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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

    Like if people actually cared that a Windows version goes EoL. That literally means nothing to most people and typical PC user won’t even notice anything until something will functionally break, which will take YEARS after it's EoL.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    I’ll go Linux when I don’t need any more windows based software, and there’s been almost 0 progress made in that sector in the last 5 years.

    Between games that don’t run on Linux (Apex, CoD, any other shooter) and professional tools such as Lightroom and photoshop, there’s no way to switch to Linux without needing to boot back to windows multiple times per day.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 43 minutes ago

    I guess it depends on your use case. I haven't owned a Windows PC since 2016. Linux all the way for me. The games I play run on it, the applications I need run on it, and it works well for me without tinkering getting in the way. I can even use it for work these days and I have far less VPN flakiness than both Windows and Mac colleagues.

    For my use case the year of the Linux desktop is here, and has been for a while.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    I love this absolute fantasy Linux folk have come up with

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

    I do some e-wasting for a number of big companies and have piles of old laptops. I've taken to giving the laptops to people that need computers and the ones with Linux don't taken. I literally can't give away Linux computers. They can buy their own windows licenses.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)
    • Plasma is more similar to Windows
    • Plasma is more customizable
    • Plasma is just as beginner-friendly
    • Plasma has more features
    • Plasma is more actively developed
    • Plasma looks better

    Don't get me wrong, Cinnamon is fine, but it gets recommended religiously to beginners for some reason. It just doesn't make sense, so I will keep repeating this, not least to keep alive the ancient linux tradition of Desktop wars.

    Still, any Windows to Linux transition is a step forward and I support this, upvoted.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

    I'd say kde plasma is closest to windows 10 while Linux mints cinnamon covers vista, 7, 8.1 and 11

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

    Remember when Windows XP reached EoL the first time in 2009 and people abandoned it? Yeah, me neither, but I remember Microsoft groaning and extending some support for a few more years, until the final EoL in 2014. I expect the same to happen to 10.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

    Maybe they'll drop the fake requirements from 11 so people can actually upgrade to 11 from 10.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    lol @ all these arch/Ubuntu/mint users. been using debian for years.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    😅LoL, because you feel superior?

    Not very sympathetic…

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

    I like turtles.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

    or a distro using kde plasma.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

    Mine was when they have windows 8 out for free for a limited time. Then I wasn't able to go back to 7 somehow. Was already into linux by then. That just made me commit 100%. Gamer, CAD user, but still haven't looked back.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

    I finally switched when I got truly familiar with the terminal in collage and then I happened to get a hand down pc to play around with. Installed Linux on it, and it surprisingly quickly became my main computer, especially once I got it a proper graphics card.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

    The average user cares less about their OS being EoL, than that they have to learn a whole new OS that works "completely" different to what they are used to.

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    Linux Mint is easy af, that or Ubuntu

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

    The Steam Deck and it's desktop mode is why I decided to try jumping head first into a single boot of Bazzite on my main computer, it's basically like using a Steam deck, just across four monitors, a year in and I haven't looked back.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

    I learned of bazzite today and will be trying an install soonish

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