My windows install forced itself to update and then failed in the middle of the update completely cooking my entire system and leaving me with no option but to use their fresh install option which nuked everything but left my files in a zip. It was like perfect timing because i had just learnt about the existence of linux a months prior.
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As someone who hasn't used windows on my pc for a decade the thing the writer said about people "wanting to switch but looking for a reason not to" is so true. The same people have told me for years how much they want to switch but never do.
Whew - all the things I'm missing having switched to Linux a couple years ago.
But now I had a new bug: Chrome would randomly lock up for about 30 seconds when a video was playing
First - I can't believe people still use Chrome. Second - Chrome has done shit like this for 10 years.
Homeboy here is a classic example of a frog boiling slowly. Glad he made it out.
Switched my Mom to Kubuntu from Windows 10. Haven't had any issues. The only windows software she used was an older version of Quicken but GNUCash wasn't too much for her to pickup. It's nice no longer having to rely on M$ for home computing.
Nice! I switched my parents over to Firefox and OpenOffice years ago, so switching them over to Linux Mint was just a matter of showing them where the update button was now. (Their laptops are completely functional for their purposes, but couldn't be "upgraded" from Windows 10 to 11.) Scratch another few off the MS list forever.
I switched to Bazzite last week. I was only using Windows for games anyway. Amazed how simple it was, everything ‘just worked’.
Appreciate that some multiplayer games won’t work, but Arc Raiders does and that’s all my group are playing at the moment.
Somehow I coped without an offer to subscribe to an office suite and cloud storage. Phew.
Appreciate that some multiplayer games won’t work, but Arc Raiders does and that’s all my group are playing at the moment.
I always look at it like this:
Even if I wanted to play those games, I want to play a lot of other games too and so I'll worry about the handful of kernel anti-cheat games once I run out of other, equally interesting, games to play.
Overwatch works too FWIW.
Overwatch 1? Or Overwatch 2->1?
I'm only interested in 6v6 no role queue Overwatch, but that exists in whatever I installed two days ago. I pretty much skipped Overwatch 2. I'm giving it another go with the new changes as it's free to try. Had a few games, people still can't team up for shit but I had fun.
Bazzite has been great so far, my only real issue has been fighting to get monado to work so I can get an old crappy mixed reality vr headset to work, mostly because its old and crappy and even windows gave up on supporting it so... I can't complain too much lol.
Bazzite was the distro that ran my ancient hardware out of the box and allowed me to play my old games once in a while. No more Microsoft nagging me for upgrading and telling my hardware isn't good enough.
I thought for sure that I wasn't going to be able to use Citrix Workplace with the Cisco WebEx VDI plug-in to connect to work and take meetings, but I loaded up an Ubuntu distro box and it's worked a treat after a reasonable amount of research and fiddling.
Very happy with my Bazzite experience so far.
Nice! According to wikimedia stats, linux is already over 5% and growing! We can do it, people! We can take down microslops's os monopoly
Cool. Been on Pop!_os for a year or so. Not memorable issues. Plays games fine.
Microsoft should be broken up. Even if they walk back some of their AI slop, they're too big. They don't fail like they should for releasing a bad product.
Enjoying CachyOS on my laptop and Fedora on my Mini PC. Both distros were super easy to install. No need to sign into a Microslop account either!
I guess it just boils down to how much you accept a company to push you around. For me, the writing was on the wall with Windows Vista, even though I did have a Windows 7 machine/ partition later that actually worked well.
I also gave Windows 8 a chance when it came preinstalled on the notebook I bought, but I hated it. So I finally fully switched there, and no Windows since then (excluding the machines my employers provide, IDGAF about them since I get paid to use them and don't have to administrate those). There is way less need for Windows nowadays, back in the Windows 7 days, you could basically only play Linux native and OpenGL titles, PulseAudio was iffy, Vulkan and by extension DXVK didn't exist, AMD drivers weren't great (AMD had just begun releasing documentation late 2007 and fglrx was a pain), so there were a lot of things that just wouldn't work, and yet switching was possible.
As the author notes, there are way fewer blockers nowadays, and most people are just looking to excuse their complacency. And I think it's fine to be ok with Windows, but then you shouldn't complain too much. Microsoft under Nadella only cares about numbers.