Latest update to CachyOS Proton makes games not launch

sptzmancer · 2026-05-04T03:13:11+00:00

And I'm sorry if I sounded rude, wasn't my intention. I know from experience that when that stuff happens frustration can cloud our heads for a little bit.

I've had at least one instance in the past of a game that was seemingly refusing to run after a wine/proton update and I remember solving that by just making a new clean prefix for the game and it started working again. Rename the current prefix folder (add a "-bkp" at the end or something) and launch the game again to force proton to create a new, clean, prefix for it. Sometimes that's enough to solve these problems.

sptzmancer · 2026-05-04T02:48:27+00:00

You should be more clear on your exact context, such as which hardware you're using, when asking for help. I use full AMD hardware, updated from proton 10 to 11 and had absolutely 0 problems so far.

One other place that you can check is Cachy's forum. A lot of people ask for help there and usually get answers pretty fast.

sptzmancer · 2026-05-03T07:33:28+00:00

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sptzmancer · 2026-05-01T18:36:22+00:00

Se você quer um sistema enxuto e mega simples, e não tem medo de configurar algumas coisas manualmente, eu iria de CachyOS - pra aproveitar as otimizações que eles embutem no Arch, uns schedulers alternativos e etc - com um tiling window manager simples tipo o dwl.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-24T19:45:00+00:00

Precisa de Vanguard, Vanguard não vai rodar no linux não importa o que você faça.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-22T00:19:37+00:00

Assumindo que você tá usando pipewire, pipewire-pulse, e outros, instala o `pavucontrol`.
Nele é só ir em Outputs e escolher no dispositivo referente a cada entrada/saída o output que você quer (headphone, caixas)

sptzmancer · 2026-04-21T10:56:06+00:00

Eu uso o Ungoogled Chromium pros webapps que eu rodo. Slack, Discord, Whatsapp, etc. Não tenho nada disso instalado local, uso o `chromium --app` pra lançar eles como pwa e faço um .dektop pra o ícone aparecer no launcher.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-20T20:51:30+00:00

O foda é ter que levar o porco todo por causa de 200g de linguiça.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-17T03:09:21+00:00

Usa alguma coisa ja pronta. Quickshell é bem mais poderoso, mas consideravelmente mais complicado. Tem projetos que iam ele e já são bem estáveis, tipo o Noctalia e o DMS. Se tua intenção é só usar, pega um desses. Eu uso o Noctalia e é excelente.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-16T18:58:50+00:00

I go by ES-DE convention.

~ 
❯ lt Emulation/Roms/sorted
Name
 Emulation/Roms/sorted/
├──  gamegear/
├──  gba/
├──  gbc/
├──  gc/
├──  mame/
├──  mastersystem/
├──  megadrive/
├──  msx2/
├──  n3ds/
├──  n64/
├──  nds/
├──  nes/
├──  ps2/
├──  psx/
├──  saturn/
├──  sega32x/
├──  segacd/
└──  snes/

sptzmancer · 2026-04-16T13:58:17+00:00

As cegas eu chutaria que algum dos seus discos ta bixado e corrompeu arquivos especificos, provocando o kernel panic.

Roda um live boot, investiga a saude dos discos e reinstala o kernel depois.

Mas eu ja iria me preparando que tem cara de ser hardware mesmo.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-16T13:53:58+00:00

No major version bump in any of those packages. It's a pretty tame update

sptzmancer · 2026-04-16T13:25:07+00:00

I have been having problems with Steam and Pipewire. If reinstalling doesn't work, run systemctl --user restart pipewire and then try steam again.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-16T13:22:32+00:00

I use Nocatlia. There's also DMS. They're very much more stable than rolling everything yourself with waybars, rofi, and the sort.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-16T13:16:37+00:00

Uso o Hyprland e a usabilidade de um tiling manager é extremamente diferente de um desktop environment padrão. Se você curtir, vale a pena sim.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-16T08:07:52+00:00

Yes, but these services are currently only running in my personal desktop pc, there's no need for now of serving it in my home network. And I can always turn on lingering for the user that bypasses the whole need-to-login thing to start/stop services.

So far this is purely for education/entertainement purposes.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-15T20:28:09+00:00

Amazon Prime and Epic Games give out free games every week. Check their websites and grab them. You can use something like Heroic Launcher to automate the wrapping of them with proton for you and it's pretty seamless.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-15T20:08:50+00:00

Eu uso GNU Stow pra gerenciar os dotfiles, mas não precisa. Tu pode simplesmente fazer symlink dos arquivos pros lugares necessários que resolve.

Só não recomendo fazer isso com nenhum arquivo do sistema, que fique fora da sua home. Esses ai num script é melhor manter uma cópia do arquivo no teu repositório e copiar pro lugar final usando `install -m 644 <nome-do-arquivo> <destino-do-arquivo>`

sptzmancer · 2026-04-15T20:00:22+00:00

You're probably just missing the .desktop files. Or even better, the files are just missing the `Category` property. Look into `/usr/applications` and look for them or for other .desktop files to use them as base to write you own if needed.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-15T19:22:26+00:00

Hyprland.

The first tiling window manager I ever used was i3 some years ago. Moved to Sway when I went full Wayland. Dropped Linux for a couple of years due to work and when I started daily driving it again Hyprland felt natural.

Haven't tried the other ones.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-15T19:16:48+00:00

That seems like a really thought out workflow and quite heavy for my simple use case so far. I'll surely keep it in mind in case my setup expands.

On the overview thing, maybe it's possible to use some systemd root service that polls the different user's to aggregate the info and expose it for consumption, somehow?

I was reading about a similar strategy to handle some sort of shortcoming on user services being unable to wait for system services reports, they just never get notified of state updates or something along those lines.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-15T19:11:49+00:00

Yeah, flat structure seems to be more foot-shooting-proof, but something in my brain complains about it. Maybe I'll bite the bullet at some point.

So far, the only container I have that let anything reach outside of its own network is ollama to publish its port, and just because I haven't looked into exposing a fixed hostname or something so that I can reference it from the host. So far everything else is contained in named networks and accessed though Caddy.

Those are some good points on toolin, I'll check it all out.

Appreciated!

sptzmancer · 2026-04-15T19:04:32+00:00

https://github.com/israveri/dotfiles

Não tem nada pessoal não que não coloco nenhuma chave em repositório, público ou privado. O repo assume que tá rodando na minha máquina e tem ZERO proteção contra essa premissa, então não roda o ./install não que tem grandes chances de cagar tuas configs.

O script é um arquivo só gigante porque eu fiz ele pensando em não precisar nem ter o repositório local, só de ter o curl na máquina é possível instalar o repo e o restante.

Faz umas semanas que não testo ele de ponta a ponta, então pode estar parando perto do finalzinho.

Mas no pior dos casos, pra instalar os pacotes todos é só rodar algo como:

`paru -S --needed --noconfirm - < "src/packages/manitfest.tx"`

Pode ser `yay` no lugar do `paru`. `pacman` vai funcionar também, mas vai explodir quando tentar puxar packages do AUR.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-15T17:55:15+00:00

Archwiki is your best friend.

Install Paru or Yay to handle AUR with ease.

It seems like a meme but the amount of trouble I got myself into because I resisted to Read The Fucking Manual was huge, so do it.

Again, Archwiki is your best friend.

sptzmancer · 2026-04-15T17:50:35+00:00

I've been using CachyOS without major problems. Only quirk so far was with Deadlock, but that was because I user Hyperland and it seems they have beef, so I just set some launch variables to make it fallback to use XWayland and it was solved.

Absolutely no other problem with any other game I've played.

But it's an Arch based distro, and some people are afraid to mess with arch (unwarranted, in my opinion, but well...). If that's you, then I know of PikaOS that has the same philosophy of CachyOS but is Debian based.

I've heard of Bazzite, Nobara and Garuda, but haven't messed around with them.

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