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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

It's not learning linux for me; I've worked with it professionally for over a decade at this point and started with old distros on floppy at home (with poor success; it got better once I got gentoo and broadband).

The pain of switching is non-zero, but it's also not high. By this I mean just the process of moving data around, settings, etc.

Finding replacement apps can be annoying.

There are some things that still bother me, though. Certain games still won't work or aren't stable. This impacts some people more than others depending upon the type of game. For me, it's still being gun shy because updates have caused me huge headaches including requiring a reinstall even in fairly recent times. I've had to fix one windows update problem in that same period of years and it did not require a full reinstall.

I have a full-time job, house/yard maintenance, and a small farming business. I require reliability with security (so not updating is not an option) and don't have time to spend diagnosing and solving issues. I also can't not fulfill orders, etc. because of an issue bother from a customer retention standpoint but also because when selling farm goods, those are mostly fresh produce with a limited TTL.

I have 12 months to reassess things, but I'm not liking my current position. It doesn't help that a lot of the software for the Japanese side of things (tax office, accounting, etc.) do not have cloud versions and require Windows to work. I'm not sure if any of those work under WINE or similar at this stage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Alas my game PC is going to stick with Windows due to bad state of VR in Linux :/. And therefore one day it might need to update to Windows 11.

In particular if you have a headset that is not Valve Index, though apparently with Meta Quest one can use ALVR, as long as you get the actual games running.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

I tried VR on Windows 11... it lags more than on Windows 10

So I installed the buisness version of Windows 10, which lasts longer afaik

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Worry not. According to tradition, win 12 will be pretty solid 😉

[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago

Nowadays GNU/Linux is easier to install and maintain than Windows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, are there any hacked versions of Windows with the worst shit gutted available out there?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Check out GhostSpectre. Or just the LTSC versions. Or the enterprise-versions where you can tell it what you want or not.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

You can use Win 10 LTSC/LTSB. Much longer support.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

If co-pilot remains active even if you don't have an NPU, and it consumes GPU/CPU resources and can't be disabled, and that results in say a 10% gaming performance downgrade compared to Linux (these are a lot of ifs), then I imagine desktop Linux would finally get a big bump in adoption, once all the 'serious gamers' start using it purely for performance benefits. We'll see how this plays out.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 20 hours ago (11 children)

Might be a dumb question but why don't we just continue using Win10 post end of it's support? Are security updates that necessary that the system wouldn't work at all? As a kid I have used old Win versions like XP and 7 for a very long time, never had an issue.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 19 hours ago

System will work, but it will gradually get less and less secure, which can get quite bad.

There is an insane amount of ways to break Windows XP and even Windows 7, it's basically script kiddie's level of knowledge.

And there are real exploits out in the wild that target such systems specifically - while the pool of potential victims is smaller, they're very easy to target unless they are competently firewalled.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

"learn Linux"

there is nothing to learn, KDE and GNOME are easy to use GUIs and there are distros that require no configuration

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

works with browser

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

don't use evil proprietary software that doesn't respect your freedom or privacy, otherwise screen sharing is easy to do on many desktop environments.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

Sentiment is fine, but it's still removing a choice (however misguided, in some people's views, that is) from the user

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago

Meanwhile, I deleted my Windows partition (even though I paid for it, damn OEM tricks) and feel better for it https://lemmy.world/comment/12818969

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Yeah I loved "It's Like That"

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