Whew - all the things I’m missing having switched to Linux a couple years ago.
From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: "Why I Made the Switch"
Submitted 12 hours ago by lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.himthe.dev/blog/microsoft-to-linux
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hansolo@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
Smoogs@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Firefox, vivldi, duckduck…all these run on chrome.
Do you mean google chrome?
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
No… Firefox and forks are all Gecko engine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software)
You’re confusing “Chrome” as in Google Chrome, with the chromium engine. Vivaldi amd Brave both run on that, plus Edge.
Cyv_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Bazzite has been great so far, my only real issue has been fighting to get monado to work so I can get an old crappy mixed reality vr headset to work, mostly because its old and crappy and even windows gave up on supporting it so… I can’t complain too much lol.
scops@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
I thought for sure that I wasn’t going to be able to use Citrix Workplace with the Cisco WebEx VDI plug-in to connect to work and take meetings, but I loaded up an Ubuntu distro box and it’s worked a treat after a reasonable amount of research and fiddling.
Very happy with my Bazzite experience so far.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 6 hours ago
Bazzite was the distro that ran my ancient hardware out of the box and allowed me to play my old games once in a while. No more Microsoft nagging me for upgrading and telling my hardware isn’t good enough.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 hours ago
Cool. Been on Pop!_os for a year or so. Not memorable issues. Plays games fine.
Microsoft should be broken up. Even if they walk back some of their AI slop, they’re too big. They don’t fail like they should for releasing a bad product.
morto@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Nice! According to wikimedia stats, linux is already over 5% and growing! We can do it, people! We can take down microslops’s os monopoly
DM_Me_Boobs@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Enjoying CachyOS on my laptop and Fedora on my Mini PC. Both distros were super easy to install. No need to sign into a Microslop account either!
Laser@feddit.org 11 hours ago
I guess it just boils down to how much you accept a company to push you around. For me, the wiring was on the wall with Windows Vista, even though I did have a Windows 7 machine/ partition later that actually worked well.
I also gave Windows 8 a chance when it came preinstalled on the notebook I bought, but I hated it. So I finally fully switched there, and no Windows since then (excluding the machines my employers provide, IDGAF about them since I get paid to use them and don’t have to administrate those). There is way less need for Windows nowadays, back in the Windows 7 days, you could basically only play Linux native and OpenGL titles, PulseAudio was iffy, Vulkan and by extension DXVK didn’t exist, AMD drivers weren’t great (AMD had just begun releasing documentation late 2007 and fglrx was a pain), so there were a lot of things that just wouldn’t work, and yet switching was possible.
As the author notes, there are way fewer blockers nowadays, and most people are just looking to excuse their complacency. And I think it’s fine to be ok with Windows, but then you shouldn’t complain too much. Microsoft under Nadella only cares about numbers.
Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub 6 hours ago
Switched my Mom to Kubuntu from Windows 10. Haven’t had any issues. The only windows software she used was an older version of Quicken but GNUCash wasn’t too much for her to pickup. It’s nice no longer having to rely on M$ for home computing.
addie@feddit.uk 1 minute ago
Nice! I switched my parents over to Firefox and OpenOffice years ago, so switching them over to Linux Mint was just a matter of showing them where the update button was now. (Their laptops are completely functional for their purposes, but couldn’t be “upgraded” from Windows 10 to 11.) Scratch another few off the MS list forever.