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In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 161 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I know some who went to Linux and a few who moved to Mac. But no one is seeing Win11 and saying "oh man, I gotta get in on that".

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  • [–] 101 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    I jumped in to the Win11 beta and really liked it, they finally got most of the control panel into the new settings architecture and I never once had to dig deep into things to adjust something small, a lot of stuff that took finagling just worked.

    And now I fucking hate it. The release version is jammed so full of bullshit features and useless AI junk that it is an active hindrance to whatever I'm trying to do. And more and more stupid fucking bugs bubble up in to the desktop and never get addressed, all while I get pop up after pop up urging me to try some bullshit new feature.

    I already had one foot into Linux with my desktop but kept this because it was a Surface and nice at some point, but my next buy has to be a Linux 2-in-1, I can't deal with Microsoft's horseshit any longer.

    I do want to emphasize that for the moments that it was unadulterated by rent-seeking, the new Win11 actually was kinda great.

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  • [–] 60 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    In case you weren't aware there's an ongoing project adding Surface hardware support to Linux kernel. It's in a pretty mature state, with most of the features already implemented and working (here is a full breakdown per device). I've been using it on my SP6 for a few years with zero issues.

    It might be worth a look until you get to buying new hardware.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Thank you for this. I haven't figured out what to do with my Surface yet, but this sounds promising.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    Kde is working really well on linux-surface. Had to change the OSK to maliit(?) but everything I need works. I haven't tried to install the camera driver because I never needed it. Stylus works really well ootb. Use it with Krita. Screen rotation works great and I use it as an e-reader. I choose an easy arch distro because disk encryption works with the native keyboard although it has been some time since i tried a non rolling distro and other distros could have addressed the startup keyboard issues by now. 10/10 would recommend.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago*

    Posting from a Surface Go 2 running Debian Trixie with Gnome+Phosh. Everything except the webcam just works on the stock kernel (for webcam support you need the patched Surface kernel). Vanilla Gnome is fine, too, if you use a hardware keyboard. I run Phosh because the onsceen keyboard is much better than Gnome's.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I finally committed to the switch last weekend. My desktop PC was the last holdout still on Windows in my fleet, because of Adobe Lightroom. I decided to just force myself to learn Darktable, and nuked the Win 11 install and replaced it with Fedora 43.

    Fun side note, some of my games run way better than they did on Windows, despite not having native Linux builds. lol.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    My bottles borked my battle.net install somehow so instead of tackling the issue I'll put it off for months/years and continue dual booting

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    you can just run battlenet through steam:

    • add the installer as non-steam game
    • set compatibility to proton experimental
    • launch/install
    • find the filepath for the battlenet .exe
    • change the filepath for the target of the battlenet installer to the .exe instead
    • never touch it again; it just works!

    a tiny bit of effort, but only required once. everything afterwards just works!

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    This worked immediately for me. I did have to change the install path because it still thought I had a Z drive for some reason... I do want it to work not on steam but if I can play WoW on Linux in the interim I'm happy lol

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  • [+] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I tried Lutris before and it would constantly stop installing and freeze up... and when I let it set up in the default directory it will install and then when I launch bnet it doesn't show any games at all..... anddd when it inevitably decides to force quit out of bnet and I click stop on lutris I get "sequence item 0: expected str instance, int found" ......... also constantly slowing the fuck out of my mouse/computer..... I think I fucked my install up when I initially set up mint... might just wipe and start over again.........

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  • [+] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    I left Windows for Linux in the early 2010s. Windows was shit then, but this is a new level of shit. I don't know how anyone does it. After discovering the freedom Linux can provide I could never go back to Microsoft.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I know some people who shoot and hunt their own venison. Some people moved over to butcher shops. But no one is finding roadkill and saying "oh man, I gotta get in on that"

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I can think of one…

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    When I was a kid I visited my cousin in backwoods Missouri, and we heard on the radio that there was an uptick in leprosy because of people eating roadkill armadillo. It was a real wtf moment in my life

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Shit. Is there a certain kind of roadkill that's safer to eat?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    But no one is finding roadkill and saying “oh man, I gotta get in on that”

    Fun fact, there was enough public outcry in '16 for the state of Washington to amend it's laws and make it legal to harvest roadkill for food.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Of all the states, I wasn't expecting Washington.

    Alabama? Sure.

    Mississippi? I can see that.

    Georgia? Yeah, ok.

    Washington? Of all the states, WASHINGTON??? Oh god damn....

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I mean if you hit a deer with your car, why let all that venison go?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    My uncle loves to tell a story from his youth about when he was driving his VW bug up in Maine back in the 70s. As he was winding through the woods on a back road, he struck and killed a rather large buck, which is honestly a fairly impressive feat for a 1970-something VW bug. As he's standing there assessing the (thankfully minimal) damage to his car, a game warden pulls up and informs him that, in Maine, if you kill an animal while hunting, you're legally required to haul carcass home with you under threat of jail time.

    And so began his several-hour task of cramming a 6-point buck into the back seat of a 1970-something VW bug. As far as I remember, he was successful, too.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It's actually not terribly uncommon for people to take roadkill if it's fresh and in decent shape.

    In my state (PA) you're supposed to report it to the game commission within 24 hours, and you're supposed to surrender the hide and antlers to them unless you pay for a separate permit.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    In the UK it's illegal to claim roadkill if you're the one who struck the animal.

    If you weren't, it's free game (unintentional pun, nice)

    At first that didn't make sense to me, but I now realise it's to prevent someone purposely striking an animal just to take it.

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