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I got a pop-up today announcing that win10 will reach its EOL next year... I think it's time to finally install Linux properly on my desktop hardware. Ordered a little nvme so I can keep my music/gaming software on the win-side that I'll just... allow to "upgrade" to 11 and keep it compartmentalised away from anything else.
I'm thinking... EndeavourOS maybe. Eh, will see.
2 months ago · 👍 xoagray, jo, pcastw, eph, chirale
Just installed Slackware on a laptop and it's good. No systemd, no GNOME. Last time I installed it was around 2004. Win11 is taking a bad course with that Copilot promotional icon popping in the taskbar and other "services" no one asked. · 2 months ago
I switched to Ubuntu when Win7 wouldn't play nice with my new laptop. That was about 6 years ago. I've since moved on from Ubuntu, but it was a good starting point, installed my GPU, ran Steam, and so on. Since Windows will increasinly be ruled by AI run out of the cloud, I strongly advise you to keep your non-Windows partition encrypted, just in case Bill Gates decides to spy on you one day. Better: install windows on a separate machine. Best of luck on your journey. · 2 months ago
@half_elf_monk the widget menu is different from start. you can disable it- but i agree, it's pretty bad.
the good thing is that basically everything can be hacked with registry edits, *if* they're not configurable. · 2 months ago
why did they do that 💀 · 2 months ago
What the hell? Man I miss Windows 7. · 2 months ago
Also, why the heck does win10 or win11 need to have ads in the START MENU? The OS seems like its got so much subtle suggestion/messaging by default that I might as well be surfing facebook in a casino. · 2 months ago
I switched to linux a few years back, and loved it so much I haven't looked back. I didn't realize what I was missing until I got the freedom/control over my own machine that linux afforded. IMHO, get one of those "it just works" distros to get a real transition going... worry about fiddling with compiling your own arch-btw kernel later. · 2 months ago
@jo after upgrading (you can skip ANY tpm and secureboot reqs by mounting the iso, cd to sources and run 'setupprep.exe /product server'. it'll install (not server) without the reqs.) honestly, it's just a win10 skin, lol. nothing has changed aside from the look. even my firewall rules, registry edits, all settings persist. no software broke. even the *drivers*, inexplicably. win10 skin. · 2 months ago
Ah man i really don't wanna update to win11. i wish they'd just stuck with it forever like they said (though who really believed that?). i already use linux as my main os but some things just don't work/as well on it like games and adobe. hmm · 2 months ago
I switched over to Linux on my PCs four or five years ago and haven’t regretted it. good luck if you take the plunge. · 2 months ago
I use Void Linux on most of my machines, but I have Windows 10 on my old Mac Pro, when it goes out of support, I'll probably replace it with an early build of Windows 8 — if I use an unsupported version, let it be at least the one I like. I have Mac OS X on it too, occupying the other two of four hard disks, but I haven't booted it in years — don't like anything newer than 10.9, but using it seems like going too far back in time, should've replaced it with Void too long ago, but I'm too lazy. · 2 months ago