u/ActNice4570

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Hello, this is not the type of post I thought I'd make after finally coming from Windows to Linux, but I guess that's how life is.

I used Windows for long years, but I slowly started to hate the little things about them, also, my installation on this laptop (let's say it's not the strongest piece of hardware these days, Ryzen 3 5400U on integrated gpu, 16 GB DDR4 and 512 GB Gen 3 NVME) was getting more and more bloated, disk was always full and I had already tried linux in virtual machines, so I decided I would... Move.

And so I did. Chose Cachy... Because I wanted to say that I use Arch and also because I didn't want to spend years configuring things or solving bugs and Cachy seemed reasonable.

But now to the title - I'm using a 240 Hz OLED monitor with the laptop (yeah I do know) and with Windows, 240 Hz was very rare and almost unreachable. But on Cachy? Almost every animation, window drag or scroll is in high refresh rate, windows open so fast and everything... The monitor finally started feeling like premium hardware and now my 120 hz amoled phone feels a bit... Sluggish. Not much (obviously it's still 120 Hz), but... When I was on Windows, I just used my phone to do most of the tasks as I knew it would take long on the PC, but with Linux I finally feel like it is my companion and I don't need to touch the phone so often. I think that's quite a cool thing about "just changing systems." And as for the few games I play locally (I use GeForce NOW mostly), they run about the same as they did on Windows, lol. But my laptop is weak and it's still bad but can't say I see a difference.

Maybe the only downside is that I still didn't figure out how to make my hp printer work (not like I tried much but it was definitely simpler on windows) and HDR only works in mpv, doesn't quite work in browsers or VLC which is slightly disappointing but I guess I have to live with that. At least something. But still...

I'm grateful for Linux and this distro.

(and yeah, I do plan on building a desktop pc to power that beast of an oled soon)

(and I love these wallpapers lol)

do i?

the first part started quite a discussion so here is part 2 :D

which one do you relate to the most?

if we get enough suggestions I can make part 3 but doubt it

didn't see part 1? find it on my profile or check it here

Which one do you most relate to?