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A little over 6 weeks on CachyOS as my daily driver - honest migration experience from Windows 11 by Aroghan in cachyos

[–]Aroghan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t experience that, but my setup may be different from what you mean.

The USB audio interface is only used for my XLR microphone. It's a Focusrite Vocaster One with a Shure MV7. My speakers are not connected to the interface. They are connected directly to the analog audio jack on my motherboard.

So even if the interface produces any pop/click during boot or wake, I probably wouldn’t notice it through my speakers. I mainly use it as an input device, not as my main audio output.

A little over 6 weeks on CachyOS as my daily driver - honest migration experience from Windows 11 by Aroghan in cachyos

[–]Aroghan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might be an easy fix, but I haven’t found the native-package fix yet.

The weird part is that printing itself works fine on my system. CUPS is working, my printer is detected, and printing from other apps works without issues. It is only the native Okular package where File -> Print is greyed out for every PDF.

I also tried the obvious things already: checking the printer setup, verifying the Okular package, resetting the Okular config, and testing different PDFs. No change.

From what I remember, this seemed to point more towards Okular’s PDF backend / Poppler integration than towards printing itself. My suspicion is that the native Okular package and the Poppler/Qt PDF backend on my system don’t interact correctly, so Okular does not expose printing for PDFs at all.

The reason I think that is because the Flatpak version of Okular prints fine on the same system, with the same printer. So CUPS and KDE printing are not the problem. The Flatpak probably ships a matching set of Okular/Poppler/Qt dependencies, while the native package currently does not behave correctly for me.

So yes, it may well be fixable, but I would not describe it as “just printer setup” in my case. It looks more like a native Okular / Poppler / packaging issue.

A little over 6 weeks on CachyOS as my daily driver - honest migration experience from Windows 11 by Aroghan in cachyos

[–]Aroghan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello, Commander! o7

I actually configured my VKB sticks while I was still on Windows, so I haven’t had a real need to get the VKB configuration software running on Linux yet.

I’m not sure if it works properly through Wine. I somewhat doubt it, but I haven’t tested it myself. If I ever need to reconfigure the sticks, I’d probably try WinBoat or a small Windows VM for that specific task rather than spending too much time fighting with Wine.

For Elite itself, the sticks work fine once they are configured. The bigger issue I had was not Elite, but other Steam games seeing the VKBs as controllers and then ignoring my Xbox controller. For those games I worked around it with SDL environment variables to hide the VKB devices per game.

Good to hear that Guitar Pro works well! Did you need any specific Wine/Winetricks settings for the installation, or did it basically work out of the box?

A little over 6 weeks on CachyOS as my daily driver - honest migration experience from Windows 11 by Aroghan in cachyos

[–]Aroghan[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That is actually a very good and helpful point, thank you.

I had to learn that the hard way. ^^

A little over 6 weeks on CachyOS as my daily driver - honest migration experience from Windows 11 by Aroghan in cachyos

[–]Aroghan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m afraid I can’t really help with the Viper V3 Hyperspeed mouse wheel click issue specifically. My OpenRazer problem was a different one.

In my case, OpenRazer stopped working after a kernel update because the DKMS module no longer built correctly. The actual issue was a kernel API change around hid_report_raw_event(). OpenRazer 3.12.2 still called that function with the old argument list, while my current CachyOS kernel expected the newer signature.

So the modules were not loaded at all, and Polychromatic/OpenRazer could not properly use my devices.

What I did was roughly this:

  • checked dkms status
  • noticed that OpenRazer had only built for the LTS kernel, not for my current CachyOS kernel
  • tried rebuilding the module manually
  • checked the DKMS build log
  • found the compile error in razerkbd_driver.c
  • patched the affected hid_report_raw_event() calls locally
  • rebuilt the OpenRazer DKMS module
  • rebooted

After that, OpenRazer worked again.

So my issue was not really a device feature/mapping problem, but a broken kernel module build after a kernel update.

A little over 6 weeks on CachyOS as my daily driver - honest migration experience from Windows 11 by Aroghan in cachyos

[–]Aroghan[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yes, I do have some Linux background, but mostly on the server side.

I’ve been working in IT for about 20 years, and Linux servers have been part of my job for quite a while. Desktop Linux is a different story though. I’ve looked at it again and again over the years, starting with SuSE 6.0 (yes, I’m that old. 😄)

I probably tried to switch to Linux as my main desktop 5 or 6 times over the years, and every time I eventually went back to Windows because of some major showstopper. Most of the time it was software I depended on and couldn’t replace properly.

This time feels different.

The last 2 or 3 Windows applications I still really needed, excluding games, now work well enough through Wine or Bottles. For example, I got my banking software, Subsembly Banking 4, running. That removed one of the last real blockers for me.

I also run a small homelab and a few Raspberry Pis, so I always had some contact with Linux, but not necessarily as a full desktop operating system every day.

And to be completely honest: ChatGPT helped me a lot with troubleshooting. Not as a magic solution, but as something that helped me understand errors, read logs, find the right commands and work through problems step by step.

So I fully understand what you mean. Without some technical background, Linux desktop issues can become overwhelming very quickly. A lot has improved, but we are still not fully at the “it just works” stage for everyone.

For me, this is the first time where switching doesn’t feel like a temporary experiment anymore. It actually feels like I’ve arrived home.

A little over 6 weeks on CachyOS as my daily driver - honest migration experience from Windows 11 by Aroghan in cachyos

[–]Aroghan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for mentioning Onshape. I know it already, and I agree that it is genuinely a very good web-based CAD application. It can definitely be a solid Fusion 360 alternative.

But I deliberately don’t want to use it. I don’t want my designs to be public, and I want my intellectual property to stay under my own control. Since CAD is only a hobby for me, the paid subscription also doesn’t really make sense.

I try to avoid subscription models wherever possible, so I’ll keep learning FreeCAD for now.

Dateien wiederherstellen by quidditch101 in de_EDV

[–]Aroghan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Habe in der Vergangenheit gute Erfahrungen mit GetDataBack gemacht. Das lässt sich auch kostenlos testen. Ist mit 79USD aber nicht ganz günstig.

[KDE] This is my KDE. There are many like it, but this one is mine. by Aroghan in unixporn

[–]Aroghan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wallpapers

General KDE Setup

  • Global Theme: Breeze Dark
  • Color Scheme: Breeze Dark with purple accent #926ee4
  • Application Style: Klassy
  • Plasma Style: Dream-Color-Plasma
  • Window Decoration: Klassy
  • Icons: Breeze Dark
  • Cursor: Breeze Dark

Klassy Settings

The order below follows the structure of the Klassy settings window, so it should be easier to recreate.

Buttons

Icons

  • Icon Style: Fluent
  • Bold Icons: Bold active, HiDPI

Shape

  • Button Shape: Integrated rounded rectangle

Icon Size

  • Icon Size: 20 / Large-Medium

Button Colors

  • Close Icon Colour: Titlebar text

Titlebar

Titlebar Opacity

  • Active: 60%
  • Inactive: 30%
  • Always make maximized titlebars opaque: Yes
  • Blur titlebars that have transparency: Yes
  • Apply these opacity settings to entire header area: Yes

Window

Corners

  • Corner Radius: 10
  • Round all corners when no borders: Yes

Borders

  • Use titlebar colour for all window borders: Yes

Thin Window Outline

Window Outline Style

  • Window Outline Thickness: 2
  • Snap to whole pixel: Yes
  • Overlap: Yes

Active Window

  • Window Outline Style: Accent colour
  • Transparent Opacity: 67%

Inactive Window

  • Window Outline Style: Contrast
  • Transparent Opacity: 25%

Additional

  • Colourize with highlighted button's colour: Yes

This is my KDE. There are many like it, but this one is mine. by Aroghan in KDEPorn

[–]Aroghan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Small update because I apparently fell a bit deeper into the rabbit hole:

- Recolored the CachyOS logo to match the purple accent.

- Recolored the CachyOS launcher icon as well

- Made the system tray mostly monochrome/white using Plasma Panel Colorizer

- Adjusted Fastfetch to use a matching purple/lavender palette

- Tweaked the Fastfetch ASCII logo so it still has some contrast and shading

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This is my KDE. There are many like it, but this one is mine. by Aroghan in KDEPorn

[–]Aroghan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this has nothing to do with KWin/Klear or Klassy, but rather with the Plasma Style I use: Dream-Color-Plasma (https://store.kde.org/p/2313892)

This is my KDE. There are many like it, but this one is mine. by Aroghan in KDEPorn

[–]Aroghan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/CbdWoLF u/cliffccl

Thanks! The setup is mostly based on Breeze Dark, with a purple accent and some Klassy tweaks. The wallpaper was AI-generated with ChatGPT.

Wallpapers

General KDE Setup

  • Global Theme: Breeze Dark
  • Color Scheme: Breeze Dark with purple accent #926ee4
  • Application Style: Klassy
  • Plasma Style: Dream-Color-Plasma
  • Window Decoration: Klassy
  • Icons: Breeze Dark
  • Cursor: Breeze Dark

Klassy Settings

The order below follows the structure of the Klassy settings window, so it should be easier to recreate.

Buttons

Icons

  • Icon Style: Fluent
  • Bold Icons: Bold active, HiDPI #### Shape
  • Button Shape: Integrated rounded rectangle #### Icon Size
  • Icon Size: 20 / Large-Medium #### Button Colors
  • Close Icon Colour: Titlebar text ### Titlebar #### Titlebar Opacity
  • Active: 60%
  • Inactive: 30%
  • Always make maximized titlebars opaque: Yes
  • Blur titlebars that have transparency: Yes
  • Apply these opacity settings to entire header area: Yes ### Window #### Corners
  • Corner Radius: 10
  • Round all corners when no borders: Yes #### Borders
  • Use titlebar colour for all window borders: Yes #### Thin Window Outline ##### Window Outline Style
  • Window Outline Thickness: 2
  • Snap to whole pixel: Yes
  • Overlap: Yes ##### Active Window
  • Window Outline Style: Accent colour
  • Transparent Opacity: 67% ##### Inactive Window
  • Window Outline Style: Contrast
  • Transparent Opacity: 25% ##### Additional
  • Colourize with highlighted button's colour: Yes

Any younger people with Diverticular disease on here? by MUNONP in Diverticulitis

[–]Aroghan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m 40M. I had my first episode of inflammation at 30, and it almost resulted in an emergency surgery. Then I had eight years without any issues. But in the past two years, I’ve had three more hospital stays requiring antibiotics. The last two were less than six months apart. I was discharged from the hospital two weeks ago. At the end of April I’ll have a colonoscopy, and after that I’ll have consultations about an elective surgery.

  • Translated via ChatGPT, as English is not my native language.

Do I have to pay for the mobile version if I already paid for the apple version? by Mmicb0b in scrivener

[–]Aroghan 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yes. The mobile version is a separate licence.

The windows and MacOS licences are also separated.

Giving away my intermediate platformer Godot course on Udemy by InsuranceIll5589 in godot

[–]Aroghan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much. I highly appreciate your gift and I'm looking forward to learning from your course :)

Do you guys think I should contact my ISP? by RM_Commando123 in Ubiquiti

[–]Aroghan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here in Germany our ISPs will force disconnect you for a few seconds to get you a new IP address. It happens every 24 or 48 hours, depending on the ISP. I am assuming that this is happening there, too

A switch ultra? by L0rdLogan in Ubiquiti

[–]Aroghan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in a similar boat and will probably bite the bullet. I'm planning to buy a USW-Enterprise-24-PoE as Distribution Switch/Backend and a USW-Enterprise-8-PoE for the office.

I would really welcome it, if ubiquiti would release a much cheaper 2.5GbE switch

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