Some rumored Windows 12 features could frustrate users and be the reason Linux finally starts looking better.
    • rozodru ( rozodru@piefed.world ) English
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      7 months ago

      I don’t even remember 7 now. I know I had it I just don’t remember it. seems like after XP it was all downhill. I remember the shit that was Vista, but 7 and 8 I don’t remember at all. probably because they had such a short lifespan. 10 was absolute shit and 11 made me switch to Linux.

      • wltr ( wltr@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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        7 months ago

        Hey, I switched when Vista was released. I’ve spent a pretty long time with macOS for the need of design software, and it feels sad I’ve abandoned macOS now as Apple has these wonderful ARM processors. But reading other people opinions about Tahoe, it feels like I didn’t make a mistake. I’m pretty happy with Sway WM these days.

        The best time to switch was Windows Vista, the second best time is now. Glad you did it!

        • definitemaybe ( definitemaybe@lemmy.ca ) 
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          7 months ago

          Vista was fine. They just made the shift then to signed drivers, so anyone with old hardware was fucked. Windows 7 was no better, really; it had just been long enough that most people were using hardware with signed drivers by then, or were willing to accept that the “old thing” didn’t work anymore, so the perception was that it just worked.

          Granted, Vista had bad default theming, so 7 looked better (by default). That probably plays a lot into the hate for Vista, too.

          (iirc)

  • stylusmobilus ( stylusmobilus@aussie.zone ) 
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    7 months ago

    It’s too late, it’s pretty much done.

    The system I have is running Win10 Education, which is still updating, has no bloat ware and I’m having no issues with.

    Others in the house have PCs with Win11 and they hate it. This and the outside world has shown me where it’s going and I’ve had a gutful of Americans and their shit so whatever I can break from of theirs I’m doing.

    So next system of mine, which will probs be an old Thinkpad, will be a Linux machine and every one after going forward will be.

    • rozodru ( rozodru@piefed.world ) English
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      7 months ago

      Linux has come a long way in the past few years. I only just started using it like maybe a year and half to 2 years ago and even since then I’ve noticed how much easier it’s become to use for an average user. Distros like Fedora KDE, Bazzite, CachyOS, etc have made the entire thing so much more user friendly. especially Desktop Environments like KDE Plasma which has also improved massively in the past year. Even the recent release of GNOME 50 is quite good and that’s coming from someone who doesn’t even like GNOME.

    • djsaskdja ( djsaskdja@reddthat.com ) English
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      7 months ago

      If you’re still getting updates that has nothing to do with being on the Education edition. Updates ended last October for that same as other editions. You can subscribe to the ESU any number of ways or use the LTSC version but that’s completely different.