Slow Boot and Crashing After Upgrade

What do you mean with “boot into game mode” ?

CachyOS

Which is intended for handhelds, and explicitly marked as experimental and it is explicitly stated you can expect broken things: Readme.

It also has firmware and quirks for several handheld gaming consoles.
This edition is not intended for desktops and not tailored for them.
It is for handhelds…

Well, what exactly do you desire here?


The gamemode stuff can be installed with:

sudo pacman -S gamemode

The scx schedulers can be installed with:

sudo pacman -S scx-scheds

and started with e.g.:

sudo scx_lavd

Available are currently:

scx_bpfland   scx_flash     scx_lavd      scx_loader    scx_pair      scx_rlfifo    scx_rusty     scx_userland  
scx_central   scx_flatcg    scx_layered   scx_nest      scx_qmap      scx_rustland  scx_simple  

More info here.

You can also make them autostart via systemd units.