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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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[–] 18 points 6 months ago (3 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 (1 child)

    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 (1 child)

    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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