EDIT: Since I mentioned it I might as well link it
Gone from Windows to Ubuntu based to Fedora based to finally an Arch based distro with CachyOS over the last couple of years and I have never once regretted making the jump.
Especially since I still have a windows install that I use for a couple of very specific uses that I can’t do on Linux and it’s a pain in the proverbial every single time.
Finally cutting the cord on Windows due to finally breaking free from the last bits of software keeping you there feels so good.
When those gaps in when you boot into that Windows partition get further and further apart until the day it finally happens. The day that you no longer remember the last time you booted into that Windows machine. The day you can finally let yourself be free.
For me the last pieces were Lightroom and Fusion360.
Freedom is my top feeling too! I was so, SO miserable on Windows. Every task felt like a chore. Haven’t felt that way on Bazzite once, even if some things take an extra step here and there!
Extracting files from xbox 360 discs is my last hurdle. Unfortunately linux systems won’t let you have files with ~ in, meaning I need to do it on windows. Once I’ve backed up all my discs (completely legally) I can finally ditch that partition.
I’m pretty sure all the Linux filesystems I’ve ever used don’t care about tilde. You might have to escape it or quote it if you’re typing it into a shell, since the shell might try to replace it with your homedir, but I don’t think the FS cares.
On my ext4 FS I was able to
touch me~owjust now with no issues.It’s something to do with the extraction not liking it, when I run the same disc through the same program on windows it runs fine but doing it on Linux throws an error.
Yeah it’s the program,
~is not an issue in filenames, Vim even uses it as a character in the temp file it creates when editing a file. Is a VM something that could work for that specific usecase? I know I have one just to upddate my logitech devicesI’ve found a better program that’s more reliable, it’s still on windows but in a few more sessions I’ll have all my discs ripped and can ditch the whole thing
I don’t know a lot about stuff, but is there a reason you’re backing up the files off the disks, rather than imaging the disks into an ISO or something? I’ve never owned a 360 disk, so maybe there’s some reason I don’t know.
So I can play them on my modded 360
Did you find a good alternative to fusion?
FreeCAD since it’s gone to 1.0 has been my replacement and it’s been quite nice to work with
It’s got a bit of a learning curve because of some different workflow things but all in all I’ve been enjoying it
That’s good to hear. I’m hoping freeCAD has a Renaissance similar to blender did the last few years that makes it competitive with the popular closed source tools, but it sounds like it’s getting there.
I’d love to see it take off like Blender has recently, it’s definitely on the right path as of late
I accidentally convinced my friend to try CachyOS last week. Despite owning a Steamdeck he didn’t know Proton worked outside of SteamOS and was surprised when I said I was playing on Linux (even though I’m sure I mentioned it ages ago). He then decided to give it a go and picked CachyOS himself.
Let me suggest you EndeavorOS
I use Mint, by the way.
Why is cachyOS the current thing?
It’s very optimized.
I’m a NixOS fanboy now :/
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I recently swapped from Aurora, a Fedora immutable distro with KDE, to Cachy on my AMD 7040 Framework 13. I’m loving it. I use plain Arch on my desktop, so I felt right at home for the most part, and it really does just work.
It also fuckin’ flies my dudes.
I’ll Bully Spam every gaming CEO until they support ONE god damn Linux distro like SteamOS. SLOP MICROSLOP SLOP, anticheat doesn’t fix shit! BF6 is basically proof.
On W11 I have gotten 2 popup ads for copilot today. Linux users, i know you think W11 is bad but its worse than you think.
CachyOS is a good option. maybe not as a brand new person to Linux but it’s fast and has everything you need.
Bazzite is fine too if you just depend on flatpaks which might make a windows to linux transition easier.
I’m currently trying PikaOS for the week and it’s ok. It’s fast, games as well if not ever so slightly better than CachyOS, but it feels a little TOO opinionated. For example if you install the Niri version (and I assume the hyprland version also) Kitty is baked into it to the point were potentially removing kitty breaks other dependencies. I don’t like that. Kitty is a bloated mess of a terminal and I’d much rather use Foot. Also the Pikabar thing is garbage. it’s a fork of Noctalia with ALL the options stripped out of it for whatever reason. But PikaOS is very easy to install and fairly minimal with what it does install. It’s nice but it’s kinda all over the place with things.
I’ll probably just end up going back to NixOS in a week anyways.
It’s worth mentioning that Bazzite is atomic, so it’s a hassle if you need to install any non flatpak stuff. Installing and setting up my canon laser printer driver was such a hassle I switched back to nobara.
i used to use cacht, but after updating to kde plasma 6.6 it would freeze after i put the correct login and password. thankfully it has snapshots, so i could just not update it for a while.
i waited for 6.6.1, and instead of freezing it just closed and reopened the login page. 6.6.2 went back to freexing forever.
so i gave up, and installed base arch to see if that’d work, and it did! i also found out that archinstall is a thing! (i had installed arch manually many times a while back, and the clock time always broke) i did break it once by not configing limine snapper correctly, but now it’s great, and feels basically equal to cachy (except things don’t break and there isn’t a bunch of unecessary programs installed)
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They really do be taking the pis out of pistachios.
I switched to cachyos recently from nobara, and I’m facing an annoying bug. I have a 2.1 sound bar connect to my monitor, which connects to my PC via display port. My audio keeps cutting out when watching movies on stremio or playing games on steam. It comes back whenever I press the volume key, but goes away when there’s silence or low volume. It also comes back automatically when there is a sudden increase in volume. For example, during bgm, the sound cuts off, but when somebody suddenly starts talking it comes back on, but not all the time, if that makes sense.
That’s a weird way to spell FreeBSD 😈
Arch?
