Look, if it takes you 2 days to debloat windows, linux is gonna take a real fucking while to learn right.
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2 days? He said 2 weeks haha
oh fuck that's even worse.
Well he's cooked and proob chopped as well
The average Winblows user doesn't even know how to lock the screen without using their mouse or touchpad. Don't give me that "It's hard for people" bullshit. Most people can barely handle recognizing icons, which are the same regardless of OS.
I finally tried Linux. Tried three different Distros meant for beginners and it couldn't do the one thing I do most better than Windows. Gaming. Too many programs or overlay tools are Windows only. Compatibility programs rarely worked. Wine laughed in my face. Some Linux tools were also only compatible with other kernals.
I made the switch to have more control and felt like I left one series of cages for another.
For me gaming was the easiest thing to replace on Linux. Bazzite was painless and for me ran games with better performance. Since I use my gaming PC like a console HTPC I also have a way better experience with the more steam os like gaming mode it has over the standard big picture mode on windows, since I can now configure system settings within steam itself with my controller if I ever need to.
I tried to use Proton for steam games, baked right in, shouldn't have many issues right? I'd still encounter games that just didn't work or had catastrophic bugs. Games that use kernals level anticheat are just not possible without emulation, I couldn't find low latency emulation, it was.. A trial in futility for me. The more I tried to make Linux work the more I had to ask myself why I couldn't just rip out the windows bloat and use it instead. I thought I was a Windows power user and it would translate to Linux, I was mistaken. I've taken for granted how universal Windows is and I have a respect for people willing to beat Linux into submission.
I walked this path at first, too. For me, it was more like my stubborn battle with Microsoft than not wanting to learn Linux (I had already learned Debian some time ago).
I've flip flopped back and forth, but after the recent bs with screenshot and OS-side ads (for a PAID software, mind you) I haven't even given Windows a second glance anymore.
If you've got the knowledge to truly debloat Windows, you have the knowledge to set up Linux.
Microsoft's incompetence is the best thing to happen to Linux in recent years.
Debloating windows is not a one-time adventure, it's what you're subscribing to do every now and then.
source: am recovering windoholic.
OneNote re-installing and re-adding itself to my startup after I absolutely turned it into swiss cheese was my final nail in the coffin.
Windows now lives in an image file that I can boot into using Linux as a thin client to start up a Windows VM for the occasional time I need to do some heavy Excel work. Absolute trashware.
I'd like to try Linux with minimal commitment and no setup. Give it real test drive with some of my most important tools.
If and when I decide to make the switch, I want to have access to my normal windows machine. I'd keep it around if I need it. But prefer if it went away slowly. I want to work with and communicate with windows users with neither of us having to jump through weird hoops.
I want my printer to work.
Problems will come up, but I don't want it to dominate my time.
I'm sure most of you will say not to worry, but until I've logged some real hours, I will.
I recommend downloading a Live Linux distribution and booting it from a USB stick.
This let's you try out linux without making any changes to your Windows setup. It also lets you make sure linux detects all your computer's hardware. If the live session works fine, the it will detect all that same hardware when you install it for real.
I installed Linux on a secondary hard drive in case I needed to get back on Windows for anything. So far it's been a few months and I haven't needed to, so I'm considering having Windows in a virtual machine or just getting rid of Windows instead.
Lost four installations at my house, and I have Microsoft certifications professionally so I'm fairly invested.
Likely to be another few as I move the rest of my immediate family over to Linux slowly also.
Yup, with ya brother. I have Microsoft certifications dating back to NT4. I've never been bothered by anything Microsoft has done, with the possible exception of WinME. I have done thousands of installs for friends and family. When MS started actively preventing me from installing W11 to "older" hardware and requiring a login, I started looking into Linux. I had run Slackware in the 90s so figured Arch couldn't be that bad... It was actually easier than I remembered.
That was 2 years ago. This past weekend my Dad had somehow been force upgraded even though I had group policies in place to prevent upgrades past 22H2, and he wasn't happy with the result. Brought Linux Mint, booted from the USB and asked him to do everything he normally does on Windows. Almost all of his activities are browser based so I installed it and have yet to get any calls asking questions.
Plus, once you get done de-bloating Windows, the next Windows update will undo all your hard work and reset everything back to "allow all bloatware and spyware." It's a battle you're never going to win unless you ditch Windows completely.
It takes less 2 hours really. Playbooks exist now and makes it way easier to use Windows XP 11. Cuz that's all anyone really wants.
I got an oldish mid range Asus gaming laptop the TUF Dash f15, what's a good distro for this? something that's as close as windows in perfomance as windows 10 is
something that's as close as windows in perfomance as windows 10 is
Youβll notice better load times on Linux 9 times out of 10 than any variant of Windows. With that being said, I would suggest Kubuntu.
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