Everyday that passes my satisfaction has grown since jumping over to Linux Mint.
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I nuked my win11 installation a week ago and went with cachyos ^(^^i^^t^^'^^s^ ^a^^r^^c^^h^ ^b^^t^^w^^)^ and I just feel like; even if mslop fixes their shit, I wont go back.
Woah, Arch users scares me, the way you meet someone that is much taller!
How is your time so far with the new OS? Lots of new things and issues?
Sliding in the comments: CachyOS is really easy to use, nothing mystical about it.
Yeah, its handholdy.
Ive used arch on a few servers so it feels homey even if I've never used a wm before. Most issues has been small and solvable.
I'm thrilled for seeing my RAM idle at half the amount it did when I was on Windows. Loving Mint.... or any debian distro for that matter.
In these trying times it helps more than ever to run an OS that sips rather than slurps that precious ddr5.
Mints great. I like POPos myself but its all good.
Guys, what's the best Linux distro to install on my PC?
The community:
Yep im guilty of that.
Honestly as long as theare using some kind of *nix im happy.
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I love when people try to criticize this. They cant imagine having options.
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Everyday that passes my satisfaction has grown since jumping over to Linux Mint.
Yes! Our recent Linux Mint software update drama was some nice new quality of life improvements coming to the next version of KDE Plasma.
Watching Windows 11 unfold from this side has been like sipping a cup of hot tea on the porch, wearing a good jacket, during a rain storm, while holding the storm door open for folks coming in out of the bad weather.
Microsoft did this with Internet Explorer and Windows 98; they make IE the shell for file explorer so as to ensure IE could never be removed.
To the top. History is repeating itself.
Those who do learn history are doomed to bear the consequences of the FUCK wads who don't.
How to disable Copilot
For Pro, Enterprise, or Education users
Press Windows + R, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter. Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot. Double-click "Turn off Windows Copilot," select "Enabled," then click Apply and OK. Restart your computer for the changes to take effect.
For Home users
Home users without access to the Group Policy Editor can disable Copilot via the Windows Registry. Press Windows + R, type regedit, and press Enter. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows. Create a new key named WindowsCopilot if it does not exist. Inside this key, create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named TurnOffWindowsCopilot and set its value to 1. Restart your computer to apply the change.
Was expecting to see "install Linux" in one of the spoilers. Nice to see actual help.
and they say linux is complicated.
Protip: Export the registry key into a .reg file, write a script that installs it and put that in autostart. Otherwise every major update will revert your edit.
But if you're at that point, even Slackware will give you fewer headaches.
How to disable Copilot
Delete Windows.
Seriously, you think those switches will keep working?
They will for Enterprise - their only paying clients.
Home is fucked.
Pro is probably soon to be fucked.
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Just put fedora on an old dell laptop and it recognized the dual nvidia and intel cards out of the box 🥳
I’m sorry, is this an AI Generated keyboard..?
Not saying it isn't, but if the reason why you're saying that is because of the z/y key, I know one of the EU layouts swaps it. German I think?
Yes, a German keyboard has swapped the letter Z and Y (and some other differences). Maybe this is a keyboard that shows both so more people can use it.
Dual-booting Win 11 and Bazzite while I figure out the flow for myself and whether I can shove off into the deep end without Win 11.
If you enjoy gaming or steam-related apps, Bazzite comes kitted out with most of what you'll need to be successful out the gate.
Aside from EAC-based games, I've found a lot of my games just run better without the Win 11 bloat in the background.
Exploring Windows alternatives has never been easier in my opinion.
Bazzite is great. I'm even able to do low latency wireless streaming of Beat Saber to my Quest 3 using Alvr, though I do get occasional crashes (AMD 9060xt)
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Of course, make an anti-feature part of an integral part, which coincidentally also happens to handle personal files...
Yes. One could imagine the privacy invasion will be completely "coincidental", and fairly complete, for many users.
Install Linux Problem Solved
Had a yarn to the household today, it’s Linux time.
On the one hand this is getting old, we know MS shit the bed and it’s gonna be MS copilot featuring Windows soon.
On the other,… man is this a spectacular way to run a company into the ground 🤣
Ok, we could put this into the category of W8 with its tile system. They try something new, it backfires, back to square one. (The menu button moves back to the lower left corner). But I dunno, despite there already being rumours an option to fully disable copilot “rolled out to administrators” soon.
I don’t think they’ll just try and sweep this one under the rug as quickly after all this disastrous doubling down.
KDE Dolphin works on Windows for those who really need Windows. Otherwise I recommend simplified Arch-based distros, but Mint is also good.
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I thought the user backlash would be enough to correct MS's course (like with Win 8) but their leadership has this pissbrained belief that people will change their mind or just accept this bullshit as inevitable. This is going to be a fucking disaster for them that they'll never truly recover from.
I'm trying to think of a time when I thought "oh, if only I had an IA assistant in my file manager"...
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Wasn't it bad enough, already? Did they already exhaust all other ways to make it worse?
soon there be some news about copilot deleting user files
I hope my company will switch to something different. Microsoft ist getting worse and worse
I think I am really going enjoy this new feature in Windows. Enjoy laughing at Microsoft’s absurdity while using the latest new and actually useful features in Mint 22.3, that is.
I wonder if I'll soon be able to just lean back and bark orders at my PC.
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