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?

Woah nice! We need this to be used on more systems. I'd love to see this applied to more traditional immutable Linux - Bazzite in particular should benefit immensely.

As someone who's come back to Mint after distro hopping several times, welcome home 💚

Crontabs can live in different places on different systems, but generally when you run crontab -e you're editing the crontab of the current user, which is generally placed in /var/spool/cron/{username}. If you do sudo crontab -e that edits the crontab/file for root. There can be other files nested in /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily et cetera as well.

To find out where those old cronjobs are still defined, you can recursive grep the name of that unique log file you mentioned (if the log file is part of the command in the crontab). grep -r "{unique log file name}" /etc and /var/spool should find it. If the log file name isn't in the command, grep for some other unique string from that cronjob that would stand out amidst everything else in /etc.

To add timestamps to log output, you can pipe it through ts.

Gaming on a beginner friendly OS? Pop OS Absolute Gaming®️ (but your OS is a lil' quirky)? Bazzite, all the way!

Oh well, maybe after the bubble bursts.

I've been looking into ways to do funky things with graphical sessions and am considering switching to a setup based on GNOME Remote Desktop and headless mode to have multiple sessions at the same time (although that differs from what OP is looking for)

I still don’t get it why would I want it over Arch.

Edit: wow, so many great replies! Thank you guys!

I assumed this was possible, would be very handy for having multiple sessions running

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Multiseat

It sounds like you need a second video card, rather than two monitors plugged into the one card.

I just did the Steam monthly hardware survey.

Linux was just shy of 4% and CachyOS was the largest Linux distro.

I thought the exact same thing as you. It went viral in the Linux community quickly.

It uses the BORE scheduler: https://github.com/firelzrd/bore-scheduler

Sorry for the inconvenience. I'd like to explain a bit:

Vanilla OS is based on the rolling-release Debian sid, which lets us bring newer features and better hardware support. But that also means some libraries will inevitably be deprecated over time. That's why we always recommend Flatpak as the first option for installing apps.

Regarding the Augest update: that was a major release (Vanilla OS 3 Reunion), and we did everything we could to minimize the migration impact for existing users. The subsystem change is one of the breaking changes we couldn't avoid. The underlying Distrobox v1 is no longer receiving updates and had already been causing quite a few compatibility issues, so we had to move to Distrobox v2. Unfortunately, v2 introduces breaking changes in exporting bins and apps, which meant the containers had to be recreated. We fully understand the impact this has on our users, but this migration is necessary to ensure stability over the next few years.

We really appreciate your feedback, and we remain committed to improving reliability in the future, in line with our original vision of providing an obstruction-free Linux experience for people around the world.