That's what this conversation is about. Normally I'd chastise people for not reading through to the body of the linked article, but this time it's right in the headline. You literally could not have reached this post without reading it at least once.

It's called having a conversation and typically in those people move past the starting point on to other related topics. There's no need to read malice into it.

You're welcome to not answer further, too.

Well, yeah. What kind of security do you think normies are running? They won't even get hijacked by an unpatched Windows 10 exploit, they'll just try to download The Last of Us by opening "WatchOnlineMoviesFree.exe" when a pop up tells them to.

Well exactly, although let's be honest: "normies" will downgrade upgrade to windows 11 because they always want the latest greatest thing.

Business operations will go with whatever is cheapest to maintain, which is the entire point of LTSC and the article in the link.

This might be true wherever you're from (I'm assuming US?) but it's in no way reality where I live. Here you must use a secure OS for businesses, you can't just use whatever.

I suppose. We would have to know if it's worth their while to work on security flaws (which I imagine they will put zero effort into and pretty much just answer to bounty hunter reports) for $30 a year.

But because I know Microsoft and am used to their shenanigans, I wouldn't hold my breath on that lasting for too long.

I personally use Fedora (starting yesterday actually), but Mint is definitely a serviceable distro that works for a wide variety of people.

I simply don't like how it stays so behind on updates (I see that as a big security and privacy risk), but if you don't need windows-only proprietary software, or all you do is browse the web, then Linux Mint is a familiar and usable enough distro.

If you're going to criticize Mint for being behind in packages, then you also need to criticize Debian, because that's where the philosophy comes from.

Wow! Thank you for going through the effort of figuring out whether there was a solution for me. I really appreciate it!

You're most welcome!

Which a shame because I do want Linux to be more widely used than it is currently, and I think small annoyances like this are part of what is holding it back.

And yes, I completely 100% agree. Hopefully there will soon be a fix for this, because like you said, it really sounds like something that should be able to be fixed relatively easily, lol.

Anyways, best of luck to you in the future!

Hey, so I just tested this and you're right, it doesn't work as you described.

I suppose I unconsciously found workarounds and just ran with it.

For the examples you mentioned:

I'm is achieved by typing ' and then space.

ç you can get with AltGr+<

The other two, I have no idea what they are, but I trust your judgment.

I also went around some forums and yeah it appears other people report it doesn't work as it should. A bummer.

Maybe there already are some custom keyboard layouts out there you can download?

To get

I hear you, but me get this straight:

Windows fleeced you out of a technology they were supposed to support for the years to come, but you're still gonna snide Linux and stay with Windows? Lol.

How long do you expect that to last?

Sounds lovely, thank you for that feedback. I'm very excited to try. I'm gonna try to install Aurora OS (immutable) and boot from a pendrive on my wife's Mac (it has an Intel processor still, so it should be fine). If everything works well, I'm sure shell be very happy.

I predict the big replacement for supported Windows 10 will be unsupported Windows 10. I expect that's a pretty safe bet

Famous last words before getting a keylogger that leads to all your bank accounts being drained due to lack of security patches.

Also, this is pretty much not possible (if not illegal) for business operations since those generally require having a secure OS to work on.

That problem was present in both distros, and I even went so far as to unsuccessfully edit system files to get the desired behaviour.

What desired behaviour are you talking about exactly?

Because I have used those exact two distros, also with deadkeys since I type in Portuguese and Spanish alongside English, and deadkeys works just fine for me.

• To use Windows only and legacy software.

This is a fair point. If you're a creator and need adobe software then Linux is pretty much a no go. However, a lot of windows software have Linux equivalents (and those

• Some laptops don't support Linux due to missing drivers. are generally free as well), so its a matter of doing research.

If you pick the right distribution it may include all the drivers you need. So far I tested 5 distributions and they all worked straight out of the box. I'll test Linux on a Mac this afternoon and see how it goes, but I'm optimistic it will just work also.

Some very old people hate change and would want to use windows 10 till the end of times, matter of fact I had seen a full office with about 5 desktops that is still running windows xp. (Spoiler alert:they got a ransomware 2 years ago.)

Fine. These people who refuse to adapt to the world can just keep using windows. No skin off my nose either way.

finally, Windows is idiot proof, meaning that it's kind of hard to ruin desktop windows during the normal operations. In comparison, a bad Linux update could fuck your boot loader beyond repair (it happened to me twice in fact, once on openSUSE tumbleweed and the other on Clear Linux).

Now this "idiot proof" take is really funny. You see, I've been using Mint for about a month now, never having to log into Windows. Yesterday I needed to log into windows and was immediately met with an update (against my consent), followed by a blue screen of death and when I restarted my laptop my profile couldn't be acceded and I was instead logged into a safe Environment.

I ended up having to troubleshoot using the Registry to get my account back. If this is idiot proof I have no idea what you consider a system that just works (which is what Linux does in my experience). You'd feel like Heaven is on Earth. On another note, WiFi never autoconnected on login in on windows in my laptop, but it does on Linux.

As for the issues you had, I understand. Rolling releases aren't for everyone and if you're not particularly into tinkering or just use your laptop to browse the web, an immutable distro is pretty much unbreakable.

Otherwise, Linux Mint is very conservative so it won't break with updates (and in the rare instance that does, you can just use Timeshift to rollback the updates anyway).

I don't have experience with setting up networks on Linux, but Ubuntu should have some guides available, no?

In any case, I was speaking from the perspective of someone who used Linux Mint and Fedora. Both work pretty much out of the box with little tinkering.

Which distribution did you try?

Linux mint is more windows-like than windows itself. I know that sounds odd but watch some videos if you're curious and you'll see what i mean.

Why even bother at this point? Linux has become so good it's actually easier and more familiar to use than the clusterfuck that is windows 11.

I'm currently testing fedora (upgrading from mint) and since I'm fairly new I don't want to venture into the fairly unknown territory that is Immutable atm.

Plus, I using a VPN, its crucial for my work, and I already see there are some issues with it because it has to be layered and blá bla bla.

Basically I'm just giving Atomic distros one or 2 years more so that the technology matures, software developers start taking it seriously enough to work around them, and for guides to start coming out.

Well, if you go back to my original comment, all I said was that Tesla owners were clearly not paying attention to even their News notifications on their phones, since Musk's presence is ubiquitous. Tesla's multitude of issues is equally as well-known.

That said, I didn't wish anybody any harm for buying a Tesla, although they probably will get harmed when the "self-driving" feature inevitably sends them speeding into a brick wall.

But buying that garbage car was their choice.

Like the other guy said, Elon Musk is public about his shittiness. In the beginning didn't even care about him, and yet I couldn't escape him because he was constantly on the news.

Nah, 7 was pretty good, although it was the last good one.

Anything past that was garbage but frankly I tolerated it as as a teenager I was too busy being horny all the time to notice how my computer was increasingly antagonistic towards me.

I tolerated all the way to windows 10 but windows 11 was the last nail in the coffin for me. I probably am indeed late to the party but tbh Linux didn't inspire me until recently when I saw its became way more user-friendly than it was in 2015 when I first tried it.