6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
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Yeah Manjaro + KDE is kinda what I was thinking, thanks!
I would recommend endeavor os with plasma instead honestly. Its a similar setup, but you won't have to deal with manjaro holding back updates.
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I technically have a Win10+Linux dual boot setup right now, but I haven't used the Linux install in forever, and I think it's broken. So I'll probably fix this and then use Linux when possible and continue using the unsupported win10 for everything that needs windows.
I remember people mentioning the win10 LTCS version with 10 years support, but I'm not going to buy anything from them. Maybe I'll use it unactived if needed.
Cough MassGavel Activation Scripts Cough
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My old as hell PC died I'm getting a steam deck as a replacement with a dock and ...so I'll just be dual booting into windows 11 and obviously steam OS when I decide to play hand held.
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Jumping to Linux for sure. The hardest part is going to be finding time to learn it first...
Start with something simple like Linux Mint. You can run it in a VM, if you want to "try before you buy".
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Just waiting for daddy gabon to release steamos. If not I swear I'm going to just use the most windowsxp distro available. I thought I was being simple by going with mint and KDE. Dare me.
You installed KDE on Mint? Why not just install Debian with KDE?
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Going to migrate to Bazzite. Just need a free weekend to do it.
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I'm a Linux user who had Windows 10 on one computer for VR but once I saw Microsoft's CEO at Trump's inauguration I removed that last install, deleted my Meta accounts, and put my Quest 3 in a box.
If you want to run VR on Linux with your Quest headset, WiVRn works absolutely flawlessly. Been running VR with my Quest 2 for a while with it.
Not sure if jailbreaks exist for the Quest 3, but I've considered jailbreaking my Quest 2 in order to run it without a Meta account.
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Where's that steam os release
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I would love some advice, personally. How big of an issue is this really? Like....do I really have to care if there aren't system updates anymore? How big of a security risk is it actually?
Well the thing is, we don't know. Maybe 10 is patched so well that no one is hanging onto a major exploit just waiting for EOL. Or so well that no new major exploits are found (extremely unlikely). Then so long as you're just gaming or watching YouTube it doesn't really matter.
But someone could be holding onto one or someone could stumble into one. And all it takes is one.
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I literally just swapped my key for my win10 pc's to win10 ltsc iot with mass and now dont have to worry for wayy longer. I suggest everyone without the option to switch to do the same.
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If you want to run VR on Linux with your Quest headset, WiVRn works absolutely flawlessly. Been running VR with my Quest 2 for a while with it.
Not sure if jailbreaks exist for the Quest 3, but I've considered jailbreaking my Quest 2 in order to run it without a Meta account.
Thanks for this. All efforts are dead in the water until I can use it without Meta. Until then it stays in the box. Appreciate the info thought though, cheers.
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Just please make sure it's not internet connected if you value such things as your privacy, and bank accounts not being breached extremely easily. End of security support is no joke.
I don't really use the browser on that machine. It still has basic virus protection, and such.
End of security support is no joke.
Well that all depends on if you're laughing.
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I would recommend endeavor os with plasma instead honestly. Its a similar setup, but you won't have to deal with manjaro holding back updates.
Oh okay! Thanks,, that's helpful. So EndeavorOS has pretty frequent updates then? I'm ngl since switching I look forward to them, which is funny! It's like "oh cool my computer got better and also new toys instead of worse and more bloated!"
Ahh I should've done this years ago but better late than never
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It's going to be purchase a new hard drive and then jump to Linux Mint this August.
It's not an experience I am looking forward to (5080S, I do a lot of modding, and enjoy fangames/indie games which do not always play nice with linux) but needs must - the Linux community in general is very friendly, so we'll get through it, even if the first 6 months are rough. I'll keep the dual boot and push the windows partition to 11 if needed by work, that way I can put off rewriting my elderly access database for another few years.
Honestly, Microsoft are committing suicide when it comes to home users. It won't be sudden, but the wheels are turning, all the IT savvy folks are switching people over (already did my aunt's potato, mum's demi-tato is next week). Eventually, a tipping point will be reached and offices will start switching - I hope that day comes before I die of old age!
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Going to migrate to Bazzite. Just need a free weekend to do it.
100% worth it. I've had a few issues early on but I'm rocking oldish hardware (6700k, 2080 ti). It's been rock solid for the last 6 months though. A lot of games that ran semi poorly in Windows run great now (Control and Arkham Knight def come to mind) and some cpu heavy bullet hell style games slow to a crawl now much earlier on (I can get sub 20 fps real quick in Rogue Genesia).
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I would love some advice, personally. How big of an issue is this really? Like....do I really have to care if there aren't system updates anymore? How big of a security risk is it actually?
In the short-term (0-6mo, maybe less): nothing really changes.
Medium-term (maybe up to a year or two): you're looking at real potential to get infected with --who-knows-what--. Hard to say how long it would take or how widespread it would be.
Longer term: massive, massive security hole. Microsoft has probably even patched a few major things by now, but there will always be more
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Been a Linux user for ages, I do have Windows 11 installed on another partition but I rarely - if ever - boot into it.
I mention the above spiel because I don't understand what additional points people have against windows 11? It seems very similar to windows 10 for me - what're the reasons for people hating it?
Genuinely not trying to be obtuse, here - I'm just wondering what the primary pain points are of win 11?
Is it the requirement for using a Microsoft account to log in vs. a normal local account? Or the one drive stuff? (upon install it did move most of my personal folders into a weird OneDrive directory, and I had to use the registry to wipe out OneDrive and move them back. Very annoying.)
The inability to easily turn off copilot and the hiding setting between 3 different menus was the thing that finally did me in. I know you can turn copilot off but I didn't like the idea that Microsoft could "accidentally" re enable their spyware on my system. To be clear I am not being hyperbolic I really do think that recall and copilot are spyware that is just Microsoft approved. And then there is one drive just being pain in the ass constantly.
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Luckily I already don't trust the internet already and don't go anywhere online without script blockers and I don't open emails as a rule of thumb. I am sure it will be dangerous, but I am not relying on passive security already.
Every packet you send/receive relies on passive security. Your nic drivers, the driver kernel model, all of the userland applications that sit on top of it. I get that in practical terms, your firewall will do a lot of the heavy lifting but there are passive rce vulnerabilities in previous unsupported versions of Windows that are trivially exploitable today.
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I'm blocking addresses at the router daily. I could live with 11 if I could uninstall their garbage. I've tried any number of things to keep crapilot 365 off of my domain machines but I'm told I have to have the enterprise edition to do that.
For now, ctt winutil does a pretty good job at removing the cruft. I've long since switched to debian for my daily driver, but as a remote-access sunshine host for games that require kernel level anticheat, it's surprisingly usable.
For anyone looking to keep windows around in some capacity, I strongly recommend it. https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
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When that time comes I'll probably either remove networking from, or just wipe win10 entirely.
Been using mint as my daily for a while now and I hate booting into windows
