Still on Mint. Haven’t needed to load my windows drive up in weeks. My non-tech enthusiast partner is coming around to trying Linux after seeing what a shitshow 11 is on her work computer. It would be great to get her to switch over before my 140 dollar bill for Office 365 needs to be renewed.
I’ve also got some other family members who are interested in trying it out, which is really saying something for a group of people who got started with Win 95, and are very proficient and comfortable in Microsoft’s ecosystem.
I switched to Linux six years ago because I was bored and wanted to try it as a main OS for the first time. “I can always go back”, I told myself when I still wasn’t sure of things.
I never did, and never will. Now, I just watch Windows become worse and worse from the back while laughing in my Debian/Arch-based playgrounds.
It’s always been this way…
A long long time ago, when I got my first PC, one single MB of ram was $100, so having 4mb was pretty boss! But then win95 dropped and demanded 8mb of ram to run anywhere near half decent, this happens with every Gen of new windows platforms
But Windows 95 didn’t refuse to install itself on hardware that otherwise was capable of running it. Windows 11 will not install (without jumping through hacky hoops that could break at any time without warning) on a computer that doesn’t have TPM 2.0 even though it can run just fine on computers without it.
You’re right, you could install on a 386, but it ran like shit on anything less than a pentium.
Joke’s on them, life with an old laptop, a new battery,and Debian is amazing
Microsoft pissed me off so much last week I finally listened to the fedi hive mind and installed mint. Feels good man.
I don’t regret my decision to switch to Linux.
I put kubuntu on an old laptop. It runs well enough that I am going to dual boot it on my main PC.
Microsoft out here doing Linux marketing for them.
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the video games I’m playing in Mint.
that mint iso is just sitting there. mocking me.
You can do it!!!
Arch is Amazing. Bazzite is Beautiful. CentOS is Civilized. Debian is Dope. Endeavour is Enchanting. Fedora is Fantastic.
I use Fedora so I’m stopping at F.
This sentence is the problem that most people who are basic windows end users experience. They have no fucking clue why so many versions exist (or flavors what have you) and have no idea what to install. Windows gives them the comfort of an all encompassing OS even if it’s shitty it’s easy. My 67 year old mom probably can’t just use Linux.
Lots of Windows users don’t even know they use Windows, so I don’t think this really matters, as long as the computer comes preinstalled with a user-friendly distro or their tech savvy grandson sets it up for them.
OpenSuSE still the wallflower
Use TempleOS! It is divine
Nixos is greeeeeaaaaat… Well I kinda hate it, but also love it.
Gaming on nixos is thanks to valve a no brainer.
But anything else might be more difficult on nixos. But also more configureable and immutable
Ubuntu is uhh…
It Used to be great. Now, uBuntu is a bit Bloated…
Gentoo is great. Hannah Montana Linux is happening.
… nothing comes to mind for I, passing that along to the next person.
IPFire is inflammable, …
I’d never heard of IPFire before searching btw, and it’s not a general purpose distribution. I cannot find any active distro for J, but I found this JustEnoughLinuxOS
JeOS is just part of Ubuntu Server now
Kubuntu is Kinda a thing?
Linux is Linux
Manjaro is Megafun
NixOS … is Now?
OpenSuse is Open
I got nothing for ‘p’
Linux is Linux
Lubuntu is lightweight
We don’t speak of Manjaro. Not even for memes. Mint can be mega for alliteration
Manjaro is Missing another certificate
Puppy Linux is Perfect.
And Ubuntu is … also there.
PopOS! is praiseworthy
Mint is minty
Ubuntu is Snappy
/s
Or Unsafe because it has the firewall disabled by default.
ZorinOS is Zen.
I miss how i used to think Capitalism was healthy and competition from rival businesses fostered innovation - until they all teamed up against us :(
until they all teamed up against us
That’s what the “deregulation” “conservatives” have been screeching about for the past few decades is all about.
That’s basically the end game of capitalism: Plutocracy.
I thought Fascism was the end game of Capitalism.
How do you think the Plutocracy is maintained.
I suppose they go hand-in-hand
I’ve been in Debian for the last year and a half, must admit that I really love it, my old yoga pad from 2013 runs smoothly, and air bought it from second hand. I do even play things like Morrowind.
It did never run w10 as smooth as it does with Debian.
Yup. Bazzite for the win!
Now is the right time to start a small business migrating Windows 10 EOL machines to Linux for people who can’t afford new machines and offering service plans to help them if they’re stuck.
That’s basically how Red Hat does it for corporations, they don’t sell Linux, but they sell service and support for it.
Will it be exceptionally profitable? Not at all.
Will it be a pro-social and helpful thing to do for your community while making maybe enough money to scrape by? Yes.
This is how you build community.
EDIT: If you’re independently wealthy or have the support structures, you can also just do it all for free which is even more pro-social, but most of us need at least a meager income in exchange for our time and labor to stay alive, sadly.
