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[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a "Subscription Edition," "Subscription Type," and a "subscription status."

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[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 66 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Maybe this will finally convince the world to move to Linux Mint

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You'll be surprised/dismayed how resistant people are to learning something new.

[–] SterlingVapor@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

That's not the problem... The problem is Linux isn't "normal". Their work laptop comes with Windows or osx. Their home computer comes with the same.

Now go tell the average person to install Linux... To them, you might as well be telling them to open up their computer and snip a jumper to make their computer faster. To them, you're telling them to take their working computer and do something they don't really understand and is beyond their ability to undo.

It's an aftermarket modification to them. If you want to make Linux approachable, it's really damn simple. Hand them a computer running Linux, with a pretty desktop manager, and a GUI for everything you expect them to do with it. Better yet, add an app store so they can try out software and run updates without feeling intimidated

My point is, if manufacturers start selling Linux machines again, a lot of people will get on board

People aren't opposed to learning, they're just scared of breaking it, and they need to at least be able to use a web browser without going up a learning curve

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Humans are creatures of habit. The average user won't switch until the pain of using what they know outweighs the pain of learning something new + the fear of something new.

[–] lustrum@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have mint dual booted on my laptop with Win 11. I find myself using Win11 more.

Idk why, linux mint doesn't feel finished to me:

  • 120hz won't work with my dock (works fine in ubuntu and w11)
  • Touchpad scrolling is insanely quick and almost unusable
  • My mouse jitters allover, accelleration or something seems wrong.
  • Can't seem to set different governors depending on battery or power.
  • Fingerprint doesn't have a driver (works in Ubuntu ok though).
  • Scaling 125% seems janky, everything is blurry as shit

It does work mostly ok though and is quick, but it doesn't feel polished. Ubuntu was great but fuck snap packages.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

If you're using synaptics as the touchpad manager, there is a config element to control the speed of the scroll

VertScrollDelta and HorizScrollDelta (integer) configures the speed of scrolling, it is a bit counter-intuitive because higher values produce greater precision and thus slower scrolling. Negative values cause natural scrolling like in macOS.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It’d certainly convince me. I run windows 11 since my laptop came with it but if I had to pay for my OS I’d run to Linux. The existence of Proton makes it much easier to switch now as well.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Most of my tech literate (yes, literate, not illiterate) friends were actually supportive of this.

So imagine what tech illiterates will be like.

Most people will just accept it as a cost of computing, I fear.

[–] ofcourse@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Switching to a Linux can be overwhelming. A few distros have made great strides to make most of the OS work right after installing it. But even if there’s only 1% issues due to hardware, drivers, gaming, etc., troubleshooting those issues would often require using terminal and are not accessible to everyone. There’s no customer support to reach out to, and online forums can be difficult to navigate for someone not familiar with coding.

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It 'can' be overwhelming, yes. I've never found, however, so MANY online guides that literally tell you step by step what to enter in the terminal window to succeed. There's always a learning curve, it's just about whether or not you want to pay Windows every month to avoid figuring this out. This is why I mentioned Mint specifically, btw. It's the most user friendly.

[–] job3rg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

For personal use maybe. Im 100% my job (and possibly most workplaces) will just eat the subscription cost to stick with what they know.