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    [โ€“] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    I swapped to Arch Linux in the last month and it's been great. Gaming has been fun. The Nvidia drivers are still kinda confusing, and honestly I wouldn't put my mom on Arch Linux as of right now, but it's good enough.

    I'm writing a document so my SW engineering friends can swap over as well within a day and be up and running, and it's just neat to see Linux gradually growing in my circles.

    If you're on Linux, don't forget to donate to your favorite SW creators even if they're less flashy than say Larian studios or what have you lol.

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    [โ€“] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 59 points 14 hours ago (9 children)

    You don't see how terrible Windows is until you've switched to another OS and need to interact with it again.

    The constant pop-ups, the ads everywhere, the settings hidden away.

    It really feels like your PC isn't yours.

    [โ€“] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 30 points 13 hours ago

    I have to use Windows at work. Once, apropos of nothing at all, a system pop-up asked me if I wanted to buy an XBox controller. When I lock the screen and come back, sometimes Edge will have opened all by itself, presenting me with the Bing homepage. Nice try, Microsoft!

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    [โ€“] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 9 hours ago

    Android, too.

    [โ€“] douz0a0bouz@midwest.social 23 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    Had a friend of mine rib me for "not just paying for a license (for windows)". Tried to explain that wasn't the point to their befuddlement. Smh

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    [โ€“] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    I have to use Windows at work and by early afternoon if I'm not forced to reboot for an update I have to reboot because the machine has basically ground to a halt.

    Why does Windows slow down the longer it's been booted?

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    [โ€“] silverlose@lemm.ee 34 points 15 hours ago (11 children)

    I used to think I could just stick to macOS. But I donโ€™t trust the USA and by extension, I donโ€™t trust Apple.

    Switching to Linux isnโ€™t a choice anymore. Itโ€™s a requirement for freedom.

    [โ€“] rumba@lemmy.zip 14 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    Yeah, Apple will just cave when necessary. Honestly, even if the USA is removed from the equation, nobody is really safe from any government or corporation. We're only in better and worse condition because no one has done the unthinkable yet. The UK online safety bill, Signal's threat to leave Sweden, France busting activists using Swiss VPN. If you can't host it yourself, secure it yourself, rebuild it yourself, you can't trust businesses and governments to do these things for you in the long run.

    Hell, it's starting to feel a lot less like freedom and more about the ability to hide, even if you're doing nothing wrong, because someone may eventually decide that what you're doing was wrong.

    Encrypting your chats to keep them from being sold/mined for government oversight? ILLEGAL!

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    [โ€“] Itzdan@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

    Perhaps they should have tried again sooner

    [โ€“] crozilla@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

    I never see much love for ZorinOS, but I find it a very solid replacement. I still use my Macbook for certain things, but I am slowly moving away from even that thanks to Appleโ€™s spying and whatnot.

    [โ€“] jaschen@lemm.ee 0 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

    I'm obviously going to be downvoted for this, but the second you ask me to use the terminal is the second the OS is not ready.

    Last week I reinstalled Windows after trying MintOS. I have a 54" Ultrawide screen monitor and I wanted the windows to snap in 3 sections.

    I spent a few hours in terminal trying to install something after trying everything in flatpak. Windows 11 split screens out of the box. It can even tile. You can even use hotkeys to snap left and right.

    In order for normies like me to switch, you have to make the OS at as easy to use as Windows. Don't make us use terminal like I'm on DOS.

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    [โ€“] skibidi@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago (23 children)

    I love Linux, but it isn't ready.

    Two weeks ago my side mouse buttons started working (they require Logitech software on Windows, wasn't expecting them to work). Last week they stopped. This week they work again.

    Is this major? Not at all. Would it drive my mother-in-law into a rage rivaling that of Cocaine Bear? Absolutely. Spare me from the bear, keep Linux for the tinkerers.

    [โ€“] Irelephant@lemm.ee 26 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

    they require Logitech software on Windows

    This seems more like a logitech issue than a linus issue.

    [โ€“] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

    Compatibility problems caused by third parties only targeting Windows are still Linux issues for the end user if they become a problem when they use Linux. It isn't fair but that is the practical reality.

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    [โ€“] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

    By this standard, Windows isn't ready either. I use Mint, Windows and Mac interchangeably at work, and of the three, Windows is definitely the one with the most unpleasant surprises: computer slowing down for no apparent reason, printers disappearing, updates forcing you to reboot in the middle of something...

    Mac is fantastic if you don't mind feeling like your computer doesn't belong to you.

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