>>1837317 >Given that making it my boot drive filesystem is also against the instructions, I'm beginning to think the main anon "helping" me doesn't know what he's talking about. I'll make the boot FAT32 and everything else btrfs. Sorry for not being clear in my earlier comments, my advice about filesystems was for your non-boot partitions (because and I say this again, it really shouldn't have come down to you doing the whole partitioning process manually).

>>1837410 Got it, no problem. I just hope I don't have to shut everything down, disconnect every wire, drag my computer out, crack it open, pull the internal hard drive, and put it all back together again, just for installing something on a different hard drive to work right. One day I'll have more space for my setup and opening my computer won't be such a hassle and won't require unplugging more than just the power supply for safety.

>>1837382 >>I didn't see anywhere to do this part of the official CachyOS instructions, and I'm sure what specifically it's referring to. There should have been a list item for this, but your screenshot looks good to go for installing the /boot contents onto the FAT32 partiton of the disk. >>This last line in my cap sounds wrong. That's perfectly normal, the rest of the /root is going onto the BTRFS partiton. >> This isn't already accomplished by the fact that I'm installing Cachy to a secondary external drive? It doesn't know that, All OS installers assume they're the center of the universe and that there's only one EFI system partition. Having two on separate disks avoids one overriding the other. >>The way you word this sounds like these things are on the same drive in this example, which is not what I believe I'm doing. It's the way Window's assumes it is, but Linux will let you get away with intermingling things. >> I just hope I don't have to shut everything down, disconnect every wire, drag my computer out, crack it open, pull the internal hard drive, and put it all back together again, just for installing something on a different hard drive to work right. It's the most straight forward, safest way to ensure you avoid trashing your Windows install. Installer's tend to mix up drive letter's if it doesn't detect all the drives in the system at POST time, and you can end up using the same install instructions on one boot and accidentally use the same commands and blow away your windows disk because it didn't see the second drive you were intending to install on. I've seen it happen.

>>1837382 Also, there should have been a second flag for the FAT32 partiton, it should be both boot and ESP

>>1837432 >Also, there should have been a second flag for the FAT32 partiton, it should be both boot and ESP I mentioned earlier, there is no esp flag in the list of flags.

>>1837437 Ok, I looked at the wiki and it does say just boot as the flags. Carry on.

Should your current run fail, one user online reported having the same issue as yourself (only showing manual partitioning option in the installer), and he fixed it by reflashing the liveusb. https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/new-user-installer-issues/6849

I'm finally in a full install of Cachy. >Can't create folders outside of the User folder I assume this is so I don't break shit, but even Windows let me do that. I had an issue in Windows with it not accepting filepaths that were too long, and I never liked the default scheme of >Documents >Downloads >Music >Pictures >Videos Because that was never how I organized things, even before Hydrus. Pretty much the only thing that stayed in one folder was music. >>1837454 It's done. >>1837428 To be on the safe side, I went through the hassle of pulling the Windows drive. Lo and behold as you predicted, one of the automatic partitioning options was then available and I used that instead. Is it now safe to replace the Windows drive back into the system and begin figuring out how to dual boot? How much do I have to worry about Windows 10 fucking with my Linux if I start dual booting? Is it even a good idea to dual boot when Wangblows is about to stop getting security updates? I could just start migrating everything possible over now and figure out virtual machines for what doesn't work later, right?

>>1837590 Also, my television is now working.

Any recommendations for backup utilities? None of these say Snapshot™ like anons were talking about earlier.

>>1837590 >I'm finally in a full install of Cachy. Nicely done. >>1837590 >>Can't create folders outside of the User folder Few things to keep in mind: you *can* do things outside the user folder, but you mostly just *shouldn't*. It's not like windows where it's normal to be deep in the C drive often; on Linux, 99.9% of the time all you ever need to access and modify is your cozy /home directory. >>1837590 >How much do I have to worry about Windows 10 fucking with my Linux if I start dual booting? It's anybody's guess. Microsoft randomly pushes an update that ruins the Linux partition, but I'm not sure if that's exclusively for sharing the same drive or even when you have the OS in separate drives. Do look further into this. >>1837604 >None of these say Snapshot™ Timeshift is the one. There's also btrfs-assistant, but I recommending checking whatever CachyOS devs recommend in their wiki.

>>1837604 Shit, the fucking Alacritty asking for a password spooked me. I know it says it won't display the password you're typing for security, but I didn't think that meant no blank characters visible either, and no flashing cursor. I couldn't tell if I was even typing anything until I hit enter and the whole window being semi-transparent on top of that had me thinking it might of frozen mid-way. >>1837609 >99.9% of the time all you ever need to access and modify is your cozy /home directory. And no long filename/path errors? I had heard that was a Windows problem specifically when I first encountered it. >Timeshift is the one. There's also btrfs-assistant, but I recommending checking whatever CachyOS devs recommend in their wiki. I already began installing the other stuff. I'll check this out next.

>>1837611 >might of Might have*

>>1837611 >And no long filename/path errors? I had heard that was a Windows problem specifically when I first encountered it. Not aware of such issue. On that note be aware that Linux filenames are case sensitive, so you can have a Downloads and a downloads folder side to side. Also, you can get away with naming your files with some symbols that are normally not allowed on windows. Have fun.

>>1837590 >>Can't create folders outside of the User folder That's standard for Linux, (Windows too since NT/XP as well) All folders outside /home are owned by the root user, and shouldn't be touched with out elevated privileges, eg sudo. If your doing any configuring of any .conf files in /etc, do it with the text editor launched as sudo. >>To be on the safe side, I went through the hassle of pulling the Windows drive. Lo and behold as you predicted, one of the automatic partitioning options was then available and I used that instead. It probably gave you the automatic partitioning options either after it saw one or no other EFI partition or that it was going to install to /dev/sda. Your previous attempts, the drive you wanted to install on was detected as /dev/sdc. >>Is it now safe to replace the Windows drive back into the system and begin figuring out how to dual boot? Yes, you should now be able to, when your system boots to the UEFI splash or POST screen, select the boot drive with f12, or, under the UEFI/BIOS setup, choose a boot override to choose which OS to start from. Windows shouldn't screw up the Linux EFI partition and can accept updates separate from the Linux system. Get this setup next: https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/boot_manager_configuration/#bootable-btrfs-snapshots When your migrating your data to Linux, you can install winBTRFS: https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs and have access to your Linux drive in Windows if you can't figure out how to get your NTFS partition mounted in Cachy.

>>1837669 Also, the NTFS driver in Linux ignores some of the illegal file naming restrictions Windows has. The forbidden characters are the nine characters " * / : < > ? \ | and those whose code is less than 0x20, and the reserved names are CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1..COM9, LPT1..LPT9, with no suffix or followed by a dot.

Had something funky happen while I was installing software through the CachyOS Hello wizard. Alacritty seemed to have stopped, and I notice one of the line said q or h for quit or help. It was a couple dozen lines back though and I didn't understand anything between that and where the cursor was sitting. I hit h, but none of the commands stood out as useful so I dismissed the help text. Then I realized I could scroll up with the arrow keys. And jump in some way with the left and right arrow keys. But after jumping, I couldn't find where I was, and couldn't find the bottom. Lost, I made no text was entered wherever the cursor was and hit q to quit. Instead, this asked me if I wanted to apply changes. I though maybe it was just waiting for me to press q the whole time and chose Y. From there is began continuing to install everything and all seemed well. There was a metric fuckton of work to do though, so I disabled the sleep mode timeout and ran some errands. When I got back, it was asleep anyways, probably needing to restart to apply a lot of things. I woke it up and the monitors would both only display a black screen. No mouse and keyboard seemed to nothing, so i restarted it and it seems to be working fine again, only the brightness seems much lower even at max brightness both in my display setting and when raised in the monitor itself with the physical buttons. I checked the wizard again and it seems to have successfully installed everything except Ungoogled Chromium, but it also has Openshot now which I don't recall checking or being there by default. >>1837669 >Get this setup next: https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/boot_manager_configuration/#bootable-btrfs-snapshots <If your CachyOS installation is from before the August release, you might need to enable the bootable BTRFS snapshots feature manually. <Otherwise, you can skip this section, as it has been enabled by default since the August release. It sounds like it's already done since this is a fresh install via the online installer.

>>1838189 It almost did something funky again, and I figured out that you have to also disable sleep in the power settings on the taskbar. Also, what's up with Alacritty taking just as long to install a single new program as it did to install all of them? It seems to be slowly crawling through the same "[variable numbers/53000] CXX" as before. Is it running some integrity check on every single thing installed every time I install something else?

>>1838339 What Desktop Environment did you choose ? You can install programs from the app store, no need to fumble with the command line if you rather not to. The command line you can't navigate with the mouse yes, only keyboard. A few useful shortcuts: Ctrl + C to cancel an ongoing command. Ctrl + L to clear the command line window, Ctrl + W to delete single phrases, Ctrl + U to clear the whole input. Also, let me introduce you to the power of middle-click-paste any selected text. You'll never use computers the same way after this little function.

>>1838471 >You can install programs from the app store App store? Everything I see points me to the AUR, and says if I want ez modo I should probably get something like yay to make installation easier. KDE Plasma, I believe. >Also, let me introduce you to the power of middle-click-paste any selected text. You'll never use computers the same way after this little function. Eh? C and V are right beside eachother so I'm usually already ready to hit Ctrl+V anyways if I've just copied something. I note however that I can no longer middle click to do that mouse scrolly thing in a browser. I used that now and then for minor adjustments.

Also, holy shit Alacritty is taking ages. I'm guessing the weirdness from before happened because it went to sleep without finishing properly, because I'm not sure it could have finished in the time I ran my errands. I'm still at 36000/53000. Maybe that's why Ungoogled Chromium doesn't show as installed? If that's the case, I'd be worried that everything else that says it's been installed was actually installed correctly. However, I think this huge Alacritty process might fix anything that might've broken in that case since it's going over everything again.

>>1838495 >App store? Everything I see points me to the AUR, and says if I want ez modo I should probably get something like yay to make installation easier. Actually, I see now that Octopi is pre-installed and has a gui. Maybe this stuff is mentioned in the CachyHello wizard, but I'm not touching it until Alacritty software installer it opened is done, which it almost is. It picked up the pace a lot after 36000, is now at 50000/53000, and appears to specifically be working on installing Ungoogled Chromium now.

>>1838609 In fact, it's been working chrome something or other since about 46000. Chrome sure has a lot of shit in it.

So now I have Ungoogled Chromium. I think everything actually installed fine the first time and it was just Ungoogled Chromium that got interrupted because it's huge. I think I found the "app store" in CachyHello now. There's a package installer with a GUI under the app/tweaks section. Don't even have to touch Octopi. I used it to install Mullvad and it just werks, with one bit of weirdness. For some reason, Mullvad thinks Firefox is always running, and if I try to exclude it with split tunneling, it says it may not be excluded. Testing it, it appears to be excluding Firefox properly. I think I'm done fucking around without any of my stuff now and it's time to put Wangblows drive back in and see about moving things over, starting with Hydrus.

>>1838495 >Eh? C and V are right beside eachother so I'm usually already ready to hit Ctrl+V anyways if I've just copied something. You won't realize how much faster it is until you try it. Every time you highlight a text, its automatically copied and you can paste it with middle click. Octopi looks like your system updates app. The regular app store on KDE should be called Discover, , if Cachyos isn't doing anything weird here.

I'm not sure why, but the damned screens went to sleep again while I was trying to copy over my Hyrdrus DB. I immediately moved the mouse, and shit got really funky when the monitors came back on. The windows I already had open were there, but the wallpaper, taskbar, and even the view-all-windows-by-moving-the-mouse-to-top-left-corner function were gone. I could not right click the background or bring up the application launcer/taskbar with the Windows/meta(?) key. Any windows I then minimized could not be accessed anymore. Turning one of the monitors off and on again resulted in the system thinking all the monitors had just been turned off and on which returned things to normal. What the fuck? I just found a second set of power management settings that also shuts things down after inactivity. Why the fuck are there three different places managing what happens when I don't touch the mouse for 5 minutes? >>1839035 No such application that I can find in the application launcher. Are you sure that's not for a certain distro? I'm on CachyOS.

>>1838495 >I can no longer middle click to do that mouse scrolly thing in a browser for Chrome browsers, install: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/autoscroll/occjjkgifpmdgodlplnacmkejpdionan

So, I don't get what the big deal is about setting up dual booting? I needed to grab something from my Windows install, exporting an html file with my bookmarks from my old browser so I put them on my new one, so I just went back to the boot menu and set the Wndows boot to higher priority. It booted right back into the Windows drive, I got my file, and I restarted the computer. I think I pressed the wrong key during statup though, because i didn't get the menu that lets me rearrange boot priority again and ended up in the Windows boot manager without a clear option to get out of it. I just pressed escape or backspace or something and it exited the boot manager and moved to the next boot manger on the priority list, the Linux one. Bam, I'm back in Cachy. What is setting up a dual boot then, if I can just cycle through boot managers at startup with ease? Is it just some fancy combined boot manager that lets me pick Linux or Windows without having to cycle through boot managers? Seems like a hassle to set up something like that to save a single keystroke on startup, and one you'll only have to use as often as you enter your less preferred OS. At least I have my bookmarks back now.

>>1839541 You might have a boot menu with f8, prolly depends on mobo, but easier than changing priority each time.

>>1839132 Sounds like your KDE crashed. Next time it happens try hitting Alt + Space, type the terminal program to launch it, and do (code)kstart plasmashell(/code). >>1839132 >No such application that I can find in the application launcher. Are you sure that's not for a certain distro? I'm on CachyOS. Positive. It's cachyos that's the odd one here. No matter though, from your previous message it sounds like they have a different app store instead, so it's fine.

>>1839950 I forgot, you can just type the above command into the search bar that pops up when you hit Alt + Space. It's called KRunner, a really powerful search box, it'll come in handy if you get used to it.

Oh yeah, forgot to post this. Pic related. How fucked is the drive my Windows install is on? I'm pretty sure it's not suppose to be bulging out in the middle like that, wasn't like that when I got it, and I've only had it about a year or so. I took the tape off the heatsink when I first put it in like I was supposed to and it's always behaved as normal. I can also see this shape as an indention in the grey material that goes between the heat sink and the drive. Did I do something wrong, or is Crucial just shit? Or is Windows just shit? >>1839598 >easier than changing priority each time. I'm saying I don't have to do that at all. Leave my favored OS as top priority and if I need to boot the other one, just exist the priority bootloader and it automatically runs the next one. >>1839950 >>1839955 Danke.

>>1840275 Also, I already tried looking up the bulge OwO yesterday and couldn't find any info, however just now I looked it up again, and found conflicting info both saying don't dare boot up the drive and that this is completely normal.

>>1221663 >Are you totally fucked I am now on Linux, so no.

>>1612005 install gentoo faggot

Anyone else having issues with wifi disappearing on Windows 11. I search everywhere and nothing happens. The only thing I can see that has a modicum of consistency (because it can happen anytime) is that when I open a game including Blue Archive the likelihood of it happening increases. The wifi button completely disappears and any record of it too.