I for one will be looking forward to getting mid-spec PCs dirt cheap.
"You should probably just throw it away"
Submitted 2 months ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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parpol@programming.dev 2 months ago
TheFonz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I want to ditch windows so bad, but I can’t run any autodesk products on Linux atm… Revit, Autocad… Sad noises
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Install atlas os and dual boot linux as your daily driver. Honestly linux experience is what you think windows experience is and vice versa. Windows is just insanely bad now. I haven’t touched my psu power button, done anything close to using reg edit or have a bsod equvilent just from playing a video game since I moved to fedora.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Not familar with AtlasOS… Interesting. And all Windows-only software works natively on it?
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What I do is dual boot Windows/Linux and have them share big NTFS partitions for bulk data they can both access.
You could try getting autocad running?
github.com/…/Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux#fusion…
But TBH, neutering Windows down to a “software tool” to the point I could wipe it and not really care, and spending most of my desktop time on Linux, has been wonderful.
TheFonz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ugh. Sounds like a lot of work. I’ll think about it
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Reject Autocad, embrace FreeCAD.
TheFonz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Haha I would love to. But I would have to get all my teams - and there are many - to switch. I also tried FreeCAD. It’s OK for hobbyists but it’s unusable for architecture… C’est la vie
buzz86us@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m getting annoyed with windows… I have a small laptop I like to use for streaming, and the stupid updates keep on maxing out the drive space… It is 32gb, and i can’t get it to download the updates on an external drive. I wish they’d have an option to turn off automatic updates, and just let me do a single click and download the updates manually to an external drive so i can have a usable goddamn computer.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Microsoft claimed that Windows is compatible with 32gb drives but that’s not actually true. Those will get automatically filled by winsxs updates within a few hours. It’s impossibile to use one of those windows mini PC with a 32gb emmc unless you exclusively use it offline for typing with a word processor.
All those $100 32gb emmc “computers” available on Amazon are just “direct to landfill” ewaste
Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have the exact same problem. I’ve maxed out my hardrive and every week or so it complains that there’s no storage space and I’m like, I HAVEN’T DOWNLOADED OR INSTALLED ANYTHING I MONTHS, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS YOU SHITTY OS! So I delete some stuff so it will continue to operate, maybe free up 1 or 2gb, and then a few weeks later it’s full again.
There also isn’t space to install Windows 11 😑 I only use it for DJing and I’m not sure you can run Rekordbox on Linux but I need to find out.
Goretantath@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Ltsc iot win10 is supported for years to come 🏴☠️
nullroot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
1809 ltsc gang rise up?
mooncake@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I upgraded to Windows 11 it’s not that bad.
brax@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I was forced to downgrade my computer from 10 to 11 and it’s absolutely garbage. It’s a literal downgrade in almost every way.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 months ago
One of my win11 machines can’t even open the file explorer. It worked right up until I got an ‘update’, and I’ve been unable to open it since. Got to access all my files through the command line now, which, I mean, I can do, but it’s still a PITA.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Bro, my the win11 family gaming machine can’t even properly display the game icons or open the file system
mooncake@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I dunno what to tell you mate I haven’t had any problems gaming on Windows 11.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Honestly it is better than Windows 10. When it first launched it was bad but now that it has been a few years it is much better.
slappypantsgo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
There is a way to circumvent the checker. I can’t remember what we did. It was like disable TPM maybe? If folks want to install W11 on their old computer.
Dextofen@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You can by placing a registry key IIRC. But if you do that then you’ll run into issues installing later builds of Win11 and cumulative updates, meaning your system will be just as unpatched (security risk) as windows 10 in a few months.
If you care enough to do an unsupported upgrade for security updates, you truly should look into using Linux instead, like Mint
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 months ago
You can but it’s finicky as hell. Definitely more than what the vast majority of users can do, and if they cared they would make an official easy way to do it. But they don’t want you to, they want you to buy a new computer
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Does anybody know the best way to transfer all my files to Linux? I dabbled in it a bit, but I was a little worried I’d have to reinstall everything, considering I had to make a (relatively small) partition using my unused d drive space
Is there a way to transfer ~2TB worth of steam games, outside of uninstalling then reinstalling them?
PixelPinecone@lemmy.today 2 months ago
It will be difficult, but technically possible. You’d have to ensure bitlocker is disabled on your windows drive. If you’re not sure what that is, don’t assume that means it’s not enabled. Windows does enable it by default in some cases. It encrypts your drive and you won’t be able to access it.
But in all honesty, I’d recommend just starting from scratch if steam games are what you’re most worried about. First, some of them might not work on Linux. Second, you may encounter strange issues that require redownloading much of your library anyway. Lastly, you’ll want to transfer them to a drive with a Linux file system which will take time. That’s if you even have the drive space to spare. More likely is you’ll be formatting that drive anyway to a Linux filesystem, wiping the contents anyway.
Even with slow internet, redownloading games as needed will be way easier and likely faster.
If you’re unsure what distro to go with, I recommend going with Bazzite. It’s a distro optimized for gaming and is an atomic distro. If you don’t know what that means, don’t worry about it, just know that for most casual users, an atomic distro makes way more sense and is much less likely to break. Additionally, if you have nvidia hardware, the drivers come pre installed so it’ll work right out of the box.
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Just copy
C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/to/home/yourname/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/and Steam will recognize those games are already present when you try to download them.Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Some of those games have native Linux build, and even though Windows version will work under Proron, native version will work better, worth checking out.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is not always true. I measured that the Proton version of Rimworld and Stellaris, for instance, are massively faster than the Linux one.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Consider this: why do you have 2TB of games installed?
IDK what your gaming habits are, but I find myself bouncing between a few at most, 1 big AAA at most, and found keeping the rest… to be blunt, data hoarding.
You can redownload what you use, progressively.
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have very bad internet, so I tend to prefer to keep my games installed, rather than wait 24 hours to download a 60gb game again. I still log on to things like MH world or DJMax respect V every now and then for a few rounds, they’re fun to go back to
Similarly, like you said, I have a lot of mods installed. To the point where my backup mod folder on my external hdd is about 100GB in size, so I’m a little worried about spending hours tracking down all my mod lists again
I’ve transferred about 400GB in (legally sourced) roms to my steam deck, so I thought there’d be a way to do this, but oh well
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or you can just keep using with with windows 11.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 months ago
Most don’t support windows 10 without a tpm
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can bypass it
kepix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
something something windows ltsc versions
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Where are you seeing this? Doesn’t seem like a typical Windows prompt.
Carrot@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Looks like an email
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So probably phishing attempt that OP thinks is actually from Windows?
sexy_peach@feddit.org 2 months ago
That’s insane
tibi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
While I agree this is a shit thing to do, I am looking forward to the influx of cheap hardware.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Still on a t430 lmao
jaschen@lemm.ee 2 months ago
My IBM is still going strong.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Haven’t had mine online for 4 years now and it still chugs along
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 months ago
Wine will probably run it fine. Try posting to the linc gaming community though
Comtief@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I installed graphyOS on mine
SolidShake@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i like how you made up a quote from the post.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
They aren’t wrong
Don’t blame them for Microsoft cutting support
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 months ago
This is from Microsoft
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Oh I somehow missed that
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Recycling it is actually a very good suggestion
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You know this stuff isn’t actually recycled, right? It just ends up in a giant toxic burn pit in west Africa and then they have kids with small hands pick through the smoldering wreckage looking for blobs of metals.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Um, no. Love, somewhere with actual regulations.
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
If you don’t recycle it properly yea that will happen
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 months ago
Or reusing, perfectly functional hardware doesn’t need to be gotten rid of
downhomechunk@midwest.social 2 months ago
There are charities around me that take old laptops, put chromeOS on them and give to low income folks.
amon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Give it to me and it won’t take a single joule of energy to recycle plus it’s still useful