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I've decided to switch to Linux come october. I have some reasons I wanna wait as long as I can, but come october I'm leaving Windows behind.
I've decided to switch my gaming PC to Linux...a few weeks ago.
No ragrets. My games run faster, I no longer need extra shit to make Windows work the way I want it to work, and I can remote into it however I want without running into artificial roadblocks.
Get started early so you have time to acclimate and address issues. You are going to hate it if you urgently need your computer for something and something unexpected happens.
If you're new to Linux, I suggest at the very least starting to learn now. If you have a spare device you can install it on, an old laptop or something, dual boot on your existing machine or use Virtualbox...Start learning now, while you still consider Windows an option.
My own journey to the Linux platform included several instances of the following scenario:
I need to get something done. It's simple, in Windows 7 I know how to do it in seconds. It's so simple that I don't know the words for it, just the thing to click to do it. But it doesn't work that way in Linux, even the vocabulary is different, and you need this done right now because you're working on something and you don't have time to stop and learn this right now.
Boot into Windows, get your job done and turned in. Then look up how to do it in Linux later. Eventually you stop hitting that wall.
You've decided you have seven months. I'd get to it.
If they are still using windows, their privacy and data safety was never of importance to them, anyway.
Or just get the data back from the backups they made.
When are stockholders going to realize that the current Microsoft CEO is ruining Windows?
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I'm in favor of a heavy handed push towards encryption, I think most people don't realize how important this is (now more than ever), but windows should be guiding and educating on this not requiring, and it should have absolutely nothing to do with an email address or online account.
On a home PC, what for? The only data that really matters to be encrypted is my keepass database file. Giving the option is fine but I don't think it should done without asking the user to choose.
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Something broke.
I blame bitlocker.
I saw this problem coming a mile away
Must have been a massive monitor.
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How are these people losing access to their MS accounts on their computers?
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All of the data I actually care about is stored on a NAS and backed up in triplicate. The only data actually on my PC are program files.
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