A practical, step-by-step guide on wiping a Windows NTFS hard drive and preparing it for native Arch Linux use. The post walks you through using cfdisk to recreate the partition table, forcing a format with mkfs.ext4 to overwrite stubborn NTFS signatures, configuring auto-mounting via /etc/fstab, and resolving the common ext4 root-ownership permission block so that the drive is fully usable by your user account
After growing tired of Microsoft’s aggressive pop-ups and forced features, the author shares their experience migrating their primary AMD gaming rig (Ryzen 7 7700X, Radeon 7900 GRE) from Windows 11 to CachyOS, an Arch-based Linux distribution known for speed and performance. The post details the smooth gaming experience (easily hitting 165 FPS in EVE Online out of the box), adapting to KDE Plasma and package managers like Flatpak, and a clever workaround using a Proxmox-hosted Windows 10 VM via Remmina for their daily work needs. Ultimately, the author highly recommends the switch for enthusiasts looking to take back control of their hardware.
A practical guide on how to extend a Windows C: drive when a stubborn Recovery Partition is blocking the adjacent unallocated space. The post walks you through safely using the diskpart command-line utility to delete the obstructing partition, extending the C: drive using Windows Disk Management, and optionally (but highly recommended) shrinking a small portion of the C: drive again to create and properly configure a brand-new Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) partition.