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[–] VOwOxel@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

I moved from Win 10 to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 2 months ago. Going very well so far, even for music production and gaming. I also got a friend of mine to dual-boot Tumbleweed/Win11, coming from Win11.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

I'll have to use some sort of windows for VR, I need to investigate the various debloat options

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

I've been on 11 since before it was officially released. Honestly never had any issues with it, but I'm interested in hearing what sort of issues anyone else might have had? Are we talking about privacy concerns, bugs or performance issues?

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[–] r_deckard@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I've got a few computers - my daily driver is Win10, there's a media player still on 8.1 (only accesses music streams and it's not spotify, it's URLs like https://das-edge15-live365-dal02.cdnstream.com/a98345), the main pihole machine runs vanilla Debian, the backup pihole on a Raspberry Pi also running Debian, and a couple of older laptops also running Debian.

So no, I don't plan to upgrade.

[–] Zidane@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

The only real reason I'm still on Win 10 is because of Escape from Tarkov and Photoshop. I need to get a new m.2 and just start sorting through my crap I guess but I haven't gotten the motivation yet lol

[–] derin@lemmy.beru.co 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Been a Linux user for ages, I do have Windows 11 installed on another partition but I rarely - if ever - boot into it.

I mention the above spiel because I don't understand what additional points people have against windows 11? It seems very similar to windows 10 for me - what're the reasons for people hating it?

Genuinely not trying to be obtuse, here - I'm just wondering what the primary pain points are of win 11?

Is it the requirement for using a Microsoft account to log in vs. a normal local account? Or the one drive stuff? (upon install it did move most of my personal folders into a weird OneDrive directory, and I had to use the registry to wipe out OneDrive and move them back. Very annoying.)

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I don't plan on doing anything until I have no choice but to buy a new computer.

[–] dbkblk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

20 years for me (even thought I used Windows for a year in there). There's no point in using Windows at all, unless you're forced at work, or stuck because you don't want to learn an alternative tool.

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[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I’m on 12, and will be upgrading to 13 when Trixie hits stable.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've gotten to a point where the quality of a PS2 game is higher to me than most AAA releases. I mostly play retro games, more open multiplayer games that don't block users like TF2(and TF2) and indies... so, no. I don't really need Windows for anything.

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