Luckily i keep not running into the issues, Its mostly the unwanted windows features that seem to irritate me (f off onedrive and copilot) I keep trying to swap but I found what im good at finally and it is bricking linux installs.
One of the best feelings for me ever was when I cancelled my Micro$oft account after switching to Mint.
The freshness is real.
7 was good. 10 was ok-ish.
11 and its forced online-account? No, thanks.
It's 10 LTSC for now. Laptop runs KDE just fine, it's the lesser pain right now.
I am writing this from Windows 11. I still haven't solved my wacom tablet issues on Linux. I still have a drive with Nobara 42, but I can't use it. When I have some free time, I will get to the bottom of it, and perhaps (finally) ditch the Windows. Addendum : right now I depend on Windows+Wacom to keep functioning correctly to be able to work.
For me it is the displaylink dock driver which consume all the CPU in Ubuntu and Fedora. When that will get sorted out, but I doubt it will happen anytime soon, I will finally ditch Windows.
I'm not sure what this is. DDG shows me things that look like port hubs ? but for displays ? I haven't kept up with the times
Okay PCWorld helped me somewhat. https://www.pcworld.com/article/801587/best-displaylink-docks.html
I'm not sure what this brings compared to connecting your monitor directly to your laptop ?
I have 2 computers connected to an USB switch (not a port replicator but one that let switch the host of your USB switch) and the dock attached to this USB switch. This allows me to quickly switch all of my desk devices (multiple monitors, webcam, microphone, gigabit network, etc...) with one click. Also both computer just require 2 cables for everything: USB and power cord. It took some time to put it all together but it is now my definitive battle station.
Unfortunately the dock does not work well with Linux and I am not able to find a non displaylink dock that enables me to achieve all of this. It is just a driver problem, but still...
If your laptop doesn't have enough ports built in.
I am not Linux savvy at all but I was ready to switch for me gaming pc.
Well I actually did for a month with nobara, which was great. What shocked me was it seemed much more modern than windows ! It took me some time to get how things worked and I could do everything I wanted with no command line. I still think it can be hard to get started at first to install some windows games/programs not on steam(everything is fantastic on that part), it could use a tutorial for newcomers... But overall, fantastic experience.
Until I tried to use my thrustmaster wheel and I had problems (and I am not the only one it seems). Apart from that (didn't try to use my flight stick or VR headset yet but maybe it could have been problematic too) it was absolutely great. I went back to win11 for now but with a very barebone ltsc version (no win store, no game bar, no ai, and no online account). It's far from perfect and I'd rather be on Linux as I think it will be better in the long term.
If Windows crosses a the threshold of “major OEMs start shipping Linux,” what happens to windowscentral?
Do they split the staff/site to a linuxcentral? Winecentral?
I had Windows 11 on my Asus ROG Ally that I was too lazy to remove. Bitlocker locked the system randomly and would not accept the recovery key from my Microsoft Account.
I installed Bazzite the next day.
It's unusable and they vibe coded the entire thing.
We had to switch back to windows 10 at work due to the issues we had with 11. Now my computer is permanently broken with many default applications that simply do not work and my IT department can't figure it out.
Windows 10 was the last Windows I'll use. Windows 7 was the last one I was happy with. Windows 98SE and XP, we had great times, didn't we? Miss you guys.
I resisted getting 10, and finally acquiesced. When 11 was announced, I watched apprehensively from the side-lines, and finally decided it was time to dump Windows if I could. Fortunately, Linux is here, it's great, and it just works, now.
An OS should do its job and disappear behind the programs (I'm purposely resisting saying "app" in favor of the old-school "program", too). Linux does that, like Windows used to.
I do admit that I run Win10 IOT in VirtualBox for a few small programs that won't run under Wine. Once a week, for a few minutes. I'm sorry. I don't wear the shirt, because I feel like a fraud. Please forgive me.
First of all, don't feel bad about it. That said if you want to improve yourself in the virtualization department and get rid of Oracle's VirtualBox, I recommend having a look at virt-manager with KVM/Qemu as a VM host. It's a bit more of initial setup but once this is done it works pretty much the same way as VirtualBox.
I do admit that I run Win10 IOT in VirtualBox for a few small programs that won't run under Wine. Once a week, for a few minutes. I'm sorry. I don't wear the shirt, because I feel like a fraud. Please forgive me.
Dude, virtualize all the things! In open source land, you run whatever code you want to because you can, and you don't feel embarrassed about it.
An application is for end user, a program is a set of instructions. All apps are programs but not all programs are apps ;)
for Windows fans
LOL what? windows "fans"?
apple fans, i get. but who tf is cheerleading for fucking windows, and NOT getting paid to do so?
User Shalafi just in this thread. Strange but true.
I'm convinced Windows is only still used because of the elderly and the technologically incompetent.
As a software engineer, I am forced to use Windows 11 on my provided laptop, but literally all of my work is done on my Linux VM. I don't understand why tech companies don't fully transition to Linux for development in cases like mine, but then I remember the 800 year old managers and directors we have who barely know how to use a stapler, let alone a computer.
Nobody ever cheered for Windows. I was there at the Windows 95 launch and everybody hated it and its problems were "impossible to ignore" and it was an embarrassing failure in tech circles and the BSOD was a meme.
Remind me again how that went.
it's funny how big tech basically determines how things are going to go, regardless of what anyone thinks. i remember the "uproar" when whoever tf it was decided to release a phone without a headphone jack. everyone said "i don't like that" and the response was "yes. you fucking do like that. you like it right up the ass." and now literally no one complains about the lack of headphone jack on any phone that exists now.
i was also there when win 95 came out, and remember thinking "are people this fucking stupid, that they can't get along on a computer without some fancy newfangled 'graphical' user interface?"
yep.
Remind me again how that went.
investigate how many businesses are planning to ditch windows for something else, regardless of how shitty windows is. i would actually be interested in those numbers
I still complain about the lack of the headphone jack (and SD slot). It's just become almost impossible to buy one that supports it without it being lacking in some other way. But I held out for ten years at least.
I get you're making a broader point about how most people act and I agree.
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