Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users
martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months agoYup. Personally only use it for work. Linux all the way on all my machines
Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users
martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months agoYup. Personally only use it for work. Linux all the way on all my machines
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ve never worked with Linux and I get so drained from work, that I don’t even want to look at a computer when I get home. Idk if I have the energy to learn Linux lol.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I switched to Linux in 2014 mostly because Win 8.1 happened to me.
Learning Linux MInt felt about like learning a new Windows version. Think about what it was like to cope with 7 if you’re used to XP, or 10 if you’re used to 7. It’s about like that. But on Linux, it doesn’t go through those dramatic pointless UI changes. Features get added, they sometimes change the default theme, but they don’t drastically change the workflow from one version to the next. If anything, the UI felt more familiar to me than Win 8.1 did. Coping with things like the new way file systems are handled can be a thing, but as I was already playing with Raspberry Pis and had learned how to type cd and ls in a terminal I was kind of okay with that.
martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Install mint (cinnamon). Very easy to use for starting. Will make computers fun again. As for games. Most work fine but ymmv
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ll have to look into it once I get a Steamdeck. I won’t need to game on a computer at that point lol. What kind of specs should my computer have in order to run mint well? I know Jack shit about Linux other than the Arch btw jokes and the penguin mascot.
martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Anything at all. I run on raspberry pis, old lenovo laptops, new gaming laptops, amd pc with 64 gig ram and nvidia 4070ti. Make a bootable usb and test it to see if you like it without installing to the drive (live mode), then if you want to make the plunge, install.