With most of the essentials out of the way, it was time for the big one – can I slowly start rebuilding my overly convoluted Final Fantasy XIV environment in CachyOS? 🚀 Installing XIVLauncher-RB I chose XIVLauncher-RB, an unofficial fork of an already unofficial launcher, for its additional Wine, Proton and DXVK

The first file I needed on my new Linux installation was a keyboard layout stored on my NAS. I wanted to type the same Czech characters, punctuation and typography symbols that I could type on the Mac, and I had already exported the Apple layout rather than trying to recreate

I decided to spend September giving Linux a serious try on my gaming PC. I’ve been using macOS for around 21 years, and although I never stopped running Linux on servers (heck, a Kubernetes cluster powers my little homelab!), the last time it was my main desktop operating system