• Steven McTowelie@lemm.eeEnglish
    111·
    6 days ago

    Already did and it’s glorious! Steam works beautifully and the only final thing that I’m missing is Adobe products.

    I recommend, if you want to try Linux, that you try out the ‘Debian’ distribution, and use the ‘KDE Plasma’ desktop environment. It makes for a very Windows-like experience and really assisted me with the transition between OSs.

  • Manticore@lemmy.nzEnglish
    18·
    5 days ago

    Nope, will probably avoid 11 as long as I can though. I have an Mvidia card (drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux). And I need professional design software for work (as in, industry standard: Adobe or Affinity).

    But I put 11 on my laptop to try it and I hate it. So many terrible UI changes, UX noticeably worse. Like they changed stuff just to say they changed stuff.

    I considered going Linux for personal use and development, and then using another machine or dual boot for Mac for design software. But i learned about the Nvidia issues after I upgraded my card :/ and swapping to Mac’s walled garden after avoiding it for decades is… a sign of how bad W11 feels to use.

  • WasteWizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    5 days ago

    Already prepared everything for the jump. Switched MS Office for LibreOffice, and Outlook for Betterbird. Tested install, configuration and access to backups in a VM. Next vacation I take I’ll go for it. Mint is my choice of Distro, because of Steam/Gaming reasons. With the US being antagonistic, if not outright hostile, right now, and Microsoft having their disgusting Copilot AI Analysis Fingers in everything, it’s the rational choice I think.

  • Surp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    5 days ago

    Unfortunately not. Even as an IT person I can say I just wanna come home and boot up my games without hassle. Sure alot of things have been done with proton etc but still a massive amount of games don’t work without Soo much dang tweaking. I don’t have time for that especially with a job/being a single parent. I am highly interested in steamos though.

  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.comEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    I have 11, so not directly affected. But with “no more security updates” being the only real reason one needs to change, the obvious question here is if there is 3rd party software that can protect a Windows 10 system?

    I remember when anti-virus software was in common use.

  • SolidShake@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    yeah i need star citizen, ableton, fl studio, premier, photoshop and more before i can dedicate a jump to linux

  • Not a replicant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 days 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.

  • elFlexor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 days ago

    So 43% of Steam users are the kind of stickler that refuse to update their Windows to an objectively better version because it’s something new and different and breaks their habits. What would make you think these people would possibly just switch to a different OS altogether if a simple update was too much to ask for the past years?

  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    5 days ago

    How do I even get started? Do I just install Mint and figure it out from there? Linux seems so complicated but it’s been a decade since I last tried. Nowadays, I feel old and this seems like it needs too much research

  • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    5 days ago

    Already upgraded to Linux Mint - https://lemmy.world/post/24365609

    It’s been going great! Everything works as I expected. I now have full confidence that I will never switch back to Windows. It really does feel liberating having an OS that doesn’t track me.