Those of you who still use windows for one reason or more, where do you draw the line about the shitty things microsoft is doing? By drawing the line I mean using some other operating system no matter how bothersome it might be.
Not judging or anything, i’m just curious where the general mindset is about it.
When they killed support in October. I’m still using it at the moment. I need to look for a long term use Linux distro, get a flash drive to put it on, and get a new SSD. With the current prices of PC parts, it looks like that’s not happening sometime soon.
The line is between my home and the office. Linux at home for nearly twenty years and windows at work because so few know better.
Yep. IT gives everyone Windows, and I don’t have an important reason they would grant me an exception. So Linux stays at home
IT would give you whatever you wanted. Management insists on windows because reasons. All of my domain controllers and most of my VM’s run on KVM/QEMU. All of our digital signs run raspberry pi’s. Simple truth is that most shops run windows due to long standing tradition. One they will not question.
Eh, I’m sure it’s some combination of legal’s opinion on risk, purchasing’s contract with Microsoft, and IT’s desire to stop end users from breaking things. At the end of the day, it doesn’t bother me too much
I am IT where I work. It has nothing to do with legal where I work. It just ingrained habit and opinion. I have several linux machines running there now and no one has noticed expect one lady who commented ‘it never messes up anymore’ in reference to a kiosk they use to look up items. Over the last five years I have improved things there until the only problems I have are windows problems. Killing the microsoft store was a big move forward. Now no local admin actually keeps people from installing programs on their own.
I only use Windows at work because that is what they have me on my work laptop and I haven’t replaced it. I just use Linux in a VM instead. That way I don’t need to explain a thing to internal IT, but just work within the VM.
My work is maintaining a distributed windows network. Domain controllers VM’s and over a hundred workstations in several locations.
Windows 11 was my line. I wasn’t going to use an os to advertise at me, I spend too much time blocking ads already. Linux Mint has been a clear upgrade, it was more than time to switch.
I was building myself a new computer from scratch and I had a friend whose laptop I would borrow on occasion that had win 11 on it.
Knowing how bad win11 was and knowing I’d have to pay yet another $100+ to be graced with the garbage on my system, I decided to partition an old laptop and play around on mint for a minute. The rest, they say, is history.
I used Windows 10 for a while. But now I’ve completely moved to various flavors of Linux. I’ll get GrapheneOS or something on a phone if possible later.
Only place I still have windows 11 is my work PC. Nearly all the main annoying crap is managed away by IT, and it’s still irritating as hell.
Already drawn. Recently switched to linux on my work laptop. And I work with my supporting M365.
Still looking for an alternative to FL studio. Spent lots of money on it. And I’m really just hoping they will sooner than later support Linux.
Not familiar with it personally, but I know it gets used on Linux. I’ve seen a friend of mine play with it once back when it was still called FruityLoops on Windows a decade ago, but I’ve never personally had it.
There will be a little bit of a hassle initially, a dash of typing in the console, (which shouldn’t scare you, but some people freak out if their screen has to look like the 80s, even if just for a minute-even if they are 80s/90s kids) but it seems like it works fine once you get it set up.
I don’t know anyone using it personally but going by mentions of it and several pages showing directions to get it running (via Wine) seems to indicate it works.
Anyone familiar with it can add more info, I’m just going by the fact that directions to install it exist.
Wine will help run a bunch of things that are Windows-only. It’s not perfect and doesn’t work with everything, but FL studio seems to be one it does (based on what I see- again I’d wait to see if someone who uses it chimes in).
I’ve looked into the wine setup, and while I do see some people having success with it, even the successful ones say it’s quite unstable and very laggy on audio processing.
Fruity loops was a long ass time ago It makes perfect sense that worked.
I’m on FL studio 2025, prob soon to be 2026 if there is an update.
As soon as I find an alternative to dual booting just for FL, windows is bye bye
I don’t know if it “worked” back then either. At the time my friend hadn’t switched to Linux either.
Win7 was still current back then. I don’t know about him, but I started to look for a way out when I first installed 10. And by the time 11 was just being hinted at, everything I heard just redoubled my resolve to switch. Honestly having candy crush on the start menu was the straw that broke my willingness to look past the “convenience” of a commercial OS.
I may end up running windows in a VM so I can back up my NAS to BackBlaze for cheap.
I dumped windows on my desktop about 18 months ago because there was no way I was going to use windows 11. My stepson has been using ChimeraOS for about 2 years without issue. And my server was switched to FreeNAS (now TrueNAS) in 2015.
I dualboot. I run windows whenever I want to use a certain software that is not supported on linux. Other than that, my daily routine and 99% of the games I play/wish to play run on Linux.
Now my main SSD runs Window11 and external one runs Bazzite. Once I finish ripping DVDs/Blurays I got from a friend, I will try to switch OS’es places.
I’ve drawn the line when my files were eaten by their cloud, and also because fuck monopolies and yadwleeyaddeeyada.
Drawn the line but haven’t stepped over: I have one laptop and can’t really afford a new one. What if I brick it installing Linux? I really really really really want to, haven’t dared yet.
make a bootable linux image on a USB. boot off it to gain confidence
and/or get another drive and install onto that. swap back if you hate it
you cant brick computer just by installing operating system. That happens if bios breaks but mostly there is no reason to mess with that.
The main thing I think is a valid fear is losing things necessary to reinstall Windows in case of emergency.
With 11, they tie it to MS account which makes a reinstall easier. Some devices, I think it’s tied to the hardware though? That’s actually something I’d like to learn more about so people doing Linux tryouts have a safety net.
Sooo… you say I should. What if I’m not entirely tech illiterate but enough and too confident that I fuck up the BIOS inadvertently?
I’m gonna do it… I’m gonna install Mint tomorrow.
Thank you for giving me the push
You always have the option to run Linux from a flash drive and see if you like it, disregarding slowness.
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[] linuxand see what other people have experienced. IME it’s almost always painless unless you just happen to have a proprietary wifi chip or something that devs are still reverse engineering.Now, you can just buy premade. Ubuntu and Pop!, mostly. With that, the hardware will be compatible out of the box. Mainstreaming capacity is here.
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That’s very very unlikely to happen.
What might happen is you can’t run some version of Linux because of some bios setting and you’re left with no working OS on the machine (Even when it does boot fine from the USB, the installed one may not boot because of secureboot, legacy boot mode, or something else).
So when you finally do decide to take the leap, keep a windows ISO burnt into a USB around.
A few years ago, and Mint is great. I’ll never look back.
I draw one big circle shape line around it to keep it contained.
In the past it has been a necessary evil for some games, but with the increased Linux support my plan is to switch as soon as I have backed up the files I need.
Windows 10 stops working for my purposes (gaming, browsing internet, office docs, some other windows exclusive programs).
Work laptop that is assigned to me and controlled by the corporation. Anything personal is Linux.
