Linux <> PC

Finally got the time to install Linux on my new PC.

Well, actually there's not much to say, other than it works really well. I use an OS called CatchyOS with Gnome, and it just works out of the box with the Nvidia 5080.

A few notes on my setup, since I didn’t want to install it on the same drive as Windows:

Separate Disk

I bought a WD SN8100 2TB PCIe Gen 5.0, probably the speediest disk I’ve ever tried.

Read performance is excellent:

Write performance is a bit lower, but I haven’t investigated that much yet.

Remap keys

Another thing I had to update was remapping Caps Lock: Ctrl on long press, Escape on tap. I remember commenting about this issue for Wayland 8 years ago, and I still found the issue. Time flies.

Thankfully, we are in a much better place now with the keyd project. Wish it's only a setting in the settings but I get it that it's a niche use case.

vim /etc/keyd/default.conf

[ids]

*

[main]

# Maps capslock to escape when pressed and control when held.
capslock = overload(control, esc)

Run or Raise

vim ~/.config/run-or-raise/shortcuts.conf

<Alt>m w,com.google.Chrome.desktop,Google-chrome,
<Alt>m t,ghostty,ghostty,
<Alt>m e,cursor,Cursor,

Now I'm back to the way I'm used to. Time to actually use it as I intended, to make more projects.