I've enjoyed Linux since Windows MEllennium Edition convinced me that I didn't like paying a lot, in money and time, to be an unpaid product testing guinea pig. A work friend put Windows 2000 on that laptop when ME went bad. I used it until a got a blue screen of death one day, and switched to Linux. The 1st was a $230 ePC that could be had with Windows XP or XanderOS (a flavor of Linux). I chose the latter, and had a great time of it. I've since used Mint and Ubuntu.

[–] Botler@feddit.org 7 points 1 hour ago

Linux Baby, Linux 🐧😘

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 22 minutes ago

I'll have to use some sort of windows for VR, I need to investigate the various debloat options

[–] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 36 minutes ago

I just deleted windows and installed Bazzite Linux. Everything just works

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I jumped ship to Linux Mint almost a year ago. No Microsoft products live here anymore. No regrets.

[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I tried out going 100% Linux a year ago. Unfortunately I was playing one of the very few games that has Linux issues. 100% CPU all the time was bugging me. It's not the fault of Linux. Anyway, that's how it played out. I may be tempted to try again soon.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 10 points 2 hours ago

Full Linux, I'm not installing that anti-privacy, ad-ridden Windows 11 OS. It's dangerous to use an unsupported system, so I'm going to be deleting my Windows partition. I know I'll run into some issues on Linux, but I'm forcing myself to learn more and work through them!

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

I'll keep using linux on my main pcs and I'll still keep using windows 10 on my secondary laptop

[–] cdkg@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

What happens if still use win 10?

[–] TheFANUM@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

You can't. Every single hack/exploit that goes unpatched will be a gaping door for hackers

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

You'll be more vulnerable to malware because it won't be patched against newly discovered exploits.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You are compromising yourself, though I think you'll still get security patches for a bit longer

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

October is when security patches for windows 10 will stop. Its when it goes full out of support. LTSB will continue getting security patches for a couple years though.

Source

[–] VOwOxel@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

I moved from Win 10 to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 2 months ago. Going very well so far, even for music production and gaming. I also got a friend of mine to dual-boot Tumbleweed/Win11, coming from Win11.

[–] swag_money@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

i jumped 🫡

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

I'll upgrade to 11 Enterprise via massgrave.

Sadly with Adobe and some of my online games not supporting Linux, I have to stick with Windows :/ I'll just try to disable all the telemetry and AI crap via O&O and group policies.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 1 points 35 minutes ago

What is O&O? I'm not to keen on jumping to Linux either, but I REALLY don't like the idea of having recall active and having Microsuck know literally everything I do...

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Ya I can't live without Adobe suite so same boat

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, Adobe doesn't support Linux at all? Guess I'm staying on Windows too :/

[–] Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

The only way to use Adobe products on Linux are the web apps (which are limited) or in a windows virtual machine (slow) or by dual booting into windows (annoying).

You can run really old versions of Photoshop via Wine. But if your needs are that simple, you can probably just use Photopea.

For my use case of Lightroom for accessing and editing final photos across my computer and phone, and occasional photoshop use (mostly for printing) I am able to get by with the web apps, and windows virtual machine.

I would love to drop adobe. But the Lightroom Mobile cloud storage sync feature is too invaluable to me right now and there is no other option that comes close to that feature.

[–] blixtuwu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I already moved to linux (In my case Linux Mint) two weeks ago ^^

[–] DimFisher@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Does it really matter? I have xemu (xbox emulator), retroarch for anything else, and PSX2 to be sure on Lubuntu, combine together how many games all those have and you just don't need steam

[–] carrion0409@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, I still don't know. My 3070 worked well on linux the last time I used it so hardware won't be an issue. I also don't play many modern games so that's not a problem either. It's just my partner is schizo with what games they wanna play. Rn they're obsessed with minecraft and bedrock doesn't work on linux. I know for sure I'm not going to 11 though. I've used it before and absolutely hated the UI layout.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 hours ago

First off, bedrock is cancer it's just off-brand Minecraft.

But second, there is an unofficial launcher that works on Linux

https://flathub.org/apps/io.mrarm.mcpelauncher

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's tricky because I have things that just don't translate well to linux, or become considerably more expensive or time consuming to manage / deal with. Linux has a lot to offer and a lot of great. But I'm just going to keep running an out of date OS until I can switch.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What kind of things are holding you back?

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago

I don't want to get into a big debate on it so if you are just curious and have a couple suggestions I'm down to talk about it. But I'm tired of people telling me that my reasoning isn't good enough for them. Like, great, thanks, glad you can be happy with it, but we aren't the same person. So I'd prefer to avoid any conversation where I'm just told to suck it up and deal with something. I am working on finding alternatives but all the ones I've come across so far are coming up short in a way that's non negotiable.

My biggest one is my O365 bundle with office apps, oneNote, and OneDrive.

I am going to be trying out libreoffice and OpenOffice this year to see if I can replace word and excel. Last time I tried they weren't there for me.

OneNote is my second most vital. I'm looking at Notesnook at the moment but I'm really not enthused by a monthly price or the idea of self-hosting in a docker container. I've hated most note apps and OneNote was the only one I've clicked with so far. I refuse to touch markdown so that kills a lot of them. I'm taking notes with minor edits, and I refuse to add markdown to the process just to do that. I also will not be ok with a webapp. I don't like webapps in general.

OneDrive is probably my most vital. I have 1TB for me and 1TB each for 5 family accounts. So 6TB total. And I definitely use the space. On top of that I rely heavily on its integration to the file explorer and the mfa locked personal vault section. I don't want to deal with a web interface or separate app, outside of an authentication hook for the vault, just to access storage.

Outside of the 365 bundle, it's mostly running dedicated game servers that have no Linux option. And that's it I believe. Certainly the most impactful applications. I think most other things I run, I can find acceptable alternatives to or can run in wine or something similar without major issue.

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 30 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

Why Gates in the picture tough?

He stepped down as a chairman over 10 years ago and didint he leave the microsoft board like 5 years ago?

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