Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
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Personal preference really but Debian is pretty much just Ubuntu without the bloat. You can also try a lot of them on a live disk without installing (Mint is a good option too).
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Yes, going off of your reply, I can assume that the myriad programs that I run into that I might like to use are much much more niche in my case.
Thank you for your reply! It is good to finally get some sense of what kind of stuff people on Linux only use. I am probably just a niche example, but it still sucks since I want to ONLY use Linux.
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I've heard some aspects of gaming are supported really well (I think things like Steam?), but other aspects just don't have any backing because the developers only focus on Windows. I would think anyone who supports both Windows and Mac would also be able to port to Linux, but then I look at Microsoft who specifically avoids any support for linux or the software they do support just really sucks (looking at you, Teams).
If games are your main focus then Linux may not be for you. If productivity is your focus, then try imagining not being plagued by viruses or having to reboot every five minutes because of a system update. As with anything, different tools are best for different tasks.
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Yes, games and programs that are games adjacent are mainly what I use.
I've happily gamed on openSUSE, but have only been successful with anything through Steam. Some GOG games work, but I tried a few abandonware games (Sims 1, Sims 2) and could never get them installed properly for whatever reasons. Because of this, and the programs such as save editors, I actually went and created a KVM just for those Windows programs that I didn't want to reboot just to get back into Windows for.
Either way, I have "tweaked" Windows with ChrisTitusTech's Windows Utility just so I can block/remove as much telemetry and tracking as possible. I pine for privacy through Linux though.
I am wanting to help more though, so I've been to a few GitHub repos (wemod-launcher) to try and help them when I run into a problem on openSUSE. I may be a noob, but I want to try and help those that are trying to help convert those lost like I still hanging on to Windows for their niche stuff.
I've heard the right tool for the right job before. I just truly do love Linux, and want to only stay on there.
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Basically every other DE aside from KDE doesn't support this for whatever reason.
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They don't care about home users buying licenses. That's probably less than 1% of license sales. As long as businesses are buying it they're happy. You can activate Windows with a github script. Microsoft would have fixed that vulnerability if they really cared.
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I'd bet most non-nerdy people would rather not upgrade their PCs at all. Upgrading is financially hard, while using an EOL OS in their eyes, especially if it is better than the new version, isn't bad. Maybe even good, because no sudden, annoying, unskippable updates would come anymore.
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I'm installing Mint! I also had an eye on EndeavourOS, but I'm thinking I can first switch to mint and once I have some time in it switch to the more involved EndeavourOS tweaking process.
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5G for HermitCraft S9, 10G for Enigmatica 6 Expert (looking at Working Set in Resource Monitor). I've rebuilt impulseSV's iBuy as an autocrafting tower in my E6E world, and I needed more detail than I could glean from the videos.
Firefox is a bit more tricky to work out because it's split over multiple processes but if I kill it while watching Resource Monitor the Available Memory jumps by about 9G, with 56 tabs open.
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The thing that most grabs me about mint is the polish and refinement. For instance install bazzite or most other distros even silverblue etc. The program names are wacky and navigation isn't intuituve as much. Not to say those are bad but mint seems easily labelled. Thought out and navigatable. Having almost everything you need pre installed with next to zero bullshit.
Cinnamon seems the best. I just booted up XFCE yesterday. Good but not cinnamon good. Games worked on my all AMD system out of the box. No tweaks needed for 98 percent of games. It's been so smooth that half my family has joined. Due to Windows upgrade bullshit nobody has looked back. Windows gets used maybe once in 6 months to go play multiplayer games. Even then I could easily ditch it. Never going back.
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Damn that's a LOT of memory for those processes. And wow, 9G for only 56 tabs? I currently have around 2600 tabs open (yeah I know, time to do some clean-up), I always assumed that was the reason why my firefox was using so much memory.
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Have you tried Ctrl-Tabbing through all open tabs, to load them all in? It's be interesting to see how much memory it uses then.
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Oh I don't think my computer could handle that! I usually have to restart firefox anyway whenever I do a clean-up and close a few hundred tabs.
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Your argument is flawed. The situation is using Windows 11 on unsupported hardware. So the sale you are talking about has already happened which invalidates your point
I'm assuming you simply misread the question
Windows 7/8/10 are irrelevant as that's an entirely different situation
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most people will not start looking at Linux. They should, but they won't.
Assuming you're correct, the Linux community needs to get their shit together then.
And i can fix that.
All i need is 1 billion dollars in investment. 10 million people giving 100 dollars to a Kickstarter/indie gogo
And ill make it happen in my lifetime.
I'll accept louis rossman as my business partner who handles the money to prevent me from abusing it or staying from the goal
It will take time.
But it will be global.
First year will only cost 150k. My salary until the donors decide to adjust it as source by Louis
Plus travel expenses. I'm willing to have review board and recommended budget changes as long as i can work on 2-3 year spreads with a fixed budget, as approved by Louis and the board.
I will only tell Louis my plan and he can choose where the money goes and who replaced me if he decides to remove me
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When you get a new laptop it comes with Windows (except in very rare exceptions). So microsoft collects another sale.
All the other windows versions are very important to my argument as you can use old 7/8/10 licenses to activate Win 11.
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I would have thought businesses are a captive audiance that upgrade every 3-5 years anyway. Home users usually need a poke.
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to activate Win 11.
You didn't include this in your argument that's why it was flawed
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And here I am trying NOT to install on my PC.
