I usually dont leave comments but wanted to thank you. Im still quite new to this stuff, recently decided to try nobara with gnome and i think theirs was modified and it made me hate gnome (first time i tried) because i couldnt configure it to my liking. Though i must admit, it felt smoother than KDE. Seeing how clean and smooth your desktop is made me wanna try cachyos with gnome, and i want to thank you for showing the extensions you use as well!
Great stuff. Sharing the things you don't like about it and the things you need to do differently in both videos today shows a level of objectivity and lack of bias that seems rare in the space IMO. But when I get that NVMe installed I'm going to install CachyOS on it, which will be the first time I've ever ran Linux on any gaming desktop period, so we'll see how it goes. Honestly I expect my Corsair cooler / fans to give me more trouble than anything else. Though I have a 3080, so I don't suppose I'll have as good an experience as someone with a 4000 series GPU.
@@Mattscreative Would you recommend this over nobara/fedora since arch is known to break sooner than fedora, or atleast that’s what I hear most of the time, I think a noob would just go download like 50 things from aur and a update would brick their os, because of a bad package, any opinions I could take into consideration?
@@yadpreet7454 the risk higher for something to break than fedora is relative. as a rolling release it comes with some risks but they can usually avoided by checking the front page of the arch linux homepage before upgrading. that said i upgrade blindly and don't remember when i last had any issue. in practice, i have less trouble with arch based distros than i ever had with any other and i have used Linux on my main system for over 10 years for production work. i always found arch easier to maintain than other distros i have tried.
I must be lucky, because I don't have any trouble with KDE. It's my favorite DE by far. To each their own; that's the best part about Linux -- we can choose for ourselves what works for us. But I'm probably going to switch to CachyOS or turn vanilla Arch into CachyOS.
Less lucky I’m poor that you probably don’t even notice it’s probably been in KDE so long which it has that you just think it’s a part of the desk environment. KDE has bugs that are up to 10 years old now. Some even older.
I wonder if it’s my theming choices and things KDE just buggy for me. Like I installed the burn my window glitch version and it throws a giant black square up as that’s the color of the window and you can’t actually see the animation. Lol
you can somewhat get accent color to work if you use the user theme extension and install yaru themes, you can choose yaru-purple-dark for example. It's not perfect - some UI elements are still in blue - but until Gnome 47 it's the best we get.
I've watched a handful of your vids, this one made me sub 😉 Currently use Nobara on my main desktop and OpenSuse Tumbleweed on my laptop. Been meaning to give CachyOS a try
I use Fedora on my main Ryzen laptop and CachyOS on my secondary Intel-Nvidia laptop, which is more like a testbench. I am fully satisfied by CachyOS, and as a ZFS user, i love that CachyOS is one of the few Linux operating systems that offers easy ZFS installation. And also i totally agree with you, CachyOS gives me out of the box exactly what i would install or configure on vanilla Arch installation (and more). Hey, have you ever tested RegataOS?
So I have been running Linux for 2 days now. Split my windows C drive into 2 and dual boot. Installed EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma and Wayland. So far its all worked really well, I even got my Steam D: drive mounted and am using it in Linux. I've not seen any bugs as yet, but I really only do Steam and Browsing on my PC. I think I'll stick with this for at least a bit, but maybe in the future I might try Cachy I'll see how it goes.
Have read about also encountering other errors with the CachyOS gaming meta and getting back in working order with the stock Arch gaming meta. Last time I tried an Arch distro (Garuda), I made it fall apart like a tower of Jenga blocks just trying to run updates after initial install. This one on GNOME and LTS kernel seems like using Debian sensibility on custom Arch, looks attractive to try out and finally start getting away from Windows.
People cause their own problems and sometimes things don’t fit with what people want or need so the cachyos gaming meta is out for me also garuda won’t be counted as arch it has tooo many changes and bad ones
@@Mattscreative Many "gaming distros" are like "snake oil." Garuda is advertised as helping to ease into Arch, but its actually one of the most unstable and bug-ridden distros of all time, so it pushes one away from Arch instead. But at the time, I thought it was just incompetence on my part.
Cachyos it’s a great distro, I also love Garuda, but one game I play will not load on Garuda hyprland no matter the changes I make so eh. I settled on arch and borrow extensively from both of their repos. Nice of them to allow unrestricted access to them ❤
@@greypsyche5255 all it takes is one class on RUclips to solve a whole problem you don’t need to hire a professional UX develop you don’t need to hire a professional UX developer the current developers just need to learn the ins and outs of design or ask the gnome Devs
hey👉👈🥺 pssstt, i need MPC-HC + MadVR working properly in wine, i can get it to launch but it only scales chroma and wont upscale the image with ngu sharp, standard, or soft! it can only downscale! even if i gamesope it to my resolution !!! any ideas? also how did you get adobe working!! huhhhh.... it bugs out and .dll bypasses for ancient versions like cs5 or cs6 no worky :' (.
Hey, I use vanilla Arch, and my NVIDIA driver is 555.58.02, but I don't use the nvidia-open package, just the standard nvidia one. Should I switch to nvidia-open or are both packages exactly the same?
Thanks for the Linux videos I very much appreciate it is extremely helpful. I was trying to find your The Ultimate Guide to Arch Linux Gaming for Beginners | Arch for new users | 2024 but can't seem to find it it looks like it is possibly privated? Will it be available later in the future thank you
Question, I want to cut the windows cord and I am going to use Cachyos. What is the best way to learn Linux? Is learning Linux distro specific or can you watch videos about topics on say Arch for example because they are so similar?
I have a playlist that covers most of it and it was done on cachyos and nobara and fedora which should give you the most rounded education on Linux as a whole ruclips.net/p/PLd2rY36Ym3b9r1LJlm3HILctjBHDAuFsd&si=Of9VHa6BK14rRfhy here ya go
Gnome was designed to be compatible with mobile screens for some reason. It's one of my few gripes with it too. I agree with you on KDE plasma, it's too buggy. Installing flatpaked Gnome apps on it has all sorts of issues, such as the window decorations and the cursor changing. Gnome gives a consistent experience every single time.
can you show us how you make games read a controller i have a dualsense and batman arkham city is not working with that controller with heroic game launcher your videos has always helped me thanks good sir
@@Mattscreative and if possible show us how to fix God of War GPU utilization its only using 50 to 70% of my GPU some people suggested split_lock_detect=off which i don't know how to do that sorry that i'm bothering you way too much but these kind of issues is way too hard for me to understand how to solve them since i used to be a windows user
Is there a way to use proton-cachyos on vanilla arch? i'm trying to use nvidia-reflex on WoW but as far as im concerned the only way is using proton-cachyos
@@Mattscreative Just installed it and i'm using on WoW, but for some reason the slider for setting nvidia-reflex in game still says that it's disabled under wine for me :(
What issues you had with Bluetooth? I got a weird issue where my dulashock4 controller pairs for a second and then it disconnects right after. I did a lot of googling, thought it was a kernel issue. But eventually it turned out that the USB dongle chipset had some issues with the kernel and it had some conflicts for some reason. Brain stopped working at that moment and I surrendered to my mediocre problem solving skills
Which option did u choose while installing With nvdia or without I tried using without nvdia and still found nvidia drivers installed in it I don't want the proprietary drivers I just need the opensouce one Idk why i got the nvidia when i choose the option without it
@@Mattscreative cachy os is simply the worst experience of my life. After a clean installation (several times and several de), half of the sites do not open, firefox synchronization does not open, in the gnome the power mode is stuck on energy-saving and does not change in any way, half of the games do not start due to the inability to connect to the server. Why didn’t such shit happen with endeavour manjaro or vanila arch? or is it the driver’s fault that the car has square wheels?
again just a you issue and you would have to straighten up and head to the cachyos discord and get help to figure out what is the issue be it user error or a config error
@@Mattscreativeagreed. When I started this journey I was all in on KDE cause the options were all there and easy to find. The problem is it’s too much customization imo. And that customization doesn’t hard stop bugs. It seems to invite them to
If I based my downloading Cachy to this video, I would never have downloaded it. Who cares about someone’s music career; tell me about the OS. Make a separate rant video to go on about things not related to the OS.
I'm glad my question was selected for a video title lol. Thanks for giving a tour of CachyOS. I'll definitely give it a try.
Your got the gears going
I usually dont leave comments but wanted to thank you. Im still quite new to this stuff, recently decided to try nobara with gnome and i think theirs was modified and it made me hate gnome (first time i tried) because i couldnt configure it to my liking. Though i must admit, it felt smoother than KDE.
Seeing how clean and smooth your desktop is made me wanna try cachyos with gnome, and i want to thank you for showing the extensions you use as well!
Great stuff. Sharing the things you don't like about it and the things you need to do differently in both videos today shows a level of objectivity and lack of bias that seems rare in the space IMO.
But when I get that NVMe installed I'm going to install CachyOS on it, which will be the first time I've ever ran Linux on any gaming desktop period, so we'll see how it goes. Honestly I expect my Corsair cooler / fans to give me more trouble than anything else. Though I have a 3080, so I don't suppose I'll have as good an experience as someone with a 4000 series GPU.
Absolutely! And that’s why i am trying to to better in this space give an honest open opinion on why and what’s bad and what needs fixing
@@Mattscreative Would you recommend this over nobara/fedora since arch is known to break sooner than fedora, or atleast that’s what I hear most of the time, I think a noob would just go download like 50 things from aur and a update would brick their os, because of a bad package, any opinions I could take into consideration?
@@yadpreet7454 the risk higher for something to break than fedora is relative. as a rolling release it comes with some risks but they can usually avoided by checking the front page of the arch linux homepage before upgrading. that said i upgrade blindly and don't remember when i last had any issue. in practice, i have less trouble with arch based distros than i ever had with any other and i have used Linux on my main system for over 10 years for production work. i always found arch easier to maintain than other distros i have tried.
I must be lucky, because I don't have any trouble with KDE. It's my favorite DE by far. To each their own; that's the best part about Linux -- we can choose for ourselves what works for us.
But I'm probably going to switch to CachyOS or turn vanilla Arch into CachyOS.
Less lucky I’m poor that you probably don’t even notice it’s probably been in KDE so long which it has that you just think it’s a part of the desk environment. KDE has bugs that are up to 10 years old now. Some even older.
I wonder if it’s my theming choices and things KDE just buggy for me. Like I installed the burn my window glitch version and it throws a giant black square up as that’s the color of the window and you can’t actually see the animation. Lol
you can somewhat get accent color to work if you use the user theme extension and install yaru themes, you can choose yaru-purple-dark for example. It's not perfect - some UI elements are still in blue - but until Gnome 47 it's the best we get.
Please do a Guide on how to run Illustrator on Linux - this is the only thing left that prevents me from switching
It’s in my discord
I'll have to try CachyOS on my next hop
I am using Endeavouros os. I will try cachyos in the future.
I've watched a handful of your vids, this one made me sub 😉 Currently use Nobara on my main desktop and OpenSuse Tumbleweed on my laptop. Been meaning to give CachyOS a try
I use Fedora on my main Ryzen laptop and CachyOS on my secondary Intel-Nvidia laptop, which is more like a testbench. I am fully satisfied by CachyOS, and as a ZFS user, i love that CachyOS is one of the few Linux operating systems that offers easy ZFS installation. And also i totally agree with you, CachyOS gives me out of the box exactly what i would install or configure on vanilla Arch installation (and more). Hey, have you ever tested RegataOS?
That nostalgic Goldeneye music.
@@folksurvival it’s remade ost but i get what you mean
I downloaded a goldeneye rom today and feel like I’m seeing it everywhere now.
So I have been running Linux for 2 days now. Split my windows C drive into 2 and dual boot. Installed EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma and Wayland. So far its all worked really well, I even got my Steam D: drive mounted and am using it in Linux. I've not seen any bugs as yet, but I really only do Steam and Browsing on my PC. I think I'll stick with this for at least a bit, but maybe in the future I might try Cachy I'll see how it goes.
remember if you have any issues head to the cachyos discord or github for help
Have read about also encountering other errors with the CachyOS gaming meta and getting back in working order with the stock Arch gaming meta. Last time I tried an Arch distro (Garuda), I made it fall apart like a tower of Jenga blocks just trying to run updates after initial install. This one on GNOME and LTS kernel seems like using Debian sensibility on custom Arch, looks attractive to try out and finally start getting away from Windows.
People cause their own problems and sometimes things don’t fit with what people want or need so the cachyos gaming meta is out for me also garuda won’t be counted as arch it has tooo many changes and bad ones
@@Mattscreative Many "gaming distros" are like "snake oil." Garuda is advertised as helping to ease into Arch, but its actually one of the most unstable and bug-ridden distros of all time, so it pushes one away from Arch instead. But at the time, I thought it was just incompetence on my part.
i went Arch vanilla, Manjaro, Garuda, Endeavor and now sticking with Cachy
did you HAVE a working arch install before switching/using CachyOS>? did you notice any speed/boot differences in speed in cachyOS over vanilla arch?
@@i12bcd8d_now5 major performance boosts because cachyos recompiles packages for performance improvements
i dont want to be a distro hopper and i just got into linux.I have linux mint is it really worth switching to cachyos or it s pretty much the same?
Cachyos is faster and unlike mint really just works and you are taken care of and the aur has everything you could ever want or need
Cachyos it’s a great distro, I also love Garuda, but one game I play will not load on Garuda hyprland no matter the changes I make so eh. I settled on arch and borrow extensively from both of their repos. Nice of them to allow unrestricted access to them ❤
Accessibility isn’t installed by default on arch base systems, such as orca so unfortunately, it’s a no go for most people that need those features
came preinstalled with cachyos
@@Mattscreative o thats nice dude some or most arch distros when trying to launch orca gives a error saying orca dependencies are missing
I love KDE when it comes to features, but I absolutely agree. They need to hire professional UX/UI designers. It's just so messy and bloated.
@@greypsyche5255 all it takes is one class on RUclips to solve a whole problem you don’t need to hire a professional UX develop you don’t need to hire a professional UX developer the current developers just need to learn the ins and outs of design or ask the gnome Devs
hey👉👈🥺 pssstt, i need MPC-HC + MadVR working properly in wine, i can get it to launch but it only scales chroma and wont upscale the image with ngu sharp, standard, or soft! it can only downscale! even if i gamesope it to my resolution !!! any ideas? also how did you get adobe working!! huhhhh.... it bugs out and .dll bypasses for ancient versions like cs5 or cs6 no worky :' (.
Did you get the Affinity Suite working on CachyOS? Make a video if you did!
Already have a video strange people never check the playlist linked in every single video description
Hey, I use vanilla Arch, and my NVIDIA driver is 555.58.02, but I don't use the nvidia-open package, just the standard nvidia one. Should I switch to nvidia-open or are both packages exactly the same?
That is up to you only i use the open one because it’s becoming default soon with the 560 driver
There is an accent color extension if anyone wants it until gnome 47 comes out
Already did a video on that
Man you are a productive monster👏👍😂 i use Endeavour OS over vanilla Arch btw.
Good choice also and i try
Thanks for the Linux videos I very much appreciate it is extremely helpful. I was trying to find your The Ultimate Guide to Arch Linux Gaming for Beginners | Arch for new users | 2024 but can't seem to find it it looks like it is possibly privated? Will it be available later in the future thank you
Remade check the playlist in the description
Question, I want to cut the windows cord and I am going to use Cachyos. What is the best way to learn Linux? Is learning Linux distro specific or can you watch videos about topics on say Arch for example because they are so similar?
I have a playlist that covers most of it and it was done on cachyos and nobara and fedora which should give you the most rounded education on Linux as a whole ruclips.net/p/PLd2rY36Ym3b9r1LJlm3HILctjBHDAuFsd&si=Of9VHa6BK14rRfhy here ya go
What is the name of the music app you showed in the video?
@@Euler-s2v Cider - music player for Apple Music
Gnome was designed to be compatible with mobile screens for some reason. It's one of my few gripes with it too.
I agree with you on KDE plasma, it's too buggy. Installing flatpaked Gnome apps on it has all sorts of issues, such as the window decorations and the cursor changing.
Gnome gives a consistent experience every single time.
hell ya
@@fossface install xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
What desktop environment is this ?
gnome
Anyone have screen flickering in cachyos kde??
Just tried and no flickering on my end
You noticed any fos improvement over vanilla arch?
loads and in emulation and games like farcry 5
is it worth moving from ubuntu to cachy?
I don't game and my pc is kinda old, but ubuntu feels good. I wonder if cachy will make a difference
That all depends on you really
can you show us how you make games read a controller i have a dualsense and batman arkham city is not working with that controller with heroic game launcher
your videos has always helped me thanks good sir
I’ll do a video on that
@@Mattscreative and if possible show us how to fix God of War GPU utilization its only using 50 to 70% of my GPU
some people suggested split_lock_detect=off
which i don't know how to do that
sorry that i'm bothering you way too much but these kind of issues is way too hard for me to understand how to solve them since i used to be a windows user
Don’t own the game so no I can’t
Is there a way to use proton-cachyos on vanilla arch? i'm trying to use nvidia-reflex on WoW but as far as im concerned the only way is using proton-cachyos
@@giuskywalkerxyz add the cachyos repos
@@Mattscreative Just installed it and i'm using on WoW, but for some reason the slider for setting nvidia-reflex in game still says that it's disabled under wine for me :(
For steam games it works like a charm but unfortunely i have to launch WoW through lutris
What issues you had with Bluetooth? I got a weird issue where my dulashock4 controller pairs for a second and then it disconnects right after. I did a lot of googling, thought it was a kernel issue. But eventually it turned out that the USB dongle chipset had some issues with the kernel and it had some conflicts for some reason. Brain stopped working at that moment and I surrendered to my mediocre problem solving skills
None i just had to turn it on
try resetting your ds4 controller
I have a ds5 controller and it works perfectly
Which option did u choose while installing
With nvdia or without
I tried using without nvdia and still found nvidia drivers installed in it
I don't want the proprietary drivers I just need the opensouce one
Idk why i got the nvidia when i choose the option without it
Nvidia is just installed by default
Are you using the cachyos with proprietory nvidia or open nvidia???
Nvidia open
@@Mattscreative how to install it on both cachyos and nobara
there is like zero videos about modded games on linux
What’s the point really no one ever asks
cahsy has a lot of errors and bugs on my pc
that is sadly a you issue
@@Mattscreative cachy os is simply the worst experience of my life. After a clean installation (several times and several de), half of the sites do not open, firefox synchronization does not open, in the gnome the power mode is stuck on energy-saving and does not change in any way, half of the games do not start due to the inability to connect to the server. Why didn’t such shit happen with endeavour manjaro or vanila arch? or is it the driver’s fault that the car has square wheels?
again just a you issue and you would have to straighten up and head to the cachyos discord and get help to figure out what is the issue be it user error or a config error
I tried cachyos but I had problems with my external display so I ended up going back to Pop OS
So instead of reporting the issue and getting it fixed you just left … come on man
Screen flickering??
Do these work with secure boot on?
No
i have had the best stability and easy of fixing issues on nixos
I like cachyos but it's kernel doesn't play nice with my network
report that to the devs
one video you say you want to tinker then the next the work is done for you, what is going on here?
This is still tinkering Are you not good at understanding things? I’m a bit worried about about you.
is that ps photoshop works ?
Ya i have a video on making it work
That settings app is like that bcz you are running it on gnome and i am also running kde on nvidia with proprietary drivers with no issue
even when on kde the settings app sucks
@@Mattscreativeagreed. When I started this journey I was all in on KDE cause the options were all there and easy to find. The problem is it’s too much customization imo. And that customization doesn’t hard stop bugs. It seems to invite them to
*Vanilla Arch BTW
he uses CachyOS btw
ya haha
If I based my downloading Cachy to this video, I would never have downloaded it. Who cares about someone’s music career; tell me about the OS. Make a separate rant video to go on about things not related to the OS.
Make your own videos instead of telling people how to do their hobby.
@@Mattscreative you owe people on the internet dont ya know! Lol
Garuda is far better than cachy.
@@bilashadhikary8691 said no Linux user ever i’m not even kidding. No one with any common sense would ever say that.
@@Mattscreative I concur.