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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Windows 10 End Of Life - Your Story (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 weeks ago by theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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As the Windows 10 EOL date is close I was wondering what fellow Linux users thoughts about it are.

Are you helping open minded people making the switch to Linux? If yes, which distro are you using? Are you using resources like endof10.org?

Or are you using the the opportunity to get your hands on some cheap hardware for your homelab? Are you keeping an eye on special websites or just ebay (or your local equivalent)? Are you talking with local companies to get the hardware directly from them?

Or are you just observing and enjoy your peace of mind because you switched already to Linux before?

Whatever it is, we are very interested to hear your stories concering this interesting time.

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[–] spaciouscoder78@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Debian is a stable operating system and as user friendly as mint once you get past the installation.

Mint also uses a Ubuntu base but Debian has better quality of packages and is less likely to break.

LMDE is also a good option in this case

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah Debian is stable, but it also doesn't come with an easy to use app store or pre-installed codecs for multimedia.

The installation process isn't exactly user friendly either. And if you plan to use BTRFS with Timeshift for easy snapshot creation, you have to do some pretty technical stuff.

And finally, there's stable and stable. Linux Mint being Ubuntu based is already VERY stable, but you still get fairly recent packages. With Debian you have to wait much longer for the latest software.

[–] spaciouscoder78@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wdym not user friendly? I use Debian everyday and the stuff you were talking about dates back to the bullseye days.

Trixie is a lot more user friendly and even includes the calamares installer now which is a GUI installer that’s similar to mint’s one

It also comes with gnome software and you can enable flatpaks with 2 commands. I don’t see how that’s not user friendly in any way.

Of course nonfree software is a different case but you can always use snap or flatpak for it

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I installed it recently in a VM to check the latest release and the instalation process is not as user friendly as Mint.

For everything else though I guess you're right. But Mint has more quality of life stuff.

[–] spaciouscoder78@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Just use the live installer, it includes the calamares installer which is as simple as installation in mint.