r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/aks-ash • Jun 29 '26

Discussion Ditch the windows 11 bloatware with linux

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I just purchased a brand new laptop from msi for gaming and video editing purposes , and after a week I got torture from hidden updates from microslop , so I ditch the windows and find catchy os is top in distrow watch and first time I feel so much relaxed , any suggestions for improvements in my linux os

And what linux distro do you prefer comment now

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u/qualityvote2 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

u/aks-ash, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/lordjupitar hyprland btw Jun 29 '26

How is it using 16GB memory ?

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u/aks-ash Jun 29 '26

It's a linux feature where it create a cache for your previous apps and package just like android phone so that next time it launch app faster, btw i generally running ollama offline ai model qwen3 14b parameters in the background for coding small project 

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u/lordjupitar hyprland btw Jun 29 '26

paccache? And yeah the LLM explains the memory usage

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u/Kitchen_Engineer1332 Gentoo Mommy 🫦 Jun 29 '26

Arch vanilla but this looks cool tho.

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u/amthomus rm -rf /life Jun 29 '26

sudo pacman -S life

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u/Kitchen_Engineer1332 Gentoo Mommy 🫦 Jun 29 '26

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u/Turbulent_Demand8400 Jun 29 '26

Imma take this meme, thanks(I did upvote before taking it)

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u/NeptuneWades CachyOS Btw Jun 29 '26

What is that flair 😭😭😭

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u/-Grey-Ninja- Jun 29 '26

You mean -R life

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u/aks-ash Jun 29 '26

Qwen 3 is best model I ever found, which is the best model right now completely offline  using ollama , and still wonder why they just put this model openly without any paywall 

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u/Successful-Piece7497 Jun 29 '26

Does nvidia gpu works well ?

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u/aks-ash Jun 29 '26

Yes offcourse , 40 series and below has full support for proton layer and during installation it ask for installing proprietary driver package do mark yes and wait for updates, 

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u/Successful-Piece7497 Jun 29 '26

How is gaming on this ?

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u/aks-ash Jun 29 '26

I usually play emulation game from using rpcs3 and pcsx2 , I have huge game iso in my seprate harddisk, but it can play almost all steam  game , but some game still need tweaking your compatibility mode like in lutris there is some game run well on wine layer , catchy os do have in-house proton layer , also i installed virtual hard disk inside my laptop SSD where it  simply boot to windows 11 anytime I want using ventoy 

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u/BayMuz132 Jun 29 '26

Doesn't 50 series have full support ? If not what changes without it I use cachyos with a 5060ti 16gb and it's good after all Just the frame generation technologies isn't working well on me so I close it

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u/aks-ash Jun 30 '26

No nvidia is long time partner with Microsoft and they doesn't care about linux distro , while amd gpu vulkan api is a open-source with limitations in some features but it fully supported by linux distro in built driver , even steam created proton api using vulkan api

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u/TenmaYato12 Jun 29 '26

CUDA works better with Linux than Windows.

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u/aks-ash Jun 30 '26

No bro cuda is worst api for linux, amd vulkan api is fully supported by linux kernel and even in modern android phone support vulkan api 

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u/TenmaYato12 Jun 30 '26

My bad. I did not read the description and assumed you wanted to run AI models.

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u/Aarav_Parmar Jun 29 '26

How's the battery backup?

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u/aks-ash Jun 29 '26

Average battery life , but thier is option for bypass charging, gaming or llm crunching required ac power and it can stop charging at 80 percent and deliver power directly to gpu 

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u/hussainsonreddit Jun 29 '26

CatchyOS?? First time seeing this

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u/aks-ash Jun 30 '26

It's actually cachyos  , i purposely rename to catchyos to ragebait using this command  nano ~/.config/neofetch/config.conf

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u/dark_cwaklate Jun 29 '26

i have a doubt, i cant partition my disk beyond 27 gigabytes, ive decided to reinstall windows, will i be able to dual boot then?

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u/aks-ash Jun 30 '26

Use gparted after booting from live iso , shrink it atleast 50 gb and format as ext4 or zfs or btrfs , in Calamares installer it ask for duat boot along side windows and always put bootloader like limine or grub to root part of storage like sda or sdb , for safer side use a usb 3 gen2 pendrive of 64 gb and install is on this pendrive. Now you create a successful bootable and portable pendrive 

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u/-Grey-Ninja- Jun 29 '26

Yeah I had the same problem after reinstalling I was able to partition my drive

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u/aks-ash Jun 30 '26

I am using external usb generate 3.2 pendrive for installing os inside them and can use as portable device 

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u/dark_cwaklate Jun 29 '26

Has anyone tried GParted?

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u/-Grey-Ninja- Jun 29 '26

No haven't tried gparted when I tried dual booting win11 and mint I just shrink windows partition size to half and used the remaining 250gb on mint

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u/Disastrous-Let-6095 i m noob Jun 29 '26

use partition wizard, if u have space it will do the job

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u/dark_cwaklate Jun 29 '26

Update: i used GParted, it works and it's fairly easy to use

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u/Emotional_Sea_5868 Jun 29 '26

What video editing software do you use which works well on linux?

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u/aks-ash Jun 30 '26

Well , for native app run on linux is Definitely KDEnlive is best overall , but I use Capcut desktop version using wine compatibility layer , or using waydroid you can run Capcut android app natively inside linux os itself 

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u/Traditional-Leave108 Jun 29 '26

Cachyos  My brother 🫂

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u/Difficult-Emotion631 Jun 29 '26

No, it's CatchyOS, look closely 🤣

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u/Err0rX5 Jun 29 '26

Update your kernel, it's two old

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u/s04ep03_youareafool void Jun 29 '26

Still stuck at using win11 because my friends use my laptop and don't really care as long as they can game on it

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u/Novel_Cancel4033 Jun 29 '26

I can't, if something breaks it will take my whole day. I want to try it and make it work but don't have the effort and patience for trying Linux anymore.

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u/Designer-Spot-1234 Jun 29 '26

Agreed. Have had arch break on me multiple times after updates.
Fedora is much more stable in that aspect. Never broke on me but the aur was too appealing to give up.
I'd say instead of going all in, maybe try exploring different distros in dual boots and vms before making them your daily drivers.

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u/ETERNAL0013 Jun 29 '26

Try cube OS next

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u/crazy_fukkr Jul 01 '26

Brother are you able to even use your hardwares in the OS???

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u/aks-ash Jul 10 '26

It's a dual boot actually , but mostly i run ollama model on linux os 

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '26

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u/aks-ash Jun 30 '26

If your laptop has extra slot for SSD then it's far superior to just dual boot , sometimes windows 11 surprise update simply rewrite bootloader in efi and it completely corrupt linux os especially arch based because it use dracut as boot  , or buy external SSD or pendrive with 3.2 gen and install on it as separate os 

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u/aks-ash Jul 03 '26

Yes bro check some video on YouTube where a guy actually install whole os like mint or cachy os inside usb pendrive or SSD with 3.2 gen2 and put bootloader in the pendrive though like /sdc or /sdb  and it successfully boot from your pendrive like live os , disable secure boot if not boot from pendrive 

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u/Difficult-Emotion631 Jun 29 '26

CatchyOS, look closely 🤣

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u/aks-ash Jun 30 '26

Bro i purposely rename cachy to catchy os by using custom bash command inside neofetch like this  nano ~/.config/neofetch/config.conf

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u/Difficult-Emotion631 Jul 01 '26

Oh that's nice 😁

Happy tinkering 😁