This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Instead of waiting a few more years for Linux to reach the level of ease-of-use needed to overtake Windows, MS is being sporty by moving the goal closer.
A few more years? Try Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, like millions of others are!
Or any of the other "easy" distros. To be honest... The "gaming" distros have been just as easy as mint to me. Cachy, bazzite, and to a lesser degree nobara (points knocked off for giving me grief after an update) have all been very easy and stable.
I think people get scared because everyone says you need to use command line in Linux. That's not really true any more than it is in Windows. There are certain things that are easier with command line or other things that might need to be done there, but it's easier and faster to look up what those things are than navigating the purposefully buried settings in Windows and everything basic can be done in gui anyhow. You can get as technical as you want in Linux.
The hardest thing for me about switching was finding comparable programs that I was used to. It takes time to find THE BEST PDF EDITOR or anything else on a new OS.
Go install Linux Mint and you might just realize that line is already way behind microsoft.
Nah. Gonna stick to gaming on my GNU GUIX through Proton thanks.
Linux is clearly not only good enough, but simpler too.
It's just a ton of perception, habits and sales pipelines that need moving now. If electronics stores started putting out Linux Gaming PCs, nobody buying them would be worse off than Windows. That has been true for well over a year.
Linux is fucking easy already. Plenty of Distros out there, with preinstalled KDE Plasma, which is like a almost 1-1 transition from Windows :)
I just want to know why my Windows 10 laptop is waking up by itself in the middle of the night to apply updates it isn't supposed to have? What the fuck?!
Have a look at "wake timers", they might be at fault and need disabling
Thanks. It was set to Allow Important Only when plugged in, I've disabled it. This prevents me from using Wake-On-Lan, though, which is shitty. I fucking hate Windows.
You don't own proprietary software. When you allow it access to your computing resources, you can just hope it does what you want it to do, the way you want it to.
Sounds like a bonkers extremist position, and in a way it is, but it's also true.
Be hard for it to stay on with no power cord/battery…
Same as when my computer refuses to finish writing to a flash drive. When I press that "safely remove hardware" button, it is not a request, it is a warning. If the data is corrupted after I yank the stupid thing, so be it
the key is, from microsoft's perspective, you don't own your computer
microslop patch
I'm sure the patch was something super important like shoving more Microslop Copilot in your face, making Copilot OS even slower, and using Copilot to spy on you better
LOL this response triggers me on MacOS when I tell it to install "unknown" software or turn off Bluetooth.
"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU CANT DO THAT, I AM YOUR OWNER AND IM TELLING YOU TO DO IT SO JUST FUCKING DO IT"
Jesus, my son wanted to add a classmate as a friend on Xbox Live last night. It should have been a two step process from a parent perspective: Authenticate, then authorise (though the lad was delegated the task of the latter technically).
When he tried to add the friend, I had to:
Just so he could get to the point where he could select "add as a friend", what the actual fuck
That’s just MFA on steroids. My government account has less verification lol
Yank the cord
All your computers will not respond to command until an agreement is reached for total US control of Greenland.. and Iceland. Farteched?
Copilot created this patch with pride.
Everyday I am happier I’ve moved to Linux Mint on my personal computer and have macOS at work.
Do people not just hold down the power button anymore?
modern windows tries to trick you into not doing that. if you hold for a little bit it turns the screen off so you think it's turned off when it really hasn't, then if you hold a little longer it turns the screen back on and tells you to please stop holding the power button, then finally a little after that the computer actually turns off. why the hardware even makes that possible is beyond me
Install Linux Problem Solved.
