CachyOS Handheld is an own Edition, which is thought to be used by Handheld Devices, like the Asus Ally, MSI Claw and Lenovo Legion.
The Handheld Edition comes with a bunch of scripts, which uses the Gamemode.
The Gamemode is a equal implementation like SteamOS provides for the switching between the Desktop and GameMode.
Also it does preinstall all required tools for Gaming.
CachyOS Handheld uses as default the scx_lavd scheduler, which is developed for Gaming purposes on handhelds. scx_lavd provides a very great expierence for these devices.
Supported Hardware
Currently CachyOS Handheld is on following devices tested:
Asus Ally
Lenovo Legion GO
MSI Claw
The SteamDeck OLED support is still pending, since we are facing problems that the controller is not working, when the device is in gamemode.
The SteamDeck LCD is currently completely untested.
This can be generally also installed on normal hardware, but it is currently untested and its planned to have it tested, when the Edition comes out of the experimental status.
Features
Following Features CachyOS Handheld offers:
automatic detection for CPU March and uses automatically the optimized repository
All required tools for Gaming comes preinstalled
Gamemode like feature
scx_lavd is used as default scheduler, which is funded by Valve and thought for handhelds
gamescope-session configured
Steam Deck Hardware Support
Steam Deck Sound support
SteamDeck Fan Control
and the common CachyOS Features.
The installation works currently via calamares and supports only KDE for now.
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: '/boot/initramfs-linux-cachyos-fallback.img'
cat: write error: No space left on device
bsdtar: Write error
bsdtar: Write error
Please use the Erase Disk Option or increase your boot partition.
The “Deckify” Edition got renamed, since the company https://deckify.com does own an trademark in the US.
Currently the “Deckify” Trademark would not conflict with our name, since we are located in Europe and Russia, but to avoid further law suites/stress we change it to a more generic name.
to avoid further conflict, we will rename this Edition to “CachyOS Handheld Edition”.
It fails fetching the mirrorlist from github or archlinux:
--> name 'arch'; mirrorlist_path '/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist'; special_arch ''
# STARTED AT: 2024-05-15 22:21:44.571879772 +07:00
# ARGS: rate-mirrors --allow-root --save=/tmp/tmp.IcvCWkje3x arch --fetch-mirrors-timeout=30000 --completion=1 --max-delay=21600
Error: failed to connect to , consider increasing fetch-mirrors-timeout
Please use a proper DNS Server, if your ISP one is blocking it. You can also change it in the ISO the DNS Server to 1.1.1.1 or you do that on your router.
Actually, we have now integrated most Steam Deck OLED stuff quite well.
We are not sure, how this run on the LCD Steam Deck, but it should be improved.
In the future we will also add an own chwd profile to automatically detect OLED / LCD or any other device and configure to it needs instead of shipping an all in one package.
Would be cool, if you test and give some feedback.
Sounds good! Before I install this to my steam deck does this support Decky loader? Well I guess I should just try huh?
UPDATE: so I tried to install this to my lcd deck. i got to the welcome screen for the installer but there’s an issue with the scaling and resolution. its scaled to 175%. The screens orientation is also wrong. If i go into settings and try to fix it i get a black screen and the deck become unresponsive. Please fix the screen issues and then I’ll try again. As of now this doesn’t seem usable on the lcd deck. Not until it possible to install.
Sweeeeeeeeet. I’m gonna try this out now. Would be great to know if there’s the same updaters in this as bazzite. We still get bios updates and whatnot. Is that the same here?
I’m back again with a bug report after some testing!
the power button isn’t responding to long presses and giving the shutdown menu. The open source project bazzite has this working so I know it can be done. Maybe reach out to a dev over there?
You failed to implement the steam download fix so while I have a gig connection I’m only getting 24 mb down where I normally get at least 40mb down from steam servers. This is a known issue and bazzite also has implemented this out of the box. Maybe you guys can ask them about this as well? They have a website, discord, and GitHub for communication.
We did not integrated a hardware detection yet as default, but it has been already commited. This will change/enable the kernel cmdline to make general things improved. Anyways, you can enable the steam-powerbuttond.service
