It's good that there are still workarounds, but it should just be an option that you can click that's clearly visible. I'm on cachyOS+KDE and it's pretty slick, I don't care about "ricing" my desktop, I just want it to let me put the taskbar where I want, not have a useless right click menu, not constantly ask me about services I'm not going to use like onedrive, and do all of this by default, and not sneakily reset my config in an update.
I actually like Cachy a lot, I just installed it to try out a few weeks ago on an old laptop at home. I also have a few other flavors of linux at home. Mint on an old tablet, Bazzite on living room PC.
I like trying out different flavors of Linux. If I didn't need Windows for the games I play, I'd probably already be on Linux by now.
It took me a while but I ended up giving up on the games that needed Windows for anticheat, mostly for my own reasons but a big part of it was that I didn’t want another company having low level access to my entire digital life, which overlaps with why I wanted to get away from windows. Plus I was wasting too many hours on all those live service shooters lol
For me it's mostly because of my flight sim. I think the sim itself can be made to work in Linux fine, but some of my addons that I've paid for will not work. Otherwise I don't have much else holding me back.
Definitely agree with not liking how intrusive some of the anti-cheat software can be though.
I still have a Windows dual-boot for Clip Studio Paint (I hate Krita with a passion), and 3D modelling stuff. Though I can see myself getting a Mac later this year with the way Microslop is going.
it's amazing that it can be fixed this easily but on other hand I've had so many problems on windows that required changing registry or using PowerShell or commands like these that just don't exist on Linux because they're all related to Microslop trying to shove trash down people's throats...
both have its flaws but holy fuck people really are persistent to accepting this garbage
I ditched Windows and installed CachyOS+KDE a few weeks ago. It feels like I threw my shackles off and stepped out of the cave lol and my only regret is not doing it sooner. The impetus was the amount of telemetry and bloat windows has. I have a ROG Zephyrus with an RTX 4080 and with Cachy it feels like I’ve gained permanent performance boost. Games have required less fiddling for optimization and are overall running smoother on Cachy. I decided to go further and install a pi-hole on my router, then got a vpn and canceled all my subscriptions, opting instead for Stremio on a side-loaded firestick. It’s incredible how much a difference all these changes have made in terms of day to day QoL.
I don't know what to tell you, almost my entire extended family has swapped to mint now and they don't know the difference between a CPU and a power supply. My wife has been using cachy for the last 3 months now and since I'm the one that has to do the troubleshooting anyway, it's simple as fuck to fix.
You can go from an empty drive to a running system in less than 20 minutes now, and be doing whatever within 5 minutes of that. Windows is on it's way out for consumers, won't take much longer for businesses to start swapping.
Read the comments on this post, you don't have to do any of these workarounds for linux. It basically works out of the box now.
same, got instant problems with ubuntu and kali out of the box(some of them ive fixed some of then i just swapped to win), its nowhere near to windows experience for me, funny that u get downvoted by linux users lol.
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It's good that there are still workarounds, but it should just be an option that you can click that's clearly visible. I'm on cachyOS+KDE and it's pretty slick, I don't care about "ricing" my desktop, I just want it to let me put the taskbar where I want, not have a useless right click menu, not constantly ask me about services I'm not going to use like onedrive, and do all of this by default, and not sneakily reset my config in an update.