Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Messed Up with CachyOS

Yes, I messed up with CachyOS.
I deliberately used NFFS for the / home folder.
It did not detect the mistake while installing.
It did not detect it at booting.
It could not detect my user name probably stored not in /root but in the / home folder.
It gave the first ntital of my name as the User. Both Gnome and KDE mounted OK.
I tried to open /home folder and then only it realized it is a NTFS Folder.
What it means is it is not checking the partitions at Boot Up.
Besides, It did not recognize the two Debian GNOME editions already installed.
On these grounds I am going to demote CachyOS im my list of priorities and I decided give minimum storage capacity and I won't store any valuable data in /home folder of CachyOS.
By the way, Debian Trixie still does not believe in Forky and it did not write an entry in the GRUB folder.
GRUB EFI folder I formatted since BSD destroyed my entire disk by making the entire Hard Disk as an external device.
I installed BSD on a 32GB USB.
It did not boot.
Boot file was not written on the USB.
My only loss is the last copy of my book "Linux Essentials".
I have plenty of copies in USB storage.
This is the first time I have lost a file in my entire life with Linux.
By the way, CachyOS took 25 minutes for its insatallation 3 mintes longer than the aversge 22 minutes. I am Reinstalling CachyOS but it is not going to be my Dailey Driver.
It is going to be Forky from now onwards.
By the way, it could not mount the icons on the Task Bar with home folder being not accessible. Icons are also probably SAVED on the Home Folder.
What a MESS? 

This is why I say, DO NOT listen to these YouTube Gurus.
Do not pay them money.
CachyOS finished installing and it took little longer than 25 mintes.