Does anyone recommend against dual booting?

I use CachyOS on my desktop and I love it. Definitely the best distro I have used so far in my opinion. But my laptop is still running Windows 11.

I kept Windows on it for certain software I need to use for university that aren’t natively supported on Linux (autodesk apps for example). My laptop is mainly for uni work, so I can’t really get rid of Windows.

I am considering dual booting it with CachyOS so I can have the best of both worlds: an OS I enjoy using day to day and Windows as a backup for any software.

However I’ve read on pages like CachyOS wiki that, when dual booting, Windows updates can break the bootloader. Also my laptop only has a single 512GB SSD, so ideally not the amount of storage I would like.

Is it worth the hassle installing CachyOS or should I just leave my laptop as it is?

Thanks

Hello, I recently haggled down a nice ThinkPad for my office use and at first installed CachyOS with XFCE on it but decided to switch to KDE. I'm noticing a lot of RAM usage on my 4GB RAM despite only having a single browser tab with my online class - btop results in second image

Any way to improve or fix? Any help is appreciated

Specifically its yoga slim 7x

I've seen anyone that use other DE experiencing blackscreen after getting new update, and i kinda scared to update it, my questio are, should i update it or hold it for the next update for the next 1 to 2 weeks?

Guys help I updated last night, played for an hour and shut off my system and now it won't run 😭😭😭

If you have both CachyOS and Windows on your PC and you have set up secure boot for CachyOS following the wiki, and you go back to windows and play a game that has secure boot requirements such as Call of Duty, Battlefield 6 or whatever, is there any risk of getting banned due to the custom setup of secure boot for CachyOS?

Specs:
CPU: Amd Ryzen 7800x3d
GPU: RTX 4080 super
Mobo: Tuf Gaming B650-Plus

First I used Rufus to put the ISO on a usb. I managed to install it on my laptop so I know the USB and ISO work.

Then I had trouble on my main PC so I used Google AI. I have secure boot off, UFEI variable protection off, CSM on or off I tried both, and fast boot disabled.

I eventually tried using Ventoy which let me get further than before.

I’ve had AI tell me the USB is losing power for a second when booting because of MOBO settings or something and I ran into other errors. I used the suggestions from AI to make some changes to my Bios and it let me get further along the install process.

Now I can get into my BIOS, boot from the USB, select the Ventoy install in normal mode, and edit the params of the CachyOS install to use:
modprobe.blacklist=amdgpu nomodeset
amdgpu.modeset=0
I had to use this otherwise it would try to use my integrated graphics and I wouldn’t even reach the option to select install cachyos, it would just black screen.

Also tried with copytoram=auto removed, and acpi=off included. In many combinations of including these args or not.

I have always used USB ports directly on the Mobo, both USB 2 and 3 slots.

From this point look at the image I included. It reaches this point and then never progresses.

I am at my wits end. I would like to begin my move away from Windows but this is making it extremely hard.

I am a CS grad and software developer. I have some idea of what I’m doing but I’ve never learned anything about BIOS settings or how that relates to reading drives.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

so i use cosmos and i want to try cake but the latest cake that is out, the one cachy os gives you has a known fps degradation, for example i get 370 -380 fps with cake but for cosmos i get 428 in cs2 cpu bound. i want the latest cake because it fixes this issue and might even be better than cosmos for me.

So I went from CachyOS to Garuda for a little bit, never seperated the home folder into a separate partition as at the time I didn't care about losing any data.

Fast forward to today where I decided to finally swap back to CachyOS, resized the partition using Gparted and thought I did a good job separating the /home/ into a new partition.

When I went to install CachyOS and assigned it to /home/ it didn't have the option to tick home as a flag.

This is the result that I have no idea how to fix, if I go into the @home folder it has all of my original home files, so obviously I could just move them into the new home folder, and chown them all. But I'm not sure about the rest of the folders and if it's possible to restore them or if it's even needed to restore certain program configs and such. Any help would be appreciated!

I have been using CachyOS for 70 days now, and I am really impressed.

I use WhatsApp a lot, but have hated using the web client because a separate window is so much easier to monitor. I have used the dedicated client Whatsie and it has been great, but it really eats through RAM. I had a Whatsie session running at 4GB of RAM, when my Firefox session with 8 tabs only needed 3.5GB. I decided to try something else...

Zapfast does mostly the same as Whatsie but is only using 200mb of RAM. I had to compile it for CachyOS, but the time spent was well worth it. Would recommend.

https://github.com/crmne/zapfast

Ive been trying to start fresh again with using Linux, so I decided to utilize my laptop for the deed.

It can very much handle the base CachyOS Hyprland with noctalia, but after one day of use I decided I sort of hate Noctalia and how it "feels" in lack of better word, so I decided to obtain Caelestia after randomly coming across a video of it.

After too much trouble (my ass is basically below computer noob status) trying to get the damn thing installer, I finally seemed to get it, but I've been taken to a grey screen with not every key bond working. From all the video of a "fresh caelestia install" this is not what shows up at first. Did I do something wrong?

It might be better if I just deal with using base CachyOS Noctalia I feel.

After updating to Plasma 6.8.0 I noticed that when HDR is enabled the screen flickers between cool and warm tones when switching from desktop to applications. The only fix for now is to disable HDR, however it also seems leaving the dock to always show keeps it consistent too, full screening any media will go back to the flicker though. This was also the case when 6.7.0 came out too. I'm sure 6.8.1 will fix it.

Im building a new pc next month and I'm planning on leaving windows after being on it my whole life, I know linux is a lot of terminal but I was wondering how do you keep applications updated? do they auto update, is there a central place to update everything all at once, or do you have to manually update everything. Also I keep seeing a million different types of proton, what is the differences and if I go with one which isn't built into steam how do I keep it updated (this probably sounds so stupid but I have never used linux before).

Hi guys. A problem and a question...

Problem:

When I open Dota 2 the mouse doesn't align with the visuals. E.g if I want to click a button I need to move the mouse below the button to click it

I found a workaround which is inside Dota, change the screen resolution to anything, then back to the correct screen res. But I have to do this every time

Question:

I installed Obsidian via flathub and when I launch Obsidian it says:

"Choose password for new keyring. An application wants to create a new keyring called Default Keyring. Choose the password"

What's happening here? Why is it asking me to create a new password and not using my user login password, or root password or something?

Im using Cosmic if that matters.

(please note that it may take a while until I can change this flair to SOLVED, assuming that the solution is actually found soon, as it will take quite a while for us to actually be able to test out any of the solutions)

My friend has two monitors. The one he is experiencing issues with is an "LG ULTRAGEAR+ OLED UW 3440 x 1440". I found this post which seems to talk about the same (or at least a similar) issue, however it didn't help. He does use a display port which the post said was best, however the "Adaptive sync" option wasn't something we were able to find in the settings.

If it is of any relevance, he has a AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPU, and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 GPU. If any more information is required then please tell me and I'll make sure that it's provided as soon as possible. Note though that it unfortunately might take a while until I'm able to actually come back with the details.

Thanks in advance!

Just got the Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro, that was the last big piece to this build, now just waiting for the PSU cables to arrive tomorrow. I’ve been dreaming of using CachyOS for months now. The time is tomorrow and I’ll be one of YOU!

ROG Strix x870E-E R2/USBC
Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro
Samsung 9100 PRO 4TB (boot drive)

The excitement is overwhelming. Saying goodbye to Windows and jumping head first into Linux.

Updating now. Hopefully it's good!

How do you think this open source upstream project will go in general (namely, how long until it will start being used by us, end-users), and in terms of CachyOS (will we be early adopters, for example)

I've noticed (I think) that the already in-kernel Nova code isn't in the CachyOS customized kernels (7.2, 7.2 BORE and 7.3rc6), which makes sense, as it is not yet useful for gamers and/or professionals that need the CachyOS performance.

Anyway, I was just curious about your thoughts

I'm a VFX Artist and I've been trying to ditch Windows for a long while but always ended up going back to it, either by incompetence or just trying to configure things (like NV drivers) such a pain in the ass. years later now I finally switched thanks to a guy named ronin on youtube (Owen Jenkins) who made a guide for 3D Artists and he also used CachyOS (fortunately, because I heard this linux distro is great at gaming).
Ronin's guide : (https://ronin-on-linux.github.io/3d-artists-guide-to-linux/)
it's been absolutely silk smooth, I'm using Cinnamon desktop for X11 because some softwares are buggy in Wayland (like Houdini). everything is launching way too quick now and the viewport of every software is really fast (unlike Windows).
I'm using Nvidia so I'm thankful for the cashy team for making things like that super easy.
I've been also playing my favorite game (Hunt Showdown) with 0 issues, dare I say it runs faster now, but not at all the games. Arc raiders and some others runs a bit worse but it's still pretty good.
I kept Win10 on a separate drive but I haven't touch it yet since I install linux and I'll probably only will when I want some editing in Davinci.
Have a nice rest of the day all and happy hunting.

Im a new user in linux (3 months untill i installed it) and ive got this problem since a few updates. at first it was happening when having to many applications opened, the screen frozened and stop responding so froced shut down was necessary. but with 7.2.9-2-cachyos version it froze just by opening steam. i tried to use GPT to solve it but it mentions that corruption was detected in an internal kernel memory list, so im scared.

As i mention, im new with all of this and im not really sure if ive broke something or if it does not have a solution so please help me.

My specs are this:

Software and drivers

Planning to switch my other laptop in linux only and wondering if the performance is the same or worse compared to Windows 11

Eu tenho um Samsung Galaxy book2 e fui tentar instalar o cachyos porém da esse erro toda vez que tento inicializar, sou bem iniciante sobre Linux e quero ajuda para apenas rodar meu sistema