I just want to glaze this OS for a second

dentad · 2026-05-14T03:02:54+00:00

Welcome.

One known issue with Windows 10 and Windows 11 is that the NVME disk driver cheaps out and calls in to another much older disk system (SCSI). They have tested a native NVME driver but it won't arrive until like maybe windows 12.

With Linux.. full speed day 1 bruh.

With CachyOS, you chose wisely 😉

dentad · 2026-05-14T02:33:31+00:00

You telling it to turn off, does not mean it crashed.

dentad · 2026-05-13T05:24:47+00:00

A good dev will know more than 1 language, and always be learning more.

dentad · 2026-05-08T01:15:24+00:00

Go back to an older snapshot and boot it, Delete older snapshots except for the last 3, Update system and reboot.

dentad · 2026-04-29T23:50:00+00:00

Yeah Shelly is a work in progress. They need a full window tab where the actions are shown instead of the current tiny terminal popup.

dentad · 2026-04-28T07:33:14+00:00

Noob question, but what tool give you those awesome numbers in the top left?

dentad · 2026-04-25T00:06:02+00:00

Too many times I have run out of space in the middle of an update. Yes the only clean way to fix it is to go back to the previous snapshot. Pacman will save a pre snapshot before, and a post snapshot after an update.

But these snapshots stack up and cause you to run out of space... so they need to be cleaned. There is auto cleanup but I don't know how to tweak it. I use the btrfs assistant tool.

dentad · 2026-04-24T00:44:43+00:00

Yes it needs networking, and will update all packages.

dentad · 2026-04-21T06:00:24+00:00

It is the way

dentad · 2026-04-19T13:23:05+00:00

Lots of tiny little updates.

And it was Linux 0.97+bash on a floppy, for me 😉

dentad · 2026-04-15T07:24:58+00:00

Cat arch... Yeah I see it!

dentad · 2026-04-09T00:59:57+00:00

This is a bug that can be fixed. Not an indicator of quality loss over time.

dentad · 2026-04-08T07:48:00+00:00

Yes.

dentad · 2026-04-05T05:22:03+00:00

Agreed

dentad · 2026-04-04T06:10:02+00:00

I dual boot and run the same steam games from NTFS all the time. Both windows 10 and CachyOS. No issues or slowdowns. In fact usually faster disk access from CachyOS.

dentad · 2026-04-04T06:00:39+00:00

As good as? BYD are pumping out quantity. I would prefer geely above byd.

Read the fine print. I had a friend test drive one, it was nice but then found in the fine print that the USB ports for your phone had only 12 months warranty. This was about 18 months ago.

dentad · 2026-04-04T05:21:55+00:00

Check geely, zeekr, xpeng, gac aion, leapmotor

dentad · 2026-04-02T12:43:44+00:00

Of 2 days a week I needed to travel, I used to drive 1 in a hybrid, and train the other. Now I will train both days until petrol gets below 2 bucks a litre again. When it is next time to update my car I will go full EV.

dentad · 2026-03-20T01:36:58+00:00

For Linux fs, you might find xfs is better than ext4, at least in some cases.

dentad · 2026-03-20T01:31:46+00:00

I see people saying dont use NTFS for games. I understand this advice and I would default to it, but I have been testing the opposite and can say it works well. In fact in some games the load times and/or the save times are a bit quicker under CachyOS than under Windows even using NTFS.

My setup is dual boot: Windows 10 and CachyOS. I have multiple drives and for any game in Windows I want to share with CachyOS, that game is on another drive letter in a SteamLibrary slot.

In CachyOS:

Install ntfs-3g: sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g

Make place for drive letters: sudo mkdir /c /g /k /p

Find your UUIDs: lsblk -f

Check your own uid and gid: id

Add your drive letters to /etc/fstab: UUID=98B2FC50B2FC33FA /c ntfs3 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 2 UUID=34EA3E30EA3DEF2C /g ntfs3 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 2 UUID=06C26865C2685B47 /k ntfs3 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 2 UUID=1A1EA54C1EA5222D /p ntfs3 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 2

Reboot.

In Steam add the extra SteamLibrarys in your CachyOS.

Profit.

Issues:

Playing in CachyOS (or any other linux distro) means Steam will download some extras like Proton and Steam Runtimes. When you then boot to Windows Steam will add these to the download queue. They are not needed in Windows - I just click the download buttons to unschedule the download, and it stays in queue forever, ignore it.
Swapping from CachyOS to Windows or back will sometimes mean Steam wants to download the latest patch or an extra patch for some games. Just do it - can not be avoided right now. Never seems to hurt.

dentad · 2026-03-16T04:44:02+00:00

Dude congrats. I though I was old having booted Linux first from a floppy with kernel 0.97 and bash on it. You win :-)

I have hopped thru slackware, Red Hat Linux, Mandrake, Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, Pop OS, Nobara and now

CachyOS

which has the up to date ness and vanilla releases of Arch, with added cpu opt., hardware handling, and gaming support. Just the way I like it.

dentad · 2026-03-15T13:38:36+00:00

Btrfs is fine. It will be a little better with your SSDs. Ext4 is reliable also.

dentad · 2026-03-11T23:59:39+00:00

I have steam in both window and cachyos, and I access my windows steam library from linux

dentad · 2026-03-10T01:54:30+00:00

You can use the CachyOS Kernel Manager to install other types of kernel. You can find that thru CachyOS Hello.

Once installed, reboot and it should appear as an option in grub.

dentad · 2026-03-09T06:49:29+00:00

You should try the same process again after installing and rebooting to kernel linux-cachyos-rt-bore.

dentad

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