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Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline::If you're still using Windows 10 and don't want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

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[–] SickPanda@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd consider myself a nerd but still prefer Windows.

Some years ago I was in a Vocational college for IT and I had to deal with Ubuntu, Debian and Opensuse. I hated every second of it. I also had to deal with iMacs but that's another story.

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm a computer nerd. I do tech support for everyone in the family. I keep trying Linux intermittently and end up uninstalling it and find I can't use it as a daily driver. Although the day I will be able to use it is getting closer. The Steam Deck is helping with this. Also Chat GPT is great for finding solutions for things that either require trawling though tons of online forums or getting shamed for asking.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I use Linux frequently but mostly to run network services and automation- stuff that doesn’t require day to day interaction or has its own web gui.

As far as my desktop go to it’s windows because I can boot it up, install a bunch of shit I know will work out of the box, and start working. I could do that with Linux too but it would take quite a bit of effort to maintain.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

I currently run Linux on a secondary computer that I mainly use for streaming media while I work from home. Anything in the web browser is great in Linux, especially because I don't feel the age of my several almost 10 year old computers on Linux the way I do on Windows.

For example, I've got an old laptop with a third gen mobile i5, back when 2 cores/4 threads was common on those. It was running Ubuntu for the longest time and it was pretty jarring how slow it was when I tossed windows on there because i thought the laptop was still fine performance-wise

[–] Strobelt@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I had this same issue and what helped was go for a dual boot with windows and slowly learn how to customize things so that I can be as productive as before.

Also, steam electron helped a lot with this transition, as I didn't have excuses to not change partitions between gaming and working/studying

[–] SickPanda@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

My opinion on Linux is that it's (only) good for lightweight computing / mobile computing.

Such as Rasperry pis and Android devices.