So thankful Steam made Linux a viable option. Made the switch 6 months ago. Haven’t found a game I can’t run yet. Computer overall runs smoother even.
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So thankful Steam and the hardworking folks who have been working on wine and linux for decades before steam gave them a penny made Linux a viable option
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Older games are easier to run linux.
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Lol I remember getting this the first time I tried upgrading to Win 10, pretty much the first day it was released. I just wanted to escape Win 8 hell hole and then... Something happened.
i would've been fine with 8.1, you could tweak out all the annoying stuff and then it just looked like 7 but worked better, no resource manager crashes or whatever it (explorer.exe) was called. and it didn't fight me like 10 did
Windows: “All your files are right where you left them”
Me: “Oh FUCK, what the fuck did you do to my files”
The only free Windows update is to install Linux.
You mean the windows-free update
I see what you did there and I approve.
Nice 👍🏼!
That's a Windows [upgrade]
Also switched to Linux (popos) this month. It's been fine. Games work. Browser works. No complaints, really.
I installed it on my old laptop. I'm happy it's breathing new life into it, but the Pop_Shop is SO SLOW.
Yeah I noticed that, too. Not sure why. Using apt on the command line is probably an alternative, at least.
It really is. If you don't mind potential instability, upgrade to the latest alpha build. I haven't had a single crash in months, and cosmic desktop is already way better than Gnome, and Cosmic Store (pop shop replacement) is very fast.
That's good to hear! Cosmic looks really great, but I'm gonna have to wait since the laptop is meant to be a personal machine for my partner to use.
I've been running unactivated win 10 for years. The ad in Windows update saying 11 is free has been there for months. I tried installing it and... It's a lie.
The best message I see on my gaming PC is "Your system does not meet the requirements for Windows 11" 🤗
mine says "made by KDE" 🤗
I installed Bazzite last June. That the local account is just a fact of life made the installation process easier than Windows. KDE (the interface) feels snappier than Windows. Also, the auto-hide Start menu doesn't get stuck anymore. The Win 11 Start menu won't hide when you want them to, and hides when you didn't want it to every single time you accidentally move the mouse cursor to the bottom. I hate that I had to reach for the keyboard every time, while watching videos and such. That drove me nuts. When your wi-fi or bluetooth is not working, Win10 and 11 love to pretend they don't exist, so you can't fix them unless you reboot. So many things they can fix, but most of their project teams are probably focused on adding new bullshit or integrating Office/Teams/Copilot into everything, because the OS is no longer the product.
The windows 11 installer is hot garbage if you're not a mono windows set-up.
Windows 10 deleted my PopOS bootloader, again
Do you dual boot off the same drive or have separate drives and this issue occurred anyway?
First time, I had same drive. Then I read that it is better to have different drives, so second time I installed Windows on a different drive. It still managed to mess up Linux.
AFAIK, you need to use seperate drives and install the OSes in such a way that each drive has its own EFI partition. (Installing with the other drive disconnected is the easy way.) Then only use your UEFI boot selection menu to choose which drive to boot from.
Thanks! I'll disconnect my Linux drive when its time to accept Microsoft's shitty upgrade.
I don't know what caused it exactly
XP was when they jumped the shark, moved away and to Linux then. It is waaaay too late to give a shit what Microsoft does.
I want to switch to Linux but 3 things hold me back atm ,
My sound card having only very basic support under Linux.
Lossless scaling being more a limited hobby project under Linux.
And gamepass not working
And maybe a few games which won't work due to ac.
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