CachyOS Starts 2026 by Switching to Plasma Login Manager, Live ISO Using Wayland
16 days ago
- #Linux
- #Wayland
- #CachyOS
- CachyOS releases its first ISO of 2026, popular among Linux gamers and performance enthusiasts.
- Switches to KDE's Plasma Login Manager by default, replacing SDDM.
- Defaults to Wayland instead of X11, aligning with KDE and GNOME.
- Introduces Limine as the default bootloader and improves Btrfs compression settings.
- Adds nouveau-fw package for older NVIDIA GPUs to enable VA-API support.
- Fixes installation issues for Framework laptops with AMD Zen 5 processors.