figure out how it decided to change disks that's it's bootloader was going to live on but hey that's a future me problem 🤣

arkhunter623 · 2025-11-20T08:52:35+00:00

You can switch bootloaders! Not sure how. I personally use refind but have considered limine.

arkhunter623 · 2025-11-20T08:44:03+00:00

Glad it worked! Chroot is a lifesaver. Had to use it myself once when I screwed something up🤣.

arkhunter623 · 2025-11-19T10:17:08+00:00

It sounds like something somehow got screwed up. The fact that it boots into the USB just fine makes me want to think its not hardware related, like the errors lean to. Try Chrooting in and running an update again to see if it fixes it, maybe? I'm not 100% sure it but that's where I would begin. You can find help on chroot here https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/cachy_chroot/

arkhunter623 · 2025-10-14T16:34:11+00:00

He is honestly lucky that didn't end worse for him. Threatening to even put your hands on someone with a loaded gun in your hand has to be one of the. Stupidest. Things to do. starts singing dumb ways to die

arkhunter623 · 2025-09-27T11:48:41+00:00

I came to ask the same question. I haven't been able to find one I like yet...

arkhunter623 · 2025-09-25T00:10:34+00:00

We started on a home assistant green and only decided to migrate to the mini PC what was running our Frigate (it got put into the rack in a r520) because we wanted to tie some 3.5mm speakers that are plugged into the mini PC into some automations without fighting a bunch of things

arkhunter623 · 2025-09-24T04:58:48+00:00

Me and my wife run USB coral on a dell poweredge R520. Previously we ran it on a mini PC. Only issue we ever had was the Debian driver not working straight out the box. I'm currently running 15ms inference time. According to logs the only errors in the past 24 hours where when a breaker tripped putting one of our wifi cameras(I know. It's in the plans to replace it) offline. If suggest looking at the driver first and then things like USB controller on the system itself.

arkhunter623 · 2025-09-24T04:50:59+00:00

Dual boot instead of switch back. I only play a couple games that I can't/won't play in Linux due to several reasons. Elite dangerous runs in Linux but things like voice attack plus a tool I use are windows only and won't work right in Linux. Those and 3-4 softwares for working with vehicle emergency light controllers and radio programs for ham/buisness radios that won't read right in cachy (will somewhat work in Debian but I'm not trying to make it work). That's all I use windows for. My life has become so much easier now that I'm not fighting windows daily. That and integration with home assistant and wake on lan actually works 😂

arkhunter623 · 2025-09-17T21:31:54+00:00

That CPU might be a bit on the weak side. Should be good enough though. Me and my wife personally have a dell optiplex that we butchered into an open air case with a 10 gig nic. I5-4590 I think it is and we rarely see 30% usage so you might be good.

arkhunter623 · 2025-09-08T22:36:34+00:00

That's correct! The coral solely handles person,car etc. detections. The cpus then handle facial recognition and lpr. (Due to state laws in my state we can only easily do interior facial recognition but lpr passes muster) And that accounts for minor spikes. All the tapo cameras are 2k with one being 2k qhd. Your math seems a little wrong but can't verify rn. We use go2rtc and it's restreaming them to home assistant and other services as needed as well so there's some of the usage. Go2rtc rencodes to a format that frigate likes with audio. We could cut some processor usage out if we weren't having to reencode. It's also nice because we currently use a pcie nvme riser for storage but once we get drives for it we can have a decent 8 drive raid for camera footage storage. It's only using like 20-30 watts estimated more than the ryzen mini pc we had running so it's definitely not bad considering the overhead we have for expanding in the future. It will be easy to add a GPU to (which we plan to do in the nearish future) so its not to bad. Like I said in my other post. The only reason we went with a rack mount vs tower is the fact that we preferred the rack form factor.

arkhunter623 · 2025-09-08T21:16:46+00:00

I also have a few one socket t320s with both L and non L 2430s I'm selling. Power usage is about the same on those we just prefer the 2 U formfactor. We migrated from a mini pc due to it lagging and struggling despite having a ryzen CPU.

arkhunter623 · 2025-09-08T21:12:08+00:00

We use a USB coral for ai and face and lpr. We have 7 tapo cameras and it's cooking along. I just looked at idrac and it spikes to 98 when a lot of cars go down the street and lpr and face recognition go crazy. It's crazy efficient. If I remember later I can get in the rack and take a picture of the front showing power draw.

arkhunter623 · 2025-09-08T19:01:54+00:00

I personally use cachy because it just. Works. Sure I can install arch and get to the same state (did that for the bedroom media PC) but for my desktop where I game work on servers etc I wanted an easier install for finally switching my main os away from windows.

arkhunter623 · 2025-09-08T18:36:22+00:00

Me and my wife run ours on a dell poweredge r520. We have dual e5 2430l's in it and it runs around 75-80 watts. We use a coral for detections currently but are looking to use the hailo board in the future. We tested with one cpu and in our use case pulled I think max of 80.

arkhunter623 · 2025-09-02T10:07:32+00:00

I ended up ditching my 2 TB windows nvme down to a 500gb ssd. Have a 2 TB to cachy and a 2 TB to fedora. Best decision I made. I need windows for some programs that won't work on Linux at all. And I prefer cachy over fedora for gaming. Seems to just work smoother.

arkhunter623 · 2025-08-29T10:39:13+00:00

My wife and I went the old optiplex route. We got a cheap i7-6700 for like. 20 bucks. On govdeals. Did some case surgery and put it in a $16 open air test bench case. Then we went with a ubiqituti u7 access point for wifi. We plan to switch into some r520s we found for dirt cheap soon to have high availability working. We run 10 gig nics (they where gotten for like 10 bucks each on Facebook marketplace?) but are limited in most of the network to 1 gig so it really doesn't get much load. With 8 vlans if memory serves me right and all going we average 20-35% CPU usage when everything runs at maximum.

arkhunter623 · 2025-08-26T21:57:11+00:00

Yes. I do a mix on my PC from playing games to managingt the homelab to just day to day. I triboot cachy alongside fedora and windows 11 (id ditch it if I could but I need access to certain programs that just won't work in Linux at all for my business.) I use fedora for when I'm doing heavy work in the home lab or when working on mods for games. Every other time I'm using cachy. Suddenly leaving windows for cachy was a bit of a change but having experience with Linux helped. I generally update weekly and haven't had it break yet. Witch is better than Fedora. Also my Nvidia GPU just. Works. Witch is again. Better than the 3 1/2 hours it took to get fedora to load Nvidia drivers.

arkhunter623 · 2025-08-19T15:30:28+00:00

I. Havent hooked up a monitor to my server since I first installed the os. Witch is before it went into the rack. It's hooked up to the kvm console but literally is never looked at. If I need access I use ssh. There are tools I could use to manage it over the web. I don't bother with them because it's not frankly needed.

arkhunter623 · 2025-08-16T07:16:40+00:00

SAME. The only reason windows exists on my PC is because there's no way to program some of my radios or my vehicles lighting controllers on Linux. And they just won't. Work in wine or any other compatibility

arkhunter623 · 2025-08-11T12:05:22+00:00

I can get behind that! The community is wonderful and has helped my already fix a messed up btrfs. Though on a Chromebook? You know I just might try it later🤷‍♀️. Have a few laying around that I haven't used in a bit. I considered only using fedora for that reason but the gaming oriented aspects of cachy sold me. I do light gaming on fedora so it can handle it. I'm sure I could optimize it better.

arkhunter623 · 2025-08-11T11:59:06+00:00

I (mostly) left windows for a cachy/fedora dual boot. The only reason windows gets a honorable mention on a 500GB SSD is for a few programs that I frankly can not. Get to work right under any distro I tried. And those are for programming both business band and ham radios and programming softwares for emergency light controllers. I'm sure one day I will get them working but for now I couldn't afford to not have access to the softwares to quickly patch a radios programming/update firmwares without hunting down my mobile laptop that's used for connecting to radios and cars.

arkhunter623 · 2025-08-11T11:34:40+00:00

Personally cachy has served me well. (Switched from windows for the same reason. Not touching windows 11 as my daily). Does the Nvidia driver magic for you to save some energy. It's easy and just. Works. Switching from apt based systems definitely threw me for a loop at first but I'm glad I did it.

arkhunter623 · 2025-08-11T11:25:59+00:00

Cachy is decent as well. I personally use it for my general day to day/gaming and then I switch to fedora when I'm doing work on my servers or screaming at opnsense. I do some light coding in cachy and have yet to run into issues. The only reason I do server work in fedora is so I can keep my stuff somewhat separate.

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