Several days ago, I tried to update my CachyOS system. And seen the below warning from Pacman itself

Update notice: Kernel 7.3.0-2 has issues with amdgpu particularly causing black screen on AMD dGPUs

At first, I was like gonna do the update, because I don't have an AMD CPU/GPU. Then I went to check on the internet and found lots of issues with both Kernel 7.3 and KDE Plasma 6.8.1. Even affecting NVIDIA GPU.

Not every link I shared is completely relevant to me, but the amount of issues on Kernel 7.3 and KDE Plasma 6.8.1. Even affecting NVIDIA GPU made me hesitant.

Because of this hesitation, I also didn't update Firefox CA-Certificates security update.

Should I update now?

I am very very new to Linux and CachyOS. A week ago I installed CachyOS and choose KDE Plasma.

Luckily the same week I read news about KDE Plasma 6.7 being released with ton of features.

I thought running pacman - Syu would update everything including the desktop environment but apparently that did not work and I am still on 6.6.x

Can you help me understand what went wrong?

Shelly Package Manager, DNS-over-HTTPS, Fingerprint sudo

i want to useradd a user that doesn't show up in the login window, is using the -r (system user) flag a good idea for that? is there another option that i can't find?

Desktop Previews, Winboat, Website Redesign

I'm confused at what I'm missing here. In the System Settings Screen>Login Screen>Breeze (which is active theme) I've changed the background to a custom image. But it still shows the default image of geometric shapes. When I click the icon for the background it confirms that I have my image saved for the background.

However, when I first boot up my computer, the login screen is correct with my custom wallpaper. But when I've locked my computer with [OPT]-L the screen shows the default geometric wallpaper.

How can I make a desktop shortcut of the two highlighted shell files (forge.sh and forge-adventure.sh)? Copying and pasting doesn't work since the filepath isn't brought over with them. I've tried using Menu Editor but can't find a decent guide on setting it up.

Installer Rework, Plasma-Login-Manager, Wayland

Ive tried googling and can't figure it out

I'm trying to install either a .deb or .rpm driver for a Canon MF212w printer. Unfortunately since CachyOS is an Arch-based OS it lacks a straightforward way to go with the installation. I checked out a few different tutorials on Youtube but they all basically say to not do it their way since it could work but at the cost of messing up some dependencies. Is there a safe way to install either version of this program without damaging any other files or directories?

~/Downloads/linux-UFRII-drv-v620-us/x64/RPM

❯ ls -l

.rw-r--r-- 7.5M admin 4 Jun 22:56  cnrdrvcups-ufr2-us-6.20-1.01.x86_64.rpm

~/Downloads/linux-UFRII-drv-v620-us/x64/Debian

❯ ls -l

.rw-r--r-- 7.6M admin 4 Jun 22:56  cnrdrvcups-ufr2-us_6.20-1.01_amd64.deb

When I was setting up or installing CachyOS I decided to download COSMIC alongside KDE Plasma (which I set up as my DE). Though when I rebooted, COSMIC was the Default DE, though the DE I move forward with can be changed in the login menu.

My questions are:

• How can I change the default DE?
• How can I delete DEs?
• How can I add them if I want to use them in the future?

Hi all. I'm trying out Cachy for the first time and was testing an old game on Steam (Anomaly Warzone Earth). The game went full screen but was stuck in a loading loop where I couldn't Alt+tab or Alt+F4 my way out of. The OS was still responsive and I could open up a terminal but as soon as I did, the game's loading screen would block my view. Is there a way to force minimize or kill a program when it's stuck in full screen? I heard xkill could work but I don't see how to use it when I can't even see the terminal.