#Random Linux

[Throrik]

Anyone know how to log framerates (ideally frametimes) to a file in Bazzite?
MangoHud has been recommended but doesn’t seem to be available in Bazzite.

I haven't used Bazzite, but why wouldn't it be available? You can just use the Flatpak version.

flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.MangoHud

 

[Ice Tea]

All these years i've been using Gnome disks and Gparted and i've only just realized that they both use lazyinit to format ext4 drives!

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[Ice Tea]

After years of thinking about it, I’m going all-in: switching from Fedora to FreeBSD 15 and using it as my full daily driver for the next 45 days.

No casual testing — this becomes my main workstation for work, browsing, development, and everything else. I’ll be living with the unified base system, legendary ZFS boot environments, simpler init, Ports collection, jails, bhyve, the Linux compatibility layer, and PF firewall in real daily use.

I’ll be completely honest in the check-ins: the wins, the frustrations, and the surprises. Toward the end, I’ll also test the upgrade to FreeBSD 15.1 when it releases on June 2nd.

This is the intro video to the full 45-day series.

@Throrik

Don't know if this is of interest to you.

 

[Ice Tea]

All these years i've been using Gnome disks and Gparted and i've only just realized that they both use lazyinit to format ext4 drives!

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Something else i've forgot when formatting storage drives with ext4 is that it reserves 5% of the blocks for root, it never crossed my mind to use the tune command.

 

[Ice Tea]

Malware found in Linux builds of Cemu Wii U emulator

If you've downloaded the Cemu Wii U emulator for Linux from the project's official GitHub in the past few weeks, bad news: it added malware to your system

www.omgubuntu.co.uk

If you’ve downloaded the Cemu Wii U emulator for Linux from the project’s official GitHub in the past few weeks, bad news: it added malware to your system when you ran it.

An announcement made by the team developing the open-source app say they recently discovered the Linux AppImage and ZIP of the Cemu 2.6 release available from their Github had been “compromised” with malware between 6 May and 12 May, 2026.

The Cemu Flatpak, as well as installers for other operating systems, were not affected.

 

[Timber]

I have a question (and this feels like a thread to raise it, rather than make a new one); namely how much do the optimisations of a distro like CachyOS matter?

My assumption is that CachyOS might perform slightly better than most other distros for gaming due to their custom kernel, V3/4 CPU optimisations, bore scheduler and custom repositories. So a small increase in FPS, maybe a bigger increase in min-FPSes. But I stumbled into this video on Youtube where a small Youtuber benchmarks Fedora 44, CachyOS & PikaOS. They all largely come out similar on his Laptop (AM5 Ryzen 9 + Nvidia 4090).

The reason I ask this is that since installing CachyOS in March, it's been impeccable. Installed a few programs and in updates it hasn't skipped a beat (admitadely I haven't gone too wild on the AUR). Next month I am going to be building a new PC and part of me longs to return to Fedora. I know F44 made a big thing about NTSYNC being built into the Kernel and Wine/Steam packages, but there aren't many people benckmarcking up to date releases. And most of the consensus is around CachyOS being the more performant, but not really going into quatifiying what that is.

 

[Throrik]

In my opinion very little, but I am not personally chasing super-optimisation and micro-optimising fps etc. I certainly never, ever run any form of benchmark. My mentality is if it's playable it's fine for me.

 

[Timber]

In my opinion very little, but I am not personally chasing super-optimisation and micro-optimising fps etc. I certainly never, ever run any form of benchmark. My mentality is if it's playable it's fine for me.

Thank you. I think that's another point, in that as important as gaming is in my main PC, I also use it more for web browsing, productivity etc. So even simple things like package managers influence what I think of my OS. I also wonder if the optimisations for CachyOS are uniform across both older (i.e. AM4, RX 6xx0 GPUs) vs more modern hardware (i.e. AM5, RX 90x0 etc.).

But that video stood out becuase stock Fedora is going head-to-head with Pika/CachyOS (based on the same kernel). I know you can optimise Fedora for gaming (inc. the CachyOS kernel) as well as go Nobara/Ludora as well, but that's not the case here. Although I think the video maker may have installed ProtonGE, but I couldn't see them state this. All of these games are via-compatability layers and not native Linux games (i.e. Baldurs Gate III, Divitity: Original Sin 2 etc.). That might be another area where Cachy/Pika pull away. I suppose the only way to be sure would be to run my own benchmarks but that's a lot of work.

 

[fish]

I have just moved to cachyos from base arch on my desktop and laptop. Main reason was due to some audio issues on laptop, and to see what the hype was about. Install was easy and everything just worked out the box. Main caveat was kernel 7 vs 6 the last time I tried it. Although I did see quite a large regression from 6.19 to 7 in terms of stability and gfx perf, this seems to have been sorted now so could have been a quirk of my system.

 

[Retro6]

In the XFCE Desktop environment running Debian 13 I can not change the power display settings, well I can but they do nothing and the screen will time out after a few minutes until I move the mouse or press a keyboard button.