6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
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Only semi-related: Why do they always show pictures of Gates when he hasn't been involved in MS in a long time? Why never Satya Nadella?
I couldn't name another Microsoft employee if a gun was to my head. but I can still vividly remember myself in 4th grade reading about Bill Gate's mega mansion in Popular Mechanics for Kids
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I’ll be switching fully to Linux this summer, but will also upgrade windows 10 to 11 on the last week of support. I’ll only use it then if I have to, on a separate drive.
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Windows 10 IoT LTSC has support until 2032. Just saying...
I've heard about this, but can anybody who's gone through it describe how much effort it was? Do you have to do a from-scratch Windows install? Did you lose any of your stuff? What level of computer expertise would you say is enough to handle installing LTSC, e.g. could your parents do it?
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My gaming 'puter is running win 10, and the plan is to replace it with one running Manjaro. Will have to see when that happens, not upgrading to win 11.
I upgraded as soon as I had the chance, to Windows 11. But I never boot into it because my games run absolutely fine on Arch using Steam and the Proton compatibility layer.
No reason to boot Windows whatsoever. I can't remember the last time I did. Every time I boot into it, the last system update finishes and a new one is available. 
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I play only on Linux, and it works great. Come on over!
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can't be bothered
That sure is unfortunate
It's easier to install it than reconfiguring default Windows.
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Maybe your brain would, if it had a chance to connect the two if they posted more pictures of Satya and Microsoft in the same context...
Yeah, its maybe some kind of circular logic that their brain doesn't make that link
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Come to Linux, it's all I've used since Windows 7 and it works great.
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I've heard about this, but can anybody who's gone through it describe how much effort it was? Do you have to do a from-scratch Windows install? Did you lose any of your stuff? What level of computer expertise would you say is enough to handle installing LTSC, e.g. could your parents do it?
It's super easy, particularly if you follow a guide your first time. Your parents could absolutely do the install if you set up the USB for them. The hardest part is finding a safe download for the OS (they are .iso files) and setting it up on a USB stick (I recommend using Ventoy).
I know that it's a fediverse sin to post reddit links here, but there's a genuinely superb megathread for Windows 10 LTSC IoT available that I recommend:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsLTSC/comments/15rfdjo/windows_ltsc_megathread/
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I dual boot but I'm on Windows 11 for my windows partition because the fucking thing just upgraded itself one day.
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For gaming, people often recommend Pop!_OS, Bazzite, or Zorin, but you can use whatever you want if you are a tinkerer. I use Debian and have a great time gaming.
Outside of gaming and if Windows software compatibility isn't really something you're worried about, you can use any distro you want.
You can try some of them out using a web browser with DistroSea if you feel like it, though they don't have every distro because that would be nuts.
I've been on Kubuntu for a while, but snaps are starting to bug me. When I build a new PC, I'm in the market for a new distro. Do you have a solid recommendation for a KDE-based distro that doesn't have a Windows-esque update step during shutdown and restart?
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I couldn't name another Microsoft employee if a gun was to my head. but I can still vividly remember myself in 4th grade reading about Bill Gate's mega mansion in Popular Mechanics for Kids
Steve Ballmer! Developers developers developers! That's the other one I know
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Moonlight is still alive? I used to use it constantly and was really disappointed when support for it discontinued.
Well I see it I repos and app stores, not real sure of the development, last update on the Google store was Feb 2024. Still seems to work when I've played with it
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I couldn't name another Microsoft employee if a gun was to my head. but I can still vividly remember myself in 4th grade reading about Bill Gate's mega mansion in Popular Mechanics for Kids
I'm somewhat in the same boat but I remember Mister "Developers Developers Developers" Steve Ballmer who was also immortalized by the "Ballmer Peak" XKCD. https://xkcd.com/323/
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Unfortunately, I use some software that's Windows-only, and can't be bothered to set up a VM or anything
Yeah I've been Linux only since like 2012 but lately booting into windows 10 for sim racing, that's just not a thing on Linux it seems
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My system isn't even that old (maybe 4 years) and the first few times I got that very annoying popup that I should try to upgrade it told me in vague terms that I couldn't. So be it, everything runs fine now. I have backups of everything, so if WIn10 doesn't continue to work as simply unsupported one day I'll look for ways to "fix" it like someone mentioned with a 3rd party, or go to Linux and adapt to it. Anyone who has ever had a drive failure knows that the solution is to use a recovery USB which will be a portable Linux, so it will be just another version of that.
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Well I see it I repos and app stores, not real sure of the development, last update on the Google store was Feb 2024. Still seems to work when I've played with it
Moonlight and sunshine are very much alive and active.
https://github.com/moonlight-stream
https://github.com/LizardByte/SunshineRunning with Linux (Nobara) for a while now, stability and updates come much faster than Steam client updates, IMO.
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Moonlight is still alive? I used to use it constantly and was really disappointed when support for it discontinued.
Sunshine is still very much in active development for the server side of things, and the client app is also still active. Both seem to still work flawlessly in Windows and Linux on Nvidia cards for me, and as far as I know there's very solid support for AMD cards as well.
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I've been on Kubuntu for a while, but snaps are starting to bug me. When I build a new PC, I'm in the market for a new distro. Do you have a solid recommendation for a KDE-based distro that doesn't have a Windows-esque update step during shutdown and restart?
I'm not familiar enough with KDE to know what you mean by a Windows-esque update step, but if you can explain further I'll see if I can find something for you.
Alternatively, someone else might pop in with some options.
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Already moved all my PC stuff to Linux. Laptop, desktop, media server. Been wanting to do this for years. Thanks, Valve and Proton, and to all those Linux developers who made this transition possible. Fuck M$
