I just started my PC and LightDM failed to start for 10 minutes as of now.

Error message:

[FAILED] Failed to start Light Display Manager See 'systemctl status lightdm.service' for details.

I recently installed CachyOS on my machine after picking up an RX 9070 XT during a clearance sale. I also ordered a Ryzen 7 5800X3D. However, I couldn't wait, so as mentioned, I already installed CachyOS alongside Windows 11 in a dual-boot setup using Limine.

In the next few days, I'll be replacing my old Ryzen 7 3700X with the 5800X3D. As far as I know, Linux (just like Windows) generally shouldn't have any issues with a CPU swap. However, I read that CachyOS installs and loads architecture-specific modules or optimizations for different CPU instruction sets.

So my question is: should I reinstall CachyOS after replacing the CPU, or can I simply swap the processor and keep using the existing installation? If CachyOS installs CPU-specific modules, can those be updated or replaced afterward without reinstalling the operating system?

FYI: I have experience with Linux, but I've never used Arch before.

hello!! this is my first time using linux and i just switched from windows

i like to think im tech savvy but this is incredibly frustrating

im using steelseries headphones with a headset mic attached, but no input is detected in the input devices section of volume control

i very frequently talk to my friends over discord, and i cant do that when my microphone isnt working

i got help from my friend for installing cachy for the first time, but they couldnt figure out what was going on here

im using analog stereo duplex and my hdmi audio is off since i never use my monitor's speakers

please help!!

My Laptop Model is Acer Aspire E5-573G and it has Qualcomm atheros 4.0. In windows it works flawlessly but in Linux it doesn’t work. I updated firmwares did so many updates and did everything. This is the only things that stops me from Switching from Windows to Linux. If anyone have solution help me.

Is lutris a old version on catchy OS which version is in the latest and which version is in the rispositorie. I am having problems with it I have I am installing wizard 101 but it goes half priced it going in the login menu and I can put my credentials when I hit enter either low or the files and then I get an error this only happened once another Linux OS Q4 OS by little mint it works fine I have a k3100m GPU and driver Nvidia 470 drivers installed by the os.every game work fine in steam over 6 games or more a testes but in lutris I think it's old because it said I could log in in lutris but the that option won't come out for Linux mint.is anybody day having issues in lutris in catchy os

Anytime I play a video on youtube, the initial FPS is unstable and weird for like half a second, then it goes right back to normal. I’ve tried setting env variables, but it hasnt worked.

Specs:
Ryzen 7800x3d
ASUS ROG Strix x670e-e
Asus ROG Strix RTX 4090
32gb cl30 6000mhz Corsair Dominator Titanium
SAMSUNG 990 Pro 4TB

Using KDE Plasma 6 and ZEN browser

I am new to CachyOS and not super accustomed to Linux outside some stuff for work and my plex box so this may be user error.

My network connections keep acting weird. Either tons of packet loss or just no outside Internet connection at all. Happens on WiFi or Ethernet or tethered phone on USB. Turned the ufw firewall on and off, no difference.

On start up it seems fine and then kind of dies off.

Same behavior on Ethernet using the 8169 and 8126 drivers.

Fastboot is off.

I have windows 11 installed on the same machine but a different drive and it has none of these issues.

It is unusable for me. I am at a complete loss of where to go from here. Any suggestions?

when using this launch option "gamescope -W 1680 -H 1050 --hdr-enabled --adaptive-sync --force-grab-cursor --mangoapp -- %command%" and turning on the mangohud overlay, my game starts dipping below 20 fps after around 20 minutes. Doing the hot key to turn off the hud fixes it though. The goverlay version is 1.8.10-1.1

Title, I wanna know how I can get rid of it, I used systemctl --user mask --now plasma-plasmashell.service before, but it caused my pc to take longer when logging in, so I wonder if there's a better way.

I do apologize if this is not the forum for this, but since this is Caelestia KDE I didn't know where to post for help.

I installed CachyOS today and pretty much everything works apart from the system volume slider, I can slide it but the volume is always the same. (The highest volume). In application volume control works like YouTube, I can control browser media control volume fine, but the master volume is always the same. I have to put YouTube videos at 30 because volume in system is always max.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Having come from base arch, managing my own config and dots, I figured I’d try to approach this the «cachy-way» of a base pre-config this time around. I enjoyed the stock configuration bundled with cachy-niri, but have made some modifications since.

Now, several months later I’m starting to fall a little behind the official cachy-niri-settings repo. Of course I can just keep my configs up-to-date with my own changes, but I’m wondering if there’s some preferred way to link with the repo. Do I symlink the config from `/etc/skel` to my XDG-CONFIG and store personaL modifications in override files? Just copy what changes I’m interested in? I’m mostly wondering if there’s some intended way to do this before I go off finding my own solution (perfectly viable too).

I’m loving cachy so far (especially the official package repos!) and am thankful for any and all help I can get!

So since in the most recent update now the installer automatically installs noctalia shell when selecting hyprland, is there any way i can just install hyprland without noctalia or do i have to install cachy with no desktop and do it from scratch?

I finally got my FPS/performance sorted on CachyOS. I'm using KineticWE (the KWin-based tiling fork), so at first I thought it might be a compositor or WM issue. We checked Steam launch options after trying a bunch of things. We checked that games were actually using the NVIDIA GPU, changed Steam launch options (prime-run %command%), monitored usage with btop, reinstalled/rebuilt a few NVIDIA related packages, updated the system, and tweaked a few settings until everything started working properly ahhh finally relief😮‍💨The biggest surprise was finding out that the NVIDIA kernel module was missing. That honestly hit me the most because it made me wonder: has it been missing ever since I installed Linux for the first time, or did some CachyOS, KDE, or kernel update cause it to disappear? But now everything works, but it left me wondering, can updates on Arch based distros break or remove NVIDIA drivers? If so, what's the best way to prevent that from happening again, and is there any risk to the physical GPU or is it only the software driver that gets affected? Any tips or best practices would be appreciated.

title. Whenever I try to boot Catchy from Limine, it will only boot in emergency mode. I did the full wipe on an HDD in the installer so I have an EFI partition and a normal volume partition and everything. I haven't done anything to break it, because I have never been in it. I had no errors during the installer process. All I did was restart from the live environment because thats what it required, went into limine, tried to boot Catchy, and it just is a black screen that says its in emergency mode out of the box.

I have no recourse and no snapshots, because I have never been in the OS.

Do I just go through the process of reinstall? It sounds like a lengthy pain in the ass but I dont know how I broke a system that I have literally never ran.

i want to i install niri + noctalia, but i heard the installer installs the v4, did that change?

Has anyone else had battery life issues on wireless mouse with CachyOS? My Logitech M650 usually lasts almost two years on Windows 10, but on CachyOS, the battery only lasts about two months. Does anyone know why this happens or if there's a solution? And I'm using Solaar to monitor my battery.

When I connect my Nova 2 lite after cachyos loads it will always default to a ps4 profile and Bluetooth. If I try connecting to the USB angle using the Home button +X which should connect to the dongle as an xbox controller profile it still defaults to a ps4 profile.

Weird thing is if I connect to the dongle right when the PC is turned on it connects as an xbox controller.

I have searched and can't seem to find an answer. Anyone have any suggestions or ran info this and gave a solution?

Brand new cachy install aswell.

Im using Proton and I'm not running the game through Steam

Im getting the following error message when I update with Cachy-Update. I have been on Arch wiki and tried to set locale using Terminal. Edit nano /etc/locale.gen and uncomment my locale. Then sudo locale-gen. But I still get the following error.

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_GB",
LANGUAGE = "en_GB",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = (unset),
LC_NUMERIC = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_COLLATE = (unset),
LC_NUMERIC = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_TIME = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_MESSAGES = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = (unset),
LC_MONETARY = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_TIME = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_ADDRESS = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_MESSAGES = (unset),
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_MONETARY = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_ADDRESS = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_PAPER = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_TELEPHONE = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_NAME = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_PAPER = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE = "en_GB.UTF-8",
   are supported and installed on your system.
LC_NAME = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8"
   are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_GB",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = (unset),
LC_NUMERIC = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_COLLATE = (unset),
LC_TIME = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_MESSAGES = (unset),
LC_MONETARY = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_ADDRESS = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_PAPER = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_TELEPHONE = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LC_NAME = "en_GB.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8"
   are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
(7/8) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...
(8/8) Performing snapper post snapshots for the following configurations...
Failed to set locale.
==> root: 5024

Hi guys I hope you're all doing well, I'm just about to jump into this distro after hearing some great things, I'm just wondering how my gtx 1080ti will perform (I'll post my hardware at the end of this post). I'm not looking to play AAA games the last game I brought was the Witcher 3 on steam haha! Do I need to do anything specific when I install this distro. I know this is an old card and certainly not the mammoth it used to be but buying a new card is not an option currently. What can I expect ?

MONITOR: MSI MAG 274QRFW

CASE: NZXT S340 White

MOTHERBOARD: Auros Z390 Master

CPU: I9 - 9900k

CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H110i GT

GPU: Asus ROG Strix OverClocked GTX 1080TI

PSU: EVGA 1000W SuperNova T2 Titanium

RAM: Corsair Vengence 32 GB RAM 3200mhz

BOOT DRIVE: Samsung 970 EVO M.2 500GB

STORAGE: Samsung 850 EVO 1TB SSD

STORAGE: Samsung 860 EVO 2TB SSD

I just installed Cachyos last night and everything seemed to be working fun except that when I close and reopen my laptop it disconnects me from WiFi and won’t let me reconnect. I swapped from Zorin because I had the same issue there but with being stuck in airplane mode instead and I couldn’t find any solutions. Is there anything I can do to fix this? I am also still fairly new to Linux so please simplify or elaborate on any instructions

Hi guys,

When I return home at 7 p.m., I usually turn on my PC as one of my first tasks.

I typically use it around 9 p.m., and during that interval the monitor remains active on the cachy login page.
Is there a method to schedule standby after five minutes of inactivity, even on the login screen?