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    [–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    I love this absolute fantasy Linux folk have come up with

    [–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

    I do some e-wasting for a number of big companies and have piles of old laptops. I've taken to giving the laptops to people that need computers and the ones with Linux don't taken. I literally can't give away Linux computers. They can buy their own windows licenses.

    [–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 hours ago

    Plasma is more similar to Windows Plasma is more customizable Plasma is just as beginner-friendly Plasma has more features Plasma is more actively developed Plasma looks better

    Don't get me wrong, Cinnamon is fine, but it gets recommended religiously to beginners for some reason. It just doesn't make sense, so I will keep repeating this, not least to keep alive the ancient linux tradition of Desktop wars.

    Still, any Windows to Linux transition is a step forward and I support this, upvoted.

    [–] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    lol @ all these arch/Ubuntu/mint users. been using debian for years.

    [–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 9 minutes ago

    😅LoL, because you feel superior?

    Not very sympathetic…

    [–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    Remember when Windows XP reached EoL the first time in 2009 and people abandoned it? Yeah, me neither, but I remember Microsoft groaning and extending some support for a few more years, until the final EoL in 2014. I expect the same to happen to 10.

    [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

    Maybe they'll drop the fake requirements from 11 so people can actually upgrade to 11 from 10.

    [–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

    I finally switched when I got truly familiar with the terminal in collage and then I happened to get a hand down pc to play around with. Installed Linux on it, and it surprisingly quickly became my main computer, especially once I got it a proper graphics card.

    [–] Marduk73@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

    Mine was when they have windows 8 out for free for a limited time. Then I wasn't able to go back to 7 somehow. Was already into linux by then. That just made me commit 100%. Gamer, CAD user, but still haven't looked back.

    or a distro using kde plasma.

    [–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    The average user cares less about their OS being EoL, than that they have to learn a whole new OS that works "completely" different to what they are used to.

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    [–] nifty@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

    Linux Mint is easy af, that or Ubuntu

    [–] jose1324@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
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    [–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

    The Steam Deck and it's desktop mode is why I decided to try jumping head first into a single boot of Bazzite on my main computer, it's basically like using a Steam deck, just across four monitors, a year in and I haven't looked back.

    [–] figjam@midwest.social 1 points 4 hours ago

    I learned of bazzite today and will be trying an install soonish

    [–] Zink@programming.dev 23 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

    Oh is this an excuse to hop on the Mint praise train? Don’t mind if I do!

    For me it was smoother than windows to install, it runs much better moment to moment (it’s like the people that made it were worried about making nice software rather than the business goals being pushed by their managers), and most importantly the fact that it is the “beginner” distro doesn’t compromise its capabilities. I am in the terminal all day every day and I use the machine to work on software for embedded Linux systems.

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    [–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 48 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    Using roblox to talk about linux

    [–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago

    It once played perfectly fine under WINE, then Roblox explicitly blocked it for no good reason.

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    [–] dipcart@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

    I started on mint a couple months ago and so far I've tried as many distros as I could find. I liked manjaro but then found out about their controversies so I'm currently on endeavour os. Half of the fun for me has been experimenting with different desktops and whatnot, which has gotten me back into computer stuff.

    [–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    Which Desktop did you settle on as a favorite?

    [–] dipcart@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

    I like KDE and xfce. My hardware is pretty old so I appreciate how light xfce is, but I like KDE connect too.

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    [–] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    I'm experimenting with Pop!_OS on my aging laptop running it on a USB drive. Was happy to see it supports 2-in-1 functionality.

    [–] dufkm@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    I love everything about Pop!_OS. Except the name, that I cannot stand.

    [–] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

    It's a silly name for sure.

    [–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

    I have literally talked to one person at work, that he might want to try out Linux Mint in VM. Dude have never used Linux, but seems to be skilled enough to install it on his own.

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