Is it necessary though? Microsoft have already been campaigning pretty hard to get people to switch to Linux. Telling people their perfectly good PCs won’t work anymore because the operating system is expiring, and they can’t even “upgrade” to Windows 11 is a pretty powerful message.
End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending
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bampop@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Download a new OS // Download the operating system you want to install. Search for Linux distributions for beginners to get some suggestions.
I feel like it’s better to actually list/suggest a few beginner distros than to tell people to look it up.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 day ago
Linux Mint (XFCE desktop) is the best for beginners coming from Windows, in my opinion. Linux enthusiasts will fawn over KDE because of customization, but they ignore that the vast majority of people don’t want to spend months tweaking pixels, widgets and animations, they just want to use the computer.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 23 hours ago
My point is that the site should be recommending a few newbie distros, instead of telling the newbie to search it. for them.to look it up. Specially because the choice of a distribution isn’t that meaningful. out", instead of telling them to search it.
That said I agree Mint would be a good choice. Not sure on Xfce; I’d probably recommend Cinnamon instead, as it looks a bit more modern (even if myself would rather use MATE or Xfce than Cinnamon).
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
Realistically, the best distro for a Windows user is one that runs all their existing Windows software (both applications and games) right out of the box.
Does any distro even come close to doing that?
ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Why do you suggest Mint over Ubuntu?
Broken@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
As a newer Linux user I think the priority in communication should be use Mint and then have some general information about how Linux isn’t Windows, with some key differences and how to do things. I know that’s more complicated than just saying it, but a “simple” get started guide would ease transition a lot.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
I recommend Gentoo for a beginner.
What better way to understand your new OS than by compiling it from scratch?
Zoop@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Yeah, I agree. Especially since there’s SO much information out there that’ll come up if they try to search, and lots of it isn’t good, and tons of it is conflicting with each other. It’s best to make it as easy and simple as possible. Like just suggest Mint or something.
Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 19 hours ago
Zorin OS is going to be the best for windows refugees. It is so far ahead in this area that it isn’t even remotely close.
I don’t know why people keep trotting out mint. Mint has far too many issues to be a serious suggestion.
HayadSont@discuss.online 13 hours ago
Mint has far too many issues to be a serious suggestion.
Would you mind elaborating on that?
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Alright, I need to move my main desktop to linux. Help me decide which distribution. Note that I already run a desktop-less server on Debian, a raspi on their flavor of deb and have a laptop I rarely use on fedora.
My main desktop PC is on windows and I wanna switch but im not sure which distro to switch to. The thing needs to be gaming ready for 2024 hardware. Debian is too slow to update for such a use case, I dont jive with Ubuntu philosophy, Arch is… im just not that kind of guy… so Im leaning on Fedora but I kinda dont like that it has 100 updates every time I boot it up. Is there any in between? Stable and quick with updates, but not when updates can crash the thing?
LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
Peppermint is exactly what you want
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
I know you said you’re not an Arch kinda guy…but I highly recommend Garuda.
Takes away most of the rough parts of running Arch, and comes in more flavours than you can shake a stick at. The forums are highly active, and Devs/admins/mods are very quick to respond to question/issue posts.
BigBenis@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I’m going to be migrating to Linux and using Mint. I’m just paranoid about doing something wrong and accidentally walking into a security vulnerability. So I want to set aside time to properly learn things and understand what I’m doing but I’m just busy AF these days…
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Take it slow and do it the right way, don’t let Lemmy pressure you if you’re making slow but steady progress. It’s a learning curve for sure
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Basically don’t run random sudo(superuser do, root access) commands you find on the internet without reading what the command does from docs or asking ai.
Leaving windows makes you more secure.
smokeymcpott@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Agreed.
Had the same problem with the Steam library on a Windows filesystem and some annoyances with NTFS drives.
Other than that, pretty easy overall (you have to tinker around with some games and wineversions though)
spicehoarder@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
I have four pieces of advice
- btrfs file system for easy backup and recovery
- Encrypt your drive
- use an ad blocker everywhere
- use virus total to scan anything you might be wary of, and if you really feel like you need an AV, they do exist for Linux.
I usually prefer Debian based systems, but when I finally ditched windows 3 weeks ago, I switched to Manjaro, and I’m loving it. You got this!
MITM0@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
What’s wrong with EXT4 ?
tomjuggler@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
If you are worried about disk space don’t use backup on btrfs though it fills up yr drive I never encrypt my drive but maybe you should Manjaro is great though!
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
the copilot nonsense really irked me, but it was then they had the gumption to force this absurd recall bullshit on everyone–that’s when i said i’m done, no more windows, no more M$
it’s obviously a “feature” they sold to senior executive board members so that middle managers could spy on their cubicle drones, but to have the gumption to try and convince the world that this was something we wanted? get fucked microsoft
Photuris@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It’s more than that. They want training data for their LLMs. With enough training data, they can train these models to do office knowledge work themselves, removing the need to employ cubicle drones at all.
Damage@feddit.it 18 hours ago
That’s what free software advocates have been telling everyone for decades. When you use proprietary software licensed to you, you have no agency in what becomes of it, they can force you to accept changes that you don’t agree with, violate your privacy, take what you thought you owned from you.
People give up freedom for convenience and treat those that don’t as crazy misguided idealists, thinking they’re fools for using less convenient and sometimes powerful fools for pointless principles only they care about… Meanwhile, if everyone was just a tiny bit like the crazy idealists, these companies wouldn’t be able to abuse their position because a modicum of resistance from everyone would be an overwhelming force for them.
Some will say it’s dumb being idealist about computer software, but aside from computer software being serious fucking business, the practices of these companies are what birthed disposable, unrepairable electronics, privacy erosion, robber AIs and so on. Do you think a tech industry dominated by free software supporters would have allowed the rise of people like Bezos, Zuckerberg or Musk?
Ravenfreak@discuss.online 12 hours ago
Honestly I don’t mind 11. It’s miles better than 10 ever was IMO. However with that being said, Linux is better. I have to dual boot Windows 11 on my computer because unfortunately there’s no way I can use my Elgato Capture Device on a Linux machine.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
I downvoted you for not minding Windows 11 🐵
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
I feel like eveyone should reccomend Fedora KDE edition, its close enough to Windows for new users and modern enough to not push people away.
JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
People have their gripes over the “big corporation” side of this but I also daily drive fedora KDE and I love it. My only complaint is 2 things.
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Wireless shuts off after long periods of sleep. Suck if I’m torrenting my Linux isos.
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Very rarely it’ll freeze up and I need to hard restart.
Both of which could be a me issue. But besides that it’s a beautiful, easily and highly customizable system. Highly reccomend as well.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
I also have issue number 2 with fedora KDE (kinoite). It’s happened like 3 times in the past several months
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bedbeard@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Dabbled with Linux over the years but have finally made the jump to using it as my primary OS. I tried a bunch of distros and settled on the elegant simplicity of Mint. Every game has worked just… fine.
It feels genuinely refreshing to know nothing will change without my consent, I know I will not login one day to find a surprise cortana/copilot/clippy icon in the taskbar or an ad for Avowed waiting for me. I can’t believe that is even considered a ‘pro’, but here we are.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
AMD or NVIDIA user?
bedbeard@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
AMD. I think if I had nvidia I might’ve gone for Pop OS, I heard that has good support for them out the box.
Psythik@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
How can I convince the GF to switch? She only plays The Sims and the occasional hentai game; her Skylake i5 and 1050ti are more than adequate for those tasks. Yet she refuses to switch; won’t even let me install LTSC to buy some time.
I think she just wants an excuse to buy a new laptop. She’s the kind of person who replaces her shower curtain every six months, rather than do the sane thing and simply wash it. I’ll never understand such a wasteful mentality.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
There is nothing wrong if someone doesn’t want to switch to a new OS. That being said, isn’t her buying a new computer better? Old one becomes unused then.
Putting lightweight linux on an unused old computer and seeing it become better is like the standard procedure. You could even make a custom rice for her.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
My gf is on win 11 and doesn’t uses it mainly for very light gaming and work. I offered it to her once and she doesn’t care.
Her windows is already having fun problems people think only linux has like her not being able to pay except using edge and other small annoyances. I just say “weird, if it works flawless on linux why doesn’t it on windows” every once in a while.
lay@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
As a 15 years old pc user who likes to play games with a 15 years old nvidia graphics card. The only thing that’s preventing me from fully migrating to linux is the fact that nvidia doesn’t support my gpu anymore, so no proprietary driver, unless, I use a 6 years old kernel version.
The only choice I have for modren distros is the nouveau drivers, which lacks behind alot specially when it comes to gaming. I now have a dual boot setup running Popos and windows, but still I can’t be fully free from Windows, having to reboot every time I feel like playing something. I hope in the near future I get less broke to buy a new conputer or maybe the new nvk drivers will supports my gpu which is unlikely.Jankatarch@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Dualbooting is great. Whole idea of linux is “you can tinker in any way you see fit” and putting multiple OS on a single computer is one example.
Fact that you did this at 15 is impressive btw. Willing to mess around with computers is a real skill. Half the CS students in my college had hard time setting up a fedora VM by themselves for UNIX class.
You are already ahead of actual college students in this field lol. You learnt more about computers thanks to old GPU.
ziggurat@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Which graphics card?
lay@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Quadro 2000M, it’s a miracle that it support dx12 games.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
Ive been seriously looking into making the switch. After some reading I decided Mint would be the easiest transition and downloaded the ISO to try it out with a USB boot. Im sure its a fluke, but since I have dual monitors the display was messed up and whenever I tried to fix it the entire GUI went away on both monitors and wouldn’t recover. I had to force power off the machine and ive been hesitant since then to make the actual switch. Id hate to brick my machine right off the bat, just trying to swap display sources.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Please give it another go. I think you’re right, thrt was a fluke.
accideath@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I’ve heard that happen with mint before. Try a bit more modern distro like fedora or openSUSE maybe?
Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 19 hours ago
Mint is the one everyone touts, but mint is pretty shit tbh. Check out Zorin OS. I have a funky triple display setup and it handled it like a champ. Also UX/UI on Zorin is fantastic. There is GUI for everything.
Lycist@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I had a bit of trouble like that too… Tried Ubuntu and my 2nd display would have static bursts going through the middle horizontally. Couldn’t figure out a fix, tried out Fedora and had no problems.
Damage@feddit.it 18 hours ago
As a long time Fedora user, it’s difficult to convince other Linux users of how reliable it is. I’ve used it on multiple computers for I think about a decade and I’ve rarely had problems, certainly fewer than I had with Windows.
Last week I finally parted with standard Fedora to try out an immutable version, right now it’s Bazzite… I’ve got to say it’s very cool, for some things it may be better for beginners, but for most I’d say it’s better to stick to the normal ones.
I think it’s better with KDE, though, especially if you’ve got multiple monitors with different pixel densities.
Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml 17 hours ago
My laptop is about 7 years old now, I think I will do this actually, thanks for the tip comrade
cortex7979@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
How can I play cracked the last of us on my popOS sytsem?
Matty_r@programming.dev 6 hours ago
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Lutris should handle that. Its requires some tinkering as it works differently.
cortex7979@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
It seems it’s just a platform that I can run games on, and I need to find a cracked version of the game by myself, right? Do I need to look for a Linux-specific cracked version? Sorry for the dumb questions.
diykeyboards@lemmy.world 1 day ago
With no Adobe CC on Linux, I’m stuck on W10 for the foreseeable future. Otherwise I’d have already switched.
HayadSont@discuss.online 13 hours ago
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
As you can’t ditch it for alternatives, I suggest:
- KVM, kernel-based VM for better performance. See this vid about setting it up: youtu.be/BgZHbCDFODk Licenses (and cr=cks) should work, judging by the Adobe forums, but you’d have an overhead with Windows running, so you’d greatly win by stripping everything off from it, up to disabling system services or even their Explorer DE (like some gamers did with Win Aero in W7 times, killing it while the game was running).
- Wine (Proton) directly or via Bottles\Lutris\Steam increased it’s emulation capabilities and performance in the previous years. It works for highly demanding games, talks OK with my various discrete v-cards, skips the Win10 overhead, shows CC apps not unlike other programs, but it can cause random bugs, apps not communicating right to each other, and activating it may be not as straightforward. Before starting to rely on that, it’s better to test your exact worklfow, tools you use, etc.
You’d be probably drown in a question of what Linux distro to choose, considering there’s stuff like AV Linux or Pop_OS being recomended for media design. But you’d easily hop from one to another as you go, so it’s better to install something as simple as Mint first, and try Adobe workarounds there before moving next.
If you have specific hardware, I’d say that Wacom-like graphic tablets work like they should (tried several pieces, adapted some touchscreen devices, nearly out-of-the-box on modern Linux), but for something else, like controllers that need to talk to your programms in some special way, you’d better google their compatibility or try it yourself. Making a passthru of inputs to VM or taking it’s inputs by Wine wouldn’t usually be a problem, problems start when this piece needs a specific Win\Mac-only driver, and they can, especially if they are old, have a temper of a feral ghoul. I know that there are a lot of linuxoids creating in different kinds of media, so I’m pretty sure there are some answers on the web, at least for the same manufacturer, series or kind of hardware.
spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Are you able to run windows in a VM for your software?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 22 hours ago
I am trying Linux but it’s not going well. I still might stick with it but it’s more because of Windows getting worse than Linux being better. Right now it’s come down to an evaluation of which things I want to not be able to do anymore because Linux doesn’t support everything I currently do or the alternative is ass or will require an inordinate amount of research to get set back up.
applemao@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Using mint or ?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 16 hours ago
I’ve used both Mint and Bazzite. Bazzite I’m attempting as a daily driver now because it has all the gaming shit baked in already and I don’t know wtf I’m doing with that so it gave me a head start. However, Freecad runs like absolute dog shit on it, as well as every other system I’ve tried it on, so I need to keep windows around for Fusion360, I also can’t figure out how to program my G602 from it even though according to the docs I found Solaar supports it. I’m almost certain my headset won’t work on it. When I did my taxes it wouldn’t open PDFs from my network share because the PDF program doesn’t understand SMB. It already lost my Secure boot key once and I had to reinstall the OS to fix that even after turning Secure Boot off. I still need to figure out the best way to run VMs on it and I have numerous other peripherals that I haven’t even tried yet because it’s honestly exhausting to keep running into problems when I’m already stressed out from work and every other fucking thing going on in my life… I was able to get my media downloading stuff all running in Mint with only one issue that took me a couple hours due to gpodder not just having a fucking setting for the download directory and the documentation couldn’t just SAY how to export the path you want but over all that was pretty painless.
dufkm@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I used to have the same issue, and booted up a Windows VM for anything I couldn’t get working on Linux, like syncing my Polar watch. Now I’m down to only using the VM when doing a firmware update of my Gardena robotic lawn mower, which is like once every second year.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 14 hours ago
Microsoft Access and Publisher, the Adobe suite, VR. That’s just the tip of the iceberg of why I can’t completely abandon Windows, yet. I do have a handful of older PCs running Mint though, and I’ll be switching over more. But not all of them.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
You know what? Just because of this I am going to proprietary BLOB even harder
Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Zorin OS is the distro for windows refugees. Nothing else even comes close.
spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Tried using Alma on my rig at home (since I’m using it on my servers), and I’m already going to be looking for a new distro. Went back to it after a week or so not having the energy to deal with it and apps like Firefox and steam wouldn’t launch.
Need to find a decent OS to run in its place so I can stop booting to Win10
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 26 minutes ago
This weekend I want to make a pointnto finally begin the transition to Linux…