This might just be the push I need to switch to Linux desktop.
Do it. With proton the last argument for me to use windows is gone (gaming).
Can you run Adobe software via proton? As soon as that works I’ll be on Linux.
No, but there are better alternatives to adobe that don’t hog your ram harder then triple a games
Look at your usecase, if it really requires adobe suite, you are out of luck i’m afraid. Perhaps you could research running a VM or wine, but I havent tried any of that myself.
If you conclude that you dont need features exclusive to adobe you might be able to find a foss alternative.
I need Lightroom and I’ve tried Darktable but it just doesn’t cut it.
Perhaps you could research running a VM
It works very well, especially if you pass through your GPU and storage. I can even use this setup for Gaming, no significant performance loss compared to Windows. It’s awesome.
I’m just waiting for full real parity (HDR, and some RT stuff), and I’m gone.
roblox:
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I spent the last ~10 days “playing” with many distros, including testing some current games, and I am literally right now backing up my files and about to reformat my main PC to linux (full drive, no dual). This is after only having experience with copy-paste Raspberry PI guides for my pi-hole.
Don’t totally believe “oh it’s so easy, nothing to configure” - those people are lying, especially if you’ve not used Linux before. But several flavors of Ubuntu are quite pleasant, and I appear to have found a home with PopOS. I can’t find anything that “doesn’t work”, and the worst fixes were just quick searches for help. PopOS won due to nvidia compatibility and a nice, snappy desktop. It also was the fastest in overall reformat cycle time. My wife’s computer is still Windows, if I do have any microsoft emergencies.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is rather easy.
But anyway, no mainstream user-friendly Linux distribution is that hard to use if you can read and think.
So when people say that they can’t manage one on their desktop - they also usually can’t manage Windows on their desktop, they just think they can.
if you’re using windows in 2023, I doubt it
I use Windows, macOS, and Linux, but all in separate ways. Haven’t used a desktop Linux in quite some time — only headless Linux servers.
Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12
Yeah, they could also replace the start button with a shit emoji. But there’s no indication at all anybody wants to do any of that because they’re not idiots. You only said that so people visit your shitty website. In fact, not even the quote you reference for your article suggests any plans of replacing the start button whatsoever:
“The Copilot is like the Start button,” Nadella explains. “It becomes the orchestrator of all your app experiences. So for example, I just go there and express my intent and it either navigates me to an application or it brings the application to the Copilot, so it helps me learn, query and create — and completely changes, I think, the user habits.”
Fuck clickbait headlines and fuck websites bending any and all content to the SEO voodoo.
lemmy reddit is basically a misleading clickbait megaphone
Lemmy communities need to start banning domains that post clickbait garbage like this.
Is this like the previous theory that Windows 12 would be subscription based?
“The Copilot is like the Start button,” Nadella explains. “It becomes the orchestrator of all your app experiences. So for example, I just go there and express my intent and it either navigates me to an application or it brings the application to the Copilot, so it helps me learn, query and create — and completely changes, I think, the user habits.”
Saying “copilot is like the start button” is not saying “copilot will replace the start button”, the article is dishonest clickbait and stupid.
This is just MS taking another kick at Cortana, this time powered by LLM generative AI.
Remember those times when Microsoft said that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows, as it will get to a free “Windows-as-a-Service” model? My ass, now
I can’t find the words to describe how absolutely fucking disgusted I am with the fact that we don’t even have 11 out in full swing and they’re talking about selling us 12 after the “10 would be the last” bullshit.
For fucks sake microturd, get your shit together and stop trying to bleed everyone dry… We know literally every other company in the world is doing that, but it doesn’t make it right… :/
This rage bait bullshit was debunked a long time ago, they never claimed 10 would be last and there’s no official word on 12 being Saas, all of this shit is just mad-boy anger fuel.
You make it sound like it’s not rocket surgery /s
For people upset about the 10-is-the-last-version thing, even though where they said it was not an official communication and was probably either misstated or misunderstood, the tech media picked up on it and Microsoft knew that’s what people thought they said and they did nothing to dispel that notion, at all.
So on that one, there was a good reason to think that’s what they said, and since they let that very common misconception that was actively reported in the tech news media continue without any attempt to correct, the anger is every bit as justified as if Microsoft did actually say it.
They didn’t. That was an “evangelist” talking to Devs one time and the media ran with it.
They didn’t seem to dissuade anyone of the notion, but they never repeated it officially.But it fits my narrative so I will believe in it
-Lemmy/Reddit 2.0
Lemmy needs a judicial branch that allows garbage posts like this to be removed or clearly tagged as misleading. Too many people are going to accept the headline at face value.
Every day we stray closer to Linux.
I use arch btw
Come, yer tired souls, to the Kingdom of Torvalds.
- Start menu is whatever you want it to be
- Search works
- No ads
- No spyware
- No drivers to install (except Nvidia)
Fuck Nvidia.
Also:
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upgrades don’t need forced restarts
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major OS versions are, usually, non-breaking
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new DE… same as the old DE but may contain new features. Long live the DE!
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Well in that case I might replace windows 12 with not using windows 12
A few weeks ago when they made the search bar come back after I had told it to go away I switched to Linux. It’s weird the small annoyances that add up. It’s great so far. With KDE for the desktop environment, you can make it look however you want, including almost identical to any version of windows you want. It’s really quite usable, and generally I’m already faster and more comfortable with it than I was with windows.
XP gang
Botnet gang :/
I love this idea. The reason people continue using Windows is because they’re used to it. Messing with the Start button is going to piss off even the most patient users. Not to mention it’ll be an absolute nightmare for any IT department. Just imagine an army of Karens calling your hotline first thing on Monday morning, yelling at you because you took away the Start button. It’ll make Windows 8 look like a huge success.
They already fucked with start menu and search and it’s already a problem for IT. I can’t find any app I got installed unless I spell it out right, and even then it might work with just 3/8 letters in but no further.
Sometimes I just click through program files cause it’s faster.
sometimes you can’t find an application even when you spell it out correctly, hafta go through the apps list to find them.
For some fucking brilliant reason, searching update shows discord, so to find updates I have to spell it wrong
They tried fucking with it on Windows 8 and that worked out so great.
This type of information, encourages me to move quickly to a linux distro of choice.
Agreed. I have already been contemplating it. When they finally brick my Windows 10 desktop I will be switching for sure.
encourages me to move quickly to a linux distro of choice.
Fedora, Steam, Bottles.
Fedora/KDE for the quality support and stability of your Linux distro, Steam for, well, Steam, and Bottles for non-Steam games, that still lets you launch those games from inside Steam.
I almost switched around the 2007 to 2010 timeframe but they got a lot better with 7 and PowerShell closed the deal for me.
I’m now working more Linux into my daily usage to get a feel for what I’d need to do if I switch, and start solving those problems now, because if they do go this way, I’m probably going to jump ship. And they’ve made it even easier since I can still have PowerShell and C# and .NET on Linux now!
I am planning to change/ move to Ubuntu LTS during coming summer. Currently studying at university & don’t want disruptions with study activities. Compatibility issues etc.
For someone graduating in entrepreneurship, i believe Ubuntu with other open source software will be sufficient towards my main objectives at work life.
All the “X company may/could/might” and “X plans on this” news feel like they’re just feeling for a reaction from the public to see what they can and can’t get away with. If it gets too much push back, they just put it on the shelf and boil the frogs for longer before trying again, like with Google and WEI. It’s tiring. Stop being evil you corpo fucks.
“Stop being evil you corpo fucks.”
Narrator: this proved to be as possible as empathetic capitalism, that is to say, physically and theoretically impossible.
Windows 10 is my last windows. When i upgrade my destop i’m going Mint
Why not come join us now?
Well, my laptop’s already there, but i really don’t feel like dealing with system reinstallation on my games pc. It’ll be much easier for me to just stick with W10 for the next few months, and then jump ship, seeing as the upgrade i have planned won’t be using any components from my dekstop.
Windows 7 is my last Windows. Windows 10 is my current Windows. Looks like a safe bet to keep skipping at least one version. I did also go from XP to 7.
I might replace Microsoft with Linux in Windows 12
I had this exact thought. It may actually be “The year of the Linux Desktop.”
Only if it’s shipping as the default OS on hundreds of millions of new devices, and easy enough that a 65 yo can install their 12 year old copy of TurboTax software on it, while their grandson plays Roblox on it. :P
Gotta be usable by the lowest common denominator before the return window at a rural BestBuy is up.
I’ve just done exactly that, now dual booted with Linux mint, once I iron out the (specifically my) kinks, win10 will get put in a VM for emergencies.
Meanwhile in the category of “useless bullshit nobody asked for” we have Microsoft. Again.
“Replace the start button”
For those who don’t know: Windows 8.0 did this.
8.1 came out a few months later
MS was enshityfying before there was a word for it.
And I’ve been slowly replacing windows with Linux since the arrival of Windows 10.
Time to experiment with Linux again. Still haven’t settled on a distro that I liked 100%.
been distrohoping for a long time, tumbleweed kde changed that…
been using it for almost 2 years now.TBH you don’t have to find the perfect distro - just one that is better than the BS Microsoft peddles. And that gets easier and easier.
Shop around with desktop and distro, but remember it’s not Windows. If you’re looking for it to be Windows, you’re never be happy with it. There is Windows things to unlearn.
