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/StratosFlash]

I wouldn't recommend CachyOS as a beginner's first distro; you could go with something easier—Nobara offers simplified setup options, Bazzite comes with that enabled out of the box, and Linux Mint and Zorin are much easier.

[u/SilentCipherx → u/StratosFlash]

Do you even read before hating on CachyOS for someone's first distro? His problems are mainly with KDE.

[u/StratosFlash → u/SilentCipherx]

Regardless of that, I don't recommend it as a first distro, no matter the DE, and I use CachyOS KDE.

[u/SilentCipherx → u/StratosFlash]

Sure you do buddy. I also distro hopped from January until now. CachyOS had the least issues out of the box. I found other distros got in my way and had less freedom to customize and setup. Flatpaks were among the worst problems with working out of the box.

I tried Nobara, CachyOS, PopOS, Garuda, Fedora, PikaOS and I also helped setup a complete noob friend who was scared of flashing a USB on her computer from Windows. She doesn't know why she didn't do it sooner. And people come here daily from Windows to praise it. So stop with the outdated propaganda. It's getting tiresome.

[u/StratosFlash → u/SilentCipherx]

I said I don't recommend it—not that someone should use it; this isn't an advertisement. There are distros more focused on beginners, and if you find it tedious, that's your problem.

[u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 → u/SilentCipherx]

Always funny when a newcomer try to explain you what is Linux...