i had cachyOS installed for a couple of months but was plagued with random system freezes (only hard reset possible, no leads in journalctl). i tracked it down to an issue with the combination of wayland, KDE plasma and the kernel or at least that’s what i could gather from web searches. i had at least one of those freezes per week, often more.

i am now on kubuntu which basically has the same combination of things (wayland and KDE) that should cause the problem but it has been running fine for three weeks, no freezes. so something with the cachy kernel didn’t agree with my system.

i was now told i could use the arch kernel on cachyOS, which was news to me. i tried switching to the cachy LTS kernel but the issue persisted. i now wonder how does the compatibility of the linux kernel work? is it compatible because it is both arch linux? or would the kubuntu kernel also work on cachyOS?

  • Attacker94@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    I don’t know how old your hardware is, but iirc cachyos’s kernel specifically doesn’t support older hardware, so it could be that it is just too old. If I were you I would try out endeavoros if you can deal with a little more technical package management or you could use the base arch kernel on cachy. Of course your switch to kubuntu should continue to work assuming it was a kernel issue, I just don’t like canonicals vision.

      • Attacker94@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        Some quick googling tells me that their optimized packages require 12th gen or newer, so that is likely what was messing you up. here is the link I found if you are interested, but I think your hardware is just to old.

          • Attacker94@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            4 hours ago

            I can’t help you there, I don’t personally use cachy I am just making assumptions based upon what I have heard and how it works on other distros

        • bad1080@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          thanks! nobody on the cachy forums brought this up. what would this mean for a different kernel? would switching to the arch kernel fix/circumvent this?

          • Attacker94@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            4 hours ago

            Packages != kernel, so probably not. I don’t know how power usery you want to be, if fine with some tinkering then staying with arch makes sense and as I said in the prior post I recommend endeavoros. If you want no tinkering, kubuntu is fine I would just lookup snaps and see what you are getting yourself into, and if that turns you away I would recommend mint lmde.

            • bad1080@piefed.socialOPEnglish
              2·
              4 hours ago

              i tried endeavor os at some point but didn’t like it (don’t remember specifics). and i am not keen on kubuntu…

              • Attacker94@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 hours ago

                If I were to take a guess, it is because it requires you to do software installation via CLI. If you are looking for a distro with a software store, I would say fedora or lmde is the move