McMeddon transitioning to 🐧Linux 🦅raaaaah!! As Windows became a too invasive and a liability. (Patreon)

As of February 2026, all worlds are now fully developed on Linux.
Marking https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/varlexos/ As the first world, to be fully made from start to finish - being developed, exported and finalized on Linux.

As win10 ended its support, like many, i switched to win11. In the believe that it would be stable, and just work. But my foolish old self, was promptly corrected. During 2024 & 2025, myself and friends, encountered more and more issues, that it became unbearable for me as a power-user and straight up a liability to continue on Windows.

Witnessing issues with:

• Failed boots

• Corrupted SSD's (friend A saw his whole ssd suddenly bricked)

• my OS's broke twice.

• Unusable keyboard and mouse during recoverys (friend B had this issue as we tried to fix his broken system)

• the constant push for more AI

• unusable taskbar, context menus

• f' ing Copilot in Notepad, which led to a f'ing security vulnerability

• the constant patches that broke anything and everywhere

• f'ing localhost got broken onetime

• explorer: cant search/find anything

• explorer: couldnt f 'ing display folders anymore

• bugs with bluetooth

• bugs with sound

• and the final drip that pushed me over was when i locked my screen, to get some food, coming back, logging in, and the whole system freezes to death, and looses all unfinished projects/tasks.

These videos summed it pretty well with the current issues:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8WEzjDx4-E

• https://youtu.be/V4SV9NDs6iM?si=Dd8lFr6OAPKjBNjW&t=63

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQQRJTAoB_A&list=PLHSLJI8oVymwl1Xk4B0qtwAKIwSORwE1m&index=1

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With the switch to Linux came many challenges and big learning curves.
Because Linux: Its as easy as you choose, and as hard as you want.

Overall:

• Minecraft works. Flatpak worked, but couldnt save .nbt structures, FlatSeal wasnt able to fix it sadly, so i went for the "vanilla" Apt install. + Minecraft had a specific issue for me, that it wasnt able to login into Microsoft, i basically had to wait 10-15 min, till an alternative login (2FA instead of Key) poppoed up.

• Worldpainter works.

• Worldmachine required a specific Wine/Bottles config and then worked. I still have the issue that i cant select a second drive, as a "temp" offload folder for disc archiving - still searching for a solution, because thats needed for larger 16k+ builds.

• Chunker, ChunkyRender, Blockbench worked.

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Anyways, in the recent years, we all have witnessed the enshittification of so many services and tools we use daily. And im just so over it. 2026+ will be a year of transition, away from US-Corpo-Tech to opensource, or indipendent or european based solutions, plattforms and tools where ever i can.

On that node here are a few things that will be tackled next:

• transition from Google to Proton

• transition of the Website away from Github

• Transitioning away from Discord to a Matrix based solution
  

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Back to my original topic, the linux transition, I have added now a new section, trying to promote to the people that see the content, that Linux is possible and usable in 2026+.

And at last, what did i went for?

CachyOS + Limine (Bootloader) + KDE

The general want: An OS, enabling/supporting latest hardware, with quick fixes for issues. And i generally want to enjoy the latest software features.

It had plenty of initial issues, unable to install(required a full partition clean/free disk), then bluetooth issues especially older hardware/headphones, and i crippled my system once in the try to fix and enable stuff. But that came down to Gemini Hallucinating me some wrong commands and steps to take, which was so incredibly frustrating.
Today i stick to Octopi and the kde system updater, for system/program updates. And so far been really solid & stable for me.

I run a 9950x3d and a rtx4090 with 192GB ram and latest Gen5 ssd's. Probably a horror scenario to support. So the Arch/CachyOS branch looked the most promising.

I tried:

• Fedora: had sleep/awake issues (i hated that) due my Nvidia card

• Ubuntu felt nice - but Davinci wouldnt work on it.

• Just briefly tried Mint - and crazy how smooth it worked. Probably the easiest of a

• Debian, was weirdly buggy for my as i tried to customize gnome , and the late update cycle turned me a bit away

• Arch itself, felt to time intensive to handle

And so i let myself influence from many source to use CachyOS

Extra note: With that journey, i installed these operating systems like multiple times, and having linux up running within 5-10 min is such a blessing, while every windows instance (for dual boot e.g. or in a VM) the 45-120min setups where pure pain. I couldnt comprehend and tollerate that s-- anymore - i cant remember when the last time i was so mad. It was truely horrendous.

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Current opinion: So far my Linux experience

I love it. It works well, once understanding the basics its pretty easy. Love the options and available solutions, although for a beginner it can be/was overwhelming. There should be definitely more progress on onboarding and simplified educational for understanding the ecosystem. I found a minor things that bug me, but im getting used to them. The only real big bummer for me is the lacking performance with Minecraft Distant Horizons: prev = 1000 chunks pretty easy, now = 250 hard to render. Which probably comes from the bad nvidia drivers :(

But also, I find everyday new features that make the life so much more nice.

• select audio codecs for devices

• easily display hardware usage

• file /project preview of .psd files huuuh how nice?!

• the freaking amazing file transfer speeds!! I can finally utilize my gen5 SSD's

• Customization everywhere~

• The volume/music controls I love them so much

• Octopi love it

• And if something is missing in octi.. i can just go for the flatpaks on kde-Discover or AUR packages

• the battery displays for devices OoO

• controllable display brightness & nightmodes nice

• clipboard history, although rarely used

Theres probably more to share, but the post is long enough, hope you had nice time reading and also a nice day!

Take care o/

-McMeddon