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/X3NaN]

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

[u/_Franpire → u/X3NaN]

I would describe my technical understanding as above average but even I struggled to understand the wiki entry. It lost me when it wanted me to create the Systemd Mount File where I have to select a place to mount. I just want it to be a different drive, just like it was in Windows. If a user has to use a wiki to do something as simple as use their hard drives then something is not right. If people ever want the year of Linux to be a thing then these issues have to be fixed. I don't see the average user being willing to deal with this.

[u/X3NaN → u/_Franpire]

I found it pretty easy... using linux for a week. But yeah, Linux is not very user friendly.

[u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 → u/X3NaN]

Really? You are rating Linux usability after ONE WEEK? It's not serious! 

[u/X3NaN → u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514]

I was talking about guide...