u/Competitive_Push_914

Wondering if these issues have been fixed for cachyOS and cachyOS-LTS. Thanks.

Long time user of Windows, both professionally and for gaming. Always defaulted to using Windows because it was the most convenient for my productivity needs and games "just worked."

Over time, I became really tired of Microsoft's bullshit. I still have to use it at work but the sluggish performance, ad spam, lack of customization, and ridiculous update frequency drove me insane -- to the point that I didn't even really want to play games anymore because using the OS was too annoying.

I have an IT/software dev background so I looked into distros that would suit my needs and stumbled upon Arch. The install process didn't look that intimidating - just a sequence of commands, basically - so I gave it a whirl on my main machine. Proceeded to instantly love the performance and spent hours customizing KDE before I even touched Steam.

Big ups to everyone on this subreddit for their guides and recommendations. Even if Windows miraculously improves, which it probably won't, I have no reason to ever go back. Arch is by far the best experience I've had with a desktop OS ever.

Not neurodivergent (as far as I know) but I wanted to reflect on some of the situations my friends have been in.

Buddy has been in software engineering for about three years. Worked at a decent mid-size place during COVID, got laid off when the budget tightening hit. He's autistic but highly functioning (apologies if that's not the preferred language for it).

Every interview he's had has come down to the lack of a "culture fit." He's an extremely nice dude that loves talking about his interests and has trained for interviews extensively. But sometimes he'll look away from the camera for too long because he's nervous, or rock back and forth in his chair (very slightly) before realizing what he's doing and stopping. This is enough for the interviewers, in his words, to become visibly put off and notice it.

Because of how dogshit the job market is, he's been forced to apply for mostly on-site roles when he has previously worked remotely, largely because he was afraid of people finding him weird in an office. But with hiring teams being more picky than ever before, they seem to continuously reject him for "culture" reasons (as specified in the rejection emails) when this was never an issue for previous jobs.

The last couple times I've talked about it with him, he has sounded clearly depressed, anxious, and disillusioned. He's now talking about giving up on his career-related job search entirely and taking whatever he can get, but even places like McDonald's and Wal-Mart have tossed his resume in the trash.

Has anyone else experienced this? It seems like scrutiny of neurodivergent behaviors has become way more intense since the job market went to shit. I feel for anyone going through this. The job search is bad enough but this just sounds like a next level humiliation ritual.