Windows 11

Fucker · 2025-10-22T19:42:20-0400

ShakyJake said:
I did an upgrade during Prime Day, got a new B850 motherboard and Ryzen 9 7900x. I typically go with Linux Mint, but...here we go: audio wasn't working. Apparently lacks support for the new Realtek ALC4080 chipset and I could NOT get it to work. So, installed the new flavor of the month CachyOS and all good. It's actually quite nice, honestly.

The biggest thing is how snappy and smooth Linux desktops are now on modern hardware and how Windows 11 now runs like shit. My, how times have changed.

Cachy is built with modern CPU's in mind. It takes full advantage of Zen 4 on top of the scheduler and other improvements. Sure, it's cutting edge an has warts, but it is so much smoother than W11 that W11 feels in large parts fundamentally broken, even with newest patches.

It does feel fast if you throw some bandwidth at it. Insane. Keep in mind the fast one is a mobile chip.

Kajiimagi · 2025-10-22T20:09:39-0400

Kajiimagi said:
I'm backing up stuff now to erase and install . Mid afternoon my internet connection went out and it's on the utility side.

Update!

Well I'm back up. Between diagnosing (and power cycling) stuff on my end I managed to thoroughly wrench my back and was up all night with spasms THEN the we had a thunderstorm at 2am. Guy came this morning and confirmed it's on the utility side ...but I get to pay for it because it's the line going outside and my asshole cat who likes to chew on plastic chewed about 10' of the cable and broke it in about 6 places. New one has been pulled. Cat is not allowed in the room anymore and I'm back on my way.

Gotta say the utility was fast. Called at 9am, tech was here 15 min later and stayed until it was all up & running and he'd confirmed speeds.

Lambourne · 2025-10-23T07:49:04-0400

Kajiimagi said:
Update!

Well I'm back up. Between diagnosing (and power cycling) stuff on my end I managed to thoroughly wrench my back and was up all night with spasms THEN the we had a thunderstorm at 2am. Guy came this morning and confirmed it's on the utility side ...but I get to pay for it because it's the line going outside and my asshole cat who likes to chew on plastic chewed about 10' of the cable and broke it in about 6 places. New one has been pulled. Cat is not allowed in the room anymore and I'm back on my way.

Gotta say the utility was fast. Called at 9am, tech was here 15 min later and stayed until it was all up & running and he'd confirmed speeds

Kinda off-topic but I have a cat that loves to chew on wires too. I got this this spit wire loom which bundles everything together and is tough enough to stop the cat biting through it, works great. Because it's split you can slide it onto already installed wires too. Get the 3/8 or larger size, the small one is finicky.

Janx · 2025-10-23T11:01:06-0400

Lambourne said:
Kinda off-topic but I have a cat that loves to chew on wires too. I got this this spit wire loom which bundles everything together and is tough enough to stop the cat biting through it, works great. Because it's split you can slide it onto already installed wires too. Get the 3/8 or larger size, the small one is finicky.

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I like to think he hosed and gorilla taped the cat. Don't ruin that for me.

Void · 2025-10-23T11:21:41-0400

As someone that has never used Linux beyond fucking around with a few things on my remote seedbox, are these Linux installs such that I could just install it and more or less go about my business like I would with Windows, or do I need to know a decent amount of linux commands to do anything? Is there an actual desktop where I just click on shit to run or install, etc? Control panel/settings that I can just click on, browser works just like on Windows, etc?

Janx · 2025-10-23T11:47:45-0400

Void said:
As someone that has never used Linux beyond fucking around with a few things on my remote seedbox, are these Linux installs such that I could just install it and more or less go about my business like I would with Windows, or do I need to know a decent amount of linux commands to do anything? Is there an actual desktop where I just click on shit to run or install, etc? Control panel/settings that I can just click on, browser works just like on Windows, etc?

Everythings just about just like windows. Config software for peripherals might be an issue as most mice / game controllers dont have linux versions. Basic functions work but if you wanted to do macros/profiles etc.. you generally won't have access to that without the software.

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