I just got a free win 10 laptop from work. Where do I start the linux?
I know it’s not the sub for it however some people might like to know: the open source tool Rufus, when noticing that you’re creating a Win11 USB, will by default offer to patch it to remove the TPM requirement and other restrictions. So now I have W11 happily running on an “unsupported” machine. Yes, I did have Linux on it previously but something has regressed in the kernel in the last year or two and it often freezes on wake, which is well beyond my care factor to help debug.
Also, Win10 IoT LTSC has guaranteed support into 2032.
There are several services offering code micropatching, I still have a perfectly safe win7 machine online for retro gaming
They’ll never get me to upgrade my VM from XP
God all you noobs coming over I’m going to have to switch to OpenBSD to keep my cool nerdy edge /s
Recommend Gentoo and Slackware to your least favourite co-workers!
I worked in a shop where my lead Dev used Gentoo as theit daily and a co-worker used Slackware.
Nobody else I’ve ever known or met could light a candle to their skill set.
lead Dev used Gentoo
Nightly builds
Expectations: the product
Reality: the system
I only used windows on my desktop for gaming. Having a Steam Deck, I was really eagerly waiting for an official SteamOS distro for my desktop. And then I tried Bazzite. I have been playing games on Bazzite for a couple of months now and I’m super happy. So glad to get rid of Windows’ constant nagging and Microsoft’s worsening practices. Every time I booted my desktop there was a new shitty surprise either to make my local login profile into a cloud one, forcefully update to win11 or some other unwanted bad UX. Bye bye Microsoft, at long last!
Big props to the team behind this page, explaining what’s up and directly linking places for people to get support is awesome
it’s back to DOS for me
in many ways, I wish I’d never left
I recently switched to Linux and the latest KDE surprised me with how powerful it is. Scaling works. Fonts are rendered nicely. It’s just easy to use. Most of the time I don’t even think about the fact that I’m running Linux anymore.
Linux sucks
Just kidding I’m just trolling
god at first i saw only the first line cuz the second was cut off. the relief i felt upon scrolling XD
No “what if”, you 110% can! I’ve been running Linux on a netbook for over a decade. It would absolutely choke under the weight of a Windows installation.
I would mainline Linux if I wasn’t a Mac user. I definitely use it all over the place for the homelab.
You’re preaching to the choir with this one.
Its for the choir to preach, in turn, to others.
Seeing a lot of posts like this did help push me to actually make the switch instead of just talking about doing it someday.
I already tried. Linux has some issues with basic things like a working sleep mode and a working thunderbolt port at the same time on my laptop.
What laptop and distro was it?
X1 yoga gen 3. Fedora 40.
