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Cachy OS is just for gaming on now. Teething problems when used as everyday driver, in the Xfce environment anyway. For gaming on brilliant, as video going out today for the next game to play and record. I only do videos for my own documentation, as my goal with Cachy is to play and record the whole of my Steam Library and post it all here on TH-cam. You can argue that I can game in any Linux, but Cachy OS has or adds that little something extra. I'm saving up for a new PC build at the mo for video rendering only, NVIDIA 4060 ti for AV1 recording and for rendering on, as it has 16GB of VRam and the NVIDIA 40 series has support for AV1, as well as for fast rendering in DaVinci Resolve. AV1 Codec is a free and open source codec, which compresses video down even more, resulting in better image quality and quicker rendering times overall.

@@slim_2280 Yeah I have a RTX4060 and it's fine ;)

I had trouble with the July ISO to begin with, but then I noticed that it didn't like the fact that I was looking at the apps in the menu, whilst it was installing. Also I got the ISO from Direct not from Sourceforge on the Download page of Cachy website.

I'm just going to try a straight plasma install Slim.....

Only if it starts doing really weird stuff, like going down the pub or arguing that it does not want to run anymore, but stagger into the next pub. The only reason I would leave Cachy OS is if the developers said goodbye to it.

@@slim_2280 Did it start doing weird stuff yet? ;)

Same here Johan. I'll stick with what I know over some new flash-in-the-pan distro any day of the week. My main rig has just celebrated its first year on MX without so much as a stutter. I wonder how long Cachy will last before users see something else with a pretty face and (allegedly) faster feet and move on? ...Shall we start the timer? ;)

Thank you

Btop is fantastic :)

Tea N Biscuit Boys are no more. We split up two years ago, without confirming that the band had split up to each other, but as my brother and I work night shifts, it is hard to get out there and play when a full time job takes over your life and with no energy left to do other things. I've just gotten home now from work, back there again tonight. My last night for five days tonight, then back again next Wednesday. Same faces, same routine on auto pilot, same conversations. Every working night is the same. I have not played guitar for two years, don't feel the same anymore like I used to. Since late 2022 the world's outlook for everyone changed, 2020 was bad enough. I worked through the whole of the Pandemic, trying our hardest to protect everyone. Everyone had the same nightmare no matter where you live in the world. Here we are in 2024 and a lot of businesses just treat their customers like dirt, or turn into patronising gits, that do not want to help, then they wonder why we don't bother with them anymore? I don't blame the old generation I blame the way businesses think, Dog eat Dog all the time. Anyway I have turned into Victor Meldrew and why not (Barry Norman too) 😁

Amen to that Jim! However, they did give us Rock'n'Roll, Skiffle, Jazz and Soul. They can't be ALL bad now can they? ;) ps: We're back online today so expect a new video imminently. The new pad is far and away better than the (literal) slum that we lived in for the last fifteen years ...darn, that's my entire Linux and TH-cam life! Hope you're all good up there in the 'deen and I miss your wildlife trail vids.

It most definitely is awesome. Especially the gaming drivers.

​@@slim_2280yeah i only need a way to undervolt my 4090. Thats all i want. Offset wont Work anymore....

I spent all night getting MX Linux Xfce installed and setup to how I like it, only to switch it on this morning and all the Desktop fonts became unreadable. So back to Linux Mint Xfce I have gone. This was the new MX Linux 23.3 too. Spent two hours searching the web for answers, tried a bunch of stuff and nothing worked to resolve Font situation. Took me half an hour to reinstall and setup Linux Mint back to it's original state. Might have to try an earlier version of MX Linux, one that is proven not to break.

@@slim_2280 Very weird. Never happened to me. I like it that MX uses 10.5 instead of 10 for font size in fonts so the default Noto Sans Regular font is exactly the right size for me.

Hello Tommy thank you, yes that has helped. Doesn't do it in any other environment, apart from Xfce. Is there a way I could tell it to keep the other packages, apart from the one I want to uninstall?

​@@slim_2280you will see this in other DE as well as other debian an Ubuntu forks. As Tommy days, it is a lazy coding attitude committed by individuals. Tell me why Ubuntu 24.04 is 5.7gb in size as an iso, with nothing to show for it? Lazy code writing perhaps?

Hi ya Cyber, Yes in an Ubuntu based system and in Debian 12's Cinnamon and Mate, packages are the right packages to remove, as in the ones not needed anymore. Here in Debian 12 Xfce, it recommends important ones. It's always been like this and have never had it explained as to why?

Hello slim. A suggestion. Install "nala". It is an application that I use all the time. A supplement to 'apt' for want of a better description. It scrutinises the dependencies more thoroughly. It may well negate the issue you are seeing. Check my last two lxqt videos and earlier ones too where I discuss "nala". Be safe...

@@metafile001 Hello Jim, thank you. Will get watching your videos, as I have a lot to of Linux stuff to catch up on and learn about. Been looking at Nix OS recently, did not think I would get on with it, but miraculously I did. Be doing a video on that soon.

Then again if you look at Htop and Neofetch, then you'll see that there isn't much difference between readings.

Fastfetch shows too much info, Screenfetch is no longer maintained, Neofetch going the same way. Then again I still use Systemback the Ubuntu 16.04 version which still works till this day and has been obsolete for eight years. Just because a piece of software isn't being maintained anymore, what is the harm in still using it? Everyone says you should not use obsolete software because of security risks, what security risks? If the software is not relying on the Internet to run it, just running locally in your environment when you are using it. I do not see a problem.

Slim is right about his point things like neofetch are just shell scripts that display information. You could just "maintain" personally and it's just good as anything 😉 yeah

@@slim_2280 you can customize the fastfetch config easily

Well yes and no, but not if the ram at idle is climbing up and up all the time. It turned out to be the swap partition, making it climb at idle.

@@slim_2280 If you mean to run without swap then make sure to adjust the overcommit_ratio, but be extremely careful with adjusting the defaults. You could be at a bad spot on the Dunning-Kruger curve, the advice of swap being twice the size of ram holds unless you adjust the overcommit settings.

@@cheako91155 Thank you will look into it.

Thank you. Yes I know I make it look complicated and I do make work for myself, but like I say I believe Linux should be made as your own and not as the devs want you to use it. I have another video being encoded in Kdenlive as I type. Going to try and go back to Manjaro, but looks like I won't, as there are things that Arch does, that does not quite sit right, then again an Arch user would say the same of a Ubuntu based system like Linux Mint. 😄 Thanks again Tommy.

That is what I do with Xubuntu installs. Totally remove Snapd altogether.

Doesn't in a Virtual machine, though Virtualbox has not been updated to include 24.04 in it's options.

@@slim_2280 Yeah I put it on metal on a secondary laptop. Main rig remains on MX of course. I changed from Wayland back to X11 on the login screen so that my screencaster (in this case Webcamoid) would record the desktop, which it wouldn't do under wayland.

​@@stationsixtyseven67 I'm soon to get new desks to have my other computers on and be able to install on bare metal instead of Virtualbox. Saving up at the mo

You can literally drag the file into the terminal window if you dont want to type the path

Deb file I take it? Not Snap?

@@slim_2280 yes deb file.

Yeah but for a brand new user, who is not tech savvy and just wants to get away from Windows altogether. Does not know about Terminal Commands, gdebi, Eddy which is a Flatpak app I believe? Has to stick with Snap Packages that do not work or install properly. It then puts Linux into a bad light. Did you know about the terminal and gdebi when you first started your Linux Journey? A lot of people out there that didn't, including myself all those years ago when I first started using Linux. I had been using Windows XP before finding out from my brother, that there is a free alternative called Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Back then Ubuntu was small in ISO size, so could easily fit it on a CD. As USB sticks were so expensive back then, it was cheaper to use blank CDs. Chucked in at the deep end, without any help whatsoever, having to resort to reinstalling when things went bad, as did not know about online help, as any help to fix my Windows XP from running into crashes, meant parting with cash, being conned left right and centre, from a Multi Billion Dollar company Microsoft. Setting Ubuntu up back then with NVIDIA drivers was a pain in the butt, as the resolution had set itself to 800x600. On a CRT monitor (Cathode-Ray-Tube) So ending up counting how many pushes on the tab key inside the NVIDIA settings window to change resolution from a massive 800x600 to 1024x768. No such thing as High Definition back then, though saying that CRT's actually had 1080, 720 resolutions, just we did not know about them. Then finally counting from where we change the resolution, to the apply button, that was off the screen. Five reinstalls later, lots of note taking and finally a stable system. So yes I know Linux is far easier these days, but to not have Deb files able to be installed with App Centre is not good. Like Abhi said in his weekly news letter, it's not that he's against Canonical not supporting Deb files anymore, it is the way they sneakily went about it, slowly pushing them out of Ubuntu altogether and replacing apt with Snap packages. You enter in your Terminal sudo apt install chromium and it is a Snap instead of a Deb file. Okay so Canonical can do whatever with their Distribution, but to allow broken Snap Packages, not knowing where or who made them, yet everyone moaning about Debian packages being not trustworthy, at least they work.

@@slim_2280 I understand that point and I agree if they made it easy like windows then there would be more users..

Ubuntu for me has gone too far to the proprietary side for my liking. Now I use Linux Mint Xfce 21.2, as my daily drive. If Canonical said goodbye to Snaps altogether, then maybe I would consider it? As it stands though cannot see them doing so.

It is a wonderful piece of kit. I cannot do without it, as I don't write scripts for me vids, the silences just go and the way it splices it all together is amazing. After doing Auto Editor I make a copy, in Audacity, then render video with sound copy in Kdenlive, then shrink it down again in Avidemux. Avidemux uses I-Frames to shrink it down with, without losing quality.

Cinnamon works well with hand gestures. Will show in upcoming video.

Yes I understand I went over the top a bit, but could they at least add or implement something to their OS to get away from the Gnome normal feel? That's what it was I was trying to convey. Even if it's like moving the app button on the panel to the left, when the panel is moved to the bottom or top of the screen. Not all of us are into just keyboard shortcuts to open or access stuff. Call me old school used to using a mouse. Give the user more choice too, as in don't chuck Snaps into everyone's face, add Deb files to the store as well, at least offer an alternative, because Snap Packages may work for some, but not for everyone.

@@slim_2280 You're not too bright are you... If you don't like the Gnome environment then just choose a different flavor, there's a shyte of them to choose from. Then there's the fact that you suggest people rather use Debian instead of Ubuntu proves that you're about as sharp as a spoon. You give the the Linux community a bad name.

@@fuzzy850620 I do not give the Linux Community a bad name. I'm just being honest with my own opinion. In years to come I can see Ubuntu saying bye, bye to being Debian based and going fully Snaps through out the whole of their OS. I don't use Ubuntu as my daily OS I use Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria Xfce edition, soon to be moving to up to 21.3 Virginia. How do you know that I ain't too bright, do you know me?? No I ain't the brightest button on the planet, but I know a thing a two about life and Linux. Been using Linux since Ubuntu 10.04, gone through a lot of different environments over the years hopping to one to the next, looking for something that ain't there and never will be. That something that every Linux hopper cannot name, because there is no name to what Linux hoppers are trying to find, as every Linux Hopper's thing that they are trying to find is completely different to every other Linux Hopper's thing. There, there is another opinion of my own, this time about Linux Hopper's. Would you like me to tell you another? I've seen Ubuntu change so much over the years, that it has become unrecognisable to me. Don't get me wrong I like Ubuntu, but the decision making at Canonical could be better, especially chucking Snap packages at every one and not providing Debian package alternatives in their Software Shop, as Snaps take forever to download, take up far too much room on your drive. I'll be doing a video soon on this very subject. A trip down memory lane video and demonstration of how it must feel to just be tied to Snap packages and not knowing anything else.

Snaps are better. more compressed yet pretty fast compared to flatpak which takes enormous space for an app

Saved me 5 minutes of my life ...