{"data":{"items":[{"id":"f8d174db-0695-4dcf-93f3-3b2a8ce9ae32","excerpt":"I tried Linux for a month and the results were a mixed bag - from seamless to broken — **TL;DR**\n\n**5070 Ti + 3070, 5800X3D, 32 GB RAM, OLED MONITOR**\n\nTried Linux (CachyOS, KDE, Wayland) for a month on a dual-NVIDIA, HDR OLED desktop. General desktop usage, customization, btrfs snapshots, networking, CUDA/Triton, and ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1qu02q9/i_tried_linux_for_a_month_and_the_results_were_a/","role":"request","weight":1.3142885,"occurredAt":"2026-02-02T16:39:55.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"pcmasterrace","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.33430308,"sentiment":0.6315789,"confidence":0.985,"matchedPatterns":["wish","frustrating","doesnt_work","missing_feature","manual_process","praise"],"statement":"super cool, I wish Windows had something like this.","title":"I tried Linux for a month and the results were a mixed bag - from seamless to broken","body":"**TL;DR**\n\n**5070 Ti + 3070, 5800X3D, 32 GB RAM, OLED MONITOR**\n\nTried Linux (CachyOS, KDE, Wayland) for a month on a dual-NVIDIA, HDR OLED desktop. General desktop usage, customization, btrfs snapshots, networking, CUDA/Triton, and LLM workloads were pretty much fine, in some cases noticeably better than Windows. Gaming via Proton ranged from on-par to \\~10–20% slower depending on DX11/DX12, with better 1% lows but more tweaking required.  \nThe biggest **pains in my asses were Wayland + NVIDIA**, both together and standalone, especially **multi-GPU handling, HDR, color management**, browser hardware acceleration, and per-app GPU selection, all of which are much simpler on Windows. None of this makes Linux inherently bad, but it *does* make it significantly less friendly for specific setups like mine. Linux and Windows both have strengths and weaknesses, they're both good and they're both bad. As many of you, I've also had my fair share of issues with Windows too.\n\nIf you've got nothing better to do with your life than read a 10 minute long fucking post, here you go for the details:\n\n**BIG WARNING:** This is probably going to be a loooooong ass and somewhat technical text and my specific scenarios might not relate to the majority of people. This isn't just a 'I tried, it works seamlessly / I tried, it's bad, went back to Windows\". It’s a mix of things that worked extremely well and things that were genuinely frustrating.\n\nFirst off, I'm probably NOT an averaqe user, by most metrics, in the sense that I care about some things that an average user has no idea they exist and/or they don't care about them. I define the average user as that friend of yours that boots up Windows, has 10 RGB software, and for 7 of them doesn't even have the peripherals anymore, a million startup apps etc. I think you got the idea. As an example of things I care about - HDR, color management, dual-GPU usage, but more on that later. I also ran Linux on my old laptop for quite some time, so I got accustomed to some things: Terminal, different kernels, CPU schedulers, CPU governors (not that it's too relevant for my desktop, but worth pointing out), so I didn't go into this with 0 prior experience. However, on my old laptop, all i cared about was: does the browser work? yes. does it output via HDMI / DP ? yes. good. that's all I want from this machine. Did it work pretty much seamlessly? Sure.\n\nMoving on\n\nOS: CachyOS (note that I tried different kernels and schedulers - from the default EEVDF to BORE to scx\\_\\* schedulers), KDE 6.5.5, Wayland\n\nRelevant hardware:\n\n\\- 2 NVIDIA GPUs: 3070 and 5070 Ti\n\n\\- 5800x3d\n\n\\- 32 GB RAM\n\n\\- OLED Monitor\n\n\\- Wireless peripherals (will be a slightly relevant later)\n\nThe Good parts:\n\n**General desktop usage:**\n\n\\- Pretty much fine, it's snappy, responsive (looking at you Windows File Explorer), nothing to complain about.\n\n\\- Customizability: if you're one to customize your desktop, Linux is great. Between the different desktop environments and what KDE offers and how it can be customized, no complaints here.\n\n**CUDA and Triton**\n\n\\- CUDA and, maybe just as important, Triton are natively supported. LLM inference via llama.cpp saw a 15-25% speed increase when compared to Windows. Where Windows was a pain to build llama.cpp with CUDA, Linux required minimal configuration (only some packages, like do a \\`sudo pacman -S Ninja\\` as an example, then good to go). Same goes if you do any sort of image diffusion.\n\nIn my case, I saw a significant increase in performance (and moreso under the condition that the 3070 is the one driving the desktop, not the 5070 Ti, but more on that later).\n\nReiterating on llama.cpp and two GPUs? Works perfectly fine, nothing to complain about.\n\n\\- **The terminal**: Yes, I actually like using the terminal; it's much faster to navigate to a folder using cd /home/.config/insert/long/path/here, than clicking folders. Installing apps is super convenient and fast, sudo pacman -S \\*appname\\*, good to go. (Yes, I know windows has winget, choco)\n\n\\- **Using a browser** was, well, exactly what you'd expect. It's a browser and it works. Unless you want HW Acceleration (NVDEC) on Blackwell, will touch on that later.\n\n**Proton:** Proton is actually pretty cool. It allows you to play Windows games, run Windows apps on Linux. Some forks, like proton-cachyos (though don't quote me on if fork specific) can very easily change your DLSS version for example with one simple command: PROTON\\_DLSS\\_UPGRADE=\"310.5.2\"\n\n\\- **RAM:** Since I see this conversation come up a lot: Currently, with KWrite (basically Notepad if it went to the gym), Zen, and Steam open I am using 12.2 GB (or GiB) of RAM. In Windows I'd probably see \\~16-18? Using RAM is not inherently bad. As long as the OS clears out the RAM if needed (such as when loading a very large LLM and you run out of VRAM), it's all good. Well, Cachy failed that exact scenario until I installed something called \"nohang\" that kills the application when it detects RAM (and ZRAM - a swap space?) being filled up over a set limit. \"Earlyoom\" failed (maybe misconfigured?). I'll point this as good because it lets me choose if I want this behavior, how it should behave etc. As far as an out of the box experience, Windows does a surprisingly good job. Seriously. Go load up your RAM over the limit, and it will not freeze. Not completely at least. It will take a minute or 5, but you'll eventually close that app with the mouse.\n\n\\- **btrfs and automatic snapshots**: every time you update a package, a snapshot of your root filesystem gets created. it’s basically Windows System Restore, it works, and is actually useful. super cool, I wish Windows had something like this.\n\n\\- **VRR and GSYNC**: They work, as far as my limited testing goes. You'll have to, once again, likely add some launch arguments, though.\n\n\\- **MangoHUD (The RTSS equivalent)**: it's there, it lets you monitor and cap your FPS, it works\\*\\*.\n\n\\- **Network**: I was pleased to find out that out of the box, CachyOS had not only better speeds, but also much less bufferbloat.\n\n**The mixed parts:**\n\n**Gaming:**\n\n\\- Very dependent on the game, and more importantly, DX11 (>DXVK), or DX12 (>VKD3D). DXVK and VKD3D ar the translation layers. Now, I will say this: I have only tried 3 games: World of Warcraft (Retail), Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon and Warframe\n\nInstalling battle.net was a bit of a challenge in itself. I got it working in Lutris, then it randomly stopped working, then I tried Faugus Launcher (which has a one click install for Battle.net), and it has worked ever since.\n\nWorld of Warcraft: I am getting, across the board, in both CPU and GPU-bound scenarios, a \\~5-10% or so penalty with DX11 (DXVK), and around a 10-20% penalty with DX12 (VKD3D). WoW is kind of hard to benchmark, so take my results with a grain of salt. In 1% lows, it does perform somewhat better, although with WoW being an MMO I cannot reproduce the exact same load in a CPU-bound scenario; however, it does feel smoother, even though the average FPS is down. I am aware a fix has been pushed from NVIDIA and whoever else helped (sorry I forgot) for better VKD3D performance, but it'll take a while longer until it reaches me, the end user.\n\nTainted Grail: Fall of Avalon (DX11 > DXVK): Pretty much on par with windows, if not better. Avg FPS is within margin of error, with 1% Lows improved slightly, and the frametime graph being more stable. Overall, a good experience\n\nWarframe: See Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon. Pretty much fine.\n\n\\- However, this wasn't all \"plug and play\". And this is a problem BECAUSE of my dual-gpu setup, I am perfectly aware. BUT. You see, since I have 2 GPUs (5070 Ti on a pcie 4.0 slot - device id pci:08:00:00), and the 3070 on a 3.0 x4 slot (device id pci:04:00:00), both KWin and Steam decided that the 3070 has priority (not sure what logic they follow, I assume device id based on pci ID). I then did set \\`KWIN\\_DRM\\_DEVICES\\` to my 5070 Ti. However, running the 3070 now headless, that still persists. Whatever, I can see Windows doing this too. Anyway, didn't work, so I moved on. Now, you see, there is no simple toggle, as there is in Windows or NVidia Control Panel (Windows), to simply tell Wayland or Steam: Hey, USE THIS GPU! You have to do a launch command argument in Steam or Lutris or whatever you use. Also you better get familiar with this, at least if you're on NVIDIA and/or Wayland. And that command looks like this: \\`DXVK\\_FILTER\\_DEVICE\\_NAME=\"NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti\"\\` (any other kind of DXVK\\_FILTER\\_XX failed). It took about an hour or so of research, since the majority of info I could find about dual-gpu applied to hybrid graphics (integrated + dedicated). A niche use case, I'm aware, but something that I did not have to battle in Windows, since Windows has 2 options to do it pretty easily.\n\nNow, if I gave you the impression that you set the launch arguments only in the case of a dual GPU setup, that is not the case. KDE now uses to Wayland (replacement for the old x11). I think XWayland is the default 'layer', so all good. Other times, both work perfectly fine, but enabling Wayland, \\`PROTON\\_ENABLE\\_WAYLAND=1\\`, can net you an FPS increase in DX12 (VKD3D). So if you care about performance, you will spend time tweaking stuff.\n\n**!! I will also add this: if you are on an AMD GPU, your experience is probably thousand times better on Linux, on par, if not better and just as seamless as Windows.**\n\n\\- **Hardware acceleration:** I mentioned it earlier. It did work on my 3070\\*. It does not work on my 5070 Ti in any browser I tried (firefox and friends: zen, floorp) nor Chromium: Helium, Brave. nvidia-vaapi-driver crashes. All I could do was file a bug report, and find out if skill issue or it's really a bug. Now, I will say this: that driver is maintained by one guy. Props to him honestly. It works for many others, and that's a good thing. I m not expecting fixes overnight from literally one dude, I'm just glad someone at least tries to make something work, something I could not do.\n\n\\- **Wireless peripherals (mouse and kb):** they work. but based on my very subjective experience, the battery drains faster, even though sleep states should be saved onboard. Can't say I care too much about charging my mouse every 4 days vs every 5-6, but your mileage may vary. Oh, and if you're using something like Corsair, Asus, you can probably forget about controlling anything via a software. I thik there's some control software for Logitech?\n\n\\- **HDR**: It... worksn't. It does put your monitor in HDR mode. It does a better job at tonemapping SDR (sRGB) into BT.2020 than Windows, so your desktop doesn't look washed out. However, that's the best I can say about it. Not that it's a valid use case, if you ask me, don't fucking use HDR to stare at non-managed sRGB content. If you want \\*not\\* to do a conversion (for example I use RenoDX to make the sRGB > BT.2020 conversion), give up. It won't work. KWin / Wayland assume that if an app doesn't explicitly report anything but sRGB, then it's sRGB. So in this case, you end up with the RenoDX's tonemap on top of the KWin/Wayland one, which looks more than wrong.\n\nI also could not get it to play an HDR video (correctly) nor in the browser, nor in mpv. I gave up after around an hour of getting mpv to actually read and passthrough BT.2020 and metadata. If you don't know how it's supposed to look, it might look okay. Maybe a bit saturated, maybe some weirdness in the shadows (from black crush to blacks being lifted), but your average person would think: \"yep, that's HDR I guess\".\n\nI did not try a game. I was so fed up with HDR that I said I wouldn't touch that toggle again. Maybe a skill issue on my part.\n\n**\\*\\*I mentioned MangoHud earlie**r: It does work, no issues with that. However, if you have it in your mind to measure very high framerates (400+ FPS), it will eat into your framerate. I saw a decrease of \\~420 FPS to \\~350 (0.2ms or so? i","offTopic":false},{"id":"2ae72e68-178f-4e78-8694-9d0cef927142","excerpt":"I tried SteamOS so you don't have to (but you should) — As title says, I installed Steam OS on my PC to see how the experience would be like.\n\nSpecs are: B450 Motherboard, Ryzen 7 5700, 16GB 3000mhz DDR4, Radeon 6700XT, 512GB NVMe\n\n\n\n**Getting the image**:\n\nImage download was slightly confusing because the download pag","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1uosz5m/i_tried_steamos_so_you_dont_have_to_but_you_should/","role":"request","weight":1.2126,"occurredAt":"2026-07-06T10:02:08.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"pcmasterrace","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.29,"sentiment":0.29411766,"confidence":0.94,"matchedPatterns":["recommend","doesnt_work","missing_feature"],"statement":"I wrote Steam Support to ask if there's a work around, but the reply was \"there's no support for non-certified SteamOS hardware\".","title":"I tried SteamOS so you don't have to (but you should)","body":"As title says, I installed Steam OS on my PC to see how the experience would be like.\n\nSpecs are: B450 Motherboard, Ryzen 7 5700, 16GB 3000mhz DDR4, Radeon 6700XT, 512GB NVMe\n\n\n\n**Getting the image**:\n\nImage download was slightly confusing because the download page says \"Steam Deck Image\" so for a moment I thought I was in the wrong place, but that's the correct one.\n\nThe download file is a .bz2 which when trying to write to a USB drive directly without decompressing, it's terribly slow. I tested that both on Linux Mint with Balena Etcher and on Windows 11 with Rufus.\n\nSomehow, decompressing it on Linux Mint was super fast. On Windows 11 I recommend 7zip as the native Windows tool took too long. With 7zip it took me about 5 minutes on a laptop with a Ryzen 5 7535HS, but I did have some heavy stuff running in the background.\n\nAfter decompressing the .bz2 file you get a .img which in my experience was quicker enough to write to the USB drive so to be worth decompressing it first. This is something that I didn't see mentioned in the Valve documentation for SteamOS, probably on purpose.\n\n\n\n**Installation**:\n\nIf you forget to disable secure boot like I did, it won't work (duh). When you do disable it and boot from the USB drive, you'll get the live desktop environment. I selected the option \"Wipe Device & Install SteamOS\" and installation was simple and quick, actually one of the simplest OS's I ever installed.\n\nAfter installation finishes and the machine restarts, you get the welcome experience, which is where I encountered an issue: my motherboard doesn't have a WiFi card and Ethernet was not recognised during the welcome experience. I wrote Steam Support to ask if there's a work around, but the reply was \"there's no support for non-certified SteamOS hardware\". Luckily I had a PCI-e WiFi card around and after installing it I could finish it and Ethernet was recognised.\n\n\n\n**Using it**:  \nFrom here on the experience is a breeze. Having a Steam Deck, I felt right at home with the interface. Everything is smooth and just works.\n\nI tested Wreckfest 2, Snowrunner, Dead or Alive 6, Soul Calibur 6, Cyberpunk 2077... all worked just like on the Steam Deck. Controllers, mouse and keyboard were directly recognised and didn't require any setup.\n\nI have run Bazzite (in desktop mode) for several months on another machine, and while I also very much like and will keep it, I think SteamOS provided a bit more polished experience for a living room PC.\n\nOnly reason I'm keeping Windows is because of sim-racing hardware which is too much of a hassle to get it working on Linux, but if it wasn't for that, I would completely ditch it. Highly recommend anyone who's unsure to give it a try.","offTopic":true},{"id":"798e53e9-87cf-41dc-a993-df2fed37e5b2","excerpt":"My journey on switching to linux mint as a windows 10 user. First ever fediverse post. — Hello all.\n\nI have been lurking on lemmy.ml for a while and learning about the fediverse and recently decided to jump in. I wanted to come here to share my story on switching to linux, effectively switching my mindset in the proces","url":"https://lemmy.world/post/48698804","role":"demand","weight":1.1444333,"occurredAt":"2026-06-27T05:35:31.069Z","sourceKey":"lemmy","sourceName":"Lemmy","credibility":0.58,"venue":"lemmy.world","intent":"alternative_search","painScore":0.39,"sentiment":0.021276595,"confidence":0.8233333,"matchedPatterns":["doesnt_work","switching_from"],"statement":"I have recently made the switch from windows 10 to linux mint.","title":"My journey on switching to linux mint as a windows 10 user. First ever fediverse post.","body":"Hello all.\n\nI have been lurking on lemmy.ml for a while and learning about the fediverse and recently decided to jump in. I wanted to come here to share my story on switching to linux, effectively switching my mindset in the process.\n\nTL;DR:\nAround october 2025 I was going to update a system to windows 11 and opened a can of worms regarding the privacy eroding, invasive nature of it. Freaked me out for a while thanks to big techs horrible recommendation systems only making this worse but gradually learnt to escape its grasp. Learnt linux was the answer, learnt to research, aiding in escaping big techs control over me. Went with linux mint with full disk encryption, migrated to open source cross platform software on windows 10 to prepare, migrated my data. I am 90% of the way there and could not be happier with the results. Now all that remains is to convince friends and family members of the need to switch and to be confident enough in my capabilities to help. Oh, and I am a privacy advocate now.\n\nI have recently made the switch from windows 10 to linux mint. It was around the time windows 10 support ended in october 2025 that I started looking into things.\n\nI was looking to upgrade to windows 11 on an old system and began researching how to upgrade to windows 11 with a system that did not meet the required spec (inc tpm, cpu etc). Then I opened a can of worms. I started to learn about the privacy eroding, invasive nature of windows 11. I’ll be honest it freaked me out for a while. I struggled with it deeply. I could not believe how invasive windows had become in this new os. Youtube videos were freaking me out on this subject (thanks youtube recommendation system), and like I said, it really messed with my head.\n\nI’d like to say at this point my journey, over time, my research led me outside of big techs grasp and I began to take back control of the content I consumed rather than being fed negative swill that kept me coming back for more out of terror. In hindsight, a terrible, addictive, negative habit that I formed. They damn well know what they are doing, to prey on the vulnerable just to make more money and I was victim to it.\n\nAnyway, I started to learn about how linux was the way out of this thanks in part to the content creator https://odysee.com/@switchedtolinux:0. His videos did scare me at the time but they were also very helpful and informative. I finally found a good, reputable, reliable source of information whose aim was to help you regain your digital freedom. He was there to guide you from his own experience, especially his earlier videos discussing why you should consider switching. I highly recommend his content for those facing this situation and are looking for guidance. Switchedtolinux if you are reading this, thank you, you are a credit to society.\n\nHis recommendation was linux mint, so off I went to do some research. Again, at the start I was in the big tech bubble so there was much fear mongering, but I learnt over time to escape this, mainly fuelled to help maintain sanity as most content was negative screaming about how every inch of privacy will be lost, not in a decade, not in a year, nor month nor week but tomorrow. I’m sure you know the type of content.\n\nBut I eventually maintained composure and continued to look into linux mint. The more I read and watched the more appealing it became. I started to learn about open source, free as in freedom and the more I learnt the more I realised I had found something quite special. A digital life designed by the people for the people. I realised it was quite beautiful and wanted to be part of it.\n\nIt was around this time, due to the research, I started to exist outside of big techs control and started to research and control the content I was consuming. I went back to big tech to consume content such as youtube, but I had specifically done my research and come to the conclusion that I wanted to consume the content instead of just being fed it.\n\nI decided to buy a new desktop computer however during that time I was unfortunately still under big techs influence, it was done in haste as it was around the time component prices started going through the roof and all the content was “buy it now before you can no longer afford to”, it was unknown how high the prices were going to go and what component was next. In hindsight more research should have been done to ensure linux compatibility but at the time I was freaked out with windows 11 et all and pressured by component prices going to unknown heights. Thankfully I did enough research to get an AMD gpu over NVIDIA. Very glad I figured out that much at the time. I am ashamed to say it but it was the result of a hasty AI query, but I am glad I knew enough to pose the question.\n\nSo, I got the new computer and because I’d had no experience of linux I wanted to test the components so installed windows 10 but kept it offline along with disabling TPM in the bios as I had learnt about how microsoft were using that as a unique identifier if ever it were to go online. I used my existing windows 10 system for drivers and stress testing software etc to transfer over. I eventually settled on OCCT and hwinfo for stress testing the system which I did for several hours at a time along with h2testw for testing storage. Also ran memtest86+ overnight a few times. All looked good so, time for linux.\n\nI grabbed the latest version of linux mint cinnamon 22.3 , verified its checksum and got it installed. Everything just worked out of the box, colour me impressed. The first thing I did now as I was very much becoming privacy conscious was to install protonvpn. I did not know exactly what I was doing in the terminal but the instructions were coming from a trusted source, proton themselves, so I paid attention, followed the instructions to the letter and it all sprang into life. There were specific instructions not to install the system tray app on mint as it would install the entire gnome desktop environment. I knew enough about linux to know that this would be a bad thing for a beginner. However I was pleased to see that whist avoiding that installation step, I still got a tray icon.\n\nSo with protonvpn installed I was online and ready to go. I had researched open source disk imaging tools and settled on rescuezilla as I wanted an option to revert if I did something catastrophic that I did not know how to undo. This was a completely foreign OS and wanted to take precautions. At an early point I tested a system image backup and restore and it worked perfectly, even with full disk encryption. One issue was that the screen would go black during the backup process. I thought there was a hardware fault but it turned out it was just a power saving feature but it sometimes would not come back when jostling the mouse. I think I worked around this by booting rescuzilla in basic graphics mode which prevented the screen going black. I cannot be absolutely sure of this but I think that did the trick. It was a shame there was not an option to disable this power saving feature in the software that I could find but there we are.\n\nI should mention that whilst learning about open source and my desire to move to linux I started switching to open source cross platform applications whilst still on windows to make the transition easier. Some of which I was already using, firefox (eventually to librewolf), joplin, keepassxc, libreoffice, freefilesync, virtualbox, vlc, veracrypt to name the main few. I should mention I did test linux mint in a virtualbox vm under windows 10 just to see what I was getting into before installing.\n\nWhen I had the basics, an internet connection and a browser, I began actually using the linux computer. I was so pleased everything was just working. I started to spend more and more time on the linux system, and I know it may sound silly, I still did not trust it with credentials. But the more I learnt with research and the more I got things working, the more I came to trust it and started logging in to things. It took a while before I even opened my password database on it.\n\nMy data had not even come over at this point, I was still testing the waters. Is this something I could really trust? But over about a month linux mint earnt that trust and this is when after years of using macrium reflect for a one button blind faith backup I decided to use freefilesync to migrate data to the linux system and maintain a linux system backup. I spent a long time noting down every location my data could be on the windows system including appdata, portable apps, default user data folders, program files, different drives and other obscure locations. I still want to do a full system image with macrium at some point, not incremental but full, on two separate backup drives just in case I missed anything. I plan to wipe the windows computer completely. I’ll probably re-install with windows 10 iot ltsc as I’d like to have a windows system around still but the main thing is to get my data off of it going forwards, not just deleting it but a full re-install so there is not even a reference. The fact I used minecraft with a microsoft account I wonder if that and my data could ever be linked. Never has the OS been signed into microsoft account but I’d not put it past them to say “hey, you used minecraft with this micorosft account so we’ve logged your OS in and uploaded all your files to the cloud”. This is why I was switching to linux, I wanted control over my computer and its data. I do not want it uploaded to your cloud where any tom, dick and harry can nose around and have your AI systems use it for training. Hell, it seems that data does not even need to be in their cloud for this to occur now. No thank you.\n\nNow, I had started to take data security seriously and contemplated what would happen if my equipment was stolen. During the mint setup I configured full disk encryption, very easy to setup and worked well. The only option was to use KVM which to be honest it is still something I need to research more, ext4 fair enough but this KVM thing sounds more intimidating. But it worked. I also booted into a linux mint live usb and verified I could access my data on from the full disk encryption system which I could, a big relief as it was something I was so unfamiliar with and wondered how I could get at my data if the system no longer booted after a kernal update or something. I was being cautious.\n\nI used veracrypt for the backup drives, thankfully I have had experience with this software before and it was my first experience of an appimage (that I was very careful about running), I knew to verify checksums and found the gui tool gtkhash very useful for this but gpg was new to me (still is really) and required terminal work. But the main thing was knowing to verify that I downloaded from the official domain, like with windows. Once I learnt how to make it executable it was off, the gui was a little bugged and took a bit of a long time to dismount after a backup but later versions fixed that. Also, when playing around with appimages I learnt how to make them run in portable mode as this is something I like from windows using this documentation: https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/portable-mode.html.\n\nI was getting well underway and using the linux system more and more. I have yet to log into sites that use payment systems switching back to the windows system for this as I have been quite nervous about this part. No anti-virus, going off of only that I had done things correctly based on the research I had done and not contracted anything in the process. I think it is sensible until I am sure I have done everything in the correct manner, others may disagree. But this is a completely foreign system to me, it is taking a while to earn my trust, but it is most certainly coming slowly over time. It is not too far off now I think.\n\nI have yet to get into gaming as I want to limit closed source applications ","offTopic":true},{"id":"06a05fd1-0323-4331-9a2a-2a57a770668e","excerpt":" — Agreed.  I had the version of Notepad++ that got popped and was being nagged by Fusion 360, so I decided to burn everything down, get a new SSD, and install a copy of Windows 11.<p>Holy sh*t!  I haven&#x27;t had this bad a Windows install experience since Windows 95.<p>The first big obstacle is getting all the Secur","url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930161","role":"demand","weight":0.8315208,"occurredAt":"2026-02-08T00:56:04.000Z","sourceKey":"hackernews","sourceName":"Hacker News","credibility":0.7,"venue":"news","intent":"alternative_search","painScore":0.195,"sentiment":0.6666667,"confidence":0.6958333,"matchedPatterns":["looking_for","alternative_to"],"statement":"(And, as a side note, this is having a knockon effect--I finally went looking for an alternative to Fusion 360 and signed up for OnShape just so I can dump Windows permanently)","title":null,"body":"Agreed.  I had the version of Notepad++ that got popped and was being nagged by Fusion 360, so I decided to burn everything down, get a new SSD, and install a copy of Windows 11.<p>Holy sh*t!  I haven&#x27;t had this bad a Windows install experience since Windows 95.<p>The first big obstacle is getting all the Secure Boot&#x2F;TPM 2.0 BIOS settings right.  When you don&#x27;t, you simply get &quot;Can&#x27;t install Windows&quot;.  No debugging information.  No clarification.  No details.  Shades of the day of having to blindly set the I&#x2F;O interrupts and addresses on Windows.  Tweak, Install, Waiiiiiiit, Fail.  Tweak, Install, Waiiiiiit, Fail.  etc.<p>Then the second obstacle is getting a local account installed.  The solution was obscure, but straightforward.  <i>Finding</i> that solution on the glop that has become the Internet?  Bleaaaaagh.  Everything has to be a bloody video for something that&#x27;s <i>one stupid command</i>.  And all the AI systems aren&#x27;t useful because their horizon is too old and Microslop keeps changing the command; presumably because too many people are using it (How dare they not make cloud number go up!  Brrrrrrrrr!)  After all was said and done, I got &quot;lucky&quot; because I actually bought a retail copy of Windows 11 from Best Buy--it has physical media and the image was &quot;old&quot; enough that the &quot;old&quot; way of doing the install still worked (Shift F10 to prompt -&gt; OOBE\\BYPASSNRO -&gt; reboot for those who want to know)<p>At last, after almost 90 minutes of farting around, Windows starts to install.  And install.  And install.  And install ... FOR HOURS!  WTF IS IT DOING!  The target machine is a smoking AMD desktop with SSD and a gigantic amount of pre-shortage RAM on fibre.  How in the name of all that is holy and unholy do you install that slowly on that powerful a machine?<p>Finally, everything gets installed.  And I reboot ... to no video.  Oh, no, I bet it scrambled the drivers.  Sure enough, I move the HDMI from my AMD card to the AMD integrated video ... yep, there it is.  Sigh.  Let&#x27;s go get DDU and uninstall the dumbass driver that Windows Install dumped on there.  Download, download, install, reboot to safe mode, clean, install proper driver, reboot.  Back on my main card, now.<p>Finally, let&#x27;s dump a recovery image because I sure don&#x27;t want to have to go through this gigantic PITA again if something goes wrong.  Plug in the drive, can&#x27;t find it ... ah, had a Linux image that needs to be wiped out, my fault ... need the Windows partition editor, so launch and erase ... wait, why can&#x27;t I edit anything?  ... oh, right, dumbass, you need to launch it as Administrator ... close ... open the menu, there&#x27;s the app, right click menu ...<p>WTF!  There&#x27;s no &quot;Run as Administrator&quot; so I can&#x27;t edit the partitions!  Right click a couple of other programs ... some of them have the &quot;Run as Administrator&quot; but some of them DON&#x27;T.  And there doesn&#x27;t seem to be any rhyme or reason to which is which.  Curse.  Swear.  FINE!  Plug drive into my Linux laptop, kill the partitions there, and eject.  Plug into Windows ... which now sees the drive and creates a recovery disk ... happy happy joy joy &lt;rolls eyes&gt;.<p>4+ hours!  Not even exaggerating.  &lt;cries&gt;<p>And because I&#x27;m a glutton for punishment, I decided I&#x27;d put Linux on the old reformatted SSD.  Since I used Windows for gaming about as much as Fusion 360, I figured I&#x27;d go for something Linux but gaming-optimized and snag Bazzite which I&#x27;d never used before.  Download, install, login, connect to Steam, run game.<p>Total time: no more than 20 minutes.<p>No fighting about cloud login.  No video card problem.  Games are running <i>fine</i>.<p>Anyone still using Windows as an individual nowadays is completely and utterly daft.<p>(And, as a side note, this is having a knockon effect--I finally went looking for an alternative to Fusion 360 and signed up for OnShape just so I can dump Windows permanently)","offTopic":true},{"id":"61b70f74-657f-47d8-9bdd-ea84467dcc6b","excerpt":"1-Month of Linux | A deeper review of a first time user — Hello. As you have probably noticed Linux is a big discussion point in the PC space currently. As such I decided a month ago to just give it a try. It is free and I am still on Windows 10 with no intention of switching to W11. I mainly use my PC for gaming, cont","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1v1wmpv/1month_of_linux_a_deeper_review_of_a_first_time/","role":"request","weight":1.1021724,"occurredAt":"2026-07-20T20:13:11.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"pcmasterrace","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.17566921,"sentiment":0.48235294,"confidence":0.9374851,"matchedPatterns":["missing_feature","manual_process","praise"],"statement":"Performance and Bloat (Or lack thereof)** CachyOS just runs better, starts quicker, shuts down quicker.","title":"1-Month of Linux | A deeper review of a first time user","body":"Hello. As you have probably noticed Linux is a big discussion point in the PC space currently. As such I decided a month ago to just give it a try. It is free and I am still on Windows 10 with no intention of switching to W11. I mainly use my PC for gaming, content consumption, trying out hobbies like programing/art and the occasional editing/livestreaming. So I emptied one of my SSDs for a Dual Booting Setup. Specs at the bottom (Spoiler, Nvidia GPU).\n\n**My mentality going in**\n\nI feel like this is important since I think this mentality shaped my experience a lot.\nWhen I started Linux I went in with this mindset: **\"Double clicking an Icon on a desktop to open something is NOT natural\"**. \n\nIn the last company I worked at they got Tablets instead of PCs for workers to fill out digital forms because more people were familiar with smartphones than with PCs. This really hammered home to me how impactful acclimatization is. So I made sure to remember that what *I* am used to, when it comes to interacting with a PC, is not the only or best way, and I can just learn new ways.\n\nI was aware that a lot of Distros have Desktop Environments to support a very Windows-like experience, but since I really wanted to get the most out of this experiment I decided to purposefully not shy away from the dreaded \"Terminal\".\n\n\n**What Distro did I go with?**\n\nSince I mainly use my PC for gaming I was deciding between Bazzite and CachyOS. Since I can just switch whenever, I decided to go with CachyOS first, because it is Arch based. Arch based Distros are supposed to require \"More tinkering\" and I wanted to experience the \"Worst case scenario\" first, without having to dive directly into base Arch or something. \n\nFor my Desktop Environment I just went with the recommended KDE Plasma.\n\n\n**Installation**\n\nI just followed a random online guide for making a bootable USB stick and put CachyOS on it. The installation was very easy, you get a list of options of what to install and I selected what I wanted and waited a bit. Everything worked first try, tho I heard some people having problems that occur when selecting multiple DE (Desktop Environments) at the same time.\n\nUpon first boot I got greeted by \"CachyOS Hello\". A little applet with links to Documentation, support forums, Projects. It has a \"Install Apps\" button with a nice list of \"Popular packages\" for quick installation. I didn't use it since I wanted to learn to install from Terminal. What I *did* end up using CachyOS Hello for was my first System Update and \"Install Gaming Packages\" under the Apps/Tweaks section. As this was recommended in the guide I read. \n\n\n**The first Week**\n\nI wont go week by week, but the first one was by far the most eventful. After installation I could already do most basic things. I had a browser. Pretty much all my stuff, Audio (Speakers & Headphone + Amp), Keyboard, Mouse, High Refresh rate Monitors, Internet just worked. \n\nSo I opened my Browser and looked up a guide for basic Terminal commands. How to know what directory you are in, how to navigate, create a file, delete a file, search for a file, rename etc. I have to admit that this is probably easier for me than for the average user, since I tried programing as an interest before. **I was aware I didn't *need* this**, as the DE was very windows like, but for me this was about learning. In my eyes, people didn't use the Terminal so much for no reason.\n\nI learned how to Install software via the Terminal, got myself Discord and Steam. The reason I went Dual Boot was obviously as a safe fallback, but also because at the time I was playing a lot of 2XKO and Marathon, both of which use Kernel-Level-Anticheat, so I knew those wouldn't run on Linux. \n\nThe only programs I didn't find in the official repository were \"FoundryVTT\" and \"KenkuFM\". \n\nFor Foundry I went to their website and downloaded the provided zip file for Linux. This is where I ran into my first little problem. I could launch the program from the extracted folder, but my system didn't recognize it as an installed application. On CachyOS you can just start typing on your desktop to search Applications/Files and it didn't show up. A quick google search informed me about .desktop files and a read through a thread suggested I can just copy paste one of the existing ones and modify the copy for foundry. This was easily done and taught me something new that would come in useful later. \n\nKenkuFM was a bit trickier. KenkuFM only came for Debian and RedHat, not Arch. As such I had to either convert the Debian version for Arch or use the AUR. I was aware of what the AUR is and the dangers of using it. I decided to use this as a learning opportunity to see how people vet their AUR packages. **This is not recommended**. I purely did this out of my own interest and because the PKGbuild was very easy to parse. It basically just linked back to the github and added a couple more dependencies that were easily checked to be legitimate. \n\nI think even someone less tech savvy could have gotten the Foundry thing set up perfectly. The KenkuFM one on the other hand was a lot harder, though tbf, it was a very niche program. And it is likely that the conversion of the debian file could have just worked or that I could have found an alternative. \n\nThe last two important things I needed were a Shadowplay replacement and Davinci Resolve. \n\nFor the Shadowplay replacement a lot of people recommended GPU Screen Recorder. From an entire month of usage I can only describe it as a better, lighter, less impactful version of Shadowplay. Absolutely love it. \n\nDavinci Resolve is part of the official repository, but I heard about Kdenlive, which was supposed to be a lightweight alternative. I downloaded both. A small problem is that on Linux you don't seem to have license support for H.264 Codecs. I just record and export in AV1 since then and it works perfectly. I mostly use Kdenlive now, since I am not doing any heavy editing and its just plain faster.\n\nI installed about six games in the first week, all of them ran out of the box, zero troubleshooting. Not even switching of Proton versions. \n\n\n**The overall experience during the Month**\n\nI did a few more things in the weeks since and even had a couple more problems. \nThe problems were my Hitbox (For Fighting Games) and a graphics issue with Monster Hunter Rise. For my Hitbox a quick google search helped me learn about the Drivers used for it on CachyOS by default. I learned how to restart that service in the console and it worked after. For MHR, I had flickering in Fullscreen/Borderless Fullscreen. I went to ProtonDB to check if some people posted similar issues. They did and suggested running Proton Version 9 instead, I did and it worked. Tho, by this point I was way more confident in my own abilities to troubleshoot, so I checked the config file of the game and noticed that no matter if I turned VSync on or off (I usually have it off, freesync monitor), it says it was still on in the config. I edited the config and the problem was gone even on the experimental branch of Proton. \n\nFor little projects I completely customized my desktops (PC analytics, usable timer for tea, stylized layout of my own design) and learned a bit more Terminal stuff (Custom ASCII art upon terminal start and a little script I wrote to get the weather in my region without having to check a website). \n\nI have since **installed over 20 games**, a lot for testing purposes. Besides that one problem with MHR, **everything has just been working out of the box.** I don't even check ProtonDB before installing.\n\n.\n.\n\n**My personal conclusion**\n\nI almost feel like I cheated. I am browsing Linux subreddits and its just post with problems after post with problems. But for me everything has just been working. Everything that didn't work was super easy to google, with a bunch of resources and relatively easy to fix. No update has broken anything yet and I run updates daily. \n\nI will stay with Linux as my daily driver for now and here are the major reasons:\n\n**1. Performance and Bloat (Or lack thereof)**\n\nCachyOS just runs better, starts quicker, shuts down quicker. I never have any stutters, waiting for something to close or open. It really feels like the only things on my PC are the things I need and it makes the entire system so much more responsive. \n\n**2. Increase in efficiency when interacting with my PC**\n\nThe biggest difference I noticed between Windows and Linux is that Linux is more Keyboard focused (Even tho you can use it perfectly like windows). I have zero Icons on my desktop, only some widgets. I open programs by simply typing them out. I have a little bar with all my open windows that hides at the bottom and a windows style applications launcher that I never use (Old windows habits). The built-in search functions is fast, responsive and has zero boat. It is absolutely amazing. On top of that, it was really easy to customize my desktop over both screens to *my* personal use case. I have my analytics, a quick button to just pop up a terminal with weather info (I don't like it permanently on my desktop), a timer I can just click on and set for tea that plays a little sound when done. All of it hides from windows and I can move my mouse to the places where they hide to get them if I have something fullscreen. All without having to add third party programs. \n\n**3. I am the one in charge | The double edged sword**\n\nLinux gives the user a lot of power. This is the one thing I learned together with Terminal use. You are the one in charge, if you want something done, you *can* do it. This is both wonderful and scary. There is an unending list of stories of people bricking their system accidentally. I do not feel like I ever came close to it. People in threads, documentations and sometimes even CachyOS itself clearly warned me when I was treading dangerous waters (Like when I modified my Boot Manager to always start the cursor on CachyOS when restarting). \n\nAfter just one month I feel more confident in handling any problem that might arise in Linux than I ever was on Windows. Just accidentally, step by step, I found myself learning more and more about how my system works. I google one small thing and some other things get mentioned and bit by bit all of those things form a better understanding of how everything works. Its not one big sit down, its not scary to learn, it just happens on the side, while looking up little stuff. \n\n**4. FOSS (Free Open Source Software) and Linux alternative software is amazing**\n\nBesides the more commonly named benefits of FOSS or other Linux alternatives I found that they follow the same underlying principle of just doing what you want or need. Everything just runs better and is specifically tuned for its purpose with no fluff. Random examples are Kdenlive. Or Drawy. Or Haruna. Or GPU Screen Recorder. Or filelight, omg, filelight is so quick in scanning your drive for a space-use-breadown, I love it. \n\nI thought finding alternative software was going to be one of the biggest headaches of the switch, instead I constantly found myself vastly preferring the alternatives. Tho I am sure this would not hold true for Professional Grade Software like Adobe or Music Production. But for everyday use applications? Just beautiful.\n\n**Do I recommend you trying Linux?**\n\nYes. 100%. Its free, it only costs you a bit of time, you might learn something. You can even just boot it live from a USB to try. A lot of people say the one thing they want is for \"Everything to just work out of the box\"... this was basically true for me, maybe you get lucky and its the same for you. The few problems I did have with Linux weren't that different from problems I faced on windows, with the simple difference that I had more resources to fix them, which made it a lot easier.\n\nThis might sound stupid, but I am having fun using my PC with Linux. \n\nThanks for reading.\n\n**Specs:** \n\nOS: CachyOS\n\nCPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core\n\nGPU","offTopic":false},{"id":"0ba6050c-6346-41b3-8c15-2c51f29a7cd8","excerpt":"[LONG] My First Year on Linux – A Retrospective — Today my daily driver turned 1 year old! I thought I'll take this opportunity to celebrate, reflect on how it's been going and share my experiences so far.\n\nhttps://imgur.com/hqDOOW4\n\n**The why**\n\nI knew the end of win10 support was looming, and I was less than excited ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1opy2x3/long_my_first_year_on_linux_a_retrospective/","role":"request","weight":1.0684961,"occurredAt":"2025-11-06T12:51:44.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"linux","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.27637443,"sentiment":0.4226804,"confidence":0.8371337,"matchedPatterns":["how_can_i","frustrating","missing_feature","manual_process","praise","product:discord"],"statement":"Apple was a contender, but the lack of user agency and vendor lock-in stays the same, barely any gaming is possible as far as I know, in addition to the rather high upfront cost for the hardware, and my desktop was barely a year old at tha…","title":"[LONG] My First Year on Linux – A Retrospective","body":"Today my daily driver turned 1 year old! I thought I'll take this opportunity to celebrate, reflect on how it's been going and share my experiences so far.\n\nhttps://imgur.com/hqDOOW4\n\n**The why**\n\nI knew the end of win10 support was looming, and I was less than excited about the prospect of moving to win11. The removal of features previous versions of Windows had, and the addition features I did not want, the lower performance in games compared to win10, the horror stories of breaking updates, had me holding off the move for as long as I could. The gradual but consistent removal of user agency already had me frustrated on win10, and it only seemed to get worse with 11.\n\n\"Do you want to update and restart? Your options are Yes, and Yes, but later. Do you want me to ask again? Just kidding, I will anyways. Unless of course I notice your PC idling for an extended period of time, in which case I'll just do it without asking.\" Great.\n\n\"Oh you want to install the OS without logging into our servers? Nooo, no, I can't let you do that. Oh you're doing the little rain dance ritual in the terminal? Allright. Just this once. Oh now you want to have a vertical task bar? Lol. Lmao even. Not on my watch. Now get back to work on those documents I helpfully uploaded to my cloud servers for you.\" Ugh.\n\nThen MS Recall hit the news. That one was a bit too much even for me, but at least I didn't need to care until I upgraded, right? Well, one article mentioned a command to check the service state. I punched it into the console for fun and.... \"Feature Name: Recall. State: Enabled.\" Wait. What? On Windows 10? I didn't see anything? I went snooping around the system files, and there was only a skeleton folder with nothing functional in it, but in my mind that clearly meant they were preparing for something. Now a year later, it still hasn't manifested, so maybe it was just an accidental inclusion, who knows. Either way, that was the last straw for me.\n\n**The what**\n\nSo. Now what. Apple was a contender, but the lack of user agency and vendor lock-in stays the same, barely any gaming is possible as far as I know, in addition to the rather high upfront cost for the hardware, and my desktop was barely a year old at that point, so that was out of the question. I don't hate on Apple, don't get me wrong, it's good hardware and their OS does many things right, it's just not ideal for the cheapskate tinkerer and gamer in me.\n\nI was aware Linux existed though, from having rescued my win98 data from a broken drive using KNOPPIX over a decade ago. I also played around with Ubuntu on my Raspberry PI and ran a webserver for a while, so I knew how to \"apt update && apt upgrade\" and even \"reboot\", but that was pretty much the extent of my knowledge.\n\nSo I figured, If I'm going to do this, I'll have to start from the ground up with something easy, and I'll do it in a virtual machine, just to make sure I can handle it and see how I like it. Not knowing much about distros at that point, I just made sure to choose one from the debian family to keep the familiar package manager, and went with the one I saw recommended a lot- Linux Mint. So I spun up a VMWare VM, and for about two months, I booted into Windows, then immediately opened the VM and fullscreened it, and then just went about my daily business from there.\n\nAnd that phase was surprisingly frictionless. The updates went through the familiar apt without a hitch. Installing Discord and Cinny went fine. Thunderbird synced mails from all my providers with ease. Brainrotting on Youtube worked just fine too. I did install Steam and tried gaming, but lacking proper GPU passthrough, that wasn't exactly a smooth experience. The games I tested did start though, so that was a good sign for the bare metal install.\n\nSo instead I spent some time just getting comfortable with the system, installing software, replacing parts of the system, breaking things and trying to fix them. I got rid of Cinnamon and installed Plasma for its customizability and just binged on all the themes and funny cursors I could find. And that was unfortunately the point where I learned the price you pay for stability. At that time, I was reading news about the release of Plasma 6, with all the fancy features I *needed*, but all I could get from the repos was 5.27. Welp.\n\nI love Mint. It has a special place in my heart now. I cannot stress enough how much I love the devs. Their default answer to any question I looked up seemed to be \"Our professional opinion is that you shouldn't, but if you still want to, here's how.\" The level of respect you feel as a user is just something you don't get on Windows, or even many other distros. I still maintain one doesn't choose Mint over Ubuntu for any technical differences, but because of the amazing developers.\n\nAnyways, at that point I have lurked enough on the subreddits and watched enough Linux Youtube to know about rolling release distros, and to have seen the Arch memes. I guess it wouldn't hurt to check it out. \"Rolling releases...\" Yep. \"...targeted at the proficient GNU/Linux user, or anyone with a do-it-yourself attitude who is willing to read the documentation...\" Okay, that's fine. \"...a pragmatic distribution rather than an ideological one [...] Evidence-based technical analysis and debate are what matter, not politics or popular opinion. \" You know what, I love that. Add new VM.\n\nIt took hours of reading the installation guide, but actually, the installation difficulty was not as high as expected. Download the iso, format the drive, set locale, create a user, install the packages. Same steps as Mint, just without a GUI. Add Plasma on top, and it largely feels the same as my beloved Mint. But now everything is more up to date. Yeah I can do this. Time for the bare metal install.\n\n**The move**\n\nExactly one year ago, I unplugged my Windows drive just to be sure. Picked an older SSD out of storage and plugged that in instead. Still wanted to keep my Windows drive, just in case. I copy pasted all commands I used in the VM into a text file and sent that to my phone, so the second time around very little reading was needed. The installation time dropped from hours to minutes. Pretty sure that was less work than clicking through a GUI installer. Kinda starting to enjoy this terminal thing.\n\nWith the install finished, I plug my Windows drive back in, set up my boot order to prefer Linux, and boot into my fresh system. Everything seems fine except... My mainboard and RAM are lit up like a christmas tree. The RGB versions were on sale and cheaper than the blacked out components, but the software I used on Windows to disable them doesn't exist on Linux. Ah. Didn't consider that.\n\nQuick search later I learn about OpenRGB. Long search later and some help from the OpenRGB Discord, I learn that my RAM brand needs a specific kernel module blacklisted to work with OpenRGB, whatever that means. It does work though, and using the HardwareSync plugin, I can even mirror my Windows setup and have my RAM light up when my CPU reaches critical temperatures. Brilliant!\n\nNext on the order of business, the horizontal scroll wheel on my Logitech mouse doesn't control the volume anymore. I tested this in the VM, I guess it was just properly passed through. On Linux, Logitech software doesn't exist, but Solaar does. Highjack the wheel, bind \"XF86_AudioRaiseVolume\" and \"XF86_AudioLowerVolume\"  to \"up\" and \"down\" respectively et voila! Neat.\n\nNext. My external drives aren't recognized. Quick rummage through the Arch wiki, and an install of ntfs-3g later, that issue is gone too. Everything else? Just... Works? Wifi works, GPU works, gamepad works, Euro Truck Sim Works, Flight Sim works, Stardew Valley and OpenTTD too. Don't really need much more. I could get used to this.\n\n**The Bash excursion**\n\nI used the terminal quite a bit to solve the arising issues by now, so at this point I wasn't afraid of it anymore and excited to explore it. Reading guides, looking at cheat sheets, watching \"Top 100 console commands on Linux you NEED to know! You won't believe #69!\" is great fun and I start to pick up nice qol tips here and there. \"sudo !!\" reruns the previous command with elevated privileges without the need to retype the whole thing. \"!<number from history>\" reruns the given command. \"\\^old\\^new\" reruns the previous command with the given part replaced. The time savings!\n\nLearning about .bashrc was great fun too. I spend hours googling other people's files and set up one letter aliases for my most used commands. I can even have if statements, so I can do things like this, and not even have to think about which of my systems I'm on currently:\n\n    if [ -f /etc/arch-release ]; then\n        # Arch\n        alias u='sudo pacman -Syu'\n        alias i='sudo pacman -S '\n        alias f='pacman -Ss '\n        alias r='sudo pacman -R '\n        alias rr='sudo pacman -Rs '\n        alias rrr='sudo pacman -Rns '\n        alias c='sudo pacman -Sc'\n    elif [ -f /etc/lsb-release ]; then\n        # Debian\n        alias u='sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade'\n        alias i='sudo apt install '\n        alias f='apt search '\n        alias r='sudo apt remove '\n        alias rr='sudo apt purge '\n        alias c='sudo apt autoremove && sudo apt clean'\n    else\n        echo \"Unsupported distribution or cannot detect distribution.\"\n    fi\n\nFunctions work too. A quick one-liner to cd into a directory and list the contents immediately makes the whole thing feel more modern. Why isn't this a default? Whatever, the ability to just add that myself gives me a small taste of the potential power.\n\n    cd() {\n        builtin cd \"$@\" && ls -AF\n    }\n\nAnd while we're at it, why do I need to type out \"cd ~/.config/fastfetch/\" every time I want to go there? Zoxide exists, sure, but that requires precaching, and if I usually only visit a config directory once after installing the package, what even is the point? But Google tells me fzf and fd exist, and a bit of copy pasting snippets from stackoverflow later, I can just \"fz config fastfetch\" at a barely noticeable performance penalty. Now we're talking.\n\n    fz() {\n      local dir\n      dir=$(fd --type d --hidden \\\n               --exclude '.git' \\\n               --exclude 'node_modules' \\\n               --exclude '.cache' \\\n               --exclude '/mnt' \\\n               --exclude '/run' \\\n               --exclude '/proc' \\\n               --exclude '/sys' \\\n               --exclude '/dev' \\\n               . / 2>/dev/null \\\n        | awk '{ print length, $0 }' | sort -n | cut -d' ' -f2- \\\n        | fzf --query=\"$*\" --select-1 --exit-0 \\\n              --extended-exact --no-sort --height 40% --reverse \\\n              --preview 'tree -C {} | head -n 20') \\\n        && cd \"$dir\"\n    }\n\nBeing able to just change the behavior of the shell like that is amazing and makes it feel much more like \"home\". At this point I wanted to write a bit more than just snippets, and having dabbled in game development before, I decided to take what I know and apply it in bash, adding [a leveling system](https://github.com/Divinux/linux-terminal-gamifier) from RPGs to my terminal. It tracks used commands and gives out experience points for using the terminal, and displays fun little messages on level ups, to make using the computer just a little bit more fun. I'll have you know, I'm a lvl 50 currently.\n\nhttps://imgur.com/AvD0bZU\n\n**The unhealthy obsession**\n\nNow, this is the part I'm not proud of. I've come to love Arch. It's philosophy speaks to me and I can't imagine there is a distro that is a better fit for me. But what if... What if there is one and I just don't know it? And anyways, what IS the difference between distros other than the release schedule? How much do the installations actually differ? I've seen the GUI install, I've seen the CLI equivalent, is there something else? And how do the footprints compare, is there anything more lightweight than Arch? Something more challenging? I don","offTopic":true},{"id":"df3b89ae-6063-4981-817e-f3d332190d1c","excerpt":"[RANT] I switched to Windows after 8 years of linux — I feel like I need to get this off my chest, and maybe someone else is in the same boat.\n\nMainly, I do Android reverse engineering/security, sometimes having fun with Python and Rust in Neovim, so terminal is basically my home. 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I loved customization, package managers and I was a huge fan of KDE and its fantastic tools like Kate, Konsole, and my all-time favorite file manager, Dolphin, which I still honestly miss.\n\nI have been daily-driving various Linux distros for 8 years. I started with Ubuntu, playing games with PlayOnLinux, spent a lot of time on Arch, tried Fedora, then hopped to NixOS, but got tired of friction and switched back to Arch.\nBut lately, I've been getting exhausted. I feel like desktop Linux experience is in permanent state of \"almost there.\"\n\n#### **The stuff that finally broke me:**\n##### **Gaming.** \nProton is awesome and I enjoyed seeing the progress every year, but it's not a silver bullet for me. \n\n- I know kernel-level ACs are basically rootkits, bad for privacy etc. but I wanted to play the new Battlefield with a friend who invited me over and over. \n- I also love modding games, and making mod managers to work through Proton is [a special kind of hell](https://github.com/LucaPisl/LinuxModdingGuide). I just want to download (sometimes 🏴‍☠️) game, throw some mods on it and press play.\n- My VR headset was also collecting dust because ALVR and WiVRn just weren't the flawless experience that Virtual Desktop and SteamVR Oculus app are on Windows.\n\n##### **Wayland/X11**. \nThis just drives me nuts. The community tells you X11 is deprecated legacy crap, but you switch to Wayland and see stuff breaking.\nI stream on Discord kinda a lot, but official client didn't had streaming feature for a long time, so I switched to Vesktop. It works great... until it doesn't!\n\n- I was getting a green/black tint a lot (related issues [1](https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop/issues/851), [2](https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop/issues/997), [3](https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop/issues/837)) and degraded stream performance in games. \n- Every time I wanted to switch the streamed window, I'd have to re-select the resolution and framerate, get greeted by the KDE desktop portal and then finally the window is switched. Uh.\n- Sometimes my friends would tell me they could suddenly hear me on the stream.\n- Don't forget about [audio spikes for the one who's streaming](https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop/issues/772), [random bitrate falls](https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop/issues/661), [Chromium auto gain](https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop/issues/661) which leads to the point when friends saying they can't hear you ([and devs don't care](https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop/pull/832))\n\n##### **Minor issues.** \nSometimes my PC got stuck at black screen after sleep. Random radio nerd software like SDR++ doesn't work. [Broken BTRFS](https://blog.fyralabs.com/btrfs-corruption-issues/). I can't remember every single annoyance from my eight years with Linux, but there were a lot of them.\n\n#### **So, what changed? I actually gave modern Windows a shot.**\nI was expecting to tinker with it, use it for one month, hate it and return back to Linux. But I decided to approach Windows 11 as a \"power user\" and found things that changed everything:\n\n##### **The Package Manager I Missed.** **Scoop.** \nI tried winget before and hated it. It felt like a glorified script that just downloads and runs `.exe` installers, asks for UAC, vomiting files all over my system and leaving shit behind. \n**Scoop, on the other hand, feels like the *real* package manager.** It installs portable, self-contained apps to a single directory and handles the PATH. `scoop install neovim git python rustup ghidra ripgrep...` it just works. No mess. It's clean. It feels like homebrew on mac, but for Windows.\n\n##### **WSL2.** \nI get a real Linux kernel with a proper terminal without any of the desktop headaches. No Wayland/X11 drama. The integration is insane now! I can passthrough my phone with `usbipd` and use adb and other tools as if I were on a native Linux box.\nThe crazy part is, **I barely use it.** Because of scoop, almost all the open-source tools I need have a native Windows version that installs in seconds. WSL is just there as an incredible safety net, which I used a couple of times for random scripts from GitHub.\n\n##### **My Takeaway.**\nTo be honest, I've always believed that every OS sucks in its own way. Every OS requires tinkering. The difference is *what* you're tinkering with.\n\nOn Linux, I felt like I was constantly tinkering with the **foundations** just to get basic desktop functionality (gaming, streaming, sleep) to work reliably.\n\nOn my new Windows setup, well, the foundations just work. No sane person can say that Windows is bad in apps, games and hardware support (except printers, probably; CUPS was a godsend). The tinkering I had to do was on the surface, and I did it **once**. I used **[ReviOS](https://revi.cc)** to debloat my Windows install in two clicks, which solved my biggest complaints about bloatware and privacy. Then I installed Scoop and my software.\n\nAfter that one-time setup, I'm finally spending more time doing my work and playing my games instead of fixing my OS. And honestly, it feels great.","offTopic":false},{"id":"fb2c1225-56c9-4a33-9335-f0ce2730aba2","excerpt":"I Tried Linux for Fun. It's Ending With a 7900 XTX and No Windows. — What started as “let me test drive Linux for fun” has somehow turned into a full platform shift and GPU swap I absolutely did not plan on. So yeah. This escalated pretty quickly.\n\nFor almost a year I’d been reading about how much Linux gaming had impr","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1r255sn/i_tried_linux_for_fun_its_ending_with_a_7900_xtx/","role":"request","weight":0.9715333,"occurredAt":"2026-02-11T18:22:02.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"pcmasterrace","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.18,"sentiment":0.5294118,"confidence":0.8233333,"matchedPatterns":["missing_feature","praise"],"statement":"I’d messed with Linux years ago, but the terminal and lack of game support always pushed me back to Windows.","title":"I Tried Linux for Fun. It's Ending With a 7900 XTX and No Windows.","body":"What started as “let me test drive Linux for fun” has somehow turned into a full platform shift and GPU swap I absolutely did not plan on. So yeah. This escalated pretty quickly.\n\nFor almost a year I’d been reading about how much Linux gaming had improved. I’d messed with Linux years ago, but the terminal and lack of game support always pushed me back to Windows. So I figured I’d dip a toe in. Installed Mint on an old Surface Pro. It went well, but obviously you’re not gaming on a Surface.\n\nNext up was Pop!\\_OS on an old work PC. Nothing crazy, but enough to run Portal, Portal 2, Arkham Asylum. And honestly? It ran great. Like… way better than I expected. That’s when I started thinking maybe this was actually viable.\n\nSo I threw Bazzite on dual boot with my main rig.\n\nHoly crap! Almost everything I own just worked out of the box. Yes, stuff like Destiny 2 doesn’t work and probably never will, but games like that are now the exception, not the rule. I can play those on console anyway. So yeah, Linux gaming? Very much not an issue anymore.\n\nBut what about the terminal!? Still there, but way less necessary on these newer distros. And honestly, tools like ChatGPT have made it way more approachable. I can paste in a terminal error and actually understand what’s happening. It’s like having Linux explained to me like I’m eight years old, but shit, I’ll take it!\n\nWindows apps? Every single thing I use has a Linux alternative that works just as well, and in a lot more cases than i would have ever expected, it works better. Hell, even with printing, i didn't even really have to do anything,. Bazzite found my printer, and where windows would fire random errors or just not print, Bazzite just fucking works perfectly every time. And there’s a ton of other apps and programs that i keep finding that I would never have thought to get because I would’ve paid out the ass for something similar on Windows.\n\nSo I’m sitting there thinking, this is it. I’m switching. But wait! My RGB isn’t working quite right.\n\nAfter days of tweaking I figure it out. It’s my Lian Li fans. Proprietary nonsense and without a ton of advanced tweaking that I'm not comfortable doing, they arent going to work. Minor issue, I know, but it drove me nuts. There has to be a way to fix this!\n\nDown the rabbit hole I go.\n\nI find the Phanteks D30s. Similar look, easy daisy chain, Linux friendly. I’m in. Except they’re thicker and won’t really fit cleanly in my Be Quiet 500DX.\n\nOh well, that's that. Forget the whole thing. It either all works or not. No half way bullshit for me!\n\nAt the same time, my rabbit holes searching teaches me that my 4TB SSD that I’m using for PLEX/Media Drive doesn’t actually need to be SSD. Most people just use HDD, and I just happened to have an old 8TB drive sitting around. Lets pull that sucker out and move everything over\n\nExcept… again… the case is cramped. Shit.\n\nCan you see where this is going?\n\nFuck it! New case it is! And since I'm getting the case, might as well get those fans too!\n\nA week later and I’ve got a Phanteks NV5 MKII and eight D30s on the way. Reviewers weren’t lying. The case is gorgeous and stupid easy to work in. Definitely an upgrade and it was well worth it IMO.\n\nOkay, so now i can switch to Linux and be done with windows forever, right? Buuuuuuuut.... if I’m going Linux full time, AMD would probably make more sense, right? I mean... Mesa, Proton, long-term support. All good stuff, right? And  yeah, NVIDIA is fine and was working well, but I don’t care about ray tracing. I’ve always thought it was kind of a glorified screenshot filter anyway. Also, I don't use DLSS and that 12 gigs of vram is starting to age. Maybe I should just try a lateral move. like a 9070 or 9070 xt?\n\nThen the universe hands me a a damn miracle. Dude on Facebook Marketplace has an XFX MERC 310 7900 XTX and wants to trade for a white Nvidia card.\n\nThat’s me, but wouldn't that be a downgrade for him? Fuck it, I'll ask.\n\nWe do an even trade and I sell my old case, fans, and my Quest 2 with accessories. Somehow, after all of this chaos, I’m actually about even.\n\nSo now my project for this week is to install the 7900 XTX, migrate my media drive to the hdd, wipe Windows, and go full Linux.\n\nAll because about 2 months ago, I wanted to “see how Linux gaming was these days.”\n\nThats my story. thanks for reading all of this.\n\n  \nEdit: Didn’t expect this to blow up like it did. Appreciate everyone who shared their thoughts, even the ones I disagree with. Just to clarify, this wasn’t meant to be an anti-Windows post or a recruitment pitch. It was just a story about how one small experiment snowballed into a bigger upgrade. Use whatever works for you. Peace!","offTopic":true},{"id":"9ba458ea-6573-440a-b98e-7b77288a5769","excerpt":"I've finally escaped the grasp of Microsoft with Bazzite. — All aboard, I'm taking you on a trip to Yappersville.\n\nIt's been about 2 weeks since I gave the middle finger to Windows 11, and I will never go back. Not unless [Bazzite](https://bazzite.gg/) gets nuked off the face of the planet.\n\nNow I know that for some of","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1o52ug8/ive_finally_escaped_the_grasp_of_microsoft_with/","role":"request","weight":0.87626666,"occurredAt":"2025-10-12T22:32:04.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"pcmasterrace","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.24,"sentiment":0.57575756,"confidence":0.70666665,"matchedPatterns":["wish"],"statement":"If I was to give one criticism to LACT it would be that I wish it would behave like Adrenalin does, set the profile you want and forget about it, but from the limited testing I've done it seems like the app needs to be open for the fan cur…","title":"I've finally escaped the grasp of Microsoft with Bazzite.","body":"All aboard, I'm taking you on a trip to Yappersville.\n\nIt's been about 2 weeks since I gave the middle finger to Windows 11, and I will never go back. Not unless [Bazzite](https://bazzite.gg/) gets nuked off the face of the planet.\n\nNow I know that for some of you escape isn't possible, because of kernel level anti-cheat games like Battlefield 6 being unable to be played on Linux, but, as a single player only gamer, I figured I'd share how my journey has been going.\n\nProvided that they don't have kernel level anti-cheat, Steam games are plug and play, no configuration needed. In fact, I learned that you can hurt the out of box experience a lot if you are like me, thinking additional launch options are needed for every game, such as using [Gamescope](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope), which is usually recommended by everyone, at least it used to be a year ago when I last tried switching to Linux (and lasted one whole day, after which I ran back to Windows 11 lmao). Nope. Adding the following launch options flag to Doom 2016\n\n>gamescope -w 2560 -h 1440 -W 2560 -H 1440 -f --force-grab-cursor --mangoapp -- %command%\n\nresulted in worse performance than when I removed it. Due to trying to ditch Microsoft and failing so many times, I didn't even stop to consider that most tinkering that was essentially required a year ago for games to function properly is simply not needed with Bazzite. The developers don't even ship [Feral Gamemode](https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode) with their distro anymore, because they use a specific scheduler that does all the magic. If you told me before that Gamemode would be borderline obsolete on a Linux gaming distro, I would laugh in your face but alas, here we are. I ended up only using mangohud %command% to enable the performance overlay (like MSI Afterburner/RivaTuner overlay on Windows).\n\nGTA IV modding is done the exact same way it would be on Windows. DXVK mod, FusionFix, Various Fixes, all of these mods install and work the same way they would on Windows 11.\n\nAlright, so, what about non-Steam games? [Lutris](https://lutris.net/) is included in the distro, but I ended up not using it because the [Heroic Games Launcher](https://heroicgameslauncher.com/), an app I also used on Windows in recent times, is available through the Bazaar (think Microsoft Store but actually good and useful, with amazing apps you'd actually want on your system). It's literally the same app with seamless integration with Epic, GOG and Amazon Games. GTA V (installed through Epic) worked completely fine. I don't know about GTA Online, but story mode works without any issues.\n\nI also downloaded [ProtonPlus](https://github.com/Vysp3r/ProtonPlus) which seems to be a very helpful tool for managing proton versions, but it's just been sitting there because of how easy it was to just download and play games.\n\nNow this is the part that blew my mind, and I don't want this post to get nuked nor do I want to get banned, so I'll have to chose my words carefully. Amélie is my favorite French movie of all time and Audrey Justine Tautou is my favorite French actress of all time. Yours too? Awesome, you understand what I mean! Well, those games also install the same way that they do on Windows! I could not believe it but it is true. They launch through Heroic with no problem.\n\nBy this point I was completely stunned, I was like \"Is this it? Have I escaped the clutches of Bill Gates? Nah... How will I replace FanControl? And how will I be able to tweak my GPU settings, adjusting the fan curve, all of that good stuff I'm used to doing in Adrenalin software...\". This side of computer nerdom isn't really talked about when people bring up switching to Linux. GPU and fan control software is a must for me, as is RivaTuner Statistics Server for overlay monitoring. Enter [LACT](https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT), [MangoJuice](https://github.com/radiolamp/mangojuice) and [CoolerControl](https://gitlab.com/coolercontrol/coolercontrol). Silly, if a little bit creative names aside, these apps are amazing, intuitive and with the exception of CoolerControl, don't require much, if any configuration in order to be used. CoolerControl only needed me to run one terminal command (which I found in their documentation, very useful to RTFM as we all know) and all of the sensors showed up after I did that.\n\n[MangoJuice](https://preview.redd.it/fgo03vw53ruf1.png?width=1546&format=png&auto=webp&s=10e062179b76534a810290fc5a8c9580c0548ac7)\n\n[LACT OC Tab](https://preview.redd.it/m0fvdvw53ruf1.png?width=1056&format=png&auto=webp&s=d87c37235523b0a2f1e1939b7c89bd3961f371bf)\n\n[LACT GPU Fan curve](https://preview.redd.it/tzs6bvw53ruf1.png?width=1059&format=png&auto=webp&s=16ecf5b13e195ab692f775095665bd37e183fa42)\n\n[CoolerControl](https://preview.redd.it/io9druw53ruf1.png?width=2346&format=png&auto=webp&s=01fedf1cad78136326f59d0bbd7f41dc488fd1ab)\n\n[CoolerControl \\\\\"Mix\\\\\" profile, fans ramping up as GPU and\\/or CPU get hotter.](https://preview.redd.it/ar2k0jv45ruf1.png?width=2344&format=png&auto=webp&s=960b2bc0fde5272dc18a3842d4a3f753f11d9fa8)\n\nMy PC is configured the exact same way it was on Windows. CoolerControl boots up with the system the same way FanControl used to and naturally uses a config that is literally the same as FanControl, with the case fans ramping up as the CPU/GPU gets hot. LACT functions the same way I used to use MSI Afterburner back when I had an Nvidia GPU, open it up when you're playing a game and the profile is applied. If I was to give one criticism to LACT it would be that I wish it would behave like Adrenalin does, set the profile you want and forget about it, but from the limited testing I've done it seems like the app needs to be open for the fan curve profile to be applied. Though I'm not sure about this 100%, because I've noticed the LACT daemon running in the background when the app itself is closed, so I dunno. MangoJuice is configured the way I want it to and it's even better than RTSS, because I don't even have to launch the app in order for the overlay to be there, I just add a flag to game launch options on Steam or tick a box in Heroic options to have mangohud on, and the toogle overlay shortcut works the same way it would on RTSS.\n\nI've seen more and more people rightfully complain about Microsoft's BS and I'm here to tell you, IT'S POSSIBLE TO ESCAPE WINDOWS. Now more than ever. I honestly cannot believe that this switch has been going as smooth as it did. A part of me is waiting for the other shoe to drop. I don't know what could possibly happen to prompt me running back to Microsoft. Before when I tried to switch, there always was a catch with the distros I tried, Ubuntu was slow to roll in newer versions of packages, Arch and Arch based distros sometimes broke an app and, being only an intermediate Linux user, not an expert, I didn't want to fix my OS all the time instead of using it, bla bla bla I could go on and on about why I faltered in the past. None of this is a problem with Bazzite because it's an immutable distro, which is just a fancy word for saying you can't break it, it simply doesn't allow you to, and if something goes wrong with the non-immutable part of the system, rolling back seems to be very easy from the light reading I did about it in their documentation.\n\nThe skeptic in me tells me that this is too good to be true. And, I don't know, maybe it is. Maybe if you have an Nvidia GPU which has historically had trouble with Linux, maybe if you decide to switch it wouldn't be smooth sailing, I really don't know. JayzTwoCents recent videos about Linux make me think I somehow, someway got lucky, maybe it's only this particular 7800 XT unit and particular 5700X3D unit that have the penguin gene in them, I don't know. What I do know is that if the day comes that Bazzite dies, I'll be one sad, sad penguin. Same goes with any of the apps I talked about, to be honest. Even though it's inevitable that forks of these start popping up should they cease development, I'm skeptical that it would be this seamless to set everything up, it always is like that. For now, I'll just try and enjoy the fact I'm free from Microsoft.\n\nIf all of this managed to convince you to give Bazzite a try and you are interested in switching, please first make sure you can run the games you play on Linux. [ProtonDB](https://www.protondb.com/) is a good source for that. Also, if you have an Nvidia GPU, familiarize yourself with the current situation with Nvidia cards and Linux, I don't know of any developments ever since I bought my 7800 XT. Last time I tried Linux with an Nvidia GPU I didn't have any problems, and that was even before Bazzite existed as a distro, so your mileage may vary.\n\nNo idea if I formatted all of this well, hopefully it wasn't a hard read.\n\nAlright, we have arrived to our destination, Yappersville, Reddit. Thank you for using Baldwin Express!","offTopic":true},{"id":"1f5478de-12ae-4906-bad7-5723bd43383c","excerpt":"I thought desktop Linux was hopeless. Then I found Omarchy. — I thought it was over. Like, maybe AluminumOS / Android desktop eventually saves us, but until then we’re just stuck suffering. MacOS sucks. \n\nWindows is a joke. \n\nAnd Ubuntu… c’mon. It’s not good. We all secretly know it. It’s just the best thing we have. \n","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/omarchy/comments/1vu4hmg/i_thought_desktop_linux_was_hopeless_then_i_found/","role":"request","weight":0.8104429,"occurredAt":"2026-08-21T03:07:46.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"omarchy","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.36,"sentiment":0.023255814,"confidence":0.5959139,"matchedPatterns":["missing_feature"],"statement":"And apparently the missing ingredient in desktop Linux was someone being willing to say: no, this is the default because we think it’s good.","title":"I thought desktop Linux was hopeless. Then I found Omarchy.","body":"I thought it was over. Like, maybe AluminumOS / Android desktop eventually saves us, but until then we’re just stuck suffering. MacOS sucks. \n\nWindows is a joke. \n\nAnd Ubuntu… c’mon. It’s not good. We all secretly know it. It’s just the best thing we have. \n\nUbuntu can be buggy, laggy, weirdly outdated in places, and excessively raw. \n\nEveryone loves saying, “but you can customize everything!” Yeah. That’s part of the problem. \n\nI don’t want to customize everything. I want to be fed something. A coherent OS. \n\nGive me something opinionated and polished, while still giving me full control when I actually want it. \n\nImagine Android with no AVB and proper “su” access. That’s basically the dream. It’s opinionated by default, but underneath it, it’s yours. That’s called a rooted phone. \n\nNot a smooth process. \n\nUbuntu doesn’t just give you control. Sometimes it feels more accurate to say it abandons you. Completely. \n\nIt doesn’t care what your experience is supposed to feel like because it barely has a “self.” It’s a solid kernel with a desktop sitting on top. People need more than that. \n\nObviously not Microslop. \n\nNot Google or Apple controlling the entire thing either. Just something beautifully in the middle. Anyway, I’d basically given up and was sadly using Ubuntu… UNTIL I FOUND OMARCHY. Holy shit, this thing kills. \n\nFirst of all: who the fuck made all these sleep animations??? \n\nThey’re so cool. Everything is simple. Clean. \n\nConsistent. The whole OS feels like a TUI that died and got sent to paradise. Google Messages. \n\nWhatsApp. \n\nZen Browser. \n\nGOD.\n\nIt’s all such obvious common-sense stuff, yet somehow I couldn’t get this experience anywhere else. \n\nSome little thing crashes?\n\nBam. \n\nClaude Code opens and helps fix it. I genuinely hope it can open a pull request too because yes, I will absolutely let it. And the Remove menu. \n\nHOW LONG DID WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR THIS LEVEL OF COMMON SENSE? Remove package. Remove TUI. \n\nRemove service. \n\nWow. What really gets me isn’t even any one feature. It’s that Omarchy actually has taste. Someone made decisions. \n\nSomeone clearly sat down and thought about how the whole thing should feel instead of just throwing 400 options at you and calling that freedom. \n\nThe defaults make sense. The keyboard-first workflow makes sense. The menus make sense. \n\nThings feel discoverable without feeling dumbed down. It gives you insane control without constantly reminding you that you’re responsible for assembling your own operating system. And somehow it takes a bunch of stuff that normally feels nerdy, fragmented and unfinished on Linux and turns it into one coherent experience. \n\nHyprland, TUIs, terminal tools, web apps, scripts - individually none of that is revolutionary. \n\nThe integration is. That’s probably what impresses me most. Omarchy doesn’t feel like “a distro with a bunch of packages installed.” It feels like somebody actually had a vision for what using the computer should be like. \n\nAnd apparently the missing ingredient in desktop Linux was someone being willing to say: no, this is the default because we think it’s good. \n\nIt’s one of those things where you use it and immediately think, “Why the hell wasn’t Linux always like this?” So seriously, thanks to everyone building Omarchy. This is beautiful work. \n\nI’m a software engineer and I’d genuinely love to contribute. Is there somewhere I can see a roadmap, checklist, issues, or basically a “here’s what we still need help with” list? Point me at it. \n\nOne thing I’d personally love to see as a default option: a simple toggle for normal top-right window controls like basically every other desktop OS. \n\nMinimize, maximize, close. Somehow. Somewhere. Just give the normies our three little buttons Other than that… Beautiful fucking work.","offTopic":false}],"breakdown":[{"sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","count":8},{"sourceKey":"hackernews","sourceName":"Hacker News","count":1},{"sourceKey":"lemmy","sourceName":"Lemmy","count":1}],"total":10}}