: Want to pass on that old PC? Perhaps wait until out-of-band patch arrives
  • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Glad I ditched Windows entirely on my personal devices and went to Linux. No ragrets. Games still work wonderfully.

    Any absolutely required usage of Windows on a personal device is provided by a VM running a stripped-down version of W10 LTSC, activated by massgrave scripts.

  • BurntWits@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I’m so glad I switched to Linux when I did (a couple months ago). I was dual booting for a bit but two weeks ago I removed my windows partition. Feels good to be free.

    • nightlily@leminal.spaceEnglish
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      6 days ago

      The only time I’ve booted into Windows in the last month is for the Battlefield beta and my work’s annoying proprietary VPN. Other than that I’d say Linux is finally ready for the desktop. Proton was the straw that broke Microsoft’s back for me.

    • voodooattack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      What distro, and how do you like it compared to windows so far? (And I’m assuming you’re not using Arch since you didn’t say anything)

      • BurntWits@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        6 days ago

        I distro hopped a bit but landed on CachyOS, which is arch-based (btw) but a lot more straightforward to install and has a faster kernel supposedly. It’s been fantastic, I much prefer it to windows. Still getting used to the occasional hiccup but it’s worth it. I was never too attached to windows anyway. I’m currently running KDE Plasma but I want to try out Hyprland or something similar. It seems really cool. I have to look into how to download it though.

        • voodooattack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 days ago

          Nice! CachyOS and Nix are on my bucket list but I’m content with fedora atm. Used to run the CachyOS kernel on fedora before though. I think it’s an interesting choice to enable LTO for the entire kernel, and the performance was top notch! Too bad it broke my kernel headers package which broke the nvidia drivers so I had to cut my losses and purge everything back then.

          • BurntWits@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            6 days ago

            Everyone I’ve read that’s used Fedora has liked it. I’d consider it on a secondary machine or something maybe.

            Cachy has been awesome, I’d recommend it if you decide to change distros in the future. I’m enjoying Arch as a base more than Ubuntu for sure. I haven’t tried anything based on Fedora though other than Bazzite which is immutable, so I’m not sure if that really counts.

            Nix seems cool but its big selling point that I’ve read is easy reproduction which I don’t think I’d utilize much. I might be missing something, but Arch seems more for me personally.

            • i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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              5 days ago

              Nix isn’t just for reproduction. It has immutability so if you break your system configuration you can revert to a previous profile, and the way installations are managed allows you to install software that uses incompatible versions of the same dependencies at the same time.

      • BurntWits@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        6 days ago

        I’d love to build my own pc, maybe in a few years. I’m currently using a gaming laptop which is good enough for most games, but when I feel the need to upgrade I’m gonna build.

  • Hadriscus@jlai.luEnglish
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    7 days ago

    oh, I installed Debian Trixie yesterday ! having a little trouble with my Wacom tablet, which wasn’t a problem in Fedora a few years ago… But apart from that it’s 👌🏼

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I think, on a abstract level, the dynamic between a companies relationship to code is comparable to genetics in biology. In that sense, Vibe Coding is the last generation in a chain of inbreeding and Microsoft are the Hapsburgs. There will be a day where they succumb to their lack of quality control.

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Thanks to Microsoft’s legendary approach to quality control, installing Windows patches these days is getting to be less like Russian Roulette and more like accidentally stepping on a rake left in the grass.

    I like the second metaphor:

    The whole neighborhood is going to hear you swearing and shouting 🤬

    • Hadriscus@jlai.luEnglish
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      7 days ago

      “…which upon being stepped on, triggers a rifle aimed at your ass, covers you with sausages and emits a sound in the 20khz range to attract the neighbourhood dogs”

  • Sunkblake@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I got a survey question from windows feedbackhub on my work computer yesterday, asking if i would recommend windows. And i thought fine ill answer this seriously with real reasons why.

    I wrote a long explanation from my own experiences helping people and using it, half way through i shit you not, the feedbackhub froze and crashed.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
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      7 days ago

      You have learned the lesson. The lesson to Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C (select all and copy) your text into a separate document elsewhere before hitting send. In fact you should be doing that periodically anyway because browsers and browser-based apps are more likely than they should be to stop working unexpectedly.

      And if the form disallows this action you’ll have to get creative with the browser tools to modify the page that way instead.

    • Random_Character_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 days ago

      I don’t usually leave feedback. I have done it maybe six times when I’ve been really pissed. In two of those times I’ve gotten “server error” or similar after writing a long rant and pressing “send”

      Seems to be a really important and respected part of any service.

    • Gerblat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 days ago

      It probably detected a certain number of flagged words or phrases and knew it was gonna be really negative feedback and “crashed”

      • Sunkblake@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 days ago

        It wasn’t even that negative.

        Would you recommend windows to family and friends?

        No, 90% of those i help (ages 10-70) with computers and tech dont need a computer, they can use their phone for everything. A phone can pay bills, contact friends and family even print documents or pictures just fine and they have everything they need and want.

        The only reason someone even wants a PC today is to play games or they need it for work and in those cases i usually don’t need to recommend them an os because they probably don’t have any other options, because they are comfortable windows or mac.

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    7 days ago

    “Thanks to Microsoft’s legendary approach to quality control, installing Windows patches these days is getting to be less like Russian Roulette and more like accidentally stepping on a rake left in the grass.”

    Oooof!

      • jbaber@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Does “reset and recovery” mean “wipe the hard disk and put a fresh licensed Windows install on”?

        Not needing a license for a Linux distro means that’s straightforward without a special tool.

    • azimir@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Since 1998, baby! Found my RedHat 3.0.3 install CD recently. It’s been such a long road, but it keeps getting better.

      • addie@feddit.ukEnglish
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        7 days ago

        A CD with RedHat on it? Pretty fancy. My first RH installation came on about three boxes of floppy disks, took hours to unpack it all. And damn right, been all uphill since.

    • Nougat@fedia.io
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      7 days ago

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