dotfiles/README.md

Post installation configs and scripts for CachyOS

CachyOS recommendatios

• Filesystem should be ext4 or xfs (I just prefer using simple and fast filesystems)
• No DE/WM should be installed before using these scripts and configs
• Exclude GUI packages created by CachyOS (e.g. CachyOS-Welcome)
• These scripts and configs were created for Russia due to restrictions from my ISP (I live in Russia)
• The Linux kernel CMDLINE was optimized for AMD (GPU + CPU). Nvidia and Intel are not recommended
• Firefox and Micro should be included in the installation screen
• Bootloader should be Limine

Usage

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MAnitosik/cachy.git

cd ./cachy/scripts/

# Optional. You need to make sure you know what you do when installing zapret. It is not a guide for using Zapret on Linux. Alt9 works for me
bash ./zapret.sh

# It is recommended to reboot after this script
bash ./main.sh

# You should choose Niri + Alacritty. All optional packages should be installed. Never choose `N`
bash ./dank.sh

sudo systemctl reboot

Some things you should know

• I will create the script for updating config files later. But you should review all new commits yourself. I am not going to do any migrations scripts like Omarchy
• Use reset.sh in the scripts directory/folder to reset all managed (by this repo) configs
• Use cachyos-rate-mirrors.sh in the scripts directory/folder to rate mirrors. The region is hardcoded to RU
• Things which are recommended to configure in DMS settings: Displays -> Configuration; Network; Applications -> Default Apps; System -> Audio,Printers; Power & Security -> Battery (Battery Protection)
• Most of other settings are not recommended to change if you plan to update these config files using scripts in this repo
• Open localhost:2017 in your browser to use v2rayA (you can disable v2rayA with sudo systemctl disable --now v2raya.service)
• MANGOHUD=1, mangohud or gamescope --mangoapp should be used for MangoHud
• Do not enable game filter in zapret settings if you plan to use any kind of VPN
• I do not really recommend using Shelly, but maybe I am just too old to use these modern GUI package managers
• Do not enable shader pre-caching in Steam if you use a modern PC
• PPD (power-profiles-daemon) was removed from this setup due to using cpupower (schedutil) with scx-scheds (scx_bpfland with the flag "-f")
• Do not use AmneziaDNS in AmneziaVPN settings
• Install pipewire-screenaudio from AUR and Pipewire Screenaudio from Firefox add-ons for sharing audio in Firefox