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Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and users are urged to switch to Linux (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 55 points 6 months ago (9 children)

The PC Gamer article's title also says "upgrade or". That's a heck of a detail to editorialize out of the title.

From the Mozilla post it cites:

After this, no security updates will be provided and you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to a supported Microsoft Windows version.

Or, if your current hardware can't handle Windows 10 or higher for some reason, you can switch to a Linux-based operating system. The vast majority of Linux distributions come with Firefox as the default browser.

I agree switching to Linux is the better option. I want to try Bazzite.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Bazzite's excellent, just be aware going in that it's an immutible distro and some stuff may be different than you're used to.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    It will be different anyway, as it is a completely different operating system that has nothing in common with windows.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Windows is mutable. That’s likely what they are referring to.

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

    Except it will prevent you from mutating many of its system files. I mean it's not a good argument for a former Windows user, unless they get a sudden urge to tinker with all possible system files on Linux (which is possible to do on immutable systems in one way or another, but it's much harder and not as straightforward) 

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    The worst part of immutable versions is when you go searching for help, you need to be careful about answers that might be presented to you.

    For example, if I search for "how to install nVidia drivers in Fedora Kinonite 43, the first returns can often be for Fedora Plasma 43. Those terminal commands for Plasma won't work for Kinonite. And even updating is different. Instead of sudo dnf update for regular Fedora desktops, you need to type rpm-ostree update for atomic versions.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Bazzite is amazing, nearly bulletproof even?

    I had a few times where it booted to the grub emergency shell, but it literally just fixed itself. Just reboot and it uses the other A/B slot. And the next update attempt just fixes whatever the problem was. That's only happened twice in the last 5 months since I switched. Most longtime Linux users should be very familiar with the grub emergency shell, but I've never been on a distro where it just fixes itself. I don't ever have to think or worry about updates, it's just a reliable daily driver. It's sick.

    As people have said, Bazzite is immutable. You can install system packages/libraries if you absolutely need to, but you really should run your custom stuff in a Distrobox instead. Distrobox is preinstalled, supports graphical apps automatically, and most of the time you won't even notice it's not your real OS.

    I think Bazzite is more stable and usable than Windows now. I'm tempted to switch my parents to it, it's been much more fault tolerant than Windows 11.

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