Life After Windows 11: Why I Switched to CachyOS

And I started looking at the top gaming distros.

You had Bazaar, CacheOS, Linux Mint, and PoppyOS, and a few others that always get mentioned when you start looking at Linux distros.

So I decided to go for CacheOS because I've heard really, really good things.

It's built on top of Arch, which I hadn't used before.

My previous distro was Fedora when I duplicated, and I had a few issues.

The issues were with... my microphone or my audio setup because I have the SM7B plugged into my Wave XLR.

There were some really, really weird issues that I was having with Fedora.

It was always like really crackly.

I couldn't understand why and I switched over to another audio interface and that wasn't any better either.

It just sounded like I was a robot.

So I was like, OK, I'll try CacheOS and I'll see what happens.

So at first I dual booted onto a separate drive and then went through all this all the different stuff.

And my WaveX lab was actually fine.

There was like one or two issues.

Then I thought like, oh, probably, you know, this will be fine for now.

And I can sort of.

tweak things to how i want it um so that's exactly what i did because so when i was on windows i had the wave xlr wavelength software which allowed you to have like monitoring uh so you could um and you could pick like which audio goes where it was really really great but linux doesn't have that because Elgato doesn't make any software for Linux because the market share or the amount of people that use it is very low.

They don't feel the need to make that software for Linux, but essentially.

So I had to sort of look for replacements.

And literally a few days before I moved over to Linux, someone had created this amazing piece of software called OpenXLR.

And essentially, it is Wavelink, but for Linux.

And obviously, it's not Elgato.

It's just trying to replicate the Wavelink stuff.

So I now have my microphone mixed in there.

You've got game music, browser system, voice chat, sound effects.