CachyOS on Asus Zenbook Duo 2026

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Hi, has anyone tried installing Cachy on Asus Zenbook Duo 2026? I am trying to dual boot the Cachy along with Windows 11, but facing a few issues (The Installation was complete though)

  • when I boot into Cachy, the main display starts inverted, and I have to manually change the Orientation to Upside Down from the Display Settings.
  • Sometimes the OS just freezes and have to hard reboot using the power button
  • Second Display is not working at all. This was my second dual boot. First time when I tried, the second display was working, but everytime the OS froze at the login screen so I couldnt even login. So did Dual Boot again and masked the iio-proxy sensor as suggested by Gemini, which stopped the OS to freeze and I could login, but the second display stopped working even though it shows the Display is enabled in the Display Settings. And the OS freezes everytime I try to fix the display.
  • Keyboard doesnt work once detached. The keyboard doesnt connect via Bluetooth as seamlessly as it does on Windows.

There are some open source tools I could find on GitHub made for Zenbook Duo, but I have not been able to try those since the OS freezes everytime I try to fix the second display.

Has anyone been able to use Cachy on their Asus Zenbook Duo 2026 seamlessly?

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I had the 2025 model for a few weeks, never installed Linux on it, but had similar problems in Win 11.

It ran great out of the box. After a week, or so, the second screen wouldn’t wake up from sleep. A few days later, the keyboard would lose connection after a couple hours (not battery related) and the second display would disconnect (using the keyboard shortcut to enable/disable the screen would sometimes bring it back). Eventually, the second screen refused to turn on at all and the primary screen started displaying artifacts, so I returned it.

It turns out that there was a significant return rate on them and I found a number of posts about hardware failures within the first few months of owning one. I thought the returns were from people finding they didn’t like the form factor (it’s a bit chonkier than I expected, but I didn’t mind).

That’s the first time I’ve had a laptop die like that - usually, it’s either DOA or after, um, a stochastic percussive event of debatable origin.

tl;dr - Make sure it’s not a hardware failure. Use it for a while in W11, as Linux might just be unmasking a developing hardware fault.