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Ha! When has a windows 11 update actuality been a net benefit?
More vibe coded bullshit. Of course.
Skip today's Windows 11 update
Way ahead of ya, champ.
Skip ~~today's~~ Windows ~~11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more~~
Joke's on them, I've been using Linux for nearly 27 years now.
Jokes on them, my wallpaper is already plain black
They have the wallpaper locked at work somehow. Thanks for the reminder I need to stylise my cursor again. Black with green border.
At home, I’ve been Windows free for a few years now.
I love how we get windows news posted to every random comm
I have a duel boot setup and it's been a year since I had to boot into Win11. Seriously concerned with what is going to happen when I have to use it.
Thanks. Will not switch from Gentoo to Windows today.
Man, I feel like I went 15 years without anybody talking to me about using Gentoo but now THEY'RE BACK! Glad to see you.
I use Debian BTW. ; )
But you're right, when did it shift from gentoo to arch?
Eyyyy gentoo gang 👋
Can't skip the update if you don't have any Windows installations.
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Another day... another windows update failure...
(read in the darkest dungeon's narrator voice)
Arch Windows.
Windows Mint
If it was Windows Mint, a random update wouldn't be breaking everything.
This is the Preview channel update. People that opted into it should anticipate issues.
No it isn't. I have a secondary Windows machine and I got that update without being on any insider channel.
Preview is not Insider. You have to manually select Preview channel updates.
Other than “at gunpoint,” why are you still using Windows?
Ancient Nvidia GPU (GT1030), I tried but I can't really be bothered to spend another week scouring forums to find kernel options and drivers to hope that the specific combination will stop making the taskbar blink or something
Since joining the fediverse, I'm convinced the biggest deterrence for more people joining Linux are its users.
True, People can be obnoxious. But you should still try it at some point, there is something to the hype.
I have tried it, and I had more issues with my previous laptop on Mint than I have currently on Windows. Still I'll look at it again once I need a new one.
Edit: So I guess in my case the users didn't deter me, since I wasn't really interacting with the community at any point. I think it's probably more of a threadiverse user thing than a Linux user thing. And yeah I can be obnoxious myself, I just don't expect it to yield results.
I use it for work (AD admin, kind of have to unless I want to change careers while I'm halfway to retirement), and at home I use it for a machine that's dedicated to running simulator games (I can get the peripherals to work in Linux for the most part, but a lot of the setup for them is Windows only and since it's only used for that, I'm currently just sucking it up there... Though I'll need to keep something around even if I switch that system since some of them can only be programmed via Windows, like my VKB flight sticks)
I tried installing Linux but something went wrong and it didn't work.
I know better than to ask for basic computer help in a Linux community.
The Linux community seems to me more open than ever before. Possibly due to the influx of new users who's job is not to administer Linux systems.
I wouldn't be too afraid to ask questions. Linux systems are nowadays quite simple to setup and you shouldn't have much problems with getting a simple question replied to.
Need Adobe software for work. Want to play online games that have anti-cheat. Also like to run mods in my games.
I have a shitty old laptop for travelling that I'll try to install Linux on this weekend, since I only need Firefox on that.
I'm hesitant to leave 10 because there are a few games I play that don't support Linux, and I like em too much to quit if 10 still works. However, once support officially ends forreal, I will say goodbye to those games o7 11 will never touch my outers.
At work tho they had to upgrade to 11 in the office, and since it's retail the office isn't really that important but 11 is so poorly designed the computers barely run anymore
I have a 60TB disk pool with DrivePool software and have no place to put my data and create a Linux based pool. I have to wait until I can afford a new 20TB disk as a temp storage.
Unless there is an easy way to convert a DrivePool to mergerfs etc.
Legacy windows projects development. I switched to Linux and run windows as virtual guest with minimal usage though.
Heavily modded Skyrim
I have more interest in starting a WatchWindowsDie group than I do in going back to Windows, but it seems like the entire internet is already on the beat.
Windows will not die so easily. Two reasons: 1. Too much money behind and around it. 2. Sheer corporate inertia. 3. As long as there is no competition to the AD/Entra ecosystem, companies will buy it. Ok, three reasons.
I will counter all that with one reason:
Nobody trusts Donald J. Trump with their data.
The French Gardia switched over to an in house Linux distro and now a lot of governments and companies are watching to see what happens.
Glad I got out when I did.
