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Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 (lifehacker.com)
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Microsoft is being sued by a man who feels cheated by the current plans to sunset Windows 10. He makes some good points, but I doubt he'll win.

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[–] 90 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Looking into switching to Linux...

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    May you run into a nerd with a Ventoy USB full of beginner-friendly distros in their back pocket to help you along your journey.

    There are at least two of us out there, I’m sure of it.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I keep a ventoy USB in my backpack at all times.

    Currently I have mint popos endeavour cachy bazzite fedora opensuse. I'm thinking of adding a few more. Maybe add nixOS and Debian to the mix.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do it.

    If you have an old laptop, put Linux on it, get comfortable using it. Then when you are ready, make the full switch on your main computer.

    I have used Linux for a few years mostly on my servers, but that's what I did to get used to the desktop experience. I setup a second SSD to have the option of dual booting if I needed it. That was back in March and I haven't booted into Windows once.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah I tried. Turns out my fingerprint reader isn't supported on Linux and never will be and my audio sounded like absolute trash. I probably could have have fixed the audio issue but the fingerprint thing turned me off. Went back to Windows 11 which works just fine for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    If not, look around, you can buy off-lease corporate laptops and ultra-small desktops that are just old enough to not support 11 for a song. They lack a GPU for good gaming, but they tend to be extremely well supported on Linux and are not slow. For the price of a Windows license, you can have something to learn on without effecting your main computer.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    As someone who recently made the switch, DM me if there's anything I can help with. A lot of the Linux Bros on here will be completely unhelpful out of smug superiority. Also, if you have an HP, you will almost certainly have to do a LOT more work (I had to learn to edit GRUB config files pre-startup). It will be much easier if you don't have an HP. Anyway, open offer. Also, do Linux Mint.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's much easier to install Linux these days than it is to install Windows. And with KDE Plasma the user experience is really similar. As for the distribution I would suggest OpenSuse as that has very little requirement for terminal commands, they've packaged GUI elements in the whole distro.

    As for Tumbleweed vs regular, that's up to you. I'm happy with Tumbleweed.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I'm happy with Tumbleweed too, but I Max need to point out that the documentation kinda sucks and the community is kind of small. If you're confident in applying documentation from other distros, you'll be fine.

    I generally recommend Linux Mint to new users because the community is large and accustomed to helping new users, and you can use documentation for Ubuntu and Debian generally without issue.

    Check out openSUSE once you figure out what you like and don't like about Linux distros, it's a great end game IMO.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm the same, I've got a perfectly good desktop machine that isn't Win11 compatible, as well as a Windows 11 laptop.

    Most of what I do on the desktop is browser based, and I have the laptop in case I brick the desktop, so nothing to lose by trying.

    Ironically, if I'd been able to upgrade to 11, there's no way I'd bother with any of this.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    As someone who recently made the switch, DM me if there's anything I can help with. A lot of the Linux Bros on here will be completely unhelpful out of smug superiority. Also, if you have an HP, you will almost certainly have to do a LOT more work (I had to learn to edit GRUB config files pre-startup). It will be much easier if you don't have an HP. Anyway, open offer. Also, do Linux Mint.

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