• WetBeardHairs@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I just gave up on windows gaming. If the game cant be played on my steamdeck, I just find something else. Otherwise its macos and linux for anything non-professional that requires windows. And even then I fucking hate it. Oh look at that… all my documents say “Auto-recover (version 1)” because it forcibly rebooted on me.

  • 🅑🅡🅨 🅢🅜🅘@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I have an ad hoc media server on 10. If it’s super working, you can bet I will replace it with something other than Microsoft. Unless work requires it, everything I use is Linux, Android, or Apple based. I don’t hate Windows, I just like everything else more.

  • FrostBlazer@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Is there an easy way to port all my stuff to Linux? I would not have made the switch in the past, but all the good will I attributed to Microsoft is pretty much gone. I’ve heard Mint is petty easy to hop onto?

  • mooncake@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I upgraded to Windows 11.

    I tried Linux but but so much stuff isn’t supported so I got rid of it.

  • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Got a new laptop about a month ago. Put Fedora Bluefin on it immediately. Couple other computers/server have been running Debian flavors for year or two.

    My main desktop is still Windows, but I literally never use it, especially since getting the laptop. I’ll switch it over when I get time.

    I’m still tied to windows for three apps. I’ve found a Linux replacement for one, I just haven’t done the work to convert the database.

    Another one I’m trying to run it’s Android version in a waydroid docker, but I’m hitting walls, no time to dig deeper.

    And the last one has no replacement, and it’s too delicate to try emulating, I don’t want to nuke the shared database it’s attached to, it’s not worth the headache. So I keep a Windows VM around for the once a month I need to use that program for 🤷‍♂️

    I’m purposely being vague about the programs, they are very identifying, but trust me there’s no alternatives.

    Even with all that, I’m not looking back, win11 sucks.

  • argarath@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I was running mint, but had to go back to windows because of a hardware bug I’m still trying to fix where my PC will randomly not wake up from sleep and that results in corrupted drives, which windows can fix with it’s automated repair at boot, but Linux has done commands that I need to run and if I fuck it up it would fuck my computer up even more, so until I can fix the hardware bug I’m stuck on windows, but by fuck do I hate it. I prefer Linux so much more over windows, so much more convenient, efficient, personalizable and it actually works in many places where windows simply doesn’t even with a lot of fiddling around in settings and shit

  • Jakob Fel@retrolemmy.com
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    1 month ago

    Switching to Linux with no intentions of moving back. I’m fed up with MS. I’m not settled on which distro (and I don’t want to distro hop on my main machine) but I know for sure that I’m switching.

  • darthelmet@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I got a new PC recently so unfortunately I am now on Windows 11. I’ve been wanting to make the swap to Linux but I can’t really make a clean break because at least some of the games I play a lot won’t work on Linux. I do think I’m gonna try to set up another hard drive with Linux on it to try to slowly start learning it and ideally move over anything that I can over there eventually and just keep the windows drive for those few games.

    Does anyone have any recommendations related to that? Distro for gaming/ease of use? What’s the best option for setting up the dual boot? Anything I wouldn’t have thought of that’s relevant?

  • kyub@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    Obviously Linux is the correct choice but I fear most will simply continue to suck it up and update to W11.

  • Ofiuco@lemmy.cafe
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    1 month ago

    Will upgrade my dual-boot, until all my games and stuff works on Linux I can’t ditch Windows… Also until I find a replacement for MusicBee’s file explorer view.