Unless we are all techies we don’t have much to switch to.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world
on 07 Jul 15:16
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I’m not a RedHat fan (actually very explicitly not a fan), but frankly Fedora with Gnome seems as problematic as Windows at worst, and very easy to install.
I was looking how to autologin on an old laptop that is used as a media player on my tv, followed the instructions but turns out thay whole section of the settings is missing for some reason.
Had to look wtf and turns out there's a fix but it requires me sitting and taking my time with it (which I won't have for a while), nobody else can do it but it bothers me to no end... Why the fuck did it happened in the first place? How can it's own installer miss things?
I think the way to approach this is creating a PR that a simple (plenty of people autologin on Windows) functionality is hard to find. It’s also very valuable feedback for the developers, they usually have sort of tunnel vision and see completely different things as terribly important for users, while some really important (and maybe easy to do) just skip because in their skewed view it’s not pressing.
That could be replaced with proper QA and lots of testing on focus groups and so on, but we live in 2025, nobody does things properly anymore.
Worse part is it's damn Fedora KDE, they are meant to be user-friendly, this would make my sister go back to windows in less than a second
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
on 07 Jul 18:58
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I found Mint rather simple to install. That said, I am a techie. I am using several different distros in my house, but I wanted to live in Mint for a while to see how well a non-techie might fare. My reasoning was that since Ubuntu (Mint’s parent) is rather ubiquitous, there is more development and more attention paid to support and troubleshoot issues. So far, so good. Yes, being tech literate does help, but I think a non-techie could live with Linux. And over time, the environment will become more known like Windows is now.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
on 09 Jul 03:52
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I don’t have a significant need to use a laptop or desktop as my phone is my primary computing device. With that said, I run Mint Debian Edition on my laptop. Just because I want my computer to work when I go to use it, even if it has been six months.
There’s plenty of tutorials on YouTube to walk you through installing all the major linux distros. And distros like mint are pretty streamlined now. It’s pretty straight forward. And there’s a good community here that is always willing to help.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world
on 07 Jul 15:15
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What’s even the difference? Same shit, a bit JS added.
You can move it back. My forced on me win11 looks a lot like my win10.
Not saying I like it, it’s owned and controlled by the employer, but with a little work some of the shitty pointless default UI changes can be minimized.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
on 09 Jul 13:42
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Right, but my point is that it’s change for the sake of change, not to improve things. It’s the same old Windows, but with some downgrades like telemetry and stupid defaults.
Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 09 Jul 06:30
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The AI crap added to notepad was something I didn’t believe until I saw it for myself. Like a fractal cauliflower blossom of bloat touching all things.
threaded - newest
It was forced on to my computer.
You always had the choice to install Linux, and still do. Dont let them control your PC.
Yeah my corpo laptop will update to 11 on July 10th. I’m going to be testing out in house app on Linux with an older corpo laptop soon
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Tarball detected, would you like to xzf?
That’s only because I left for Linux.
Unless we are all techies we don’t have much to switch to.
I’m not a RedHat fan (actually very explicitly not a fan), but frankly Fedora with Gnome seems as problematic as Windows at worst, and very easy to install.
I was looking how to autologin on an old laptop that is used as a media player on my tv, followed the instructions but turns out thay whole section of the settings is missing for some reason.
Had to look wtf and turns out there's a fix but it requires me sitting and taking my time with it (which I won't have for a while), nobody else can do it but it bothers me to no end... Why the fuck did it happened in the first place? How can it's own installer miss things?
Different version, probably.
I think the way to approach this is creating a PR that a simple (plenty of people autologin on Windows) functionality is hard to find. It’s also very valuable feedback for the developers, they usually have sort of tunnel vision and see completely different things as terribly important for users, while some really important (and maybe easy to do) just skip because in their skewed view it’s not pressing.
That could be replaced with proper QA and lots of testing on focus groups and so on, but we live in 2025, nobody does things properly anymore.
Worse part is it's damn Fedora KDE, they are meant to be user-friendly, this would make my sister go back to windows in less than a second
I found Mint rather simple to install. That said, I am a techie. I am using several different distros in my house, but I wanted to live in Mint for a while to see how well a non-techie might fare. My reasoning was that since Ubuntu (Mint’s parent) is rather ubiquitous, there is more development and more attention paid to support and troubleshoot issues. So far, so good. Yes, being tech literate does help, but I think a non-techie could live with Linux. And over time, the environment will become more known like Windows is now.
I don’t have a significant need to use a laptop or desktop as my phone is my primary computing device. With that said, I run Mint Debian Edition on my laptop. Just because I want my computer to work when I go to use it, even if it has been six months.
There’s plenty of tutorials on YouTube to walk you through installing all the major linux distros. And distros like mint are pretty streamlined now. It’s pretty straight forward. And there’s a good community here that is always willing to help.
What’s even the difference? Same shit, a bit JS added.
More telemetry, more AI.
And they moved the start menu.
You can move it back. My forced on me win11 looks a lot like my win10.
Not saying I like it, it’s owned and controlled by the employer, but with a little work some of the shitty pointless default UI changes can be minimized.
Right, but my point is that it’s change for the sake of change, not to improve things. It’s the same old Windows, but with some downgrades like telemetry and stupid defaults.
No Internet Explorer (replaced by probably JavaScript app)
Edge.
My workplace (government) has left it to the last minute and I bet a lot of others have as well. The numbers should shift hard in the next 3 minths.
Governments really should be shifting entirely to Linux. Reliance on corps not to corp is not good practice for a government
And it’s dog shit too.
The AI crap added to notepad was something I didn’t believe until I saw it for myself. Like a fractal cauliflower blossom of bloat touching all things.