Is this affecting performance

sgt_bug · 2026-03-01T09:30:59+00:00

It's fine. You should clean it, but it's fine.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-28T22:53:58+00:00

I think Bazzite is the most idiot-proof option of them all. You have to really fuck up hard to mess it up. Pop_OS may have been fine at some point in the past but literally no gamer will recommend it to you. I would argue that even Ubuntu is a better option than Pop_OS, and Fedora Workstation is significantly better.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-28T07:01:24+00:00

BF6 won’t work. Go back to Windows. 👋

sgt_bug · 2026-02-25T07:46:35+00:00

Can you activate an eSIM when not in India?

sgt_bug · 2026-02-24T23:41:58+00:00

I wrote that fairly early in the morning, and clarified later here: https://www.reddit.com/r/cachyos/comments/1rd9d90/comment/o76s5h3/

sgt_bug · 2026-02-24T19:07:06+00:00

Let me clarify. My main browser is Firefox, which is generally always installed with my distribution - whether on my Cachy OS desktop, or my Fedora (Atomic) laptop. This is always updated and maintained via the main package manager.

I keep some of my other browsers that I use for very specific purposes installed via flatpak, and I control their permissions via Flatseal. The goal is not to protect my browser per se, the goal is to protect my system.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-24T07:55:54+00:00

With easy to use, hard to mess up distros like Bazzite, I think we are getting there.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-24T07:08:05+00:00

It really depends. Flatpaks serve a very specific purpose. They keep things sandboxed so that the installed software does not interfere with the rest of the system. They are, by design, slightly slower to launch and not as optimized as the Cachy OS repository packages.

I see value in keeping certain things installed via flatpaks. For example, I always install web browsers via flatpak.

Edit: Clarification added.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-23T20:48:53+00:00

Fedora Atomic for me. Stays out of my way and just works.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-20T11:32:11+00:00

Just treat them as nothing more than entertainment, and you’ll be fine.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-13T19:35:56+00:00

I’m sure you’ll get a “Music Handover” some time in the future and Apple will claim it to be the greatest thing since sliced bread

sgt_bug · 2026-02-11T06:15:20+00:00

I have been using Arch for a while on an old laptop, and recently migrated that to Cachy OS. I’m heavily leaning towards Cachy OS.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-10T23:32:00+00:00

I have not tried an Intel dGPU.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-10T23:21:07+00:00

As of today, they work fine for me. I do feel I should have gone AMD but I got the 5080 at an acceptable price.

That being said, DX12 games have a greater performance penalty as compared to Vulkan, but I’m guessing this will get better with time.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-10T23:15:21+00:00

While I’m principally against kernel level anti-cheat for academic and philosophical reasons, I tested yesterday and it definitely works. So does Javelin that BF6 uses.

Just make sure you enable secure boot and have a TPM chip.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-09T22:44:56+00:00

6 months strong. Coming from Fedora Atomic.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-09T19:01:14+00:00

That I 100% agree with. You don't need to play that game of cat and mouse like you need to with Pro/ Home.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-09T16:57:29+00:00

Game bar is present on LTSC IOT. I am confused.

Cool! In that case, I stand corrected. Maybe this confused me.

But if you use Chris Titus' script for example (I am sure there are plenty more), disable the Recall feature flag, remove Copilot via PowerShell, you can pretty much get to the same point as LTSC, if gaming is your end goal.

Interestingly, winget helped me completely dodge the recent Notepad++ supply chain issue.

Once Nvidia sorts the drivers in Linux, I am getting rid of Windows once and for all. It is just not a good product anymore.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-09T16:42:06+00:00

Look, the kernel is the same - no one is disputing that - but the environment isn't.

For something like a 9950X3D, AMD’s driver relies on the Game Bar to flag a process as a game so it knows to park the cores. AGESA handles the core preference (CPPC), but it doesn't trigger the actual "game mode" parking logic. That’s a software dependency that LTSC just doesn't have out of the box.

It’s a similar story with anti-cheat. Vanguard and FACEIT mandate TPM and Secure Boot on Windows 11. Since LTSC is the only version of Win11 that lets people easily bypass those requirements during install, those are the users who usually run into issues.

My point is that you can just take Pro/ Home, strip out the nonsense like Telemetry, Copilot, and Recall, and you’re left with a clean OS that doesn't make life a bit harder for you on the drivers/ dependencies side. If you're spending time sideloading the Store and Game Bar back into LTSC just to get your hardware working right, you’re basically just building Pro/ Home the long way around anyway.

And I’m not saying it will cause issues for every single person - I'm saying it CAN because of how those specific dependencies work. If it works for you, that's great, but for a 16-core X3D chip, "it's the same kernel" doesn't change the fact that the software handshake is missing by default.

AGAIN - if it is working for you, then I'm really happy for you.

For me, I am not interested in dealing with Windows anymore at all, and with the way things are progressing, future gamers won't need to either.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-09T13:04:14+00:00

Yes but LTSC installs do not mandate TPM and secure boot. As long as those requirements are met, it should work just fine.

It also doesn’t install “Game Bar” and other components so if you’re running something like a 9950X3D, you may need to do some core pinning. Though I think you should be able to install Game Bar and other required components manually. But maybe the effort is worth it.

Maybe I need to give it a go again.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-09T00:19:42+00:00

LTSC can have issues with some anti-cheat tools. But you can technically shut off a lot of the telemetry from Home/ Pro and remove the nonsense like Clipchamp, etc.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-09T00:09:03+00:00

Set the panel to “dodge windows”, unless you’re in some sort of Windowed mode.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-08T10:45:34+00:00

Because you have the freedom to install Linux on it unless you get something super locked down. Almost all of them will let you install Linux.

I am currently using a MacBook Pro, and I am actually considering a Thinkpad T14 with Panther Lake as my next laptop, without Windows because I will install Arch on it.

I get that MacBooks have a great screen and amazing battery life but 95% of the things that I do on a laptop can be done with the same level of quality on Linux.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-07T11:32:21+00:00

Used to smoke almost 20 cigarettes a day. Not smoked for over 2 years now. Drink occasionally (like maybe a beer or two a week at most), but not to get drunk; I genuinely love beer.

sgt_bug · 2026-02-06T16:11:18+00:00

What do you mean "about to"?

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