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Microsoft Edge loads your passwords into memory in plaintext, but Microsoft says not to worry (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] 33 points 4 months ago (12 children)

2026 is gonna be the year I finally move to Linux. I have huge concerns about many aspects of switching, but they're being overtaken by concerns about staying with Windows. I don't even mind if my overall user experience is a bit worse on Linux (I am trying to have reasonable expectations that it won't be the walk in the park Linux advocates on Lemmy like to claim), I just have much more faith in its security, privacy, customisability and - most importantly - the motivations and intentions of its developers.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago

    Best of luck! If you've got questions or problems feel free to DM me (or reply here) and I'll try to help as best I can. I've been using linux since the mid 90s, so I have a decent idea of how it all works :)

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

    If you move to one of the big supported distributions, you'll be extremely surprised how easy it is.

    If you just want things to stay consistent and easy, I can't recommend Linux mint enough. I installed it on my son's laptop almost two years ago and he's never needed my help to fix anything since.

    The installation walks you through everything, just like Windows, but it'll only take about the third of the time. Everything just works and there's no trash to uninstall or debloat scripts to run when you're done.

    If you do any gaming you might want to run Fedora or bazzite (fedora with training wheels), but if you're using KDE for the desktop that's almost as easy and seamless.

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

    Can confirm, Bazzite is ridiculously easy. If you don't want to dual-boot it's easier to install than Windows. I have it on my laptop and all my games run better now.

    Except Tropico 6. For some reason that made my entire system go crazy. 😄

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Just made the move a few months ago. Only headache was a missing headset driver, but Claude was able to one shot one for me that's been stable ever since.

    Not looking back. There have been very few things that haven't worked so far. Take the leap!

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  • [+] -15 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I have huge concerns about many aspects of switching, but they’re being overtaken by concerns about staying with Windows.

    Do not. Use. Mint.

    That shit bricked my computer for 3 years as a teen with an unpatched bug that impossible to ever download any file to my PC again, including any potential fixes. Spent months on stackexchange forums. No solution lol

    Windows has yet to screw me over that hard. (Yet.)

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

    Around what year was this issue? Both windows and Linux were pretty unstable until - someone correct me on this - 2012? Windows 8 was the last unrecoverable crash I had. Oddly never had an issue with Linux, but I know it happens, I've just been lucky.

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