Comment on Microsoft ends free upgrade from Windows 7 to 11

spudwart@spudwart.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Linux, the only thing Lemmy loves more than beans and the proletariat.

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  • Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    linux users build and run this shit

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    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What about bean users?

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      • seaQueue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What do you think powers shitposting?

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    • Molecular0079@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Linux users build and run…everything at this point. Internet basically runs on Linux.

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    • Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Linux users are annoying.

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  • camr_on@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    God I love beans

    and Linux and proles too I suppose

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• ago@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s what’s awesome about Linux and in my opinion there are more options for what you can do with Linux.

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  • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can run Linux in Windows now, so actually false.

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• glimpseintotheshit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I bet more people would try Linux if Linux users wouldn’t start slapping their dicks in everybody’s faces the second they read Windows or Microsoft

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• Lightborne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wait what’s Linux, never heard of it

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• Jackolantern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wish I had the expertise to use Linux.

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  • Contend6248@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you lack the bare minimum of knowledge to install a new operating system, there are plenty Youtube tutorials around which take your hand step by step.

    Here is an example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ua-d9OeUOg

    We get plenty of new users these days, primarily because of the gaming boom thanks to Valve. Don’t be shy, it’s easy if you’ve done it once

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If I’m honest a lot of what I learned about computers was as a result of switching to Linux. As a Windows user, breaking Windows is such a problem that you don’t dare try to learn by doing. Linux is comparably easy to fix or restore.

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    • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The biggest problem with breaking windows is nobody really knows how to fix anything, it’s just a shit load of random “did you try this?” Until you either find it’s working again (after trying something that didn’t work, then backing out that change, or it just randomly starts working again without really doing anything) or you learn to live with it.

      With Linux, if you can break it, you can be pretty sure someone somewhere has broken it the same way before, and analyzed the shit out of it including reading the source, and figured out how to fix it.

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      • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t see how that’s true. Windows is a more widely used Desktop OS, and Linux has way more variation in running software be it package managers, desktop experiences, etc. Even things like what version you started with may influence the version of a package you have. The odds of finding an identical setup is a lot lower.

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  • ThePizzaTimeBandit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Use Debian or a Debian fork like Linux Mint, Ubuntu, or Popos! And it should be a pretty easy transition. I recommend Debian because it’s not as configured for you out of gate, but it’s still easily configurable.

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  • spudwart@spudwart.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    learning linux is a process, but it’s way easier now than it used to be. It’s more of an easy to learn hard to master situation today as compared to the old “heres a box of source, compile it and hope it works, lmao” in the days of yore.

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  • CCMan1701A@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You don’t need much knowledge to do the basics. Picking one to start with is likely a harder choice lol

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  • Molecular0079@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It really isn’t that hard these days. Installation isnt harder than installing Windows and most Linux distros have a built-in store now to install apps from. Definitely takes a bit of a learning curve but it isn’t as intimidating as it once was.

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