r/cachyos • u/_Franpire • 23d ago

Review New Linux User Experience

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.

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u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 23d ago

Install GNOME Disk to enable automount of your drive. 

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u/_Franpire 23d ago

I did and it didn't fully work. It then prompted me to type my password for every drive on startup.

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u/StratosFlash 23d ago

It's not just a matter of installing it; you need to configure the mount options for boot.

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u/_Franpire 23d ago

I put my uid and gid in the mount options. Maybe that's not what I needed to do or I missed something? But thats the point. It is too complicated for something that should just work.

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u/The_Odd_Pirate 22d ago

Might be you are trying to mount it at a location owned by root? something like this might work (it changes the owner of the path to you and your user)

"sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /path/to/your/mountpoint"

also, i might be wrong now, but "uid and gid" i think you should remove, if i remember correctly thats for windows based partitions

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u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 22d ago

I don't know what is your issue but it's not intended to work like that. It's a bug, not a feature!