My old as hell PC died I’m getting a steam deck as a replacement with a dock and …so I’ll just be dual booting into windows 11 and obviously steam OS when I decide to play hand held.
6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
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Hazelnutcookiez@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Jumped to linux with a new laptop, but not gaming on it. It’s fine for what I need. My old machine will be for gaming only.
derin@lemmy.beru.co 4 weeks ago
Been a Linux user for ages, I do have Windows 11 installed on another partition but I rarely - if ever - boot into it.
I mention the above spiel because I don’t understand what additional points people have against windows 11? It seems very similar to windows 10 for me - what’re the reasons for people hating it?
Genuinely not trying to be obtuse, here - I’m just wondering what the primary pain points are of win 11?
Is it the requirement for using a Microsoft account to log in vs. a normal local account? Or the one drive stuff? (upon install it did move most of my personal folders into a weird OneDrive directory, and I had to use the registry to wipe out OneDrive and move them back. Very annoying.)
monarch@preferred.social 4 weeks ago
The inability to easily turn off copilot and the hiding setting between 3 different menus was the thing that finally did me in. I know you can turn copilot off but I didn't like the idea that Microsoft could "accidentally" re enable their spyware on my system. To be clear I am not being hyperbolic I really do think that recall and copilot are spyware that is just Microsoft approved. And then there is one drive just being pain in the ass constantly.
derin@lemmy.beru.co 4 weeks ago
Those all sound shitty - granted, I’m pretty sure I don’t have Copilot on my system, but maybe it didn’t ask me during the upgrade? Either way - my original point still stands: all of these seem just as bad as Win10 (to me, a person who barely used either).
Don’t get me wrong, I’m really glad people are joining us on the Linux bandwagon, it just seems like the reasons for making the switch are almost arbitrary. Another way of putting it would be: "This is what finally pushed you over? ‘Copilot’?"
Anyway, regardless, I’m happy that people are making better choices - regardless of the reasons for doing so!
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I’m on 12, and will be upgrading to 13 when Trixie hits stable.
iterable@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Why? Nothing requires Windows 11. It doesn’t even have a new directx which is why most had to upgrade from 7. Browsers and malware software will work for years. Hell malwarbytes still updates for Window 7.
zewm@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You really don’t understand security updates.
iterable@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I do and if the computer is for work yes update to 11. But for gaming only why would anyone care if it doesn’t break your games? I do nothing but game on a PC and have no need to update until it is required for gaming. Also it is not like on that date all security updates to that point vanish. Firefox and Chrome will still update for security. Malwarebytes will still also update for security.
Infynis@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
I have procrastinated the switch this far, I’ll be damned if my laziness gives in now! Lol
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
I’ve gotten to a point where the quality of a PS2 game is higher to me than most AAA releases. I mostly play retro games, more open multiplayer games that don’t block users like TF2, and indies… so, no. I don’t really need Windows for anything.
Zidane@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
The only real reason I’m still on Win 10 is because of Escape from Tarkov and Photoshop. I need to get a new m.2 and just start sorting through my crap I guess but I haven’t gotten the motivation yet lol
Uli@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I don’t like the rootkit. I do everything I possibly can on Linux aside from the one game that requires it. That said, since they started using the rootkit, there has been a steep drop-off in bots in the game. As in I don’t see any anymore. So, annoying and a huge security risk? Absolutely. Dubious? Maybe? Depends on what you mean.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Been on it for years
Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I use Opensuse MicroOS on half a dozen PCs but I keep one on Windows until I can run Fortnite on Linux.
B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I have an older pc that I use as a a Plex server so as soon as I get some time I will fully switch to Ubuntu.
karashta@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Jumping to Linux just picking a distro
Nighed@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Build new computer. Old computer to be a home server running Linux or something fancy.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Make the jump to Linux and loose 90% of the games you play as well. If all you play is steam games and don’t care about many that can’t be played then sure. I get the appeal. But windows 11 is the same thing as 10.
y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
90%?
Do you only play games with kernel level anti-cheat? Because those are literally the only games i haven’t been able to play, and fortunately for me I don’t want to play those games.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I play many kinds of games. Using a Windows emulator in Linux doesn’t count as “running on Linux”
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Pretty much, 1% of games don’t work on Linux and its the top 1% most popular games
SolidShake@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My problem is 100% of the DAWs I use don’t work on Linux
73CC@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Linux
MrNesser@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Installed kubuntu on the laptop so I can get used to it. Still trying to find a AV and firewall app I like
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
ClamAV, if you want more than just common sense. Firewall is built-in to kubu.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I dual boot but I’m on Windows 11 for my windows partition because the fucking thing just upgraded itself one day.
Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Come to Linux, it’s all I’ve used since Windows 7 and it works great.
MECHAGODZILLA2@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
I’ll be switching fully to Linux this summer, but will also upgrade windows 10 to 11 on the last week of support. I’ll only use it then if I have to, on a separate drive.
Noam_Parenti@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Steam OS time
Jaysyn@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I switched to Mint a year ago. Don’t miss a thing.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve seen a lot of people praising Mint in here. It sounds like that’s the distro for me to try first.
Jaysyn@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Good. The one issue I’ve had installing it is needing to choose Grub2 instead of Grub for the bootloader. No idea why or what the difference is.
ekZepp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Being a deck owner not over obsessed in the latest tripe A game.
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hakunawazo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
43% of Steam is still on Windows
10 with support…
Seems not so many.
And if they are ending in 7 month why bother.Just put the lin
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ble.WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 weeks ago
Anybody tried a steam deck with dock? Gaming and casual desktop should be doable with that.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Steam deck with dock is amazing. I picked up a dock about 6 months ago and have gotten so much use out of it.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I’ve been daily-driving Linux Mint (LMDE 6) on my Thinkpad T14 G1 for almost a year now. At this point, that laptop is easily the most dependable machine I’ve ever had. My gaming PC is the last remaining Windows machine in my house. Recently I’ve been making sure everything is backed up (Syncthing is great for this) and finding alternatives for programs that don’t have a Linux version.
Kobie123@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
Dual booting with EndeavourOS now. Once i know i can repeat my workflow on it, i’ll switch over for good.
pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
I just deleted windows and installed Bazzite Linux. Everything just works
Zarxrax@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
A couple weeks ago I attempted to switch over to Linux. Tried installing both Cachyos and Nobara. It was kind of a shit show, nothing worked correctly, stuff was erroring out and crashing left and right, and after a couple days I gave up.
Today I went ahead and installed windows 11. There were some issues… It wouldn’t recognize my CD key, and I accidentally wiped a partition from the wrong drive. But as for the os itself, I spent a few hours getting things set up, and it’s not as horrible as I thought it would be. I was able to simply turn off most of the shit like copilot and recall, and all the advertisements, and I pretty much have it working as I want it to.
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
If you ever give it a go again, I’d suggest trying to get used to software that you’d need to use on Linux (aka, alternatives that won’t work well outside of windows). I already used a lot of free openscource software that works on Linux like libre office, krita, kdenlive, obs, when i used windows. That made swapping a lot more comfortable. Next I really recomend something like Linux mint, or popos (look up screenshots and decide witch one looks cooler) then, if you are enjoying it after a few months, give arch or nixos a try, or don’t if the distro you use does what you want, and you found ways to make it work for you, then stick with it. I hope the next time you give it a try works out better for you.
kjetil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Da Vinci Resolve has native Linux builds though and should work. And does on Ubuntu based, Rocky Linux, arch and NixOS. I’m not sure about Nobora (Fedora based).
Though it’s hard to know what went wrong with vague descriptions like “everything was crashing”…
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
I’ve been using Linux for years and I’ve never heard of the distros you just named.
I’m not surprised at all that you had trouble using niche distros. Try something more popular with good documentation so you have a community supporting you with bug testing, guides, and Q+As when people run into issues you might run into later.
Zarxrax@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My priorities are being able to run Davinci resolve and Steam games. Nobara ticks those boxes while advertising itself as user friendly. I have heard too many stories of people having trouble getting this stuff running on something like Linux mint, so I didn’t go in that direction. I need to do more with my computer than just view web sites or write code.