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    2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He's running Windows 7 right now, so I'll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

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    [–] molochthagod@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    As a former lifelong Windows user (from 2002 to 2019), I honestly don't get why people continue using Windows in the future. It doesn't make sense to me. They're cracking down on liberties, increasing system requirements, and old software and games are gradually becoming less compatible. And people seem to be starting to realize that other options are becoming gradually more attractive, because Windows is now hovering below 70% while just ten years ago it was at over 90%. Meanwhile Mac has grown from 7% to 20%, and Linux is at an unprecedented 3%, and that's not counting ChromeOS, which is slightly higher.

    The mistakes Microsoft is doing can prove fatal. Because I think for most people, once they embrace Linux, even if Windows improves, they won't wanna go back.

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    [–] callyral@pawb.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    RIP Windows 7, long live Linux Mint Xfce

    [–] 18107@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I highly recommend Linux Mint (cinnamon) as an entry level Linux distro. It looks and feels similar to Windows, and it's based on Ubuntu, so it has a lot of support and compatibility.

    [–] MrMeatballGuy@feddit.dk 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Really liked Mint, unfortunately the kernel was not new enough to support my 7900 XTX when I upgraded GPU so I ended up switching to Pop_OS which works fine as well.

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    [–] iraq_lobster@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    did the same transition when switched to Lemmy. Very wise decision to take.

    [–] gens@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Kubuntu for that win7 similarity. (It's still official ubuntu)

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    [–] foobaz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

    A SO that moves you to Linux? Sign me up! ❀️

    [–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Noo please don't Ubuntu. Just plain debian or mint debian instead for the closest thing without canonical. Ubuntu is based on debian and all the actual reasons to use it over debian ended probably like a decade or so ago.

    I don't think there are many distro specific proton issues, if they exist at all. I've switched from arch to tumbleweed to bazzite(ublue/fedora based) and the only issues were unrelated to gaming. Proton would work on a toaster if it had a display and a vulkan compatible GPU.

    [–] kuneho@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

    Debian is the way

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    [–] LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

    The meme that will never ever go away.

    [–] CannedCairn@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The only reason my windows partition still lives is so I can stream VR to the quest 2, literally everything else I do in Linux and I'm so close to 100% I can taste it!

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    [–] josefo@leminal.space 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You should try plain Debian and KDE Plasma (the desktop it's one of the options of the shelf, you just pick it with the installer). I have been doing that and it's great, even with old hardware. Ubuntu is way too much bloated. And of course proton works like magic.

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    [–] Resol@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If your friend ends up not liking the GNOME desktop environment because it's so radically different from the Windows UI, then maybe add the K in Ubuntu, I guess.

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    [–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    If I'm not mistaken it's not that Steam will just completely cease to function on that date, Just they won't be fixing any bugs related to Windows7/8 from that point on.

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