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My brother got a new laptop and was interested in Linux, so I offered to help him set up a dual boot
He didn’t want to connect a Microsoft account, so we tried to make a local one
After 15 minutes, he said “to hell with Windows” and he’s been a Linux main ever since XD
I got my laptop about 4 years ago and the first year I stuck with the windows it came with. Then I started trying out dual booting for 2 years with more and more just not bothering with booting windows at all. Until a windows update fucked up my bootloader and also literally deleted my linux partition. Immediately nuked any traces of windows off the disk and now it runs in a VM in case I need to use an app that does not like WINE
Huh. What happened to all the Linux-will-not-be-mainstream-as-long-as-you-need-terminal folks
And then you switch to Mint and it is like you lived in a cave for years and finally walked outside and life is beautiful and the sun is shining
Ugly mockering!
All we casually-happy windowers do, is to download magical_local_account_setup_totally_not_a_virus.exe and do pray!
And if black popup of terminal do happen and self closes, we do pray more!
True windows user do not know magic, but very single spell of fckgwrhqq2…
Remember: most Windows users don’t know or care what a Microsoft account is, they’ll just make one as part of the setup process.
It really do be like that sometimes.
I am at the backing up my harddrive stage of purging ny last computer of Windows. Windows 11 at work is too much.
For sake of update: had no real issues. Couple hangups after installation with waking up after sleep mode and an initial glitch with steam: smooth sailing.
Bazzite does its job well. Gets you up and running, linked to Steam and running games. That was 99% of my gaming rig’s purpose anymore.
Only functionality apparently lost to me is the ability to run Stable Diffusion which I could give a shit less about and haven’t really run since 2023 when I wanted to figure out wtf was going on with AI.
THANK YOU OMG
I think this is a bit rich coming from what I assume is a Linux user. Creating a new user may be easy enough but the OOTB is so shit on pretty much every distro I’d much sooner grapple with the Windows stuff. I have a Plasma based install and a Gnome one that are like three years old. I also have a single Windows 10 install that I just threw together to get Fusion 360 working; it had zero effort put into it other than setting the wallpaper to use the Bing daily one yet it still looks slicker than both of Linux setups. The problem with customisation on Linux is that it isn’t optional.
The problem with customization on Windows is that it isn’t an option
The problem with customisation on Linux is that it isn’t optional.
😂
I’m going to have to disagree for example Pop!OS is very, very straightforward I bet my grandma could do it. In those three years there has been a lot of development towards accessibility to provide an alternative to windows and they look NICE. modern windows SHOVES ads down my throat and I’ll never go back. I have to use a windows laptop for school and I dread every second of it.
nothing more fun in school than when me and the rest of the class had to constantly deal with slow windows laptops with battery lives that lasted about an hour or sometimes less, locked down so much that you couldn’t change a single setting except resolution and i wish i was exaggerating
When was your last experience setting up a linux distro, like 10 years ago? Most modern distros are extremely easy to setup and have very nice OOBEs.
Do you mean the OOBE? If so I would take Fedora over Windows every day.
Also the Bing wallpaper is an option on Gnome and KDE.
surprisingly, i’m actually posting from a macbook
That’s the joke
