Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending

aivoton@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Same here. I do not miss all the shit windows did. Things like:

  • starting drivers manually to use graphics tablet
  • finding drivers for hardware that work
  • random driver crashes for various pieces of hardware I have
  • BSODs
  • rummaging around settings, configs and regedit to get something to work a bit better
  • disabling things you don’t want through regedit or some hidden config
  • uninstallable bloatware
  • ads everywhere
  • super key + type in the program you want to open not working
  • messing around with tons of files for old games to work
  • going through shady sites to get software
  • not having a software center for all your downloads
  • needing to install weird programs for sftp support

  ironically half these things are what people think is the linux ux. Seriously, windows is just terrible, clunky, buggy and full of things you need to be an advanced user to fix.

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  • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mints file explorer when moving large files does leave some meat on the bone for me.

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• sdfric88@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m a very recent convert. I downloaded mint a couple months ago after seeing that my entire steam library was rated as highly compatible on protondb. At first I planned to dual boot but I didn’t have any reason at all to use windows and finally just took the plunge and made Mint my daily, and sole, driver

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  • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I also went cold turkey to fedora and once I solved my two main problems: disabling secureboot and formatting my steam library to be a linux filesystem, I have a better ux overall. Now I’m looking to move to endeavourOS since fedora is too fast with its updates which breaks nvidia drivers sometimes. (Which just means I restart while the pc is booting and select an earlier version of the OS)

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• killerscene@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  what distro do you use? im looking into moving from windows, but currently use apple devices to sync my music to my phone so im on hold for now

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  • aivoton@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I tried Mint initially, but it had some issues with Wayland and some other small issues, so I ended up settling on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed after a friend recommended it.

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  • paerrin@midwest.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Been on CachyOS for a couple months now. If you want to go Arch, I highly recommend it. No issues with NVIDIA drivers or any of my other hardware. The only thing I need Windows for anymore is Solidworks.

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• tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As much as people complain about electron (some valid, some not) Linux has benefited quite a bit to the cross platform availability of local applications.

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