Comment on Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline

• Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Almost a year here! Working great! (No, for real, modern desktop Linux experience is surprisingly refined, it’s more stable and performant than Windows!)

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And I never did. I just started with Linux Mint when I got my first laptop.

    But I do see the perspective of Windows users, perhaps. I did briefly try using Windows, but it was frustrating. I don’t know how to set anything in there. For some reason there’s 2 setting apps (control panel and settings), each only being partially usable. My Wi-Fi kept dying, the only solution was replacing the Intel Wi-Fi card for one from Qualcomm. Bluetooth only worked randomly like every 20th restart. Drivers for my 20 year old printer didn’t work in either 10 nor 11. Only up to Windows 7.
    Painful experience.

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    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, when they went from 7 to 10 (there’s no 9 for horrible hacky reasons, and 8 was the mandatory half-baked test-run of the next proper version), they tried to redo the aesthetics of those systems to be more touch-input styled, but they only half-did it. If you want anything more advanced than the settings app gives you, you need to dig into the control panel. Then there’s the deeper settings - device manager, computer management, startup services, firewall, the registry, and on and on, all of which are designed entirely differently and many of which haven’t seen any update since windows 2000 at least. I wouldn’t be surprised if some went back further. It all speaks to ancient legacy code nobody wants to touch and the unfathomable depths of technical debt that implies. I get the sense the settings app change is another in a long line of updates that became legacy and added yet another layer to this byzantine system.

      Then there’s the lovecraftian user permissions system that seems like it layers three levels of abstraction that you have to utterly master to get literally anything done and which I have given up trying to understand. If I need permissions, I run an externally made batch file that assigns ownership of everything in a folder to me, and then I don’t think about the consequences.

      I really want to move to Linux, but I’ve gotten burnt out on attempting and not being able to do all of the many things I’m used to on Windows. I’ve been hearing good things about it lately and I may just have the energy to try again soon.

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      • Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I wish you a good luck! And don’t hesitate to ask - often times it’s very simple, actually!

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    • Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wow, a real Linux native here! Wonderful to know Yes, I gotta say after running Linux for like a week I seriously couldn’t think of coming back to Windows. You just begin to understand how much of a trash Windows systems are.

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  • Aermis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah but I use my pc to play games. And to read all the Linux coping strategies to run modern games with software bypasses or strategies… I don’t need to jailbreak and run through 150 pages of forums and guides so I can play my steam games.

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    • rasensprenger@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have ~200 games in my steam library, all of which run by pressing “play” in steam. I may just accidentally like games that run on linux, but running through 150 pages of forums definitely isn’t the norm nowadays

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      • Aermis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well I was playing starfield when considering dabbling in running Linux and I got shy reading how to run it on Linux, let alone any of my other games.

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    • Sanyanov@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Majority of games are launched as easy as pressing play in steam, or even just launching the .exe with regular Wine. Software bypasses are mostly a thing of the past. I’m saying this as a gamer.

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      • trackindakraken@lemmy.whynotdrs.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Is Starfield one of them? I installed Ubuntu next to Windows 10, and like it just fine, but I’ve read that getting Starfield to run on Ubuntu is not possible yet? If not for Starfield, I’d be 100% Ubuntu now.

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