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Why would a OS need an online account?
We truly live in the stupidest timeline.
How will it know which ads to show you without knowing who you are?
I use Lemmy and Steam games, someone please recommend a Linux OS and a browser to end this stupid shit for me.
Bazzite and Librewolf
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I’d like to add that librewolf is a great privacy focused browser based on Firefox.
https://yearofthelinuxdesktop.net/
According to the flowchart there, cachyOS or bazzite, also some other tools and recommendations, good luck!
Nobara and pikaOS also both good options. I use CachyOs on my main PC and nobara on my htpc and have had a very pleasant time with the distros and their communities. Just gotta leave windows at the door and be open to learning a new way of doing things. Best of luck OP
and browser I love zen browser and have Vivaldi as my chromium browser of choice when some niche task needs it
I went from Nobara to Bazzite, Nobara worked but felt super janky, Bazzite is on another planet in terms of polish.
Bazzite is awesome I just don’t like immutable distros personally. I like to tinker more than they allow. Nobara works great for my htpc but I think if I had to switch from CachyOs on my gaming PC I’d go pikaOS
I like to tinker more than they allow.
I keep reading this, but it’s never clear what people mean. I still haven’t found anything I’m not allowed to tinker with, it’s just done differently.
More people will switch to Linux
i used to think this too; but seeing tech literacy rate drop since the widespread adoption of smartphones makes me wonder if people will go with whatever works well enough and for the least about of effort.
and linux still takes effort.
makes me wonder if people will go with whatever works well enough and for the least amount of effort.
This has always been the case. People want something that just works right out of the box, and familiarity will keep a lot of people from considering anything else.
I’ve been talking for a long time now with a friend of mine about how sick we are of Windows, and more recently about how I’m planning on installing Linux on a spare HDD I have before making the commitment to getting rid of Windows entirely, and he’s decided to go to 11 despite hating it because he’s afraid of trying something new and having to learn a new system.
And it’s not just a computer thing. People can and will hurt themselves by repeating the same mistakes because it’s the familiar habit and doing something new - even if it’s for your own good - is scarier. Been there, done that, plenty of times.
People can and will hurt themselves by repeating the same mistakes because it’s the familiar habit and doing something new - even if it’s for your own good - is scarier. Been there, done that, plenty of times.
i know too many people who are hurting themselves because they genuinely can’t afford iphones or macbooks; but they keep borrowing money to buy another one each time something happens to their current one and only because “it just works”
Even at my workplace I asked HR for permission to switch the office desktop to GNU+Linux. They required the installation of a few
malwarespyware but otherwise didn’t mind.I have been using GNU+Linux on and off since 2007 only using Windows when needed to. Now I’m fully Windows-free and intend to keep it this way.
Ok! Moved to linux for gaming 2 years ago and havent looked back. Eat shit, MS.
How is it for gaming? Im hesitant to switch just for that one use case, but its a big one.
Great. Proton changed everything. My friend uses arch, i use fedora, another friend uses bazzite. I can play everything i want, no issues. Great framerates
The great framerates was something i doesn’t expect to this extent when switching. I thought that games would probably work similar but i went from 40-50 fps on medium high settings in elden ring to smooth 60 on highest settings just by switching from windows to bazzite
Same! Windows is so heavy now they are even considering making a leaner gaming edition. Its so silly.
Ok fine Linux it is. As a person who mostly uses a computer for 3D modeling, drafting and invoicing… what are my options?
What software do you use?
I worked with 3D for decades and Blender replaced almost everything. The performance is actually better on Linux. I personally use Linux mint, but regarding software it barely matters what distro you use nowadays.
But support, compatibility, ease of use can vary a lot. I haven’t used another distro for many years so I can’t say much.
If you rely on autodesk and adobe stuff you will probably suffer. But personally I would say it’s deserved because there are not a lot of companies more evil than them. The sooner you start trying alternatives the better.
Invoicing I just used inkscape but it’s not great. Be prepared to make some sacrifices, but it’s all worthy to get rid of microsoft.
Invoicing I just used inkscape but it’s not great. Be prepared to make some sacrifices, but it’s all worthy to get rid of microsoft.
How is Inkscape used for invoicing? You cretate the invoice as vector graphic template and just replace the text?
I don’t ever do any invoicing myself, so I am not clear on the requirements here. But a template in LibreOffice Draw could perhaps work for this purpose? There might be some way to programtically replace the fields, and if you store client and project details in a database it should eventually be a matter of choosing which client to bill for which project and click “Go!”. I would aim for such a self-made setup to be independent on any license-ridden software. But again, I don’t do this, so I might have missed some important part of the puzzle.
Yeah, I don’t know. I know that there are softwares specific for invoicing but I’ve never used one, nor did I use to send too many invoices. Most of the time I was an employee, doing some other freelances, so it wasn’t too much to keep track.
I used Inkscape because I was more used to it, working with graphics most of my life. LibreOffice is probably easier. But I don’t know how that’s supposed to be done with proprietary softwares either.
Hopefully someone with more experience on this can help him.
gets out iPhone with forced crApple account: “MICROSOFT SUX”
Another big reason to switch to GNU/Linux.
Lol too late. I already moved to Linux and love it.
Oh nooooo whatever will I do now
Run LTSC /w MAS to activate it while that’s still an option as that and the rest of the Enterprise/IoT SKUs of both Win10 and Win11 still let you make local accounts, or move to Linux if you can and you’re not locked into Windows by anything.
I think Enterprise versions don’t require it either.
IoT and LTSC are Enterprise versions.
Joke’s on them. I’m not about to use Windows 11 anyway
Had Win 11 on my laptop (came with it) swapped to Mint 2 days ago. First Linux device. I cannot express how much faster it loads shit now.
I only use windows for gaming. If Windows somehow fucks it up so much that I can play the majority of games in Linux on Steam, then I no longer have a use for them. I don’t use windows for work, and all of my normal computer use cases Linux is fully capable of, I’ll basically be forced over to Ubunutu or something, with a cracked Win11 VM for new games that don’t have linux releases.
I suppose linux graphic drivers and performance are still an issue, but that will surely only get better, especially as the windows desktop segment of GPU sales dries up.
I switched 5 weeks ago and it’s honestly in a much better state than I thought. I haven’t felt the need to use Windows in those 5 weeks. It feels like I’m back in 90s with full control of my computer again.
If you stay with AMD graphics and avoid highly competitive games that require kernel level anti cheat Linux for gaming works just fine. Especially with steam. But also epic games etc run pretty well.
I am waiting for an official SteamOS Desktop release. If I am switching to Linux, I would prefer a gaming-focused PC distro that has the support of an 800lb gorilla.
If I have to migrate early, say, at the start of a 2nd American Civil War, I will probably use CachyOS. I don’t expect Microsoft to be neutral or to work for the good guys.
I ran steamos for a few months on my gaming PC… You can download the iso and run it on just about any hardware (so long as it’s team red).
Cachyos is better
The immutable nature of steamos made sure i wouldn’t ever be able to fuck it up, but it also means you cant really sudo anything, plus it’s missing basic PC functionality like printer drivers etc.
The meat of the work Valve did was with the compatibility layer, not SteamOS itself. This means you can choose any distro you’re comfortable with and games will work as well as they do in SteamOS. I recommend Bazzite.
The great windows 10 shutdown is coming in a couple of weeks and I still haven’t upgraded my wife’s laptop! The main holdup is backing up, it turns out that hibernation need to be disabled in Windows 10 to do a proper backup, otherwise there is some sort of encryption on the backup. I wasted 2 days on this already copying 500GB just in case upgrade fails.
Upgrading to mint of course!
If you do end up needing some time, check out 0patch. They’re continuing security updates for Windows 10 and you can do a one month trial for free.
Lol.
If I ever use windows again. It’ll be a cracked version.
You don’t need to “crack” anything. Massgrave can activate any version of windows through the official process.
It technically probably breaks the EULA but no one gives a shit (including MS).
