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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

    Me with cachyos and still dualboot windows 10, man linux is really nice and flexible I can leave windows but I don't feel very confident but cachyos is a really good arch based distro i can try void some time but i am conformable with cachyos.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    I use Windows 11 without an MS account and with Classic Shell. You can hardly tell a difference. I will continue using it. Because I can't be bothered not to. It also came with my computer (well, W10 did but the upgrade worked painlessly).

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

    The "without an MS account" is the hard part. Don't you have to basically use a hidden debug feature to actually do that on install in windows 11 ? And then if it's anything like windows 10, they might trick you into tying the OS to your account if you log into it for visual studio/office/Windows store or whatever, that happened to me on my laptop and it was a major pain in the ass to revert

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (14 children)

    Turning an OS to subscription based. World class assholes. The alternative is win11, which is even more shit while they are working hard to fuck that shitshow even more up. Yeah, Linux is the way to go.

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    [–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

    The way everyone talked about Linux, I thought it would be a transient interest I would eventually tire of. I've known a lot of professors who say they liked Linux back in the 90s, but decided they couldn't keep up with it, and have gone back to windows/apple.

    I never anticipated that 4 years ago, when I booted up Linux for the first time, that it would also be the last time I shut down Windows. Furthermore, the likelihood of me ever going back seems to be getting smaller and smaller every day.

    [–] Mandy 90 points 1 day ago (16 children)

    Most people don't even know what a browser is, let alone an os

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    [–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Worked on me, I finally switched (like, REALLY switched) on my primary PC this year after using Linux only for servers and hobby projects for a long time. My only regret is that I may not live long enough to have used Linux longer than I used Windows. I'd have to make it to my mid 80's just to break even.

    Valve gets all the credit. Gaming was the main thing holding me back all this time.

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

    If I didn't have to wait for games I'm anticipating before release to work on Linux, I would have happily learned how to use Linux years ago. I pretty much only use my PC as an entertainment system; games, movies/tv, internet use. I like to mod my games and modding on Windows has become so easy that it's actually feasible to help my PC inept friends get a working load order without committing a weekend. Unless the larger nexus modding community as a majority switch to Linux, I don't see myself switching for a long time

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

    I regularly buy new games on release on Linux without even checking, play with friends on windows and have yet to be burned

    Helldivers was a bit janky to begin with but with some custom launch options it ran fine

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