6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

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• tsuzuku@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t care to much about steam at the moment so no real problem. But I will make the switch on my machine used for gaming to linux. No Win 11 there probably, some Arch-related, EndeavourOS is my actual choice.

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• gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Swapped to Arch Linux! I wouldn’t say it’s been a bug free swap but it’s been extremely doable and everything I needed to work worked like a charm. Gaming was uninterrupted and nothing hasn’t worked yet.

  I need to figure out how to connect my stupid printer but I couldn’t do that on windows either, which is sad cause I thought printers were gonna be easier on Linux but I guess this brother model is a pain in the ass or something. Oh and connecting to network drives while on a VPN. That’s my list of pending problems and I’ve been on Linux for two months. Not bad really.

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  • communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    aur.archlinux.org/…/brother-cups-wrapper-ac this might help you!

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    • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It wasn’t a silver bullet. I’ll keep working on this. HL-L2400DW. Freaking nightmare printers are.

      Thanks for trying.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Neither

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• brysmi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have an ad hoc media server on 10. If it’s super working, you can bet I will replace it with something other than Microsoft. Unless work requires it, everything I use is Linux, Android, or Apple based. I don’t hate Windows, I just like everything else more.

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• ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know. If more devs start to support Linux, I probably will.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Neither.

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• Kalon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Been using Linux since 2005. Really don’t understand why so many people put up with Microsoft planned obsolescence, spyware, ads, etc. Linux is easier now than it’s ever been. Most things work out of the box if you pick a reasonable distro. If you’re going to be pushed to learn a new paradigm, do it once more by learning Linux and stop being pushed.

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• YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think I’m going to get the $30 1-year ESU and kick that can down the road. I need to run windows-only software and I can’t upgrade because of my processor. Maybe in a year’s time I’ll be ready for a new build.

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• b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m running Linux everywhere incuding the machine I am writing on right now. I have one single dual boot machine with Windows 10 as the mainly used OS for the simple reason that I need to run one specific software (and some of the “ecosystem” around it) that is not available for Linux. The only alternative is Apple which is even worse in my opinion. So I think I’ll be forced to update. All the rest of my daily computing stuff has been moved to Linux for a long time.

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• inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Made the jump already since I built a new computer and there were lots of missing windows 10 drivers for the new hardware and there was no way in hell I was going to main on windows 11.

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• LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sticking with Linux due to the bullshit that Microsoft is constantly pulling. Currently, my PC is running Fedora 41, and I love it quite a bit; currently I can’t imagine a future where I return to Windows 11. Proton Compatibility Layer makes gaming on any distro fairly easy!

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• baropithecus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My home (gaming) pc is going back to linux for sure., on the very day they drop support for 10.

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• elFlexor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So 43% of Steam users are the kind of stickler that refuse to update their Windows to an objectively better version because it’s something new and different and breaks their habits. What would make you think these people would possibly just switch to a different OS altogether if a simple update was too much to ask for the past years?

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  • wiener234@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe 43% have hardware that is not supported by Windows 11. And don’t want to run windows 11 on unsupported hardware or go through the hassle of even installing on unsupported hardware.

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    • elFlexor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If doing one registry edit and installing Win11 from the iso to bypass the silly “processor unsupported” message is a too high barrier for these 43%, how do you realistically expect these same people to go out of their way and install a Linux distro? Why should they be motivated to learn in which ways it works differently from the Windows architecture? And let’s not get started with “unsupported hardware” - even though the Linux experience has gotten so much smoother, it’s still not uncommon to have components with subpar or no real support.

      Don’t get me wrong, I like Linux and I use it for work - but to think a huge part of gamers will switch to Linux with just because they don’t want to update their Windows is just illusory.

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