Microsoft killed Win 10 support to rob you of your rights. Fight back by installing Linux.
Microsoft killed Win 10 support to rob you of your rights. Fight back by installing Linux.
In this video, I reveal why Microsoft ended Windows 10 support in October 2025? The answer is simple: they want to rob you of your digital sovereignty. They won't be happy until each and every one ...
I mean, it's not really fighting back. There's nothing to win. You're just ending a toxic relationship and getting your PC and digital wellbeing back to how things used to be.
Freedom, respect, privacy, money, ... There's lots to win. And it isn't just going back to how things were: it's going to places better than anywhere you've been.
KDE plasma has gotten really good with 6.5
I get why Microsoft wants everyone to be in one OS for code maintenance issues. The problem is that Microsoft has hit a wall in getting Windows to be a revenue generator and is including privacy breaking features like Copilot without a way to disable or not use it.
I think a lot of people wouldn't be complaining about the upgrade if Windows 11 wasn't dog shit.
If Windows 11 is their maintained code then we're all fucked.
Copilot is safe, the thing seems to be unavailable 99% of the time.
I haven't run Linux for probably 20 years until last week when I replaced my windows 10 with Tumbleweed. It's definitely better than I remember for driver compatibility but it's still not good enough for a general windows replacement.
Videos don't play without hiccups, sometimes my keyboard and mouse don't work when the PC wakes up and I needed to install Mint in distrobox to get some software working.
Also people have been trained to troubleshoot by clicking and Linux still mostly demands troubleshooting via the terminal and that's a deal breaker for many people.
Using Linux for 30 years already, for servers, notebooks, and desktops. For gaming I still have Windows 10 though. Testing gaming on Linux now, looks promising. MSFS with VR is still a challenge though.
Using Bazzite for the gaming machine and Ubuntu for my laptop. Last windows machine in the house goes away as soon as I get to rebuilding the wifes laptop. Recently discovered Tails for a no traceable footprint tor. Browser bootable os for privacy.
If you thought you ever had "digital sovereignty" while using a corpo OS...
Right but it's the degree, my friend. Life works like that a lot.
Isn't it, at least officially, to enforce TPM 2.0?
Yes, but you can pay for support until 2026 or 27, I believe.
I'd rather die than use linux.
There is a version specifically for zombies.
Nooooo Stamets it's not too late to save yourself!!!
I jest, but I do wonder why you feel that way?
↑ Found the BSD user.
I guess if Linux is universally adopted then they'll eventually become like Microsoft or Apple with respect to ownership and capitalization. Right now though, they are the Magnificent Seven.
Nah, windows runs all my games.
This said, I also run Linux exclusively for other things.
I guess everyone hates me for daring to run Windows though. I fucking hate Lemmy sometimes. You guys are such douchebags.
Honestly, these days linux runs 90%+ of windows games, often better than windows. The 10% that's left have kernel level 'anticheat' that you probably don't want anyway.
I actually run a bit of everything. Mac at work, freebsd for the servers, linux for my personal/gaming pc, windows 10 for the VR/guest pc (though I really should check how VR performance is in linux these days- I haven't checked in like 8+ years, last time I tried there was a microstutter issue that made me nauseous af, and W10 is obv going away), graphene on the phone, another phone with KaiOS to fiddle with, etc etc.
What game does it run that Linux doesn't? There are some but besides league I've been able to play everyone on them.
Why are you assuming insults and responding to a straw man? Weird...
Destiny is another. Actually I hear it runs fine Bungie just bans your account if you try to play on linux, "because fuck you that's why."
Also a bunch of online games with kernel level anticheat (which IMO good I don't want kernel level anticheat on linux at all lmao.)
Linux has been known to run single player games better than windows though, so I guess it just depends on your style. Me? I have OpenMW on linux and a GBC on my shelf, that's all I need.
Its okay to still use windows where it works best for you :) it's definitely frustrating sometimes when people get so hung up on what they feel like is the solution that they're assholes to others. Linux has been amazing for the 10 or so years I've been using it but not everyone wants or needs to switch right now and that's okay.
Sorry your experience here has sucked sometimes. Wanting to see linux do well and knowing that it's worked well for your own needs isn't a good justification for being a dick.
Yeah, Lemmy is worse than Reddit sometimes.
My work software literally only runs on Windows. Better quit my job! Or "Dual boot!" for literally no reason. Windows is made out to be so much worse than it is, like it's giving my family cancer.
Windows also gave me another year of updates for clicking a button, so now I can drag my feet on updating for another 12 months.
This dude is right. If you primarily use your computer for gaming, Linux is still not good enough. No amount of "hurr durr the anticheat should be reason enough not to play" is going to change that.
People will play what they want of what their friends are playing, and if to doesn't work on Linux, regardless of whose fault that is, it makes Linux still not good enough for most gamers.
He's also right that lemmy is full of douchebags.
Done, running mint now. Switch was easy, machine performance improved without that bullshit telemetry running.
Mint is pretty... Uhh... Mint.
Im not sure why eveyone keeps blindly recommending mint, yeah it works great if you only do document editing and web browsing but it kinda undersells Linux.
Making that bootable USB was a pain. Needed a program to check the ISO. Download more files to check it against. Another program to mount it. Another program because the first doesn't do Linux iso. MBR or GPT, didn't even know about that.
Checkout ventoy. It can be used as a multiboot disk so you can try a bunch of distros or have backups of prior releases or even have testing/recovery images like clonezilla or memtest.
MBR is older and might be more compatible with older computers it wouldn't cause any problems, GPT is newer and if your computer was built in the last 10 years you might as well use it.
You do the same process for windows. Rufus will wipe away babys first tears. Microsoft gonna keep baby cozy and warm.