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[-] LadyMeow 93 points 3 days ago

It’s just wild that you have to do ‘dozens’ of things to ‘clean up’ a ‘fresh install’.

I had windows 10, and it was pain. Never going to 11, switched to Linux, even though it’s more difficult for gaming, everything else is better.

[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 days ago

And you'll still never be able to get rid of all the telemetry and annoying shit..

[-] SitD@lemy.lol 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

but if Microsoft really wants to know how you're doing, you should just let them so they stop worrying 😔

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I just did the switch myself on a new PC and getting gaming working wasn't even that hard. I picked fedora cinnamon.

Difficulties I had:

  1. When trying the initial live boot, it failed checksum... Because windows fucked with the drive after it saw the utility that wrote the image to it left it "unmounted" (and autoplay would had also fucked with it if I hadn't turned that off ages ago).
  2. Wired ethernet wasn't working. Wifi does work, currently using that until I get around to working on that again, though it might just work now that it's updated.
  3. After installing steam, many games said they were windows games only. Had to enable a setting inside steam to get it to just run them all via proton. Only tried two games so far, but haven't seen any issues yet. My saves are usable on the one game I was already playing on windows.
  4. Optical audio wasn't working. Worked around that by plugging in my soundbar to usb, though I've also confirmed that the analog port does work. This one might also have been resolved by updating.
  5. Had to set up permissions for steam to use my games partition instead of my home dir for installing games, though I think this was because I missed a step during the install.

It took more effort getting YouTube (well porn but apparently the same issue affects YouTube) working (netflix just worked, quality seems to even be better, like it doesn't seem to default to a low quality stream before moving up as the video plays like it would in windows). And even that was only because the desktop I picked didn't use the same software as instructions for enabling 3rd party repositories and I for some reason decided to search for a GUI option instead of just running the command I could have run from the start.

The only difficult part is that with all of the available desktops out there that do things a bit differently, it can be hard to find solutions specific to the one you're using. Like I might have caused some future issues by installing gnome-software since cinnamon uses a different tool for that. But at this point, I feel like making the jump to a different desktop (or even distro) will be much easier, so don't feel like I'm committed to the one I did pick.

Which is so much better than windows because on that platform I had to struggle to not be committed to things I didn't and wouldn't pick. And it made me avoid updating often because I didn't want to commit to whatever nagware ms added this time to try to get me to use some software I wasn't interested in using.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

Windows 11 us honestly pretty good. I wouldn't go back to Windows 10 personally.

I do run Linux pretty much exclusively though

[-] LadyMeow 1 points 2 days ago

Guess I just had a bad experience. One work machine has it and it’s…. A bad time.

But that aside all the garbage telemetry and recall and other stuff is pretty off putting even if it works great

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Until your WiFi driver stops getting updates.

ref: Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down

[-] Gormadt 11 points 2 days ago

Funnily enough I've had to block the updates for my WiFi card in my Windows PC for years now as if it updates it just does Bluescreen loops until I boot into safe mode with out networking and remove the driver.

It blows.

Good news is that Linux handles that card just fine.

[-] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Headlines, lol

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I have to use Windows 11 for work. It’s bad. But this past weekend my son was getting poor performance of a steam game so I dusted off the old windows partition to see if it was a compatibility issue (it wasn’t, my hardware simply doesn’t cut it - but it sucked less on Linux). But damn, managing a windows system is TERRIBLE.

And what for? You can’t even change the system font. This ducking bullshit system won’t afford you any comforts! It’s all locked in place, shoved down your throat.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

Maybe they don't want to use Linux? Perhaps we should stop trying to force Linux. Use whatever floats your boat.

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Maybe they don't want to clean up a fresh install of Windows, maybe they don't own a computer, maybe they don't have arms, maybe they can't read

[-] aarch64@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

Your sentiment is good and all, but we're talking about !linuxmemes@lemmy.world here :)

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 points 3 days ago

I've never gone full-Linux, always dual-booted. But I'm finally over it and gaming on Linux has matured. So I've resolved to wipe my drive and force myself to only use Linux. Kind of excited about it! But mostly, I just don't want Recall, bloatware, or Microsoft's propriety bullshit and selling my data...

[-] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Relevant thread.

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