cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34247715

Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?

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[–] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Love it (CachyOS). For the most part, everything "just works." I have no plans to go back—not even wishful musings.

There have been a few...let's call them...stnanks.

  • Not all of the sensors were recognized for my motherboard out of the box. The important ones, like basic CPU temp and a few others were fine, but more granular ones, like fan speed, Tjunc, Tdie, etc. were missing. I like to apply my own fan curves based on various sensor conditions, so this was a sticking point initially.
    • Thankfully, the Arch wiki and a thanklessly maintained dkms module for this specific (problematic) chipset came to my rescue. Pretty easy to get set up.
  • A small number of very specific games and mods don't work on Linux. If you exclusively play competitive online games, there's a good chance you are going to be out of luck.
    • I have friends that play League, but I'm not willing to give up Linux just for that one game. Plenty of other multiplayer games out there that work just fine.
  • Audio routing is both easier and more difficult.
    • There's great GUIs to manage audio connections.
    • Trying to get automatic connections going, like with VoiceMeeter, is a lot more technical and involves learning Lua and Pipewire/Wireplumber. Not impossible, and audio tends to work just fine otherwise, but if you want a specific custom setup, it will take some effort.

Overall, I wouldn't trade what I have for Microsoft any day of the week. I'm done being their product.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Recently learned about cachy and installed it yesterday to give it a try. I love it. It's like arch, so that's nice if you're already familiar with arch, but a little less manual, and more functional out of the box; literally every bit of hardware wierdness on my 2in1 laptop just worked out of the box. Also, I love the fish terminal.

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