CachyOS is good for gaming.
What about graphical design and photograph processing? For music creation? For content creation in general?
Any positive or negative experience.
I tried to get an answer before, but on the subject of programming, though, just like any other thing you can do, the flexibility is how well you can build your environment like any other linux environment, they just provide the options and an optimized OS.
Maybe your question are more towards the arch ecosystem, in what is provided. The rest would be up to you, to build upon and configure.
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Thank you so much for your reply!
I know for sure, that I can use Manjaro for the purpose of content creation. And EndeavourOS too.
Iām not sure about CachyOS because, despite of the optimisation, it seems to be unstable and full of bugs. But maybe Iām mistaken and people can share their positive experience.
What bugs? I have zero bugs and it works exactly as it should, for both gaming and work.
In my experience so far, itās been stable enough, the issues that happened were bios / hardware related, and there still one that are not exclusive to cachyos, a black screen problem with multi monitors due to inactivity.
At least in Gnome, other than lack of better support on wayland and nvidia, which is not directly related to cachyos, itās stable.
Why do you say that it seems unstable and full of bugs?
Please elaborate on the bugs.
Also there needs to be a difference between upstream bug and CachyOS bug.
In general most of the bugs are from the upstream, so they would generally affect other distros that use the same packages and the same version of that package.
As Arch (and CachyOS as its based on Arch) are rolling release distros you will hit the bugs first compared to something like Fedora or Ubuntu as those have much longer testing periods for packages and most of the packages wont get major updates during a lifetime of a release.
I have CachyOS and Endeavour OS on the same PC but different HDDs. EOS works smoothly, in CachyOS I have no sound (and sound devices) out of the box (they are looking into it now), taskbar loads too long and apps icons sometimes are piled one upon the other, apps unpredictably freeze, even to the extent of cold reboot. Itās on a fresh new install and on ANY kernel. KDE. But what about content creation experience. CachyOS is really fast, I can see it for sure, what about image processing?
What about on any other DE, do you have the same problems?
What cachyos could do next is start providing more custom modifications to each DE in attempt to offer better experience rather than the default.
Maybe even make a general tool for easier DE customization with all the options, you would have in something like dconf, but in a more user friendly way and visible. Current ones available, at least that I know of, are usually very limited or not very user friendly. I would say the same thing for packages search / visibility.
Also groups of packages with certain content for specific needs, like yours, pre-configured and ready to go.
Never had such problems on any distro. Going to reinstall CachyOS from the freshly downloaded iso
Hopefully not. This would only lead to more problems where these ācustomisationsā could be the source of issues.
The point imo is offering optimised packages without customising stuff too much so the āendā is pretty much close to vanilla Arch.
They do provide the gaming meta package which is easy way to get all the needed stuff for gaming activities. All of these of course require that someone has time to maintain them.
I misswrote that one, I meant provide ways for better customization, that is clear to the user.
As an option. Other distros have these and usually bring better experience.
Not everything from default are nice to use, specially in DE like gnome. Point of this is provide additional options to easily change, that is ready to go.
These questions mainly related to stability and how ready the system are to do something they need and how well are the experience, not just the default. It is for gaming, for the most parts, but maybe not other parts.
A few examples
https://ubuntustudio.org/ - Provide focus on creative work with their packages
https://pop.system76.com/ - With development toolkits for specific needs
Everything you need as a developer is already here. Either in the AUR or official repos.
Itās good, but Iām speaking not about software, Iām speaking about designerās, photographerās, artistās experience, if any.
That is likely because the 6.11 Kernel. This one is likely not rolled out yet on Arch, due a blocker of NVIDIA, but you should report this issue upstream.
Install the LTS kernel: sudo pacman -S linux-cachyos-lts linux-cachyos-lts-headers (if you have nvidia linux-cachyos-lts-nvidia) and recheck if it works
Hello!
I really need your help!
Freshly installed CachyOS shows no sound devices and no sound respectively.
It does not depend on kernels. ANY kernel. Sometimes, after system reload, it works OK, but mostly NOT.
Here is my post with logs. Not working wireplumber and working wireplumber.
LIVE USB flash (before installation) shows audio devices. No devices after installation!
IT DOES NOT DEPEND ON KERNEL. I used arch kernel, LTS kernel - no way!
Please check what ive wrote above related to the kernel.
If I remove pipewire-pulse and install pulseaudio - everything works!
But I want to make pipewire work out of the box. There evidently is some bug.
Please test with pipewire and the LTS kernel. If it does not work, please provide a bugreport and then we can make a upstream bugreport for the 6.11 Kernel.
TESTED! Doesnāt work and no sound!
āÆ uname -a
Linux cos 6.6.50-1-cachyos-lts #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:48:41 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Is package āsof-firmwareā installed?