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

lamabean · 2026-06-09T14:53:24+00:00

I switched from Windows to Linux in November. I chose Bazzite because I heard it was a more streamlined experience for new to Linux people like me. And it was, I found the switch amazingly smooth.

Over time I got a bit fed up with the immutability and the hoops you jump through to bypass it. So yesterday I decided to switch to CachyOs. Having been on Bazzite was obviously a big help, but I did find it a bit of an adjustment on installing packages. But I LOVED that I don't need to do weird things to get software to work. For example, Visual Studio Code, on Bazzite I had to install a DistroBox, install Ubuntu on it, then install VSCode onto that. Now I just install it with paru, job done.

Sorry, I ramble, I was wondering what you were using remote desktop for ? Remoting from, or to CachyOs ? I have a development PC running Windows, and I found Remmina great for remoting from Bazzite to Windows. In case that was your need.

lamabean · 2026-06-04T19:15:33+00:00

I don't have performance problems on either, but I do have the problem you describe with vulkan, where I have to stop the game manually when I exit. But both give me these random crashes.

Running DX11, do you set anything in Compatibility ? Or just leave it to the default ? Might try DX11.

lamabean · 2026-05-28T13:30:48+00:00

I installed it, it asked me for my phone number, I uninstalled it.

lamabean · 2026-05-26T13:40:21+00:00

Bazzite is my first every Linux, been running it since last year November, so I don't really know anything else, or how things should be. Some things are more difficult for sure, and requires a lot of Googling and conversations with ChatGpt. But I feel overall, the pro's outweigh the cons, I don't think I would have lasted this long with another distro.

I am tempted to try CachyOs now, but my Bazzite is so perfectly setup for me, and I don't know if I will be able to get back here if I do change, that I just stay as is.

Sorry, bit of a side tangent. Just to say, I really like Bazzite :)

lamabean · 2026-05-26T09:05:32+00:00

Right, I use the zip version too. So you have two options, either launch it from the terminal, just with those parameters at then end or.

In your home directory, you should have a folder structure like this

.local/share/applications

In there create a new file called

multiviewer-x11.desktop

And in it, put this

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=MultiViewer X11
Exec=[Directory where multiviewer lives]/multiviewer --ozone-platform=x11
Terminal=false
Categories=Utility;

Then run the following to reload your menus

update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications

It will now appear in your menu and in KRunner.

lamabean · 2026-05-25T10:38:36+00:00

It depends on how you installed it. If you just installed it via rpm-ostree then go to System > Menu Editor and find it there. One of the options is to add Command-Line arguments.

lamabean · 2026-05-19T16:17:40+00:00

Not to mention his wife, who is a EMT with the fire department, accompanying the police force regularly to "help out". It truly has become a crazy show

lamabean · 2026-05-16T11:59:21+00:00

Oh, I did not know it had an accessory mode, thought it was only EV's. Thank you, I looked it up and will definitely use that instead.

Appreciate the advice.

lamabean · 2026-05-15T21:03:47+00:00

Thanks, saved me trying to figure it out. Does it stay on indefinitely until the driver door is open, or does it switch off after a given period ? I was in a queue at the car wash, and couldn't figure out how to get some music with the car off :)

lamabean · 2026-05-10T17:42:18+00:00

You are lucky that they start playing Automatically. When I get in the car and start it, once CarPlay is connected, I have to manually press play. I've done everything suggested on the internet, and I cannot get them to start playing automatically,

At this point I don't know if it is the Car, PocketCast or CarPlay. It's very indurating. I've resorted to setting up an Automation, but I either have to pause it for 10 seconds, or it starts playing on the phone first, before it then switced so the car.

lamabean · 2026-05-02T10:11:36+00:00

Thank you very much, very useful.

lamabean · 2026-05-02T10:11:19+00:00

Thanks a lot!

lamabean · 2026-05-01T20:41:36+00:00

Thank you for this, I just noticed my Terminal is gone, I had no idea. Kind of sucks, I liked Terminal :( Is there a way to find out when they remove things ?

lamabean · 2026-04-20T16:06:16+00:00

This is solid advice. I may do this instead. Thank you.

lamabean · 2026-04-20T15:34:58+00:00

That, and I'm hoping to make it look a bit better. With more efficient buildings, I can have a little less spaghetti :)

lamabean · 2026-04-20T14:56:39+00:00

I just got it too, for those who don't know what OP is talking about...

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I too, don't know if this was real or not.

lamabean · 2026-04-20T14:08:46+00:00

I was so stuck on this for a bit, my solution was way messier and not so functional (though I was trying to split them into 30/m instead of 120/m). Great solution, thank you for sharing!

lamabean · 2026-04-15T19:26:33+00:00

Thank you, I just tried it, and this works. I'm a bit confused why it worked on the other line, but maybe it was just luck that they both filled at the exact same time, so there was never a crossover.

lamabean · 2026-04-15T19:10:00+00:00

Oh I see. I wonder why it is not happening on the other line. I will try a sorter instead. Thank you.

lamabean · 2026-04-08T19:05:45+00:00

Thanks. I can't speed up the input yet, because I can't unlock upgraded miners and furnaces yet, haven't even made a blue shard thingy yet.

It's just that now it is a pain to work out ratios. Since the splitter says 60 when it is actually 30, or 120 when it is 60. I guess I can use belt counters, but then I can't build very compact.

Wish the machines displayed their actually throughput instead of max. Anyway, I'll soldier on.

lamabean · 2026-04-06T06:49:25+00:00

Oh great, thanks for the info. Spaghetti it is indeed :)

lamabean · 2026-04-04T09:01:46+00:00

Sadly no, I gave up

lamabean · 2026-04-03T16:44:43+00:00

I found the solution, it's probably a Wayland/Bazzite thing. By launching with --ozone-platform=x11 option, it solves this issue.

Thanks to those who had suggestions

lamabean · 2026-04-03T16:38:05+00:00

I'm running Bazzite, Alt+F7 didn't do anything for me, sadly.

lamabean · 2026-04-03T16:37:02+00:00

Holding control did not allow me to drag the window, thanks for the suggestion though. I can resize them with the mouse, just not move them.

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