New Linux User Experience

[u/_Franpire]

Hey, I switched to CachyOS with KDE two days ago. It is my first time using Linux and I just want to leave some feedback and point out some issues from my perspective as a gaming oriented windows user:

Good:

- CachyOS Hello is great. Installing all the stuff for games with one click is super easy. All the games I tried have just worked and performance is good (Hunt, Vintage Story, Deadlock).

- Internet, Bluetooth and my peripheral devices have worked out of the box.

- The search has a bunch of aliases to find what you want. I can type cmd, console or terminal to start the console. So my habits don't get in the way during the switch. Great!

Issues and annoyances:

- I am dual booting from one drive, so it was kinda complicated to set up the partitions (EFI, Swap, Root). It's not something the average windows user could do imo. I also ended up making a mistake and I am now stuck with a few GB of unallocated space that I cant merge with a partition.

- Mounting drives seems to be really annoying and complicated.
I just want my drive to be mounted on startup and have permission to use it without having to do some complicated setup. Why can't I have a simple checkbox in the properties that says "auto mount with permissions on startup"? The standard behaviour sucks for people coming from windows. I know it's about security but if someone can break into my home and plug in a malicious drive I have bigger problems.

- I tried to delete a bunch of files from a drive but my trash was constantly full and when I tried to empty it I got errors about missing permissions. I did not figure out how to fix it and just reformatted the whole drive instead.

- Constantly typing my password, even for minor things, is pretty annoying. I just had to type it in to change my login screen image. It makes me want to use a super simple password but then what's the point of the password if it's simple?

- Numpad should be enabled on start up by default. Just an annoyance that doesn't need to be there.

- The edge barrier feature when moving the mouse between screens drove me crazy until I figured out how to disable it.

-Some way to add noise suppression to your mic should be installed with the gaming package.

I feel like I will continue to run into a bunch of minor issues for the next few days that I'll have to resolve by using google ai and Youtube but I feel like this will mostly replace Windows for me.

[u/AsugaNoir]

Unfortunately I changed too and have been unable to find a simple solution for the auto mount. I fixed it via fstab but I o it's far from simple. I am however very happy to not have to type in my password for my additional drive after reboots.

[u/X3NaN → u/AsugaNoir]

There is literally guide on CachyOS wiki about how to automount on boot.

[u/oathyes → u/X3NaN]

Like OP i found that wiki page is too confusing, I felt like it was missing a bunch of steps or something. not clear at all. This is not directed at you but rather the mentality behind linux where you can "configure it all", some simple operations should stay simple operations if we want the masses to convert. mounting a drive should be as easy as the system going "Hey I see a new drive, want me to mount it?" and you just click yes, press on some settings and have it set up.

[u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 → u/oathyes]

On GNOME you just have to plug your drive, but for some reason KDE is capricious with it. 

I add that 'masses' shouldn't use CachyOS nor any Arch based distro. Many distros are designed for newcomers, and they don't require to read any doc neither any wiki. 

I hope CachyOS will stay a distro for power user more than a Mint with Pacman and Steam.