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Nvidia 470xx profile dropped, installer defaults change
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CachyOS removed the last easy path to legacy Nvidia Turing-era drivers from chwd, while calamares trimmed its installer defaults and the CLI installer's gucc backend grew swap, LUKS and wipe plumbing.
profiles/graphic_drivers: Drop nvidia-dkms-470xx profile CachyOS/chwd
chwd no longer ships the nvidia-dkms-470xx graphics profile. The maintainer's reasoning in the paired PR is that most desktops are Wayland-only now and chwd has no mechanism to warn a user that their chosen desktop will break for lack of GBM support in the driver; the same logic retired 390xx earlier.
initcpiocfg: Remove kms hook by default CachyOS/cachyos-calamares
The kms hook is out of the default initcpiocfg, so newly installed systems generate an initramfs without it. Combined with plymouthcfg's shift to simpledrm for splash rendering, early-boot graphics no longer depend on the KMS hook path.
gucc: add missing swap ops CachyOS/New-Cli-Installer
The gucc backend in the new CLI installer gained the swap operations it was missing, alongside LUKS keyslot dump parsing reworked on the premise that only LUKS2 needs supporting, plus a secure wipe helper. The firmware handling was also refactored onto systemd helpers.
Remove duplicate entry cosmic-greeter from netinstall.yaml (#283) CachyOS/cachyos-calamares
cosmic-greeter appeared twice in netinstall.yaml; the duplicate is gone, so a COSMIC install no longer pulls the same package entry twice.
New package: netbird (#808) CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
netbird, the WireGuard-based overlay network client with SSO, MFA and access controls, landed as a new package pinned to 0.81.4, with check() dropped and the architecture narrowed to x86_64 only. Two calamares cleanups round out the day: the Iridescent KDE theme left the installer defaults and a missing space was fixed in the German installation summary.
Action items
- → If you rely on the nvidia-dkms-470xx profile in chwd, pin the package or select a driver profile manually before the ... CachyOS/chwd [plan]
- → Add the kms hook back manually if your hardware needs it for early KMS after a fresh install CachyOS/cachyos-calamares [plan]
