• potcandan@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I’m holding out until they force me to upgrade from 10. They’ve tried probably a half dozen times or so already to have me choose to upgrade but it’s been a minute.

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      1 year ago

      Doesn’t have to be Ubuntu, Mint would work too, but yeah, windows keeps going down hill, I switched to Linux early last year and not regretted it once

      Side note: if you want something more windows like, KDE is a good desktop environment, its got a lot of customization settings too

      Though I’m told cinnamon (what Mint uses) is also pretty windows like

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        Seconding Mint on this, It’s so easy to get used to it that it felt almost as familiar as Windows during my first week of using it.

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        I’m sure lots of other OS work but not really worth the energy for me to switch over and learn a new OS just because I’m annoyed by them wanting to update me to a new version. Once I’m all set up and have learned it, it’ll probably be better than Windows but I’m just not willing to spend even a minute on it.

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            Windows is just so ingrained in everything. Like this job I’m starting soon I’ll need it. At the very least it would be like a dual boot situation and like I said, not even willing to spend a minute let alone begin a whole project. Cheers

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              I have dual boot on my work PC. I think the last time I booted into Windows was a year ago.
              I can boot the physical Windows partition in Virtualbox and QEMU. I do that maybe 3 times a month for a few hours.

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        Not necessarily too old, but as long as it can boot in “legacy BIOS” mode, I think I’m safe 🤫

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      Save yourself some valuable braincells & other resources. Seriously consider Ubuntu LTS, this is not a joke.

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        I dunno… I’ve always used Windows, being annoyed by their requests to update me to the newest version isn’t enough to want to learn a new OS or anything.

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      I’m running 10 LTSC on my main desktop pc and get no nagging to upgrade at all. Tbh the only thing stopping me from switching to Linux is lack of driver support for my simracing wheel (still waiting, thrustmaster…)