What is that

If you have ever actually seen the discovery process, you'll understand that bugs and rce's don't just popup on a list from a computer. Sure, you can generate a list of places to start testing, but each of those has to be validated, reproduced, documented and understood before it's confirmed. It's not just the discovery of a starting point that constitutes an rce or other vuln, there's a ton of work that needs to be done by humans also.

So a few bad ones in the news? Sure. A list of 1500 non-validated rces? I'm not holding my breath.

You really have to think critically and let go of the "hacker" sensationalism in infosec, it's easy to fall into.

amd64v3 support and larger repositories.

You seem to mistaking amdgpu pro and amdgpu. amdgpu is the default FOSS AMD kernel driver, mesa is the userspace driver. And amdgpu pro is the proprietary AMD kernel driver.

what do you mean?

Something else AI’s ruining…

can you explain what you mean by this? are they ruining linux by revealing its bugs at a much faster rate? or ruining the security research field by depriving researchers of the challenge and enjoyment of finding these bugs themselves?

repeating myself from a previous thread: of all the things i hate about LLMs, getting vulnerabilities in important software like linux discovered and fixed is not one of them

(although, as i said elsewhere in this thread, i find it unlikely that openai is actually disclosing all of the bugs they find 😬)

Do you use amdgpu? Because of you didn't specifically install and activate it, you're likely running mesa, which is the better choice in most cases.

How does it handle the battery on that Framework? I’m considering switching from Silverblue to something else just because it’s worse than a coin flip as to if I close the lid with a decent battery charge that I’ll come back to it a few hours later and the battery is empty.

I know Linux and battery stuff is and has always been Not Good, but I’d like it to be predictably not good.

Omfg, Affinity is the only reason I dual boot in the first place - can't WAIT for the Linux release!!!!!

You don't NEED to update right away. Esp if it may affect your use. I go days, sometimes weeks before updating CachyOS.

Ah, I’ve missed cuil theory

I think what I would have expected in this situation would have been for the upgrade to have prompted me to read the changelog before starting, and I would have expected the changelog to describe in detail what was going to be broken and what the steps would be to fix it.

THIS UPGRADE CONTAINS BREAKING CHANGES. YOU ARE STRONGLY RECOMMENDED TO READ THE CHANGELOG BEFORE PROCEEDING. [Y/n]

It arrived at the right time with the right promises.

It came up during the SteamOS craze where a lot of people were looking to switch over to Linux, but wanted something easy.

• SteamOS was not yet released for anything but the Steam Deck
• It has an easy installer and good GUI tooling
• It comes with KDE & gaming optimizations, so it's easy to use for people coming from Windows with no fiddling
• It's not immutable, so you can actually use your PC for anything, not just gaming
• It has an Arch base and still uses arch repos (apart from their own custom packages), so it's also familiar to people already using Linux

Unlike other distros, it doesn't have anti-features, and doesn't sacrifice anything for the sake of ease-of-use, while providing a very smooth experience (and welcoming to people who never used Linux).

And it came out at the perfect time - it wasn't an old thing you had to persuade people was "good all along"; it's a purpose-built distro made to answer the specific use case people were seeking when leaving Windows, at the exact time articles & youtube videos were hammering on Windows & Linux gaming was a huge topic of discussion.

They don't support really old hardware which enables to ship better optimized packages by default and other performance boosts at expense of non-gamers. I have noticed multiple times that a package I wanted was not available in classic arch repos but was in Cachy's. As far as I know it's not that different from EndeavourOS (not that I've tried it). To me it really just seems like a distro that suits ME, a bit lazy tech savvy gamer, the best and there is not any visible dirt.

I was on arch, had a hardware failure, reinstalled my OS as troubleshoot, but went with Cachy. I use it exactly like Arch, except for the updater which is a pacman + flatpak manager (it just runs the CLI commands sequentially)

Honestly it feels more like an arch with tweaks than a full on independent distro. It still uses pacman & arch repos, has the AUR available etc; they have additional repos & custom packages (like the kernel), but for the end user it's about the same.

If someone didn't know anything about Linux but wanted to switch over to it, I'd recommend Cachy just because it's easy to install & properly sets up the OS for high performance without needing to fiddle with it. Also it has GUI update tools (I just use their CLI version instead) which may look more inviting to people scared of the terminal

I tried to play Minecraft under WSL2. Nice 2 frames per second probably because of GPU.

That's still useful information. I use the Linux Command Library from FDroid. It is really good for seeing similar commands, variations, one liner examples, cheat sheets for Vim/Emacs, etc.

I can recommend that for others like me who have trouble with commands.

I moved over from Arch to CachyOS when my OS SSD started to fail SMART tests. So far this is what I've liked about Cachy: Very easy to use installer. Really nice btrfs snapshot system by default. Optimized kernels and packages repos, compiled with modern CPU instructions (not that much of a difference in real use, but still a nice to have). Its Steam Proton fork (Cachy-Proton) has a lot of niceties too for FSR and stuff (Although I barely use that so I stick with GE-Proton). Its just a smooth arch experience with sane defaults. Of course, I ended up tweaking some things. I switched from the fish shell to zsh with my reliable plugins. I don't use Shelly, Its GUI package manager, so it's just kind of there. It really is like endeavour OS with the gaming aspect turned to eleven, and I'm very happy with it.

Gnome and vanilla at the same time?

But why? Isn't it a gamer focused distribution? Are we really wanting to play games in WSL?

It looks to work fine with USB graphics adapters too.

It is possible, but it is not a wayland limitation per-say but a compositor one (aka the wayland server), and I say "limitation" if the compositor doesn't have multi-display option.

Technically wayland is not the issue:

If you look at your /run/user/[uid] (uid is probably 1000) you will see the wayland "displays" (socket here), usually named wayland-X. The /run[...] is usually set from $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR while the wayland socket to be used is set in the environment variable $WAYLAND_DISPLAY. So running an application in a 2nd session would just require setting the $WAYLAND_DISPLAY to an other value (that exists).

It seems that Sway is able to do this with the output command.

What is CachyOS doing so well that other distros don't?