Comment on Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff

speaker_hat@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• dan@upvote.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I’m really considering switching back to Linux. I don’t play PC games any more - I don’t have time for many games and just use my Xbox now. The last time I used Linux on desktop was around 2007-2008, when I dual-booted Windows XP and Ubuntu 6.06. I’ve been using Debian on servers for over 20 years though, so I’m familiar with Linux administration.

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  • CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    The last time I used Linux on desktop was around 2007-2008

    Oh dear lord! You have no idea how much things have improved. I think you’ll be in for a nice surprise.

    Also, games work fine on Linux now. The only games that don’t work are ones with invasive anticheat. Or if a developer is stubborn, like FacePunch. I can’t play on official Rust servers, but connecting to a friend’s who has EAC disabled (it’s a private server), it works 100%.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I think you’ll be in for a nice surprise.

      Hopefully I don’t have to manually tweak ALSA configs for hours to get sound working any more :)

      Any distros you’d recommend? I was just going to try Debian, but I’ve heard that Linux Mint is good too?

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      • CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Hopefully I don’t have to manually tweak ALSA configs

        I hope you’re just kidding. Because we’ve moved past ALSA to PulseAudio and then again over to Pipewire. Pulse was a bit rough, but Pipewire is fantastic.

        Any distros you’d recommend?

        I guess it depends on what you’ve been using server side. It would be helpful to say in the same family of distros. If you’ve been using Debian/Ubuntu based, then Mint is a good choice. Pop!_OS is a good choice too.

        My very strong recommendation for DE would be KDE Plasma. It’s not like it used to be. Plasma is one of the fastest desktops now and even competes with the lightest DEs for memory usage.

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  • speaker_hat@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Congrats on the consideration pal.

    I use Ubuntu for my personal desktop and work desktop, and it works smoothly without “Microsoft surprises” like this post. I also don’t game in PC.

    Want to make an easier move? If your Windows is EUFI boot, shrink your Windows partition in half, and on the other half install Ubuntu.

    Then you can slowly, in your own pase, start doing more things in the Ubuntu partition, until you’ll find yourself not using the Windows partition anymore.

    Not happy? Just remove the Ubuntu partition afterwards, and go back to Windows.

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• ThirdNerd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I installed a deb package this morning and started it up - only to face an ad for other software. It’s seeping in…

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  • kanzalibrary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    lol what package u installed dude? never see this since using linux 2013

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    • ThirdNerd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I don’t recall - I uninstalled it so fast I didn’t register the name. I was looking for a productivity app, so it was a planner or something. If I come across it again I will make a separate post for it so we can all grumble and wow.

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