GormadtWith the latest changes from Microslop, this has been me in my friend group lately.
DenjinGone from Windows to Ubuntu based to Fedora based to finally an Arch based distro with CachyOS over the last couple of years and I have never once regretted making the jump.
Especially since I still have a windows install that I use for a couple of very specific uses that I can’t do on Linux and it’s a pain in the proverbial every single time.
Finally cutting the cord on Windows due to finally breaking free from the last bits of software keeping you there feels so good.
When those gaps in when you boot into that Windows partition get further and further apart until the day it finally happens. The day that you no longer remember the last time you booted into that Windows machine. The day you can finally let yourself be free.
For me the last pieces were Lightroom and Fusion360.
Freedom is my top feeling too! I was so, SO miserable on Windows. Every task felt like a chore. Haven’t felt that way on Bazzite once, even if some things take an extra step here and there!
Extracting files from xbox 360 discs is my last hurdle. Unfortunately linux systems won’t let you have files with ~ in, meaning I need to do it on windows. Once I’ve backed up all my discs (completely legally) I can finally ditch that partition.
I don’t know a lot about stuff, but is there a reason you’re backing up the files off the disks, rather than imaging the disks into an ISO or something? I’ve never owned a 360 disk, so maybe there’s some reason I don’t know.
I’m pretty sure all the Linux filesystems I’ve ever used don’t care about tilde. You might have to escape it if you’re typing it into a shell, since the shell might try to replace it with your homedir, but I don’t think the FS cares.
On my ext4 FS I was able to touch me~ow just now with no issues.
It’s something to do with the extraction not liking it, when I run the same disc through the same program on windows it runs fine but doing it on Linux throws an error.
Yeah it’s the program,
~ is not an issue in filenames, Vim even uses it as a character in the temp file it creates when editing a file. Is a VM something that could work for that specific usecase? I know I have one just to upddate my logitech devices
FreeCAD since it’s gone to 1.0 has been my replacement and it’s been quite nice to work with
It’s got a bit of a learning curve because of some different workflow things but all in all I’ve been enjoying it
That’s good to hear. I’m hoping freeCAD has a Renaissance similar to blender did the last few years that makes it competitive with the popular closed source tools, but it sounds like it’s getting there.
Let me suggest you EndeavorOS
DiplomjodlerI use Mint, by the way.
has mint finally fixed the bug where autosuspend and monitor suspend stop working? the only reason i don’t wanna touch it anymore, troubleshooting that almost drove me nuts
I’ve been running Mint for years and have never experienced this issue. Either I’m lucky or your not. I say give Mint another shot, the devs have put in a lot of work over the years.
i left mint about half a year ago, after using it for over two years. i distrohopped during that time, i must’ve done like 7 clean installs and the issue persisted. weirdly though, it doesn’t happen on my media pc. it has crapped itself a few times but it always seems to suspend just fine. no idea what it is about my desktop that causes a wakelock, but ultramarine works just fine. I’d like to go back to mint just because i like cinnamon more…
Is the computer an old windows machine? I had a Lenovo laptop a while back that was a win 10 machine that I ran DBAN on then threw Mint on. After about a year of slow but solid performance I started having Grub issues and I just got sick of debugging it and gave up on it since it was just a hand-me-down and I prefer my desktop.
yes it has had windows in its previous life, it’s lenovo p1 and i think gen 3. performance is quite ok though
HanrahanArch?
Yes CachyOS is based on Arch
Except with a sane installer, and more performance optimizations.
nonsense! the Arch Wiki was never used as capital punishment
I just use EndeavourOS. It’s mostly a work machine and I have little use for performance optimizations. Besides, I think my hardware is too outdated to get any real benefit out of those.
Endeavor also has a decent installer if I recall, and Arch is already going to be more up to date than almost anything else, so yeah no reason to install a new OS I’d wager.
why use CachyOS when you could use Arch?
Infernal_pizzaI accidentally convinced my friend to try CachyOS last week. Despite owning a Steamdeck he didn’t know Proton worked outside of SteamOS and was surprised when I said I was playing on Linux (even though I’m sure I mentioned it ages ago). He then decided to give it a go and picked CachyOS himself.
rozodruCachyOS is a good option. maybe not as a brand new person to Linux but it’s fast and has everything you need.
Bazzite is fine too if you just depend on flatpaks which might make a windows to linux transition easier.
I’m currently trying PikaOS for the week and it’s ok. It’s fast, games as well if not ever so slightly better than CachyOS, but it feels a little TOO opinionated. For example if you install the Niri version (and I assume the hyprland version also) Kitty is baked into it to the point were potentially removing kitty breaks other dependencies. I don’t like that. Kitty is a bloated mess of a terminal and I’d much rather use Foot. Also the Pikabar thing is garbage. it’s a fork of Noctalia with ALL the options stripped out of it for whatever reason. But PikaOS is very easy to install and fairly minimal with what it does install. It’s nice but it’s kinda all over the place with things.
I’ll probably just end up going back to NixOS in a week anyways.
It’s worth mentioning that Bazzite is atomic, so it’s a hassle if you need to install any non flatpak stuff. Installing and setting up my canon laser printer driver was such a hassle I switched back to nobara.
sounds like PikaOS would be cool if you just stick to GNOME or KDE
it’s a weird distro for sure. it’s kinda all over the place with stuff. for example on the distro itself they recommend installing Cosmic-Store as your package manager even if you’re not using Cosmic. they also use Nemo and a few other GNOME things baked in if your running the Niri or Hyprland iso. it’s odd. Add to the fact like i said if you want to remove Kitty you cana potentially break your system especially if you have an Nvidia GPU as it’s also baked into it for some reason.
This as opposed to Nobara where you can literally use the officiall or KDE iso version and then completely remove Plasma in favor of a WM and you’re fine.
They really do be taking the pis out of pistachios.
recommends arch based distros to everyone
“Wait why do you guys say linux is complex and difficult!?”
Alk
Pope-King JoeI recently swapped from Aurora, a Fedora immutable distro with KDE, to Cachy on my AMD 7040 Framework 13. I’m loving it. I use plain Arch on my desktop, so I felt right at home for the most part, and it really does just work.
It also fuckin’ flies my dudes.
☂️-I’m a NixOS fanboy now :/
thethunderwolfWhy is cachyOS the current thing?
Yeah I thought that might be it.
JackbyDevIt’s pretty well done.
it’s the current arch based distro that makes arch more accessible to newcomers
(Sad forgotten Endeavor OS noises.)
I’ll Bully Spam every gaming CEO until they support ONE god damn Linux distro like SteamOS. SLOP MICROSLOP SLOP, anticheat doesn’t fix shit! BF6 is basically proof.
festnti used to use cacht, but after updating to kde plasma 6.6 it would freeze after i put the correct login and password. thankfully it has snapshots, so i could just not update it for a while.
i waited for 6.6.1, and instead of freezing it just closed and reopened the login page. 6.6.2 went back to freexing forever.
so i gave up, and installed base arch to see if that’d work, and it did! i also found out that archinstall is a thing! (i had installed arch manually many times a while back, and the clock time always broke) i did break it once by not configing limine snapper correctly, but now it’s great, and feels basically equal to cachy (except things don’t break and there isn’t a bunch of unecessary programs installed)
This has been fixed since then.
Also to get around it just press ctrl alt f2 and sign in in the window that appears. But like I said, no need since it has been fixed.
exuI switched to cachyos recently from nobara, and I’m facing an annoying bug. I have a 2.1 sound bar connect to my monitor, which connects to my PC via display port. My audio keeps cutting out when watching movies on stremio or playing games on steam. It comes back whenever I press the volume key, but goes away when there’s silence or low volume.
Please I beg of you, just recommend people Mint. Catchy is great, it’s very easy and smooth as arch goes.
But if you have someone who is under the illusion that Linux is hard. The moment they have any issue it might frustrate them enough to bounce off. I know so many people who have gotten recommended some flavor of the week like Manjaro, Bazite, Pop_Os or Nobara, who that has happened with. I’ve never talked to anyone who was recommended Mint with Cinnamon, used it, and then decided it was too hard and went back to windows. Plenty of people will say “well I used XYZ and didn’t have any issues” or the issues were minor enough and the answers easy enough that they stuck around, but that’s survivorship bias, the people who didn’t deal with it aren’t here to say otherwise.
So just send them to cinnamon mint, there will be no hiccups, it will just work. Maybe later they’ll be like “yah, I kind of want to see what else is out there” and then they can try other things. I get that, cinnamon mint is limited in some ways, but not in ways a first time Linux user is going to care about.
Zorin OS is also a good choice if they have a high resolution screen, because Mint’s Cinnamon desktop has awful screen tearing when you increase the scaling.
Zorin user here. Might switch to Mint. Might not help, but after almost 2 years, I still don’t know what I’m doing.
Unless it’s flatpak.
But like, I have no idea how to update my bluetooth driver. And I really want to.
There are other utilities that I can’t install. It’s like the tools you need to install to make linux easy still need terminal to install.
It’s all “you’re missing prerequesits. They won’t be installed”.
So you need to be smart enough in linux to install the tools to make it easy, but if you knew how to install the tools, you wouldn’t need them.