Its time to switch to Linux!

  • Aceticon@lemmy.world
    9·
    4 hours ago

    Bullshit!

    I’ve been using Windows 7 for years well after end of support and my computer never got hacked!

    Oh yes it did

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
    5·
    5 hours ago

    I feel like Microsoft fully intends to remove the TPM 2.0 requirement in the nearish future

    Otherwise it wouldn’t be so easy to disable when writing an iso to a USB drive.

    Looking at it from a capitalistic point of view, they gain nothing by keeping people from installing their OS on the long term, the lock out was just for the short-term gains they got out of OEMs selling new computers for Windows 11 and such.

  • RangerJosie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    12 hours ago

    Yeah. Gotta find a distro soonish. My 3-4 year old laptop tried to update to W11 and has failed twice. Guess it doesn’t meet the hardware reqs. (Thank you RNGesus)

    • thawed_caveman@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 hours ago

      Currently writing from a Mint laptop, works perfectly with minimal setup and no command line whatsoever, the only annoying thing is that the caps lock key behaves differently. Though Linux’s reputation is that it can probably be modded out.

      I also installed Diodon to recover the cool clipboard function that Windows has.

      I could probably get the customizeable start menu, but i actually don’t miss it that much

    • RoliversEnglish
      4·
      10 hours ago

      Any distro will do. I suggest using one that has a complete installer like Mint or OpenSuse and then use KDE Plasma as desktop, which closely resembles Windows.

    • agnomeunknown@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 hours ago

      I can vouch for mint, I picked it up recently after not touching Linux for almost 20 years and it was very intuitive and Windows-like. Haven’t dug very deep into it yet but it was at least easy to setup and get the necessities working

      • RangerJosie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 hours ago

        Dude. I have a 2002 Dell laptop with Mint 16 on it.

        It’s completely unusable. Takes like 10 mins to open a browser. But it fuckin’ works. Its incredible.

        • AdmiralRob@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          For something that old, you should try Q4OS. It’s a Debian-based distro like Mint, but it’s designed for stability while using the absolute minimum resources.

          I recently installed it on a gateway laptop that’s at least 20 years old. I didn’t try streaming video or anything, but just opening the browser and looking at wikis was a perfectly normal experience. I dare say that laptop is working better now than when it had Windows XP.

  • M137@lemmy.world
    271·
    16 hours ago

    I’m absolutely certain the grammatical clusterfuck in so many memes and posts is done fully consciously. Like, someone sat there and actually thought about how to make it grammatically fucked yet get the point across, just to get those extra comments pointing it out. And it’s fucking horrifying that this is where we are, deliberately making things dumb to get more “clicks”.

  • shastaxc@lemm.ee
    211·
    1 day ago

    Is this post from the future? Windows 10 still has support for another year.

  • padge@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    19 hours ago

    I’m testing out Linux on my laptop, October 13 my desktop moves over too.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
      2·
      13 hours ago

      I recommend you cut over at least a few weeks before. Not all hardware is always supported. It’s a million times better now than it was decades ago, but sometimes(depending on distro) hardware can throw a sold kink in your otherwise perfect log.

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    221·
    1 day ago

    bully everyone into upgrading to Windows 11 so you can force data scraping in the guise of AI down their throats. nice game

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    1 day ago

    In the last month, I made a genuine effort to switch to Linux Mint, then Bazzite, as my daily driver. Mint could not run Hitman 3 for unexplained reasons. Bazzite frequently got graphical corruption issues when returning from sleep. Neither could run niche indie games and gave no error codes.

    I knew I’d be doing some tweaking to get Linux working how I wanted, but it was missing configuration as well as being unreliable by default. I like the principle of using a non-MS OS, but I need it to work.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I was lucky that when I moved to Linux some months ago I got used to install my games from Lutris and Steam, which seems to solve most problems and only maybe 1 game of the 15 or so I tried so far wouldn’twork no matter what.

      That said, I and to figure out how to do diagnostics and use Winetricks and my little doc of Tips & Trick cover 5 games (out of about 15) so those are the ones that would work only after tweaking.

      I still have weird situations like The Sims 3 from Steam not working but the pirate version I tried working flawlessly on first try (so now I know how to install pirated games with Lutris) which is maybe not the kind of thing the publishers would want people to know, but more often than not things just work.

      All this to say that it’s way better now than before if you use the kind of tools that wrap Wine (or in the case of Steam, Proton which is a derivative of Wine) with install scripts that will do the necessary game-speciric tweaks for you, but even then you’ll need to learn how to diagnose problems and do the tweaks yourself if you want a higher that 60% or so rate of success or if you want to hoist the Skull & Bones and sail the high seas from your Linux Galleon.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      2·
      13 hours ago

      Really bummed your experience has been like that! :(

      In my humble experience, I’ve gotten almost everything new and old to run via Steam, or my GoG games to run via Heroic. Vermintide 2, Metro: Exodus, Enter the Gungeon, X-COM 2, BattleTech, MechWarrior 5, I even got old stuff like Sims 2 working flawlessly via Bottles.

      Trying to install stuff like you would on Windows by running installers manually seems to not be so great though…could that have been it perhaps?

      Using front-ends that manage Proton / WINE for you makes the process so much easier.

      I ditched Windows entirely because Vermintide kept BSODing my Win10 install, and it wouldn’t even let me “refresh” the OS. Fully doing work and play on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed these days and the only thing I’m REALLY missing is VR.

      • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        I knew I had whole folders of indie games that are just a folder with an executable, so I trialed those with Lutris. It needed a huge setup form just to run one of them, and when I finished, it wouldn’t run and gave no errors.

        Having that as my experience for, as I said, a whole folder of games, wasn’t really in my interest. It takes too long for the community to say “Hey, I got Assassin’s Creed running! Just use Proton 8.13 beta, and add these 8 command line options”

        • Aceticon@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 hours ago

          In my experience with standalone EXE installers and Lutris, the problem is often that Lutris just guesses wrong the name of the game executable after installation is done or can’t even guess it.

          Personally, every single time I had a problem of installing a game with Lutris from an EXE installer and when starting it afterwards the game goes to “Running” (see the left top list) and then quickly ends with no error, it’s Lutris having guessed the game launch EXE incorrectly.

          Having started with using Lutris’ GoG integration first (were an install script generally takes care of all that) and only later moved to standalone EXE installers, I can see how one would lose hope on the whole thing if they started with the installers since so far for me almost all of such installations failed to give me something that just runs without tweaks afterwards, and for almost all of them the problem was Lutris picking up the wrong launch EXE or even having no launch EXE at all (which gives you a small and easy to miss warning in the Lutris install log at the end of installation).

          If you still can, go and check in the game configuration in Lutris for one of those games (it will be in a tab with only a handful of option, not in the last tab with a ton of obscure options) if the launch EXE is present and correct.

          • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 hours ago

            The version of Lutris I installed used a file opening GUI to select the exact EXE to run. I was using simple unzipped folders, not installers.

            Even if the fault of the game in question ends up being simple:

            • It’s not fun to correct that fault on every single game I run
            • It could be a slightly different fault on every single game

            I am fine with one-time setup configuration for my OS to get preferences right, devices working, and settle myself to my steady workflow. I am not okay with doing laborious one-time setup for every single game I ever try.

            • Aceticon@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 hours ago

              Oh yeah, it’s still not at the same level of ease of use as Windows.

              It’s massivelly better if compared to the old days in Linux and, curiously, it’s easier for those who in Windows were never “sophisticated” user that did not relly on store frontends to manage the installation for them, but if you’re the kind of user of Windows that does actually know what folders and executable files are, it’s more complex to get going than in Linux.

              Curiously in my experience even Linux native games are way more complex to get working in Linux that the Windows equivalent are in Windows (or even Linux: I have at least one game were the Windows version installs almost flawlessly in Linux whilst the Linux version is a “missing library” nightmare), unless they’re recent enough that they come in something like Snap or Flatpack)

        • NutWrench@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 hours ago

          If you’re using Steam, they use a native Linux client and a custom Proton that has all the settings and presets for their game library.

          Everything I bought on Steam works for me under Linux Mint. And almost all my older games, like “Deus Ex” or “Giants: Citizen Kabuto” I can run directly under Wine with the default settings.

          • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            I get that, and I like it. When it works. (Hitman 3, which I know works under certain distros/Linux hardware, did not load levels for me on Linux Mint 22) Even on Bazzite, Helldivers 2 needed command line args to avoid a white border around the game in fullscreen.

            Plus, much as I like Steam, I like competition, and I buy games off of other stores pretty often. Some of those stores just give you a zip file to download in your web browser.

    • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      112·
      1 day ago

      Yeah I’ve always been a very casual Linux enthusiast (key word is casual) since I was a teen. Setup and things “just working” out of the box have absolutely never been the case, even in 2024, and even though people like to say it does. In an ideal situation on an ideal computer with ideal hardware, you don’t have to tweak anything. But for most people, there are going to be some annoying issues and tweaks you have to work through.

      If a Linux system has already been set up and tested for the end user, then it is a great alternative. But in my experience, these systems absolutely never work perfectly out of the box and it takes some technical know how to get to that point. Ever since Windows 7, Windows has “just worked” out of the box… especially because it comes pre-loaded on your device.

      I have been dealing with some issues with my Bluetooth module in Windows. I had eventually solved the problem, but the fix seemed to have reverted itself somewhat recently. Annoyed, I thought I’d finally commit to a switch to Linux on my daily driver since my laptop doesn’t support Win 11. Well, I chose Linux Mint since it doesn’t use Wayland which for some reason has poor compatibility with my common Logitech mouse. Everything had been fine but then I found instead of the Bluetooth module crashing like in Windows, which just makes me have to reset the module, the entire system crashes in Linux instead and requires me to reboot it. Frustrating to say the least.

      And then, as you’ve brought up, gaming on Linux is just generally not a good experience unless you have all of your games on Steam.

      Linux can be awesome but it’s absolutely not for everyone…especially people with less technical knowledge (unless it is set up for them), people who want something to “just work” without any fiddling, or people who do a lot of gaming outside of Steam.

    • Sylvartas@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 day ago

      I was lazy and went with pop!_os. Required minimal tweaking, and so far there are very few games I couldn’t run

      • vulture_god@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        51·
        21 hours ago

        Same for me, running for a few months and all my steam games work great. I had to install some extra software to run my Logitech mouse and get the scroll wheel to be more sensitive. Otherwise though it’s been a great experience so far.

        Although I’m an IT professional, I really don’t want extra work when I’m sitting down to game. So POP! has been great overall for my use case, with the bonus of Linux for any coding projects I tackle otherwise.

  • auzy@lemmy.world
    75·
    19 hours ago

    The biggest issue with Linux at the moment isn’t the os. It’s the community, and because of that, they keep scaring off developers, and ironically many developers only stick around now because they’re hired by a large company

    I’ve seen so many developers (including myself), who got smashed by the community so we just gave up

    It has definitely gotten better though (vastly) in the past 20 years

    • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
      85·
      15 hours ago

      WHOA BUDDY! This is Lemmy. You are required to pretend Linux is made of sunshine and blowjobs here. There has never been a single issue with any distro of the operating system and if you try to claim there is you are literally worse than Hitler.

  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
    882·
    2 days ago

    Windows 10? I’m on Linux Mint 22, which is more than double the number.

    Checkmate Microsuck.

    • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world
      33·
      1 day ago

      I would argue it’s even easier, I don’t even have to bypass defender and AMSI in Linux, not that it’s hard but I don’t even have to.

      • KryptonBlur@slrpnk.netEnglish
        61·
        1 day ago

        I really don’t understand people’s issue with vegans, even the really vocal ones. I’m not vegan, cheese is life, but I get that they are well meaning and ultimately are wanting to change the world for the better.