Using LTSC to avoid bloat is like removing the chairs and radio from your car to reduce weight. My experience with Win 10 LTSC was not terribly faster than Windows 10 Home, and night-and-day slower compared to a GNOME or KDE setup.
I suppose it's a fair play if you're contractually obligated to play Riot-published games or something, but... man. I've had better performance playing games on DXVK since 2016. Windows is a heavy hog.
> Using LTSC to avoid bloat is like removing the chairs and radio from your car to reduce weight.
LOL, I don't think that's how you meant it, but 100% agreed those are some of the first things to go when you wanna have fun in a car.
Windows LTSC is an amazing experience compared to vanilla windows, it's actually a decent OS that you can more or less control and you don't have to spend a weekend debloating and figuing out how to rip out cortana and ads and all the other garbage.
If you don't have personal experience with LTSC, it's probably a good time to stop opining on it. Having full access to group policy and total control over application and update choices on your own PC is not just a "cosmetic solution."
If your computer has weak spindle I/O and low RAM, then using LTSC is a useful shortcut to disabling background services that consume those resources. If resources are plentiful then it’ll have no gains. Also:
I don't follow what's going on here. I'm running current Windows 11 Pro, licenses purchased from one of the markets for under AUD$50, and turned off all the standard annoyances via setting toggles and never see an ad or weather report etc.
Or get an edition that doesn't have all of that to begin with, and is supported for 10 years so you don't have to worry about updates mysteriously resetting the annoyance settings that you've disabled, or randomly breaking stuff.
I have a dedicated Windows 11 gaming laptop and I'm about at my breaking point of putting another drive in it to test out the games that I care about on Linux. Windows was tolerable to use just for gaming, but the hoops that you have to go through to do some things in Windows are ridiculous. Removing the Game Bar (and stopping Windows from bugging you about it afterwards) is way more difficult than it should be. Also the driver update ping-pong that happens with my Intel video card is maddening. I'll have the driver fully updated and functional, then Windows Update periodically decides to downgrade it to one that's ~2 years old (which breaks stuff.)
If you're using steam, the ProtonDB website [1] has a feature where you can easily hook it up to your Steam account and get a full accounting of your entire collection on one screen.
I don't want to overpromise anything, but ProtonDB is if anything conservative; I find things working better than expected more often than I am disappointed by a listing now. Games with heavy anti-cheat for online multiplayer are often not a good bet, and really old stuff is sometimes not very well supported (although even so, surprisingly well), but Linux gaming quietly snuck up when nobody was looking and one step at a time has become something where I fairly casually just expect games to work in Linux now, without me having to do much more than poke Steam to use Proton manually sometimes.
Single GPU passthrough my solution to any game that requires kernel level anticheat (lmao, no, you're not getting it on my Linux box, silly malware game devs) or does not run under Proton.
Run Linux on the host system all the time, run Windows in a VM only when necessary, and give Windows a GPU only when necessary.
I actually do have two GPUs in my machine, but that wasn't my initial plan when I built this machine. I use the iGPU in my CPU to display my desktop and use my dGPU for Steam under Linux. When I want to run Windows I can unhook the dGPU from Linux, pass it through to Windows, and then both my Linux graphical session and Windows run at the same time. If you have a single GPU then the act of unbinding from Linux it to pass it through to a VM terminates your Linux graphical session (everything not under that graphical session keeps running) until you exit the VM and rebind the GPU to Linux.
As for the second part - yes. Typically you want to export the environment variable DRI_PRIME and set it to the index of the card you want to use to render and it will be displayed on the currently active display card.
The steps might be slightly different if you're using an nVidia card - both of my GPUs are AMD.
> Why doesn't the README file explain what this repository is doing?
It explains exactly what it's doing.
"Microsoft Store package for Windows LTSC."
It provides a Microsoft Store package for LTSC builds, and an install script that allows it to actually work. Windows LTSC builds don't have Microsoft Store preinstalled, and Microsoft offers no official way to re-enable it.
> Windows LTSC builds don't have Microsoft Store preinstalled
No, it's not that it isn't "preinstalled", the Microsoft Store is literally not supported on LTSC, by design. LTSC was never intended to run the Store. The original use case for LTSC was for ATMs, industrial control equipment, hospitals, and the like, where IoT wasn't appropriate, where you needed the ability to run full desktop applications.
> Microsoft offers no official way to re-enable it.
Yeah that's because the Store was never supposed to run on LTSC. It's not supported. Why would they offer an official way to re-enable it? The whole point of LTSC is that it doesn't include the store.
If someone cobbled together an ugly hack to shoehorn it in, by definition it could break at any time.
If by "customer" you mean "way of making money", I agree, since I didn’t pay for it. OTOH, I have been running LTSC on my desktop for years because it's the best edition of Windows, and I haven't had any issues with the Store, which I had to install manually, thus far.
To be fair, the headline could have been better worded. The convention for something like this is
“Show HN: Title of Repo”
I could understand how one might not understand what the aim of this post was. Maybe the ensuing conversation could have been handled better, but I would certainly include the parent comment in that indictment.
The store is also an app on windows and is sometimes an hard dependency to install apps that only exist on the windows store without having to jump through many hoops. It's usually part of windows itself in the regular retail builds of windows, but LTSC which is meant for enterprise and embedded system does not include it. Installing it is not straightforward which is what this repo provides.
There's no source code, it's a just a bunch of binaries and an install/uninstall script.
Edit: I should clarify that the link provided in the repo is not the microsoft store that the apps refer to. This would be a better link https://apps.microsoft.com
I don't think there's anything nefarious going on here but to someone just quickly looking over the page it has the impression of being an official Microsoft project, given the gratuitous use of their trademark and zero mention of it being a "community" effort.
I don’t see how ubiquiti not being open source is relevant here, as the original question was
> Can you recommend Western companies that would be able to produce similar hardware at the same price point?
Besides, I’m yet to see any open source routing software that’s half usable as a complete package. With the sole exception of VyOS, it’s all hot garbage, OpenWRT and pfSense included.
Ok, you may be in the wrong thread. This is a product for people who consider OpenWRT support to be a positive selling point. The OpenWRT One and OpenWRT Two are not products aimed at people who consider OpenWRT to be "hot garbage". They're not trying to produce generically good router hardware; they're trying to produce good router hardware for use with OpenWRT.
When somebody in this context is asking for similar hardware, it's reasonable to assume that OpenWRT support would still be considered important, or at least worth mentioning.
If Microsoft had instead created a modern alternative for Win32 that was equally performant and bullshit-free, Electron would have never seen the light of day.
I guess Musk’s reason for not wearing a suit is because he’s got fuck you money, and also because he has to keep up the tech bro appearance, for Tesla be valued like a car company otherwise.
> Zero-click kernel code execution with persistence and kernel PAC bypass
This is what baffles me about Apple's bug bounty program.
> $1,000,000: Zero-click remote chain with full kernel execution and persistence, including kernel PAC bypass, on latest shipping hardware. As an example, you demonstrated a zero-click remote chain with full kernel execution and a PAC/PPL bypass with persistence on the latest iOS device.
This is easily worth significantly more. You don't even need to sell it to the black market, sell it to all the 3 letter agencies in the world.
My gaming PC runs Windows 11 LTSC.
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