Yuuup, never switching to Windows 11 Windows 10 till something doesn’t work, them back to Linux
Sounds to me like you should skip a step there
Yeah yeah, I’m sure it has gotten easier but I last used Linux well before Proton and I have an NVIDIA card and I remember all too well how that worked back in the day. Long story short it’s too much trouble until I actually have to change something anyways.
Oh yeah, also I have an HDR gsync display and good grief I can’t wait for those to be fully supported cross platform.
Is there a single person who is like “wow I love it”?
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I just reinstalled Windows 11 and holy shit was it hard to setup without a Microsoft account. Like they even use a fake boot up screen weeks later to “finish the install” to trick you into making an account. This can be deactivated, but it is still super shady.
Check out Windows Xlite’s windows 11 .iso’s. Post install almost feels like a fresh Win7 install.
Holy shit that’s annoying. Say I installed Win11 for my elderly parents. They’d get this sign-up screen after I would have thought everything was setup and ready to use.
Glad I installed elementary OS for them a few years ago, it’s been completely painless (they are used to apple-UX)
Nice. Upgraded a Thinkpad, installed Linux Mint and gave it to my dad. I have not heard anything from him about it for a couple of months. Was reminded of it with your post.
So wrote him right now and asked how it was going, and he replied that he loved it and uses it every day.
And that he had not had any problems he could not solve on his own. He’s 70 and a windows only heavy user - until now 🙂
As you said. Compelety painless.
Yup, I know what I’m doing, but someone else might have just assumed it was required. I was up and running for a week before a reboot sent me to the smiling windows install screen.
I found it’s a pretty simple “don’t ask to finish installing” switch in the settings, but escaping the install screen was the hard part. I think I had to do a hard power down and force safe mode to access the settings again.
In the 1990s, I transitioned from Windows to Linux as my primary operating system. Since then, Linux has consistently exhibited advancements in the desktop and software space, whereas Windows and Mac operating systems appear to have experienced a decline in terms of user experience and functionality.
As someone regularly using Arch, Ubuntu, MacOS and Windows I agree.
The advances Linux has made, especially in the last few years is just amazing. I can run the majority of my games through Proton, there are even some preconfigured packages with Illustrator and Photoshop CC that Adobe doesn‘t seem to care about at all.
Sometimes I like sitting in my Unix-based ivory tower, but then I remember my daily driver uses macOS and that it’s only a matter of time before they employ something similar/worse.
When the inevitable inevitably evits, the toughest choice for me will be fedora vs tumbleweed.
Fedora + snapper. If you want Arch’s AUR, then Fedora + snapper + Arch distrobox.
There go all the government installs.
Google rolled out a retooled search engine that periodically puts AI-generated summaries over website links at the top of the results page; while also showing off a still-in-development AI assistant Astra that will be able to “see” and converse about things shown through a smartphone’s camera lens
What worries me the most is that this AI hype is coming strongly to the smartphone market too, and we don’t have something solid like Linux distributions to change to and be free
I think demand will come soon for either manufacturers to open their boot loaders or new manufacturers cropping up to fill that gap.
I’m running graphene os on a pixel 8 pro and haven’t looked back.
what we really need on phones and by extension arm devices is a unified bootloader, something akin to a bios or uefi (which btw already exists on arm but manufacturers are choosing to not go with it for some reason)
then law enforcement gets a hold of it
“how many cars did this user download”
*Microsoft to train AI chatbot on everything you do
*Microsoft will show you ads
It’s not going to get better. I nuked 10 and switched to Linux permanently around the Windows 11 launch. My only regret is not switching sooner, like around Windows 8 times.
This will make Windows 11 a target for hacker and government agencies, since this will be treasure of data. Windows already is bad at security. Let’s see how this backfires at Microsoft.
Microsoft will be the “hackers”. On days when outside hackers aren’t breaking in, MS will be data mining and selling the data themselves
But they promised, that it will stay on my machine. I don’t think they would lie about something such important. /s
Yeah, fuck that.
So this is simply a WEC but in someone else’s server.
