What will you do once windows 10 is deprecated and you have to update to windows 11 or 12?
Windows 11 keeps trying to install different stuff, notifying you about how great edge is, requires new hardware, and more. Windows 12 is rumored to be cloud only with a subscription?
We will have to see what happens with Win12 as more info releases. Windows seems to follow a pattern of good > bad > good, where 10 is "good" and 11 is "bad", so maybe 12 will end up decent?
If Win12 ends up being garbage, then I guess I'll take another hard look at Linux. Hopefully game support will be better by then. Proton is nice for sure, but not quite where I would need it for some of the games I play.
This is my current stance. Wait and see - if Windows 12 ends up being garbage, I’ll consider Linux. It’s simply that Linux isn’t compatible with enough Windows software right now that trying to transition wouldn’t be seamless. Hopefully that’ll change in a couple years, but we’ll see
Hmmm. From what I’ve read, they were looking at making 12 subscription based and with more advertising opportunities. I’ll probably just keep 10 rolling a little longer, and make a Linux switch eventually. Hopefully, after 11, Microsoft gets their shit together and realizes the path they are going down is not going to end well.
Switch to Linux. In fact, I already switched when Windows 10 came around. I don’t miss Windows to be honest. The only time I use Windows is to play games that arent compatible with Linux or if I need to use an app that is only available for Windows.
The linux community is 99% people that want to help you switch, and will go far, far beyond what’s even reasonable to ask of someone in the way of help. And Linux is to the point of not needing any assistance to get installed on most hardware.
If that’s your reason for not switching, it sounds like an excuse.
Man it is just not like that. At least for me I tried to switch to Linux a while back and had nothing but problems.
You also have to realize that most people coming from windows have years of experience with that operating system and learning something brand new can be a challenge.
On the Linux community site I agree there’s a lot of people trying to help but very few of that trickles down to the end user. When you Google something you inevitably come up with some ancient forum thread that leads you to put some crazy ass command line command in without explaining literally any of it. The assumption is that if you’re using Linux you should already be a master at the operating system.
I will say that install of the next went really really well for me I installed pop os which seems like it’s the most user friendly option. But after a while you just want something to work. It is not too much to ask for there to be a gui implementation of something. And for there to be somewhere to go to ask a question without being fucking badgered by people who think just asking the question makes you a fucking dumbass.
You are correct, it’s a warm and helpful community… except for the people who like the smell of their own farts.
Lemmy is better. But reddit is lousy with ignorant twats saying bullshit like “Linux is just a superior philosophy”, but who have never written a line of C or C++ in their lives. They know nothing about system design or computing history. They make claims about windows that apply equally to linux, or vice versa. They use terminology in a nonsensical context. In short, smug fools. It’s not unwelcoming so much as unappealing.
The best thing about Windows is that no-one is smug about using it.
Actually switch to Linux. I already use Linux for a large portion of my work, so I’m comfortable with it. I just need to find and test some replacements for some Windows software and I should be good
Do my best to switch from windows to whatever Linux distro I’ve finally decided on. Anything I really need win10 for will just end up on a VM that I’ll probably store a copy of on an external drive. It’ll make things so much easier for me that way.
I’d get the best of both worlds, so long as I completely de-creepify the copy of win10 in the VM. Thank goodness there are tools for that.
Bet you anything they’ll extend the EoL for Windows 10
I’m running Windows 11 now since I do a lot of PC gaming. Once you spend half an hour turning off the privacy-invading crap, it’s pretty much still Windows 10.
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