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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.
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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.

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I'm backing up stuff now to erase and install . Mid afternoon my internet connection went out and it's on the utility side.
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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.
 
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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
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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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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.
 
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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?
 
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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?
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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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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?
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From the software side, most users can do everything they will ever need to from the desktop GUI. It is even easier today as so much of what people do is web/cloud based. Every distribution will some version of an "app store", where you can browse apps by genre or search by name and install with a single click. The more popular distros will have every app a typical user would need. As long as you download your software from within the distro's app store, things should just work. Option 2 would be using a flatpak or appimage file (a distro-agnostic way of acquiring and running an app). Bleeding edge stuff will be more difficult, as each distrobution has its own rules and timelines as to when they include new versions of apps.
 
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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?
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Grab Fedora and use KDE Plasm desktop. Basically a clone of Windows UI. Comes ready to use and with all the normally used apps.
 
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Microsoft warns Windows 11 25H2, 24H2 October update triggers BitLocker recovery on PCs for businesses

Microsoft confirmed an issue that could trigger BitLocker Recovery on Windows 11 25H2, 24H2 and even Windows 10.
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In the advisory, Microsoft says it observed that BitLocker recovery is triggered mostly on Intel-based PCs with a feature called “Connected Standby.”

If you see Standby (S0 Low Power Idle) when you run powercfg /a in Command Prompt, your PC supports Modern Standby.

Microsoft won’t tell us how these BitLocker issues are linked to Modern Standby, but it’s possible that the October 2025 Update ousted the boot chain or Secure Boot state, but on Intel and Modern Standby (S0) machines, the update or restart path didn’t correctly “suspend BitLocker for one reboot.”
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One of my parents still uses a Win7 to do old games and email but I'm thinking of upgrading them to a Win10 so they are at least modern. Win11? I am not doing tech support for them using that shit, cannot force me to do that.
 
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What forced migration?
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yeah we get it you are a win 10 tough guy who isn't upgrading until they take the disc out of your cold dead hand, I'm referring to normies. Like my wife and my MIL. Although I do have a laptop that my wife coopted and uses to make stuff on her cricket(sp) crafting machine thingy, it still has Win 10 on it with the understanding she does not surf the internet on it.
 
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yeah we get it you are a win 10 tough guy who isn't upgrading until they take the disc out of your cold dead hand, I'm referring to normies. Like my wife and my MIL. Although I do have a laptop that my wife coopted and uses to make stuff on her cricket(sp) crafting machine thingy, it still has Win 10 on it with the understanding she does not surf the internet on it.
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Guess somebody missed the ESU.
 
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yeah we get it you are a win 10 tough guy who isn't upgrading until they take the disc out of your cold dead hand, I'm referring to normies. Like my wife and my MIL. Although I do have a laptop that my wife coopted and uses to make stuff on her cricket(sp) crafting machine thingy, it still has Win 10 on it with the understanding she does not surf the internet on it.
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It was a serious question. As far as I knew they were still doing security updates for the foreseeable future but I wouldn't put it past them to announce that they will be sending an update that tries to install win11. That or have it look like you must "upgrade" to Win11 and including a small decline button obfuscated somewhere on the update popup.

As long as they are doing security updates, I don't see why anyone would want or need to install Win11. I can't think of single new feature added in an update, over the life of Win10, that I wanted. In fact, updates like the CoPilot one were fucking annoying because I had to go look up how to shut it down and try to wall it off.

I actually just talked to my mom about reformatting an old work computer to get rid of a lot of junk that has pilled up. Since it was set up so company IT could dial into it, they upgraded all their machines to Win11, but I don't want to deal with it. I assume Microsoft wont let you put any more legitimate copies of win10 on "new" hard drives, so researching illegitimated methods is probably in my future.
 
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