I figured when work replaced my machine with a new laptop with Windows 11, I’d give in and upgrade my Windows boxes, but I hate it so much. The UI is a confused mess and it’s so buggy and slow, even on a brand new machine with 32GB of RAM. Just getting around file Explorer feels like the entire machine is coated in molasses. It’s like using a 300 baud modem and I am typing faster than the characters can go. I feel like I am always waiting for files to load, I forget why I even opened an app.
My main machine has been on Linux for a couple years already and Waydroid let’s me run proprietary apps. I’ll probably give up on PC gaming and get a new PS5.
I will probably continue using 10 until it will no longer do what I need. I will then switch to one or more versions of linux.
I’ve already installed Arch on a spare laptop to assess the difficulty of switching over. So far I’m very impressed!
arch-install made the setup pretty easy, and KDE Plasma feels very natural for someone migrating from Windows. Flatpaks make installing/updating apps a breeze, and there’s way more apps available than I expected, including commercial ones like Spotify.
Most of the “muscle memory” habits translate across too, for example pressing Meta and typing “notepad” shows KWrite in the start menu. That was a nice surprise.
I can already tell it’s going to be viable for 90% of my needs, and the fact that there’s good free software to do everything from video editing to office tasks is really amazing. Linux desktop has come a LONG way.
Same, but with Mint.
Haven’t encounted more than a few problems up until now and most I could fix by myself after a quick search and some very light reading.
I’ve been very satisfied with the OS switch.
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I’d be curious to see the win 11 share without mandated corporate upgrades. As in, if you leave users a choice, do they want or even care about win 11?
Windows 11 is objectively the better system, it just has too much garbage as well.
Succinct and accurate. Really wish people were more objective and less polarized on software.
If given the choice I think a lot of people would have been happy sticking with even older versions.
