Just switch to Linux guys, stop being abused.
For the people not using Linux in the comment section, you can’t skip a Windows update. It’s going to happen no matter what.
I mean I guess you can adjust the registry or whatever but 90% of Windows users aren’t going to do any of that.
I could have done it and I didn’t. I updated and now my cursor is all fucked up.
It’s an optional update. It doesn’t automatically install without activating the option to do so.
just like my Roku
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today’sWindows 11update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and morethere, I fixed it.
This is what share holder value looks like.
Install Linux*, Problem Solved.
*Make it Mint.
Quit Windows today *
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today’sWindows11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and moreJoke’s on them, I’ve been using Linux for nearly 27 years now.
ditto
More vibe coded bullshit. Of course.
Skip today’s Windows 11 update
Way ahead of ya, champ.
I’ve been skipping windows updates for years.
This guy/gal skips Windows
I’m so glad my win 10 rig stopped working and my son fixed it with a Linux os. Hopefully I’ll never have to update windows again, only wine 🍷. Never going back if i can help it! Never even got to experience the pleasure of win 11 lol
Ha! When has a windows 11 update actuality been a net benefit?
Several Windows 11 updates are great, actually. They corrupted the OS and made it unable to boot, which given it’s Windows, not booting makes the experience better.
Oh good point, I clearly was not looking at the silver linings
never install optional preview updates for windows.
that’s what this one is. if you install what is essentially a beta update, expect the worst. that your computer will not boot back up. that your data went ‘poof’. that kind of ‘worst’. a lost wallpaper and goofed up cursor is nothing compared to what could happen.
Thanks. Will not switch from Gentoo to Windows today.
Man, I feel like I went 15 years without anybody talking to me about using Gentoo but now THEY’RE BACK! Glad to see you.
I use Debian BTW. ; )
But you’re right, when did it shift from gentoo to arch?
Eyyyy gentoo gang 👋
Other than “at gunpoint,” why are you still using Windows?
Pirated games and modded games
You can pirate and mod games on Linux no worries. I pirated WWE 2k25, and I’ve modded both Minecraft and Kerbal space program.
I bought my pc before nvidia was trash and so that’s the card I’m stuck with. Do any Linux work well with nvidia cards yet?
I never had an issue with a GTX 1660 Ti on Arch. It’s been 5 years.
Older cards (in my case, the 970 M iirc) are slightly more annoying because Nvidia doesn’t support them anymore. So you can’t just install the generic, up to date, Nvidia driver package. You have to use Nvidia’s website to find the latest driver that supported them, and then install that one through your distro’s package manager.
Afaik, Nvidia supports all cards from the 16xx series upwards in their driver, as of right now.
Just that first thing
Since joining the fediverse, I’m convinced the biggest deterrence for more people joining Linux are its users.
True, People can be obnoxious. But you should still try it at some point, there is something to the hype.
I have tried it, and I had more issues with my previous laptop on Mint than I have currently on Windows. Still I’ll look at it again once I need a new one.
Edit: So I guess in my case the users didn’t deter me, since I wasn’t really interacting with the community at any point. I think it’s probably more of a threadiverse user thing than a Linux user thing. And yeah I can be obnoxious myself, I just don’t expect it to yield results.
I mean you don’t have to wear thigh high socks to use Linux. But they sure do look mighty cozy.
I tried installing Linux but something went wrong and it didn’t work.
I know better than to ask for basic computer help in a Linux community.
don’t give up :)
at first i tried to get Bazzite (didn’t even install), then Mint (apparently it doesn’t work well on dual monitors), and what finally worked was CachyOS, and i’ve been cruising on it for a few months now
The Linux community seems to me more open than ever before. Possibly due to the influx of new users who’s job is not to administer Linux systems.
I wouldn’t be too afraid to ask questions. Linux systems are nowadays quite simple to setup and you shouldn’t have much problems with getting a simple question replied to.
All it takes is one asshole during the trial phase to turn someone off from the community entirely. Especially a non-technical person trying to come from something like Windows. And there are a lot of vocal ones across the various Linux communities. Especially in the discussions on GitHub, which is where you end up for support on nearly every piece of software not from a massive corporation, unless it’s a simple solution or a very common issue.
The number of times I have posted looking for assistance with an issue, or a small suggestion, and gotten some variant of “fix it (or add it) yourself, it’s FOSS” over the last couple years is a bit ridiculous.
Most of the community is great and super helpful. But the assholes are prevalent and very vocal.
I have a 60TB disk pool with DrivePool software and have no place to put my data and create a Linux based pool. I have to wait until I can afford a new 20TB disk as a temp storage.
Unless there is an easy way to convert a DrivePool to mergerfs etc.
How much data do you have, and are the drives identical? Usually I do in-place conversions by taking some drives offline, creating a degraded raid on them, migrating the data, then wiping the remaining drives and bringing them online in the new raid.
Works for zfs pools too, but you can’t create a pool with missing drives, you have to create a temporary block device then mark it offline, then replace it with the real drive once it’s free.
Heh wow its been awhile since I checked my storage. Lol I forgot I added a bunch last year. Its actually at 116TB now with 13 free.
Wow! I thought my NAS was loaded, but good lord. What are you storing?
Linux ISOs 🏴☠️
I run my family’s Streaming Service.
Me too, but my library must not be nearly as impressive.
Some of the more high quality 4k releases (even 1080p ones) just gobbles up storage. I had to settle for the more optimized releases since I just have a 8tb external drive. Wanted to build a nas but man they are expensive, both a good nas and even the basic hard disks. Can’t wait for the bubble to pop.
Those are rookie numbers.
Yeah good luck migrating that. Maybe if you’ve still got the torrents in your client, you could just delete and redownload some.
Unless there is an easy way to convert a DrivePool to mergerfs etc.
If I understood right, it’s just software joining together multiple NTFS drives. When you open in another os it’s just a normal NTFS drive
You could take two drives and create a raid1 (right? Or yolo without redundancy?) btrfs array. Move stuff from one drive, when it’s empty, format it as btrfs and add it to the array. Repeat for every drive.
But…
With this much data I wouldn’t risk if you don’t have experience with btrfs via cli
Ancient Nvidia GPU (GT1030), I tried but I can’t really be bothered to spend another week scouring forums to find kernel options and drivers to hope that the specific combination will stop making the taskbar blink or something
I use it for work (AD admin, kind of have to unless I want to change careers while I’m halfway to retirement), and at home I use it for a machine that’s dedicated to running simulator games (I can get the peripherals to work in Linux for the most part, but a lot of the setup for them is Windows only and since it’s only used for that, I’m currently just sucking it up there… Though I’ll need to keep something around even if I switch that system since some of them can only be programmed via Windows, like my VKB flight sticks)
Heavily modded Skyrim
I’ve always used it as my primary driver, so I know very well how to get the most out of it and customize it to my standards. Some of the software I use has no acceptable replacement on other OS. I don’t experience even a fraction of the problems that are reported online.
And you are entirely unbothered by the invasion of privacy?
It’s a bother but it can be limited somewhat via toggles and DNS blocking.
Not all of us just use our computers as a hobby, I don’t have the time to figure out Linux and make things run in wine or proton, and fixing things that break from updating that software is annoying.
Not all of us just use our computers as a hobby, I don’t have the time to figure out Linux and make things run in wine or proton, and fixing things that break from updating that software is annoying.
That’s funny, not having time to deal with shit (like stopping Windows from spying, serving ads, and otherwise abusing me) is exactly why I use Linux.
Unlike Windows, Linux ‘just works.’
That takes a few minutes, it’s not like Linux doesn’t have stuff I’ve gotta spend time to fix too.
The majority of the time you just click play in steam, heroic, or whatever. It’s no worse than windows.
I don’t do any tinkering on my desktop.
Majority yeah but the stuff that doesn’t work can be a serious time sink to fix.
This is true on Windows too
It can be, but I never really run into any issues. Part of it is I’m more familiar with windows than linux I’m sure.
My linux desktop experience hasn’t been as good, I run it on my laptop since that’s more just a web browsing device than anything and it’s not critical if it breaks. The last 2 times I’ve updated Fedora it has broken the bootloader and that took me quite awhile to fix, I can’t figure out why it keeps happening as it’s a really standard install and doesn’t make any sense.
I also still can’t get HW acceleration working in any browsers, flatpak or directly installed, which has been extremely frustrating since I’ve never had to do anything on windows for it to work. There are no clear guides with one fix either, and it’s not something I should have to be fixing myself, it should work out of the box.
Yup
Yeah, for me windows just works although with a few annoying nags but not enough to make the effort to switch feel worth it. I was going to buy some new drives to make the switch easy but then prices skyrocketed and I don’t want to pay those prices.
Pretty much use it only for the web and games through steam, which is probably the reason for not running into issues.
I’m hesitant to leave 10 because there are a few games I play that don’t support Linux, and I like em too much to quit if 10 still works. However, once support officially ends forreal, I will say goodbye to those games o7 11 will never touch my outers.
At work tho they had to upgrade to 11 in the office, and since it’s retail the office isn’t really that important but 11 is so poorly designed the computers barely run anymore
Have you tried using Proton to run them? It’s super easy to set up through Steam if you have the exes.
Which games, out of curiosity?
Legacy windows projects development. I switched to Linux and run windows as virtual guest with minimal usage though.
I have a surface pro x I bought during the pandemic that I plan on use until it’s physically broken (software-wise, you may as well say it already is busted) just to watch YouTube and browse the web on the sofa.
Otherwise, I haven’t had to use Windows on my desktop in a year or so ever since switching to Linux. Hooray.
Need Adobe software for work. Want to play online games that have anti-cheat. Also like to run mods in my games.
I have a shitty old laptop for travelling that I’ll try to install Linux on this weekend, since I only need Firefox on that.
is the software enforced by your work or is it what you feel the most comfortable using? because honestly i’m not missing photoshop as much as i thought i would, krita has most of my uses covered, and for photography i use darktable
For gaming, until the instant I can run SteamOS on my rig
SteamOS isn’t magic, you know. Other distros already work just fine right now.
None of the big ones have matched Win11 performance on my machine, or even come close enough to justify switching. I’m hoping that SteamOS’ planned Nvidia support, which reportedly is being developed with some degree of collaboration with Nvidia, will move that needle.
If you are noticing a big discrepancy between proton and windows across many games then there’s something wrong with your setup. On average proton seems to out perform windows if all of those news articles are to be believed, at least it should be on par anyway. If you are actually serious about switching then try debugging or just try a different distro like cachy.
Just like any other compute workload, performance is going to vary significantly by game and by hardware setup. Generally AMD hardware does see good improvements in Proton, while Intel + Nvidia is more of a mixed bag, and there’s plenty of reporting out there on slowdowns when switching over. I’ve invested real time in this—tried Cachy, Bazzite, Nobara, mucked around with drivers, proton distributions, launch options, all that. As much as I’d love to report Linux has blown me away here, that’s just not the case. The ecosystem keeps improving and I’ll keep trying because I fucking despise Windows, but at the end of the day I’m rolling with what works.
It just never gets old. Can you say it again?
