The amount of tinkering required to get Windows to function as I want is increasing, while the same for Linux is decreasing. Eventually they’ll cross and that’s when I’ll switch.
I switched about a year ago. Not because Linux got better, but because MS got worse.
I’m tired of Cortana. The fact that they try to force Edge onto my PC is absolutely infuriating. And I’m tired of these Windows updates constantly breaking my bug fixes. Never even tried W11 but I hear it’s much worse (unsurprisingly).
I have a little bit of incentive to stay on Windows since all my work is on Windows. The DoD websites I have to access require Edge 90% of the time. One of them actually doesn’t work on anything but Internet Explorer…
I did recently. I backed up my boot drive and then loaded a Ubuntu distro. That was a mistake because of the snap store but other than that, it still didn’t work as well as I’d hoped. I had trouble with Lutris installing the blizz launcher and I gave up after an hour of troubleshooting and reverted back to Win10.
urg blizz launcher, i think heroic launcher could help you with that, but yeah non native software is a pain
and that’s why you test a pedrive and in dual boot first, so you always have windows to revert, itss anothwr OS after all, if you try again test it in dual boot(and fuck snap lol)
I just used their own firewall to block all the Microsoft ads URLs. I even changed my DNS server to the adguard one so I don’t see ads anywhere. That’s for the one laptop I have with Windows on it. My main desktop and other laptop both run Linux.
System > Notifications & actions > uncheck/turn off anything you don’t want. (Meaning disable everything because screw them)
Personalization > Lock screen > turn off fun facts. (Th y are far from fun…nobody cares)
Personalization > Start > turn off ‘show suggestions occaisionally…’
Personalization > Taskbar > turn off news and interests if you’re not interested.
Privacy > General > switch off all 4 things.
Privacy > go through every single category in the left-hand column and turn off anything you don’t want. (Again, disable it all…)
The amount of tinkering required to get Windows to function as I want is increasing, while the same for Linux is decreasing. Eventually they’ll cross and that’s when I’ll switch.
I switched about a year ago. Not because Linux got better, but because MS got worse.
I’m tired of Cortana. The fact that they try to force Edge onto my PC is absolutely infuriating. And I’m tired of these Windows updates constantly breaking my bug fixes. Never even tried W11 but I hear it’s much worse (unsurprisingly).
I have a little bit of incentive to stay on Windows since all my work is on Windows. The DoD websites I have to access require Edge 90% of the time. One of them actually doesn’t work on anything but Internet Explorer…
nice, maybe try in a pendrive someday or another just to see how things are going
I did recently. I backed up my boot drive and then loaded a Ubuntu distro. That was a mistake because of the snap store but other than that, it still didn’t work as well as I’d hoped. I had trouble with Lutris installing the blizz launcher and I gave up after an hour of troubleshooting and reverted back to Win10.
urg blizz launcher, i think heroic launcher could help you with that, but yeah non native software is a pain
and that’s why you test a pedrive and in dual boot first, so you always have windows to revert, itss anothwr OS after all, if you try again test it in dual boot(and fuck snap lol)
I just used their own firewall to block all the Microsoft ads URLs. I even changed my DNS server to the adguard one so I don’t see ads anywhere. That’s for the one laptop I have with Windows on it. My main desktop and other laptop both run Linux.