Let’s make Windows 10 the last version ever used!
*Sat. 28 Dec. 11h* Stage YELL #KDEEco 's Call To Action against e-waste driven by #Windows10.
*Mon. 30 Dec. 13-15h* B&B habitat join the BoF to organize a global #FreeSoftware campaign to raise awareness of Windows 10’s EoL in 2025, the role of software in #eWaste, and how independent, sustainable #FOSS is a solution to keep devices in use & out of the landfill.
https://fahrplan.alpaka.space/jugend-hackt-38c3-2024/talk/ST8NJA/
Never thought Id upvote a KDE post…
Can it run substance painter yet?
Substance painter has always ran on Linux, has it not?
I thino they mean Adobe Substance Painter. I don’t think it works on Linux, as it also requires Creative Cloud, iirc.
W11 is like vista, all frills and no substance. Some people will skip the upgrade due to slowness (it’s slow with i7+16gb sometimes) and in case of users who use chrome only, ChromeOS flex or its siblings could be a solution.
Linux isn’t ready for the mass Market yet. I say that as someone that has been a Windows free household for like over 8 years and who actively attempts to convert as many of my friends as I can.
It is not and probably never will be general market ready. Too fragmented and too many options. Which is why I love it so I wouldn’t want it to change either.
there are loads of options, but if you ask almost any linux person what distro you should start with, the answer is mint
I’m not sure what universe you live in lol. Yes lots of people like mint but plenty hate it. I don’t hate it but it wouldn’t be/hasn’t been my recommendation when converting people
I’m still using my thinkpad that’s 11 years running Linux mint beautifully.
I’m doing my part.
I unregistered my Win 10 key last Sunday and removed the SSD. All my IT is Windows free.
I’m still rocking a 2010 dual Xeon Mac Pro. I have no desire to use anything else. That plus my Steam Deck are good enough for me.
I would really love it if we could get normal people using Linux but Linux has to come to them in terms of usability, to be honest. The Steam Deck did it, so it’s clearly doable.
But in the state of things we’re in, I’m afraid that *most people* are gonna follow Windows to Windows 11. and their understandings of how computing is will be mutilated by it.
and therefore we get more anprims per capita, because if you think that’s not at least in part downstream of big tech fuckery you’re lying to yourself
@gyro @be4foss @kde the goal of that event is very ambitious I agree, but if I see that alone this year I myself made 4 friends and my mom to move to Linux then getting Linux to a solid market share and minimalising waste is a practicable goal.
I wouldn’t say it was easy. It is hard work and explaining a normal person what the difference between X11 and Wayland is is next to impossible.
There will be some people who just can’t afford a new PC and we basically just need to help them.
Linux ain’t the problem there. Usability is more of that nonsense thought up by corporations to scare people. Computers are tricky, whether Windows or Linux, and the only reason Windows is more popular is they’ve been installing it on people’s computers without asking for decades. Honestly most people don’t even have computers these days. All they get to have is a phone.
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You’re so close. What’s actually needed is that it comes pre-installed by default.
@gyro @be4foss @kde @NafiTheBear i think a significant amount of people are going to just not bother buying another laptop once their Win10 one sucks too much, because they’re on their phones for everything these days
@kyle_pegasus
@be4foss @kde @NafiTheBearWell that’s depressing, that gonna put us so much further away from ever making things good again
I relent, I need to switch. the proposed bullshit has gotten to much for even me, the world’s laziest man.
Just a lazy man in a worky world. Should have been born a Limited Liability Corporation.
Just used the kid as a guinea pig. All AMD rig, Bazzite with Gnome to make it a little more UI familiar for him. It’s pretty much a gaming only station but he’s had zero issues.
That’s what they don’t understand.
Every year is the year of the Linux desktop, that’s why we say it every year.
~random 4chan post I’m surely misquoting
You’re quite late. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but they’ve got Windows 11 now. There are people using it. Not me, but people.
All true. The point is that win 11 doesn’t support a lot of old hardware that’s perfectly usable, just doesn’t have TPM2.0 chips built into them. There are some hacks around it, but it takes a great deal of desire and proficiency to make them work.
Yeah, and it sucks in like 30 other ways, but unfortunately people aren’t smart and will be going to 11 like the drones they are. I’m dual booting Linux and 10 and spend 100% of my time on 10 because having to configure and go into terminal 24/7 isn’t as fun as Lemmy makes it out to be.
having to configure and go into console 24/7
You’re not running any Linux that I’ve used in the past ten years then. What relic of a bygone age are you running?
Lol. Not taking the bait on this one. Have a good Christmas.
^ 10 bucks this guy uses Arch instead of anything simpler lol
Genuinely interested so I can try it out. It sounds like fun.
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Right? I’ve been running Mint the past year, can count the amount of times I had to boot into windows on my fingers, and having to use the terminal to do things is like an occasional, once every couple months thing, usually to solve a problem I’ve created for myself.
I remember trying Linux in the early 2010s. When it looked like a modern OS, but behaved like it always had up to that point. That was misery.
also anyone who complains about the terminal in Linux is clearly not very computer competent in Windows, as I recall frequently using Command Prompt and PowerShell to get shit done. At least, they’re not doing anything remotely complex if they’ve never encountered or had to use either.
He’s either using a 15 year old copy of Ubuntu, or he dove straight into the deep end with Arch like a dumbass and nobody told him about the wiki.
I’ve been on Linux Mint for the past several months and I think I’ve needed the terminal twice?
Once I couldn’t find a GUI option to adjust the brightness/gamma, but searching found me the terminal command so I just used that.
More recently I needed newer Nvidia drivers than were available by default, so I had to add a new PPA thing. We’ll find out later today if I’m going to regret that.
Most settings average “Facebook machine” users need are available on common distros without touching a console.
Unless you want to emulate common windows software. Then only God can save you.
I use Arch, btw
is QEMU god?
