Thank you Microsoft, for the final push

[gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de]

What distro are you using, and how difficult was it for you to get started with it?

I'm currently making a list of distros and looking at each's pros and cons, including:

• what did work out of the box?
• what required more work to fix / workaround?

[_____@lemm.ee]

my unsolicited 2c is to checkout mint

[mwa@lemm.ee]

Mint easy to use and requires the least maintaining I kinda wanted kde tho at that time.

[bokherif@lemmy.world]

Bro I use windows for mostly gaming and it forced me to update to 24h2 which broke most games.

[emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works]

It messes up object arrangement. This is technically Microsoft's fault, but that doesn't help when you want to communicate clearly with a MS Office user.

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Yeah, Linux feels like what using a personal computer was always supposed to be.

[jackattack@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Could you clarify on this a bit? I'm genuinely curious what the update did to the games as many use windows for the same.

[jackattack@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I've heard PopOS/Linux Mint are great starters. I personally run ZorinOS which is based on Ubuntu. It's beautiful, had built in customization, and has a free version (I paid for the pro version because I liked it so much and wanted to super it).

You'll find occasional headaches in all Linux distros just because it's not windows so compatibility can require work arounds depending what you wanna run. But it's worth it. Feels so much faster and in your control which is nice. Also if you screw up the distro you can just boot another distro from the flashdrive you used to install in the first place (keep the ISO handy just in case ).

[bokherif@lemmy.world]

Some games just dont run at all basically, you get a black screen. I could roll it back with the recovery but it would suck bad if I could not. Disabled updates for now.

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

Same, Microsoft is about to force my laptop to update and I am about to own zero devices that run Windows.

There is no coming back either, which is what makes the schadenfeude of Microsoft really actually catching the car (as the dog) this time.

I think it is going to make heads spin how fast the idea that Windows has unassailable hegemony in the desktop space becomes an antiquated idea. There is an asteroid in the sky, and the time of dinosaurs is over lol.

[madbigote@lemmy.world]

Have you tried running Office in a bottle?

[sleepmode@lemmy.world]

Going to dump it when the wife's done with school. I was only keeping it for that and one game. So sick of subscriptions and the product isn't even good except for Excel.

[sleepmode@lemmy.world]

Same for me.

[mindwolf@lemm.ee]

I was thinking to myself that I need to cancel mine. Then yesterday I got charged yesterday $127 for the yearly renewal.

I thought I was SOL but you can cancel and get most of the money back. So it's not too late to cancel and rid yourself of it.

[shortrounddev@lemmy.world]

I recently moved my digital life away from google and microsoft. I previously had the following subscriptions:

• ExpressVPN
• Onedrive
• Bitwarden
• Office 365

And I had a gmail account, which I often used for SSO. I realized that, the total monthly cost of these subscriptions together was more expensive than a single Protonmail *family * subscription, so I cancelled them all, got the family subscription, and now my wife and her sister all have protonmail accounts as well as storage, a password manager, and VPN access. In the process of moving my logins to my protonmail account, so that I don't have to keep my ancient Facebook account around for signing into things like spotify anymore. Coupled this with moving to the federated internet from reddit and instagram

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Unless you're specifically referring to games with kernal-level anti-cheat, I'm curious as to what games you need Windows for.

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

I mean, you have to use the heck out Excel to get into features that aren't in free projects like Libreoffice or OnlyOffice as well.

[festus@lemmy.ca]

Just going to mention that if you're okay with non-FOSS office software, I really like Softmaker's suite (their buy-once non-subscription version).

[corgana@startrek.website]

Bitwarden

Do you mean Bitdefender (the antivirus)? Bitwarden is free.

Before anyone well ackhuallys me yes, there is a very cheap $0.80/mo plan if you want an authenticator.

[shortrounddev@lemmy.world]

I had a bitwarden premium family plan