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End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? (endof10.org)

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[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Tried to install Mint on my laptop, wouldn’t work. Googled the issue, had to rename a file in the boot directory for some reason.

UEFI problems, sorry. Would have them with Windows too probably.

Tried again, wouldn’t work. Googled issue, had to turn off secure boot in bios.

Unfortunately Microsoft pushed Secure Boot everywhere, so yes, for most distributions you have to turn it off (some have signed kernels or whatever).

Loading… Loading… Loading… Okay it’s clearly stuck. How do I kill a process on Linux? Google it, okay that’s not too hard. Try launching Steam again, same thing. Google this issue, get a lot of different potential causes, involving delving into some obscure directories.

So removing the ~/.steam directory after doing pkill steam didn't help? That seems simpler than most Windows tasks. Anyway, I have Steam working even under FreeBSD.

Nobody will believe that you don't have some Windows experience exceeding what you seem to consider the maximum acceptable requirement for Linux. Don't even try.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

This is one of those situations where that xkcd comic about experts comes into play.

So removing the ~/.steam directory after doing pkill steam didn't help? That seems simpler than most Windows tasks.

I don't know how to convey to you that 99% of the people that use Windows wont know how to do anything beyond trying to kill the app via the task manager. I'm one of them. What you said sounds like mystic gobbledygook to me.

Mass Linux adoption is still far out of reach for the average user.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wait... wait... So your average Facebook mom who has a laptop lying around that they use to watch their series in the evening, but will have to chuck it due to EOL of win10 and no win11 support, will not be able to adopt mint after she has someone install it for her, because you couldn't get a hyperspecific app to run on it? (Steam is hyperspecific in the grand scheme of things).

What a hyperbole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Wait….do you guys think that Windows 10 “EOL” means it stops working?

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