Windows 11 keeps trying to install different stuff, notifying you about how great edge is, requires new hardware, and more. Windows 12 is rumored to be cloud only with a subscription?
What will do you?
Switch to Linux. In fact, I already switched when Windows 10 came around. I don’t miss Windows to be honest. The only time I use Windows is to play games that arent compatible with Linux or if I need to use an app that is only available for Windows.
I will continue to use Linux exclusively as I have for the last ten years.
I am running Win11(pro) because the new Intel CPUs require it.
It’s completely fine. I use Firefox without edge annoying me. There are no apps that just pop up out of nowhere (that I know of). It’s fine. I locked down all the temeletry shit like I did on Win10.
The only thing annoying me is the change in the preview in folder icons. I wanna see the pictures that are in the folder not the. xmp files Darktable creates.
Looking at Linux Mint or Nobara already
I might switch to Linux, gonna be hard tho when you got elitists and gatekeepers in the Linux instance
Linux is so approachable now, I don’t see a reason not to make a full dive.
How well does Linux handle HDR? For me it’s now a requirement and I don’t see myself switching until it’s fully supported.
Is there a reliable, thorough site that gives up-to-date information on Windows software compatibility in Linux?
It’s not the things that take up 80% of my time that worry me. I am sure it will be seamless to manage a word-compatible document or spreadsheet or browse the Internet. But the edge-cases - FL Studio, a specific game I want to play, some niche app I don’t even notice I need until it’s gone - make me hesitant to devote time into trying.
Some good starting points:
FL Studio on WineHQ: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=178
These databases are crowdsourced, so less popular apps will have less eyes on them. You can see on that FL Studio page that the tests are all over the place, with different app versions, different wine versions, and different ratings all the way from “garbage” to “platinum”. This does not inspire confidence.
Microsoft never seems to stop making it harder to use Windows. At this point I have Windows 10 relegated to a USB SSD, and I only boot it in extreme circumstances. I have tried to install Windows 11, and it’s just not happening. Microsoft stopped supporting Windows to Go years ago, and the installer simply will not play nice with my disk setup. I sunk more hours into troubleshooting Windows 11 installation than I have with any Linux distro I’ve used, and I still walked away without a working install.
So at this point it’s all Linux, (almost) all the time.
I’m not going to lie and say that using Linux is a perfectly smooth experience. It’s not. But neither is using Windows. As Thomas Jefferson once said: “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.” The inconveniences of Windows are only getting more severe as time goes on.
Linux, Gaben be praised for lowering the bridge
The further into the tech world I get, the more inviting Linux seems. I manage multiple PCs for my business, and holy shit is it aggravating to have to uninstall added garbage and shut off more background processes every time there’s an non optional update. The update that was deemed critical a few weeks ago to protect against whatever new virus is around seemed reasonable, until I opened OOSU and saw outside of the security update, it also happed to turn telemetry back on, gave Microsoft apps permission to use the camera and microphone, reinstalled edge, and added a new update app that’s not located with other apps and can’t be found by REVO. It’s difficult to make it what I want, but at least it’s not impossible.
The way w11 is right now, if 10 gets dropped I’m jumping ship.
I just want a familiar, easy to use, lightweight os. My partner and I both have the same laptop. Mine is my modified w10 build, theirs is the best I could do with w11. Mine starts faster, the battery lasts longer, searching and file transfer is faster, and my temps are lower. I start with 28 background processes, theirs has 73. We do roughly the same things on them, and mine is better in virtually every way.
Want to change a setting? W10 already has 2 extra unnecessary menus to go through to find what you want. W11 put two more on top of that. I tried to use teams for business communication, but the machines took such a performance hit I got rid of it, and on 11 it’s permanent and “functionally necessary” even though it will never be used.
W10 claimed IE, Cortana, Edge, Xbox, and OneDrive were necessary for the OS to work, but I can rip them out and every thing still works. On 11, the menus and file explorer will disappear if you remove programs you never wanted.
There is nothing better about the newer os’ than windows 7. I don’t want more ‘features’. I don’t want more ‘ease of use’ garbage. I don’t want app based programs and menus. I don’t want device syncing and cloud backups. I want computer settings, a file explorer, and the ability to install the programs I use and nothing else. How has no company done that yet?
Are you using Enterprise edition? Standard hardware across users? Active Directory to push a standard set of GPOs and registry edits? Most of this stuff shouldn’t be that hard to manage if you have an actual environment set up to do so and not a cobbled together unmanaged mess that grew/was built ad-hoc. That said not all of us are lucky enough to have any better than ad-hoc, and Microsoft in their infinite wisdom stopped offering general desktop and server management courses that might teach this shit a few years back.
Beyond that, you should probably hold back non-security patches and updates by a few weeks to a month. That gives you time to test on a pilot machine and identify what new settings you’ll have to push to client machines, and time for the internet and MS to find any issues before you have to do so yourself.
As 12 comes out I think we will see a lot of gamers moving to Linux thanks to the much anticipated SteamOS release. Windows 12 will still be “successful” among the general public but Linux usage will skyrocket as Microsoft break that straw on the camels back for the more experienced users.
Personally I will move to Linux, likely start with dual boot in the transitional phase and as SteamOS improves and game publishers realise they need to support Linux and take it more seriously.
Not a Linux fan at all but with my steamdeck usage and setting up Mint on a NUC for a server I’ve been very impressed with Linux progression. It’s still not perfect, needs to be more user friendly but it is getting there.
They said that with Windows 8 and Steam OS
Every year is the year of Linux
Goddamn Lemmy is just retarded.
I went all in with Linux and dumped windows and android…
Android Is technically Linux tho
Not just technically. The killer combo of FOSS operating systems is GNU/Linux on desktop and Android OSP on mobile.
I’m curious what the person you replied to is running on their phone if it isn’t Android based.Let’s be honest it’s probably iOS. Gross.
Maybe Ubuntu touch?
You’re using a Linux phone? Which one
Just move onto the latest Windows.
Windows 12 is not a subscription, that was a rumor and was already disproven.
I’m not hopping on the Linux train. … and neither are most people, though you wouldn’t know it from the Lemmy population.
