STOP TRYING TO INSTALL COPILOT
Hi :-)
We installed an update while you were asleep. Do you want to upgrade to Windows 11? How about sign in to your Microsoft account? Oh, I see, well we turned all of the ads and tracking back on so have fun finding the settings page to turn them off again!buried in a microsoft support forum post somewhere:
we also moved where that settings page is. enjoy
Linux Gang 
Fucking right? I need to get better at linux. My mint install keeps crashing in weird ways but i haven’t cared enough to fix it.
I’m lucky in that almost all software i use that isn’t games is foss already.
Fucking “ai”
Hey what if you had a personal assistant who couldn’t do anything right and was always slpurnned out of their mind on halucinogens?
Hey what if you had a personal assistant who couldn’t do anything right and was always slpurnned out of their mind on halucinogens?
i’d be okay with this if they were human tbh
Okay but they also inform on you to literally every fed agency billionaire and corporation, and everything they bring you that isn’t ‘put glue on pizza’ was an ad.
Ubuntu is nice. I had mint on my desktop, but I just like Ubuntu way better. I find Ubuntu to be the Windows of Linux, without all of the spyware/malware shit. It’s the most popular, it’s kept up to date, and it works out of the box.
I’m typing this on Ubuntu from a Windows Surface Laptop Go. This little ultrabook is hella cursed and it just… worked. Ironically, the 5 minutes I used windows 11 on this thing were chugging like hell. This is an Ubuntu only device now.
I have one of those windows surface tablets from an ill-considered mania/panic purchase years ago and I rarely use it because the touch interface is so wretched on windows. :(
Oh, the Surface Laptop Go’s are like Macbook Air clones, really nice.
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Anyone else have their firefox keep crashing on Linux Mint? Particularly when I’m on websites like discord or youtube that aren’t just text.
And also was snitching on you to literally every corporation and all your least favorite governments! Also maybe some of the ones you like, if you like any and have great access.
using windows is basically like having a fed standing behind you at all times but also the fed likes to gossip with anyone that asks
but the most annoying part is that the fed is also trying to gossip with you while you’re trying to do shit on your computer
And gets in the way and fucks everything up if you misclick and select the little unremovable fed button instead of tgd thing you wanted to do. Also replaces random shit like your file explorer with the fed button sometimes.
Also hardcodes your keyboard configuration (yes it does this, I am using a european keyboard and had to do all sorts of fuckery in order to make hotkeys in google docs work.)
Wow, this is awful!
Please, for your own sake and sanity, try Fedora. You can test drive it on a live disc.
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to be fair they named it way before those people made fedoras cringe
It’s named that because Fedora is the community spinoff of Red Hat, which has a fedora in its logo.
Can I honestly ask why you choose Fedora over other distros? I have no sway either way because I’ve simply heard nothing in particular about Fedora in years. So, I’m curious why a Fedora user is a Fedora user.
I’m curious why a Fedora user is a Fedora user.
They’re a Fedora user because they use Fedora
I’ll let them answer. There are reasons to pick one package management team over another.
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It’s probably the most polished non-enterprise distro. I avoid anything based on Ubuntu like the plague, though.
Thanks for that perspective.
I’ve never been able to prove anything and I think there are still good people doing good work in their employ but I can’t help but feel like modern Canonical is an op to make desktop Linux worse.
The update tiers of “Ubuntu Pro” are really gross and probably the final nail in the coffin for me.
I’m one of those strange people who compiles all their own software and trusts nothing, but I still need to know what to recommend, y’know, sane people. I tried the Ubuntu variants out recentlyish on an unused machine and found myself making so many changes and finding packages surprisingly stale, I just I couldn’t recommend people switch to this… I guess I’ll give Fedora a whirl.
The Ubuntu release philosophy just never worked for me as someone that’s used to using up-to-date software. I don’t mind the little (sometimes big) issues that crop up. Then there’s the snap debacle, especially how they surreptitiously install snap versions of apps even when you use apt-install. I can’t trust software that lies to me. I use Arch but always recommend Fedora as that seems to be the best balance of stability and keeping current on drivers and software.
Ubuntu was dead to me when they started pushing hard on their wall-garden Snap nonsense. Good on Mint’s devs for not just doing the lazy and just going with stock Ubuntu, but instead taking the time to make a base variant with Snap specifically ripped out.
The packages get updates fairly quickly for a non-rolling release distro, and the distro is more batteries-included and tends to adopt newer technologies like BTRFS faster than other distros. It also has the immutable Silverblue variant which looks neat although I’ve never used it myself.
I’ve got a really powerful machine and the Debian kernel wasn’t compatible with my graphics card. Mint kind of felt like Windows but a crappier, older version. Fedora felt like something that is actually making a break away from stale old things. And, everything was just plug and play for me.
I haven’t even read the comments am I’m 100% sure it’s been flooded by the illinuxati being like “hah, you use a WINDOWS?”
Fuckers installed co-pilot on mine when I was away and now my laptop has “no available device” for audio out. Like there’s no option in settings for the speakers. Can’t even plug in an audio cord. Nothing. They broke my shit and installed AI
This would genuinely disrupt my business to a wild degree . Like cost me thouuuusands
I swear I’m switching to Linux when they stop supporting Win 10
Me too tbh when I get a new PC it’s gonna be Linux
Get a new PC now… They just getting more expensive
Why wait? Buy a cheap ass laptop and have it as a Linux machine.
Whats that quote about the best time to start doing something is a decade ago, the second best time is now?
Anyways, it will be easier to switch if you have a working machine with Win10 instead of waiting for your machine to shit the bed while upgrading to 11
I did that not to long ago and it worked kinda OK, then it did old laptop things and stopped turning on. I’ve used Linux on a couple of old computers now, and for the most part it worked fine after a little fiddling with the setup.
We’re going to keep installing clippies until you get the point :bill-gates:
universal paperclippy machine
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I’m so glad I switched to Linux full-time years ago when Proton dropped.
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I got 10 years until steam drops win10, if win7 is any guide
I recently switched to linux mint and have had no serious issues at all. In fact I like it more than windows and it isn’t full of crap and spyware
Are the volume and screen brightness as good quality? And does the Bluetooth work? These are issues that I had with Mint.
That probably depends on your specific hardware. You could always set up a VM and try running Mint on that to check.
I personally have had no issues whatsoever with hardware.
That’s good to know. I’ll try playing around.
Mint is usually a year or so behind for kernel updates because it is a LTS (long term support) distribution. It should really only be used on older hardware for people who want stability and won’t be using anything newer.
For best hardware support you need newer kernels, so use a more updated distribution like Fedora (Red Hat) or EndeavorOS (Arch)
Thanks for the tip!
Use the people’s operating system, Comrade!
How well do your Steam and GOG collections carry over?
Almost everything I have on my account works just as well, if not better than it does on windows thanks to valve’s proton layer and the lower resource usage overhead on linux. There are a couple games here and there that won’t work however, as their devs haven’t enabled linux anticheat support, but just about every single player game will work almost flawlessly.
You can check your own library’s compatibility using protondb.com
