Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?

It's a joke from a tv show. The rich out of touch lady thinks bananas "only cost" ten dollars.

Arrested Development tv show. Pretty funny. The family fortune started with the dad opening a banana stand in his youth.

ALT: 2 panels. 1st panel- Rich mom from Arrested Development sitcom, holding a cup, opulent home, saying "I mean it's one banana, Michael. How much could it cost? Ten dollars?"

2nd panel- Michael sitting back, head on hand saying "you've never actually stepped foot in a supermarket, have you?"

What's especially funny is that he didn't even script that, he just came up with it on the spot. And now it's the joke he's most known for.

Good time to start looking for a good deal on cheap home lab crap though.

Nobara or Pop! OS would be good choices.

Yeah, VR is still catching up, but I feel like (dual) booting to Win 10 just for specific purposes would greatly reduce the risk.

Your best shot is with Monado, which supports the Rift S: https://monado.freedesktop.org/

I only have an Index, so I can't speak for how well it works or how easy it is to setup.

I got my meta quest 2 working on Linux, so you should definitely just try :)

Yeah, this is why I never got into VR, the Linux support blows even if you get a supported headset because the games aren't made for Linux. There are some games, sure, but it's not worth spending $1k+ on an Index.

I'll use it once the barrier to entry drops or Linux support improves.

As someone who routinely used to sink thousands of hours into games, and by that I mean 3000 hrs. on R6-3, 2500 hrs. on Squad and so on, the predatory practices of Microsoft, Steam and game developers have just turned me off gaming completely.

Hardware MIGHT be controlled by signal RGB

OpenRGB to the rescue: https://flathub.org/apps/org.openrgb.OpenRGB

controlling the pump in my AIO?

What do you need to control about your pump? I sure hope it works without OS support.

Or the sound levels on ny headset?

Move the volume slider up or down?

Or the DPI in my mouse?

Save them to the mouse as profile if it can or use Piper: https://flathub.org/apps/org.freedesktop.Piper

in AMD you lose access to certain features like AMFM2

FSR Frame Gen works just fine, not sure why you need fake frames in more games.

the FOSS solutions are not industry standard, so sure, I can learn to use LibreOffice, but that's worth absolutely nothing when you apply for a corporate job and they expect you to know how to use outlook as a bare minimum

There is also OnlyOffice and online MS Office. Not sure what you need to know about Outlook to open it and use your eyes to read the mails.

even the Google office suite is being adopted faster

Good news, it runs in a browser and works on every OS!

Ah, but if the software is available there's still a chance it doesn't work because it's missing a dependency or something and you have to ask people to use the terminal and... Sigh

I have not fixed dependencies issue on Linux since the early 2000s. Flatpaks are your friend https://flathub.org/ .

All in all, it's just behind in many ways, sure, for some people it's ok, and for laptops I'd think is mostly ok, great even.

I run it on my high end PC and I disagree. It's ahead in many ways.

• The graphics drivers are included and don't need any bloated software to work
• It has a banger OpenGL driver, which makes games like Minecraft run significantly faster.
• It has a very active community for game support for games where the developer does not care
• It translates older DirectX versions to Vulkan automatically, resulting in a performance uplift and more stability. People on Windows are installing DXVK just so older games work. Look up DXVK in the Steam forums.
• It downloads shader caches from Valve, preventing shader stutter in games that don't do it on their own

That list could go on for a while and it's only for gaming.

I haven't even gone into installation and not having to run ShutUp10 every time just to make the OS usable. Or how KDE is so much cleaner than Windows. Or how I don't have any ads in my start menu, don't have to force download Candy Crush on first boot, don't have pre-installed apps I can't remove, don't have to block my own OS in its firewall to get rid of telemetry, don't have to be told that I need to upgrade to Windows 11 constantly.

For work: Docker just works, complex networking setups are not a pain to setup, creating VMs is so much easier and has so many more features. VPN is so seamlessly setup. I can read almost every file system on the planet and use ROCm without jumping through hoops. Not to mention I don't get Copilot and Recall shoved down my throat.

Are there issues on Linux? Sure, lots of them. But if I find them I can tell somebody about it and don't have to deal with them for centuries.

I'm rooting for Steam OS to release to desktops because my living room PC is LITERALLY just for gaming, so that "could" work nicely.

SteamOS is just a modern Linux distro with Steam pre-installed and in autostart. If stuff works there, it works on regular Linux just as well.

Bazzite achieves the same thing right now: https://bazzite.gg/

"In the name of our Lord I implore thee to embrace Linux Mint. For it is a software that shall free thy computer from its earthly shackles and grant thee access to infinite knowledge of the cosmos."

Matthew 23:23

Arch heretic here (long time Mint user).

My Acer Nitro with Aurora Says Hi!

(I'm thinking maybe going to Kinonite)

Hbomberguy is so based

sigh does it at least come with ranch or peanutbutter? Celery is better with one of those.

Linux speed increase over Windows it's like jumping 10 years into the future

Well, if I'm honest I tried to install Win11 before Linux but it was such a pain in the arse I gave up. The installer couldn't pick up the SSD so I had to download drivers onto USB and install them half way through the wizard. THEN, it wouldn't pick up the WiFi card so I bypassed that to get the installer to finish, and to top it off, even after I'd installed all the drivers, it still didn't pick it up, not in the device manager, nowhere, as if it didn't exist. So I gave up. Linux installed first time and although it's not quite perfect yet it's functional enough for me to actually use the flipping thing! Haha

I've installed every Windows since 95 on various machines and never had so much trouble. Win11 is complete crap. And Microsoft are a bunch of dickheads for forcing it when there was literally nothing wrong with Win10.

Windows 7 is such a nice user experience today, if you use it in 2025 you really get an idea of how far windows has fallen off.

Yell at the wind

Yeah! I'm gonna use Windows 10 LTSC in the meantime but I'm still eyeing a full jump to Linux.

The?

The hurdles windows users are willing to put up with is nothing less than amazing. That's not a good thing.

IOT version is supported until 2032

oh nice - thanks for sharing, i was not aware of this and will add it to my toolbox!

gaslighting

Bro, i cut my teeth on FreeBSD 2.2.x and served in the Great Linux / Windows wars of 95 and 98…

but im not so sure MS ever gaslit anyone. everyone seemed to have a pretty solid perception of reality.

Maybe the term gaslighting means something new to you 🤷

updates work.

MS won’t disable them - they want people to move to Windows 11.

Congrats on migrating to Linux! it’s what i’ve been pushing friends and family towards for decades, and thankfully Ubuntu is in a position right now to be a fine desktop OS, esp for the average user who lives in a web browser.

I’ve had no issues on the machines i’ve done this with, aside from having to do an upgrade in place with a major update (used rufus, write the latest iso, did the upgrade from the bootable usb.

regular windows updates work without hassle. perhaps your predecessor didn’t use a complete solution 🤷

Yup. OG Ryzen had TPM but wasn't supported for Windows. Not sure if that has changed.

They make most of their money from pro licenses and telemety data anyway, I'm sure.

Pay for windows?

Updates should be incorparated in the subscription of your software. True that Apple and companies using Android are selling hardware. But Microsoft is also selling hardware. At my work we use Microsoft Surface laptops and my son in law has a X-Box. They even start selling advertisements.

If there's no IP barrier, the products can come back when the demand is back.

Which is one of the reasons I'm against copyright and of course reverse-engineering and modding and emulation being legally suppressed.

Say, one can easily understand how 90s' era of good old software and hardware ended. Modern business models there are more profitable. But those models lead to degeneracy, and they wouldn't be competitive if the old things were competitive for longer, and the old things would be if not for copyright. More paths is always better.

True. But the real problem is that we want too much profit and the companies are getting to big. My guess is that if the tax plans are changed and we settle for less money, it will be much better for many things. It should be added that prices would then also have to be much lower

Lineageos. I'm like 1 android version behind latest on s9.

Also it depends on the chip maker and the phone maker. Fairphone will get the latest for like a decade..

It depends. When using Samsung then you on;ly get updates for the first two years. I' ve run a Fairphone and I received updates for 4 years.

Minus all the caveats like not being reliable on anything with an NVidia GPU or just hating your specific setup for no reason (I am salty, I'm going to keep trying anyway)

You could probably trade it in a pawn shop, now that I think agian about it.

My highschool PCs had XP for as long as at all possible. They switched them to some beginner friendly Linux after. Way to go.

SteamOS. In principle anyway.

I decided not to trade freedom for microtransactions years before I even switched to linux, personally. If a game can't run without literal spyware, I probably haven't played it.

Can I pick the tattoos?

And thanks to Proton you can now do pretty much everything that you can do on Windows. Unless you do graphics design.

I tried creating a Steam account and was blocked by the revolving captcha security thing - took days to try to get help from their customer care and by the time they got back to me I had lost interest. I spent the waitjng time researching Valve and I decided they are not an ethical business. Made me sad as I loved the idea of a customised-for-gaming-on-console linux OS and liked the look of the hardware. But Valve is a monopolist and has too much market share and too many users and thus too much power - USA politics today shows how big a risk that is. Valve supports unethical business models like 'rent game to play', AI-generated junk games and IP violations so it debases game development and hurts indy developers, live-streaming games which is bad for environment. It promotes 'easy access/always on gaming' and is thus profiting from addiction-to-gaming, which ix a MASSIVE problem and few gamers admit it. It's an American corporation and I distrust American corporate culture. Most of which might be said of other console/platforms so its not just Valve/Steam, I feel wary of but the whole industry. I bought a second-hand Switch so did not help Nintendo/Japanese corporate power directly. I bought a bundle of 2nd-hand games on sd card with minimal download content (except for 'No Man's Sky' which constantly updates). I am trying to be an ethical gamer - limit my time gaming to stop me becoming an addict etc. But I admit I am compromised - I spend too much time gaming, being retired its easy to lose track of time. Honestly, I feel like a vegan who wraps bacon in thick wholemeal sandwiches and pretends they are not really eating pigs since its mainly bread. I am 'a work in progress'.