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Cake day: November 17th, 2022

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  • I’m a few months into using CachyOS on my zephyrus gaming laptop and it’s been a joy.

    I actually ran into my first issue yesterday and had to boot into the windows drive for the first time in what feels like forever - I needed a Windows only display editor program for Nextion screens.

    I tried the installer on bottles and playonlinux, But I couldn’t get the program to load. I will try again today so that if I have to load it up in the future I don’t have to switch back to Windows, but on the off chance anybody knows how to fix it I’m all ears.





















  • I use KDE as my go-to desktop environment - it’s the only option for my Steam Deck (which is shockingly good when hooked up to an external monitor), and I chose it for my Ubuntu 22.04 LTS work laptop.

    Yes, it does look different from windows, but depending on what global theme you use, it’s shockingly similar:

    • click on the icon in the far lower left to access “Applications”
    • Time/calendar, sound, wifi in the far lower right
    • Single task bar along the bottom that shows currently opened apps and pinned apps

    I spent maybe 10 minutes with my 70 year old mother and she felt comfortable using it despite being a Windows user since 3.1 days.

    Users are more resilient than you’d think - provide documentation on what’s new and you may even be able to sell it as “The upgraded version” of your old platform.

    Hell, the fact that you’re on Linux already is great! Most of the significant issues I run into when converting people over to the OSS side is software availability (coincidentally the thing that made my Mom switch back to Windows).