• ramble81@lemm.ee
    891·
    7 months ago

    Seriously? Got a link for that? (Not in a “I don’t believe you” way, but more of an “I’m curious to learn more” way)

  • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org
    9·
    7 months ago

    Question for those who know more than me: how much is different 11 from 10, obviously excluding the desktop theme? I imagine very little but I’m curious.

    • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
      4·
      7 months ago

      It’s like a modern version of the worst parts of Vista.

      The UI is a clunky mess. I had to spend a week to make it about usable. Every menu is now a submenu of a new new menu, so you often have to click 3-4 times for stuff you’d have in a top-level right click menu not so long ago. Now they’ve been doing that for a while now, so some settings are getting quite deep at this point. The whole thing feels unresponsive and sluggish.

    • SparroHawc@lemm.ee
      4·
      7 months ago

      The main difference is that it requires TPM 2.0, which allows applications to run in a fully encrypted mode and prevent user tampering.

    • Redex@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 months ago

      I mean, for most users there’s not much meaningful difference between OS’s other than the UI, especially when comparing iterations of the same OS

  • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works
    161·
    7 months ago

    there is massive financial incentives for these companies to write shit code because it makes people have to get newer computers

  • Fleur_@aussie.zone
    5·
    7 months ago

    Switched to windows 10 a month or so ago just for ease of use with video games and mods. Man does windows suck ass. Wants to open random web pages, use dumb AI tools and give me useless info on every empty inch of screen space . At the end of the day it works but quality of life is low.

    • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de
      6·
      7 months ago

      The only realistic answer to the win11 situation. I chose bazzite because I like to game. It’s a dream, I never looked back.

    • spicehoarder@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      I’m already rocking Manjaro, put my old windows boot drive in a box in case I need it for whatever reason.

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 months ago

        Mint + a game-box user myself :-)

        Sometimes there is an old soft inly working on windows, but they are getting more and more rare as they no monger work on windows… Fantastic.

    • Ordinary_Person@lemmy.ca
      13·
      7 months ago

      I’ve been seriously considering switching to Mint or Ubuntu since they’re user friendly. The more I hear about win 11 the less and less I want anything to do with it. also, my pc isn’t compatible so there’s that 😂

        • Ordinary_Person@lemmy.ca
          2·
          7 months ago

          That is a great idea. And since my desktop is old as a dinosaur it still has a cd burner. So I’ll take it as a win LOL

      • Thomrade@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        7 months ago

        I gave up on windows 11 last week after my downloads folder decided to stop opening any more. Every other folder worked fine, and I could use a save dialogue to see and navigate inside downloads, but if I opened the folder run file explorer I was met woth a never ending “working on it…” Screen. Hours of trawling useless Microsoft posts to see its a common issue but none of the suggested fixes worked.

        I installed Pop! OS, which is essentially Ubuntu but Ive heard works very well with games. Few small hiccoughs getting used to the UI paradigm shift but its motoring along now with no problems. My 5 year old desktop is running much smoother with less overall resource use too. Feels snappier.

          • Thomrade@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            Let me know what you think of it! I had some minor issues with my secondary hard drive, but they were entirely my fault, I had a lot of backups on it so didn’t initially reformat it from NTFS which I was using for windows to ext4 which is a native Linux format. It would sometimes not mount the drive on boot, but after transferring the backups to an external drive and reformatting the internal drive it was all good.

      • Spaniard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        The easiest distro I have used so far it’s Endeavour-Os (for my desktop). All my homelab uses debian except the mandatory W11 VM and a WS for veeam.

  • rekabis@lemmy.ca
    19·
    7 months ago

    I have heard that Classic Shell is once again functional under Windows 11, but it was critically broken and thoroughly unusable for too long for me, and I have since moved on to StartIsBack, which can do almost everything I found essential with Classic Shell.

  • FackCurs@lemmy.world
    24·
    7 months ago

    Jesus I really need to install linux don’t I?

    Is there a distribution that is better at running conversion layers like Wine? I need to run some windows only software (Solidworks, Affinity Suite…)

    • Contramuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      For windows-only software, you can keep a copy of windows as a dual boot. Not the most ideal solution, but minimizing windows usage by any little bit decreases the chances of you getting annoyed at Windows.

      Alternatively, if it’s a lightweight software, you could run it in a virtual machine and use something like WinApps to blend it into Linux

    • NutWrench@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      7 months ago

      I’ve got Wine 9, running on Linux Mint. I mostly use it for older games and a few Windows programs like IrfanView. All my modern games I bought on Steam, run great under Linux. (Steam has a native Linux client and uses it’s own Windows compatability layer called Proton to run games).

      I use LibreOffice for productivity, Thunderbird for email and GIMP has a native Linux client, too.

    • pezhore@infosec.pub
      6·
      7 months ago

      At the risk of saying, “I use arch btw” - I’ve found CachyOS to be fairly great.

      I’m running it on my Rog Zephyrus M16 purchased in late 2023 (it came with Windows 11). It’s great for pretty much all games that I’ve thrown at it with proton, Heroic games handles Amazon Games, Epic, and GOG stuff.

      You have lots of options (probably too many to be honest) for getting windows programs to run on Linux - ranging from very hands on with no-frills wine to more hand holding things like Lutris or Bottles.

      My wife (who is only a techie from osmosis) switched to CachyOS on her laptop and seems to be fine with it (her game of choice is Last Epoch and it’s painless to run).