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[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 6 points 21 hours ago

It's not learning linux for me; I've worked with it professionally for over a decade at this point and started with old distros on floppy at home (with poor success; it got better once I got gentoo and broadband).

The pain of switching is non-zero, but it's also not high. By this I mean just the process of moving data around, settings, etc.

Finding replacement apps can be annoying.

There are some things that still bother me, though. Certain games still won't work or aren't stable. This impacts some people more than others depending upon the type of game. For me, it's still being gun shy because updates have caused me huge headaches including requiring a reinstall even in fairly recent times. I've had to fix one windows update problem in that same period of years and it did not require a full reinstall.

I have a full-time job, house/yard maintenance, and a small farming business. I require reliability with security (so not updating is not an option) and don't have time to spend diagnosing and solving issues. I also can't not fulfill orders, etc. because of an issue bother from a customer retention standpoint but also because when selling farm goods, those are mostly fresh produce with a limited TTL.

I have 12 months to reassess things, but I'm not liking my current position. It doesn't help that a lot of the software for the Japanese side of things (tax office, accounting, etc.) do not have cloud versions and require Windows to work. I'm not sure if any of those work under WINE or similar at this stage.

[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago

Steam has a native Linux client that uses a custom version of Wine called Proton. It handles all the emulator settings for you. All the Steam games I bought in Windows run just fine under Linux. And amost all my older, non-Steam games (like Deus Ex or Giants: Citizen Kabuto) work great under Wine.

[-] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 16 hours ago

Similar history including gentoo and distcc to speed up openoffice and x11 compiles with a pile of old computers.

Put linux on a PC laptop and it just so happens the NVMe controller in conjunction with the kernel driver has some glitch that causes the hard drive to fall off the bus forever. No big deal...

It's great seeing a bunch of nvme nvme0: I/O (number) (I/O Cmd) QID 10 timeout, aborting then reset controller then removing after probe annnd data loss. Didn't have the patience to figure out the bug in the driver right now. Maybe someday.

[-] rippersnapper@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago

I’ll be downvoted to hell for saying this. But in this event I think it’s better for you to upgrade to Win 11 or maybe even move to MacOS (mac mini is pretty cheap), though I don’t know if you’ll find your replacement apps.

I use Win for work (no choice there) and Ubuntu at home (just browse the net, and only browser applications).

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 13 hours ago

I use Mac for work and despise it. It also wouldn't cover the national tax authority and other apps that don't support mac (though some do support iOS,but those all also support android and not an issue there). They could have sneakily added Mac support whilst I wasn't looking do I will definitely check again before deciding anything finally.

[-] alsivx@feddit.it 14 points 1 day ago

Nowadays GNU/Linux is easier to install and maintain than Windows.

[-] flux@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago

Alas my game PC is going to stick with Windows due to bad state of VR in Linux :/. And therefore one day it might need to update to Windows 11.

In particular if you have a headset that is not Valve Index, though apparently with Meta Quest one can use ALVR, as long as you get the actual games running.

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago

I tried VR on Windows 11... it lags more than on Windows 10

So I installed the buisness version of Windows 10, which lasts longer afaik

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago

Worry not. According to tradition, win 12 will be pretty solid 😉

[-] zerozaku@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Might be a dumb question but why don't we just continue using Win10 post end of it's support? Are security updates that necessary that the system wouldn't work at all? As a kid I have used old Win versions like XP and 7 for a very long time, never had an issue.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 25 points 1 day ago

System will work, but it will gradually get less and less secure, which can get quite bad.

There is an insane amount of ways to break Windows XP and even Windows 7, it's basically script kiddie's level of knowledge.

And there are real exploits out in the wild that target such systems specifically - while the pool of potential victims is smaller, they're very easy to target unless they are competently firewalled.

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[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Out of curiosity, are there any hacked versions of Windows with the worst shit gutted available out there?

[-] yesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

You can use Win 10 LTSC/LTSB. Much longer support.

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 points 21 hours ago

Check out GhostSpectre. Or just the LTSC versions. Or the enterprise-versions where you can tell it what you want or not.

[-] nom_nom@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

If co-pilot remains active even if you don't have an NPU, and it consumes GPU/CPU resources and can't be disabled, and that results in say a 10% gaming performance downgrade compared to Linux (these are a lot of ifs), then I imagine desktop Linux would finally get a big bump in adoption, once all the 'serious gamers' start using it purely for performance benefits. We'll see how this plays out.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

People won't be able to use GPUs anyway because they'll all be reserved for "AI" use and priced accordingly.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago

"learn Linux"

there is nothing to learn, KDE and GNOME are easy to use GUIs and there are distros that require no configuration

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[-] utopiah@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

Meanwhile, I deleted my Windows partition (even though I paid for it, damn OEM tricks) and feel better for it https://lemmy.world/comment/12818969

[-] deFrisselle@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago
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[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 49 points 2 days ago

You think the US govt will let MS drop 2/3rds of US citizens laptops from support?

I think some senators will hold a hearing to grandstand about security and forced obsolescence and MS will be shamed into extending the support window a couple more years.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Meanwhile the US govt:

says nothing because it has its mouth full of corporate cock

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

What will the government do themselves? I think they are still running 10, and I haven't heard of any announcements from agencies switching.

[-] hangonasecond@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 has a 10 year support window, and subsequent LTSC versions, 5 years. If you can get your hands on one of these licences you would presumably continue to receive security patches. If the US government is somehow not running on this kind of licence, it would be pretty funny, but I'm sure Microsoft would be lenient and let them jump onto whatever compatible LTSC version given its an American company.

Windows 10 is over 10 years old at this point. Microsoft learned from XP It can’t live forever.

Businesses typically lease their machines for 2-3 years so they all support 11. And do you really think the government cares about regular citizens? lol.

[-] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago

i doubt any of the dinosaurs in congress even know what an operating system is

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