• Drathro@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Literally finally let my windows partition upgrade to windows 11 last night. It took like 3 HOURS to do. Then I shrunk the partition way down and clean installed my Bazzite dual boot over the extra space and that took MAYBE 15 minutes. I use Windows MAYBE once every 6 months or so. Linux has just been the better experience for 99% of my computing and even gaming needs.

    • taiyang@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yes but wouldn’t you like to sign up for an outlook account? No? Sorry that wasn’t a question, this full screen window has no X and you will comply.

      … unless you do the thing that skips it, but man that’s an awful experience.

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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    1 year ago

    See, as a native Windows user, I mostly feel the opposite. I use Linux Mint because it’s almost like Windows, but it’s incredibly frustrating when it’s not. I’m not even much of a gamer (most of my games are FOSS, or run in RetroArch, Vice, or DOSBox-X). I just like being able to instantly find the software I’m looking for. It shouldn’t take an hour to find a Notepad. There needs to be something like Dspeech. I shouldn’t need to search and poke and hope that the software is either in apt or flatpak. So every time I go back to Windows, even the hellscape that is 11, I can get everything done faster than Linux.

    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      An hour to find a notepad? Most desktop environments come with some simple text editor. And if you’re running something minimal, there’s always nano or vim.
      If some software is not found by apt search, I usually start to wonder, is it not free software? In that case I’d rather find an alternative. Some times I have to go to the softwares web site, where they have install instructions, but that’s the exception.

    • sandflavoured@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Totally get it! It’s somewhat jarring moving from the Windows world of software to the world that are available in apt (or other), or otherwise running essential software through wine/proton.

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    My new job issued me with a sweet ass workstation laptop… With W11

    Upside is that the IT dept has about zero awareness of the governance part of cyber security. The laptop has an unlocked bios and coworkers have had no questions asked when their domain joined machines didn’t check in for years.

    So guess who’s about to swap the ssd and roll the machine for a debian based distro. Just need to figure out drivers for the nvidia rtx 1000 ada GPU

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I can feel this image as I’ve been working on macos due to regulations for years and then going back to linux full time was orgasmic. Its crazy how much better dev experience on Linux is.

  • Núria@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    An unpopular opinion (and a bit of a rant), but honestly I actually like Win11’s design, it is to me better than Win10, and I would actually enjoy using Windows. Too bad it’s a slow and unstable piece of garabage even on my
    M I C R O S O F T S U R F A C E.

    I have Garuda Linux on my main laptop which works completely fine, and the whole point of the Surface was to be able to use Windows at university while avoiding fragmenting my setup with dualboot (because surely Windows will Just Work™ on Microsoft’s own hardware, right? /s), but Micro$oft is tempting me so hard to install Linux to the damm thing. Another point of the Surface was to actually have a full fledged computer instead of an overpriced digital notebook like the iPad is.

    I also enjoy OneNote (my uni gives me acces to Office 365), which I genuenly prefer over Xournal++, but Office 365 is a completely stupid piece of unstable garbage which keeps randomly stopping working in the middle of the lecture, right when I should be annotating what the teacher is saying.

  • andybytes@programming.devBannedEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If Linux was introduced to me a lot sooner and I wasn’t such a jackass that had to play video games on my computer, I would literally have switched a long fucking time ago. I’ve used all operating systems at this point and Linux ecosystem is far better. What you can’t do on Linux is shit I don’t even want to do. Most of the time.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      OpenSUSE Tumbleweed player here with an Nvidia 3000-series GPU.

      Gaming with Steam, GoG (Heroic Launcher), and even disc games installed with Bottles has been a smooth experience with VERY few if any tweaks or fixes needed.

      Except for VR (where Monado is making strides!) we are THERE. I’d highly encourage trying it out these days.

      Unless you gotta play the latest AAA hyper-competitive monolithic server games with kernel level anti cheat but…at that point might as well have a burner PC. X_X lol

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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          1 year ago

          Great to know!

          Both games I really want to play. For some reason I thought Marvel Rivals didn’t do kernel-level? I’m likely wrong haha.

          But I loved the original Helldivers. I just really don’t want to have to install a “just trust us, bro” rootkit to enjoy the clearly excellent sequel. :(

          • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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            1 year ago

            I don’t know if it does kernel level or what, all I know is Marvel Rivals works on Linux just fine. I might be misremembering but I think they even pushed an update out that broke Linux support and then fixed it because they said Linux support is important to them.

    • katze@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Really? I find these two so similar. On desktop, however, the difference between the three major operating systems is quite big. Especially between Linux/Windows and macOS with its weird shortcuts.