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It's actually slightly faster than Mint, nice.

I haven't had any issues at all, even though my potato laptop has an nvidea I didn't have to configure drivers, and unlike mint it actually knows when to automatically switch from the intergracted gpu.

Have had a couple of weird things happen with the bluetooth randomly disconnecting/reconnecting (but that also happened on Mint)

I'm scared of the more haphazard updates screwing the stability, buuut as far as I can tell there is a backup function that is automatic and can be accessed fine from the boot menu

KDE Plasma is pretty and I spent a whole day customizing that shit, it looks terrible now but it's mine. I now have a crusty 3D geocities ass cursor. Please recommend anything cool I can do to customize this thing. Gimmie ugly widgets too.

Games run better, but I have encountered a graphical glitch in Baldurs Gate 3 where my characters helmet disappears but only when talking to Volo, which is weird. Tried three different protons and still it persists.

So far the terminal is easy but I'm not sure how I'll go if I actually have to do more than basic things. Is there a good tutorial and learning terminal out there? I'd like to actually understand exactly what I'm doing with this thing.

Anyway expect me to come crying for help the moment I screw something up (I will)

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[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 2 points 22 minutes ago

CachyOS uses fish as its default login shell instead of the default bash or the more modern zsh. Fish is definitely more "user friendly". I use it, but I would not try to learn on it. Most of your tutorials will assume you're working in bash or some POSIX compliant shell.

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 3 points 37 minutes ago* (last edited 36 minutes ago) (1 children)

Distro hopping is a rite of passage. You are now officially a linux nerd.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 12 minutes ago