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[–] celeste@kbin.earth 5 points 2 months ago (10 children)

I can't afford a new computer right now and tariffs meaning higher prices means I can't anticipate affording one in the near future. My plan is to see where everything's at when they stop doing updates. Unfortunately.

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[–] InfiniteHench@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I might get downvoted or whatever but Windows 11 is fine. I get it if your PC straight up can’t run it, that’s a tough spot. But as an OS it’s fine, even has a few handy features (besides all the AI crap shoehorned in). I actually like the File Explorer changes and the window snap stuff can work in the right setting.

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No it isnt, the bloat is actually insane.

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[–] Random123@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

I think for many people its about how invasive it is to your privacy. Especially with the upcoming changes where you be forced to sign in with their microsoft account.

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[–] MECHAGODZILLA2@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I’ll be switching fully to Linux this summer, but will also “upgrade” windows 10 to 11 on the last week of support. I’ll only use it then if I have to, on a separate drive.

[–] CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

When that time comes I'll probably either remove networking from, or just wipe win10 entirely.

Been using mint as my daily for a while now and I hate booting into windows 😂

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

linux primary with dual boot for a windows install just because of the games that won't work.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

I dual boot but I'm on Windows 11 for my windows partition because the fucking thing just upgraded itself one day.

[–] Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Come to Linux, it's all I've used since Windows 7 and it works great.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

Build new computer. Old computer to be a home server running Linux or something fancy.

[–] bzah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

I will dualboot to keep a windows 10 for software that only runs on it, but I really hope I will be able to be gaming on linux only.

linux, either endeavor or nobara

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago

Linux. I've been putting if off because of hardware reasons that would be annoying to explain beyond the solution is upgrading the motherboard, which is bottlenecking me anyways.

[–] Someone8765210932@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I technically have a Win10+Linux dual boot setup right now, but I haven't used the Linux install in forever, and I think it's broken. So I'll probably fix this and then use Linux when possible and continue using the unsupported win10 for everything that needs windows.

I remember people mentioning the win10 LTCS version with 10 years support, but I'm not going to buy anything from them. Maybe I'll use it unactived if needed.

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[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Swapped to Linux last week. Currently dual booting. Over the coming months, I'm going to slowly transfer all my stuff over as well

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Plan on, if possible, cloning my account to a new account on a new internal drive (preferably a 2TB+ drive) to save all my stuff that I want and don't feel like moving over due to laziness. Then on another partition, I plan on having the rest of the space being used for Linux. All I gotta do is make sure the win10 partition doesn't receive an ounce of Internet connectivity at all and pray I don't end up with a virus or something similar somehow (because even the safest internet practices aren't safe enough anymore).

Hopefully I can turn that partition into a cold partition where I can keep the current games I have that aren't downloaded through Steam installed to ensure I can still play them. Then I can slowly debloat it by uninstalling everything I don't need on there and get rid of a ton of files/unnecessary programs so that way I can still have roughly 500-600GB for win10 just in case I ever need it for anything, like a program I genuinely cannot figure out how to get working on Linux.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] viking@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago

I can't switch to Linux due to software requirements for work. On my personal computer I'm using Xubuntu for well over a decade, I didn't like the unity window manager of Ubuntu. I heard they changed to something else by now, but I can't be bothered to switch.

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