I really like Cachyos, though I have some suggestions for GUIs

  • I would like more GUIs. In the past I really liked tinkering with linux but I’m old as hell now and just want things to work with a button press. Cachyos is a breath of fresh air in this regard, but it still has some work that needs done.

  • iGPU and GPU issues. I would like there to be a button to choose the current primary GPU. I often have issues with programs because one program decides to run my radeon iGPU rather than my nvidia dedicated gpu. It would also be neat if there was a way to fine tune this, like use iGPU for only the desktop but dedicated GPU for apps and all else, all in a handy basic interface.

  • Rollback drivers for GPUs. Sometimes my nvidia gpu doesnt work on a game or some app but the older proprietary driver did. In the driver install interface, it would be nice to have an option to rollback gpu drivers in a drop down for each gpu. If we were to get crazy, it would be cool to set a specific driver to run for a certain app, though I don’t know how feasible that is with arch.

  • A list of common launcher options for steam games for your hardware, and being able to select them in a drop down or something. This would require some sort of new program but this is mostly just to streamline looking for issues on protondb. It’d be cool if there was a sort of ‘common issues’ wizard that you could step through to find the launcher options that best work for your problem.

  • Support for custom dnses like NextDNS with a single click after filling in your NextDNS address. I really like that theres a button for this but more options = more better.

  1. Laptop with Dual GPU Setup Guide | CachyOS Read the wiki, switcheroo-control does this for you.
  2. CachyOS is based on Arch which is a rolling-release distro, we are always on latest if its possible. Older versions are kept in the archive but you need to grab that manually via CachyOS - Repo. We will not provide package downgrades as a feature.