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imho it is useful, not to be canned
I’m holding out until they force me to upgrade from 10. They’ve tried probably a half dozen times or so already to have me choose to upgrade but it’s been a minute.
No forced upgrades if your computer is too old to upgrade. taps forehead
Doesn’t have to be Ubuntu, Mint would work too, but yeah, windows keeps going down hill, I switched to Linux early last year and not regretted it once
Side note: if you want something more windows like, KDE is a good desktop environment, its got a lot of customization settings too
Though I’m told cinnamon (what Mint uses) is also pretty windows like
Microsoft continuing the tradition of alternating good and bad releases of the OS.
I always hear this repeated but I feel like it doesn’t hold up. Most Windows releases are bad these days. Last release that was mostly decent was Windows 7 but they were even fucking that up towards the end with ‘telemetry’.
I think they also throttled gpu performance at the kernel level or something. I vaguely remember reading a post about that but don’t have source or anything. However back in the day I was getting dogshit framerates in VR and I had a “pretty good” computer. After trying everything to solve these performance issues for months and failing, I tried out Windows 10 and suddenly all my framerate problems were solved.
They made nothing good since Windows 7. And that was only good compared to Vista.
XP and 2000 were a lot faster.8.1 was better than 7 in every way though?
I hated 8.1 it was way worse than 8 for me.
Imagine using Windows LOL
Sent from a based minimalist libre GNU/🐧 PC
I honestly don’t know how people us it every day. If they’re not trying to shove politics or celebrity gossip down your throat with Edge or that ‘weather’ thing in the taskbar then they’re sending boat loads of data back to Microsoft on your every move. Why does anyone put up with it? And pay for the privilege?!
It comes on nearly every laptop and pre-built PC, also software support.
I need it for work and am too lazy to set up some sort of VM to limit data sending etc. I also used to game quite a bit and never got Wine working very well – but I don’t really play these days so that’s a moot point.
Things with Wine and proton have improved tremendously in the past couple years
Plus I don’t think you need Wine as much either because there are a lot more native games these days
On one hand that’s true, but on the other not counting competitive multiplayer games (curse you anticheat shakes fist) it’s honestly hard to find a game that doesn’t work on Wine/Proton/GE-Proton these days
Linux is no good for VR gaming.
As a brit this is perfect, guess the windows 11 dev team just really loves us.
