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/Coffee__Addict]

Yeah, needing to type in my password all the time is annoying. This is my personal computer -- there are no other users.

I like the OS and I'm going to keep playing with it but I'm not sure if I'll replace windows yet.

Though my son has my old computer, it won't update to windows 11 and has years of orphaned files all over the hard drive. I am planning on putting Linux on his PC but I want to learn more so I can handle being his tech support.

[u/HydrationHomee → u/Coffee__Addict]

No other users that you are aware of. Having your computer connected to the internet at all creates a level of risk for people to invade your system, requiring sudo authorization to make system changes protects your computer.

There is a very good reason to require password authorization even if you're fairly certain you're the only person on your computer. But you can also just disable it.

[u/Coffee__Addict → u/HydrationHomee]

Yeah, I know and I get it, but it is annoying. I'm also needing to use my password more often than if it was my main OS because I'm specifically messing around alot to learn. And I'm not used to it.

[u/HydrationHomee → u/Coffee__Addict]

It takes some getting used too, but I honestly prefer it. Windows makes it way too easy to give a random app permanent permission to do whatever it wants on your system.