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[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Have my second pc on running Linux mint for about half a year now and it’s been a pleasure so far.

I think I’ll be prepared to switch over fully in a year.

So fucking refuse to switch over to 11

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I only have one computer that can run 11 because of the TPM module, it upgraded by accident.

All others will run linux

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty telling when the only way you can get your users to "upgrade" is by stealth. I wonder what the % of involuntarily upgraded win11 users is vs people who knowingly and willingly did so.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I would've upgraded to 11, but either my computer doesn't support TPM or I just refused to turn it on. So instead I upgraded to Ubuntu. There are probably better distros but I had a limited about of time to fuck around trying them.

Mint is pretty nice, too. It felt familiar, as a windows user. But I kept installing stuff that broke the updater. So I switched and found it's me, not the updater, and I just need to do apt update/upgrade and dpkg -i regardless, but anyway now I'm on Ubuntu.

I still have my full windows install on an SSD somewhere if I had an emergency, but I haven't had any such emergency in about a year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The one that runs W11 can still be upgraded to Linux. Keep the W11 partition and run W11 in an emulator inside Linux when you really need it - which should be less and less the more you’re familiar with Linux.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Similar to yourself, I switched to Mint about 9 months ago - initially on dual boot before ditching Windows altogether (the Windows updates kept fucking everything up). For the one piece of software that I missed on Windows 10 (Fugawi Digital Maps) I simply created a Windows 7 VM, that doesn't connect to the internet, and installed it on there. In fact, it has made me realise just how crap 10 was in comparison to 7. Linux has been a pleasure. Not only has it made computers interesting to me again, but I've learned a shitload along the way. It's nice to have a computer do what I want it to, rather than the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What do you use to run the VM? I run Mint and have been meaning to get a Windows VM up but there are too many options

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

VirtualBox for me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I ended up going with virt-manager and it was relatively easy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I’m using Linux mint all day at work, while I have a couple of rarely-used Windows machines at home. I think the swap to Linux on those home machines is going to be a winter project this year.

It might be more accurate to say the project will be setting up the Linux version of a few key pieces of software. The actual installation of Linux Mint is the easiest part!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

All of the random BS it requires is a bit of a turn off but the 10ish percent drop in gaming performance is a no go. Linux with proton should outperform the os the games are designed to run on but here we are.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Me too, but im betting windows 10 gets an extension. Microsoft will take too much flack ending support while so many people are still on 10 and too many computers that can't upgrade are still in use. They're going for a scare tactic to try and fluff up 11's numbers a bit before doing it is my guess. 62% of computers are still on 10 right now. They won't end support.