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gonna throw my mustard in the food here:
Please consider using linux anyway, even on the main computer as a dual boot especially Arch Linux (I am the incel beta lalala so of course I use a derivative of arch linux)
@woodsmoke Windows 10 is far less a headache than 11.
I bought a new laptop last year that came preloaded with windows 11, didn't like the win11 and switched over to linux mint while the computer was brand new with nothing of mine to lose on it. I already extracted everything I wanted from the last computer and put it on an external hard drive, so it was a good time to experiment with an unfamiliar os. If you get a second or new laptop, that's the best time to do it.
Still couldn't pay me enough to sit behind a desk again.
I honestly don't know how people do it. I don't even know what the hell anyone could be doing on a computer just sitting there for 40+ hours a week.
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Thanks, I'll look into those when I have some time.
Probably won't be soon. My current PC works just fine with Win10 and I'm a firm believer in "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Possibly the only thing I miss about working in IT was the easy access to "computer guys" whose brains I could pick to get a new rig squared away and solve problems as they popped up.
Still couldn't pay me enough to sit behind a desk again.
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windows11 (this is where I drew the line in the sand)
The 11, taking the screenshots at random times to help you if you need it... but if you dont want it, you cant turn it off.
Slowly boiling a frog.
I got a new laptop and slowly transferring all files and settings over.
I only checked does it work with all the devices (it didnt work with a niche WIFI card so I have replaced the card).
Istalled in dual boot (in an unlikely case I would need The W11 shipped with the laptop).
I have always used Mint but decided to go with Fedora for some challange.
Saying that, I have little exp with Mint anyway. Probably played with it for Max 50 hours excluding actual work done.
@woodsmoke I switched to Linux Mint a last year and it has been a great experience.
It is much cleaner and faster than windows11 (this is where I drew the line in the sand) and has so much less shit hidden inside of it always running. I liked linux mint so much that I pulled out an old laptop that I thought was old junk (which it is) and put that distro on their just to see what would happen. Lo and behold! the old ass computer could be used again. It is so bare bones that it requires very little performance requirements.
Windows shit is always working its ass off in the background, I can hear my computer constantly making noise and clicking because its working so hard. Linux mint doesn't have any of those problems.
I won't lie to you, there are some things that you will have to learn. Some basic terminal knowledge is very useful, some programs don't work easily with linux like they would with windows, some usb formats don't like linux, etc.
But it is Absolutely worth it. Linux is the future because microsoft has become too old, too greedy, too interested in itself to make anything useful and streamlined for the common man.
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easy install-and-go Linux distro
there is, I have put a tool for doing it in my blog here couple of months ago, don't tell me you didn't read it?!?
But seriously, for trying the Linux you get that tool - run it - it installs itself on a chosen USB stick - then you copy an *.iso file on the USB [iso as downloaded from distro website - no changes - many distros allowed on the USB stick] and test is it easy enough and does it work on your hardware.
If you like it, next time you have to change PC and transfer all the files you'll have a choice
not much more complicated to set up
if it works you will know it usually in the first hour. Just trying to use usually the most problematic devices in the first hour will let you know: printer, inbuild camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, anything external you connect and I can't think of.
nearly as easy to use and worked as well for gaming
I don't game and don't know. When I get game hungry I install the 0AD RTS from the Linux 'shop' and have a fun.
Read More@EmpireCrimson because you don't need to vibe on what I think about the Linux etc, you didn't see the large picture and being cynical didn't enter the room yet
To people who don't use computers daily, they generally don't know what to look for or even care. They just need to solve their problem.
Hell, that goes for most users generally, myself included.
I've thought before about switching to Linux on my home PC to get away from Microsoft's increasing fuckery with every new version of Windows. Problem is I wouldn't have any idea where to start and I can't be fucked figuring it all out.
Building a new PC ever X years is frustrating enough with the hardware market being the clusterfucked nightmare of rebrands and shit it is. Having to do a bunch of homework to set up my OS as well is asking too much of my time and patience, however superior it may be to the alternative.
If there were an easy install-and-go Linux distro that's not much more complicated to set up, nearly as easy to use and worked as well for gaming as Windows I'd jump ship in a heartbeat. 'Course, I suspect that would rather defeat the point.
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