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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 115 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (21 children)

Windows is basically malware now. My wife is forced to use W11 for work and she fucking hates it with a passion (and that’s the pared down IT version).

I pulled out my old gaming laptop that had been unplugged for quite a while and found it somehow updated itself to W11. I immediately wiped the computer and installed Nobara as the main OS. No regrets, no issues, and no half-assed bullshit.

Windows on the ASUS ROG Ally is absolute dog shit. It would constantly reboot to install unwanted updates that offered zero value on a handheld (let alone anything).

Nothing I own will ever run Windows.

Windows isn’t popular. It’s forced onto tons of prebuilt computers and most people wouldn’t know what to use instead. Fuck Windows. Rant over.

[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What's Nobara? I've never heard of that OS.

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Adding on to the other comment, Nobara is maintained by Glorious Egroll, the same guy that also develops the popular Proton-GE compatibility tool which adds some extra fixes on top of Valve's Proton.

(Proton is the compatibility tool Steam uses to make Windows games run on Linux, in case you're unfamiliar)

[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Oh I recognise that name. Tbf it might just be because its a fantastic moniker.

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