The popular Linux distro CachyOS has a big upgrade and some fun stuff for gamers

CachyOS is a popular choice for Linux gamers based on Arch Linux (like SteamOS is too), and the August update brings some big new features.

One interesting thing for gamers is their Proton-CachyOS, their own version of Valve's Proton to run Windows games on Linux that has various extras applied to it. With the latest CachyOS update they expanded the options available for it. Taken from the release notes:

Proton-CachyOS received several new features: a DLSS version upgrader and an option to force the latest preset. XeSS now has a similar version-upgrade feature. We’ve also made improvements for PhysX, and the required NVIDIA libraries are now bundled. On RDNA3 GPUs, you can easily enable FSR 4 with PROTON_FSR4_RDNA3_UPGRADE; this downloads the FSR4 library and sets the necessary variables automatically. NTSync can now be used with Proton-CachyOS by setting PROTON_USE_NTSYNC.

They've also introduced a new packages website, so you can check out what packages they're currently shipping. They've also updated the GRUB boot loader to automatically enable snapshots with the Btrfs file system, NVIDIA support was tweaked to enable S0ix sleep to provide low-power standby and their fork of arch-update with Cachy-Update is now available to give you a system tray indicator for available updates from official repositories and the AUR.

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