Install Linux I have using it on servers and desktop for years, you can start with Pop! OS. Good luck.
Pop! OS is great. I've been using it for about a week now. Very friendly distro for us Windows victims.
Zorin OS it's another good one for recent ex-windows users, but yeah pop os goes smooth.
Here's my vote for Bazzite. If your use case is simple computing and games? I don't know if you can do much better.
Yep it's been over a decade for me now.
Pop os is pretty awesome. Using it now and been gaming just fine. I shouldve made the switch years ago.
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Windows 2000 Professional was the first good Windows OS that I can remember. XP and 7 were also quite decent overall.
Around 2008 everything changed. This is when Prism was ramped up, and Microsoft's new mission was to use MSE and telemetry to spy on the world. It was around this time Windows 8 rolled out with spyware and Windows 7 got "security" updates that forced telemetry into it as well.
Information is power, and the general population has no chance of living in a free and fair society until it cleans house in the private and public sectors.
The power argument is true, but secondary. The primary reasons for this are ultimately financial. The problem was that Windows 7 was too good. Too stable. It did everything most people wanted, without issues. What has been added to windows after windows 7 that was actually beneficial to the user? The answer is nothing, within a small margin of error. That's why upgrades to W10 and now 11 are as forced as possible. It's not like those uogrades have anything that people actually need or want. Since they can't produce anything more for windows that people would actually want to pay for, all that is left is adding in telemetry/spyware and selling your data, likely along side a long term vision to turn Windows into a monthly subscription.
When innovation ends but demand for increasing profits doesn't, enshittification is all that is left.
You are like 10 years late to discover this, but sure... Of course you can escape Microsoft. They are very easy to avoid.
Linux is amazing. Just a hint...
Install Linux. It’s almost easier to install than Windows at this point.
I agree. I switched to Linux full time a few months ago and there are several things just easier than windows.
Installing the OS was super simple, I didn’t have to turn off 10 settings that it wanted to sell my info, no keys to type in, no registration or spying, no candy crush and 20 other unwanted programs. I have to customize windows so much to my liking and then an update takes it away.
I just wish Elgato products had Linux support. I have emailed them a few times to suggest it. Maybe when 10% Linux share or 15%… I’m waiting.
During the past few months I now have myself, my wife, my uncle, and my dad on Linux!!!
I’ve also switched a lot of people over recently! And I do wonder what will happen when a critical mass of tech-literate people switch over to Linux. A lot of people only get by with Windows because their tech-literate friends help them with it.
best part is that you can turn old laptops still useful after installing ubuntu etc
what elgato product do you have?
A few stream decks, cam link pro, 4k60 pro and maybe a few other items. I know the stream deck has 3rd party programs but they require typing in commands and stuff to setup.
If you try doing it on your Steam deck you might find that it’s replicable on your Linux machine.
It’s almost easier to install than Windows at this point
Give an average user a PC with no OS. Ask them to install Windows. They can Google/use a pendrive on a secondary PC. I'd like to see how easy Windows 11 is to install.
And that raises a good point, since average users get their tech friends to do the installing anyway. I’ve switched many over to Linux because of this.
since average users get their tech friends to do the installing anyway
Close but no cigar.
While some people do take their tech-friend's help, majority of people just buy PCs/laptops with Windows preinstalled. THAT is the reason people are just used to Windows.
That doesn’t preclude what I said, though. When there is installing to be done, it’s usually the tech friend that’s called in to do it. I know this by virtue of being that person and having been called on to do it several times.
PCs/laptops with Windows preinstalled
or even pay extra to install it, if the machine would have FreeDOS by default.
Oh, you absolutely can escape them. I hacent used windows except for work in years and even then my boss is okay with ne using linux as long as i get the work done
18 minutes video about how windows is bad, posted to literally the biggest linux circlejerk forum of the interwebs. Oh a misleading ad trying to sell the same thing as haveibeenpwned, classic.
Nowadays if someone is annoyed by these things can switch to Linux, nearly all games work ootb, hardware acceleration and drm is also working in browsers. For a home user, competitive gaming is the only thing which is not on par with windows.
For company environments where they use software which is windows only, group policy is there, sysadmins can lock down computers that it basically looks like a kiosk with only the few programs the employee need, no notifications, no ai bullshit, these annoyances only affect home users.
no king rules forever, my son
"Windows - The Decline and Fall of the Redmond Empire"
The last fond memories I have of using Windows were 3.11 and 95/98SE. XP was useable but ugly. 7 was nicer than XP but a lot slower. Everything else has been awful.
You skipped the dumster fire that was Vista
Millennium edition would like a word, and for the love of God do not defrag
There is no OS called Vista 🙂
Yeah I am so glad I switched to GNU/Linux years ago, Have to keep supporting closed OSes at work with our software and with each release they are just getting worse and worse, while GNU/Linux just keeps getting better.
It's been going downhill since Windows 2000.
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