▲ 674 ▼ Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell (www.neowin.net) submitted 11 months ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 218 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 88 points 11 months ago (11 children) Gee, I can't imagine why that could be. permalink fedilink source hideshow 11 child comments replies: [–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago (9 children) Oh, I can think of a few reasons. You know it's bad when even I switch to linux. I don't understand linux. I literally back up my entire hard drive everytime I attempt to do ANYTHING. Because I WILL screw up my whole system to the point it won't boot. I've done it many times over the coarse of the past year. Then I gotta spend a whole day waiting for things to restore from backup. And then whatever I WAD trying to do, still isn't done. That has been my experience using linux this past year. But Windows 11? No. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [–] someguy3@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago (5 children) Idk wtf you guys are doing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [+] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 months ago (1 child) It's definitively something along the lines of "knows just enough to be dangerous" Like, sure, I've also broken my Linux system, but I'm deliberately running distros like arch and doing things that the average user would never do, like, say, messing with the bootloader. If you just install something like bazzite or mint, and use it like a normal user would, the risk for something breaking should be really low permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] StitchInTime@piefed.social 5 points 11 months ago Yep. I’m fortunate enough to be on the other side of the curve, but “it just breaks” when you first start tinkering. The average computer user who will never open the terminal will never run into this problem permalink fedilink source parent [–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago Probably Arch or Fedora permalink fedilink source parent [–] chunes@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago This happened to me when I installed a new GPU. permalink fedilink source parent [–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 25 points 11 months ago I think you need Bazzite in your life (or some other immutable distro). But hey, fucking things up and recovering from it is how I learned both Windows and then Linux so there are upsides. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago That's how you level up in Linux. You break things, learn what you did wrong and do better next time. Linux won't hold your hand, you can and will shoot yourself in the foot. You are doing it right by having backups and playing it safe. You'll be ok. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* Since switching to Linux I have nuked my system maybe 5 or 6 times? When I initially installed it I set the EFI partition to ext4, that caused some trouble when I updated my kernel lol. Grub just stopped working a few times and then just recently I accidentally wrote a floppy disc image to the wrong drive and wiped out my /home partition. Luckily testdisk is a thing. For everything else I can just rely on my BTRFS snapshots. My drive setup is more than janky, but it works. Every time something went really wrong I was able to fix it myself. permalink fedilink source parent [–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago "Why don't you like our copilot features?" -Microshit- permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago (9 children) Oh, I can think of a few reasons. You know it's bad when even I switch to linux. I don't understand linux. I literally back up my entire hard drive everytime I attempt to do ANYTHING. Because I WILL screw up my whole system to the point it won't boot. I've done it many times over the coarse of the past year. Then I gotta spend a whole day waiting for things to restore from backup. And then whatever I WAD trying to do, still isn't done. That has been my experience using linux this past year. But Windows 11? No. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [–] someguy3@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago (5 children) Idk wtf you guys are doing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [+] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 months ago (1 child) It's definitively something along the lines of "knows just enough to be dangerous" Like, sure, I've also broken my Linux system, but I'm deliberately running distros like arch and doing things that the average user would never do, like, say, messing with the bootloader. If you just install something like bazzite or mint, and use it like a normal user would, the risk for something breaking should be really low permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] StitchInTime@piefed.social 5 points 11 months ago Yep. I’m fortunate enough to be on the other side of the curve, but “it just breaks” when you first start tinkering. The average computer user who will never open the terminal will never run into this problem permalink fedilink source parent [–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago Probably Arch or Fedora permalink fedilink source parent [–] chunes@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago This happened to me when I installed a new GPU. permalink fedilink source parent [–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 25 points 11 months ago I think you need Bazzite in your life (or some other immutable distro). But hey, fucking things up and recovering from it is how I learned both Windows and then Linux so there are upsides. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago That's how you level up in Linux. You break things, learn what you did wrong and do better next time. Linux won't hold your hand, you can and will shoot yourself in the foot. You are doing it right by having backups and playing it safe. You'll be ok. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* Since switching to Linux I have nuked my system maybe 5 or 6 times? When I initially installed it I set the EFI partition to ext4, that caused some trouble when I updated my kernel lol. Grub just stopped working a few times and then just recently I accidentally wrote a floppy disc image to the wrong drive and wiped out my /home partition. Luckily testdisk is a thing. For everything else I can just rely on my BTRFS snapshots. My drive setup is more than janky, but it works. Every time something went really wrong I was able to fix it myself. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago (5 children) Idk wtf you guys are doing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [+] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 months ago (1 child) It's definitively something along the lines of "knows just enough to be dangerous" Like, sure, I've also broken my Linux system, but I'm deliberately running distros like arch and doing things that the average user would never do, like, say, messing with the bootloader. If you just install something like bazzite or mint, and use it like a normal user would, the risk for something breaking should be really low permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] StitchInTime@piefed.social 5 points 11 months ago Yep. I’m fortunate enough to be on the other side of the curve, but “it just breaks” when you first start tinkering. The average computer user who will never open the terminal will never run into this problem permalink fedilink source parent [–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago Probably Arch or Fedora permalink fedilink source parent [–] chunes@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago This happened to me when I installed a new GPU. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 months ago (1 child) It's definitively something along the lines of "knows just enough to be dangerous" Like, sure, I've also broken my Linux system, but I'm deliberately running distros like arch and doing things that the average user would never do, like, say, messing with the bootloader. If you just install something like bazzite or mint, and use it like a normal user would, the risk for something breaking should be really low permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] StitchInTime@piefed.social 5 points 11 months ago Yep. I’m fortunate enough to be on the other side of the curve, but “it just breaks” when you first start tinkering. The average computer user who will never open the terminal will never run into this problem permalink fedilink source parent [–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago Probably Arch or Fedora permalink fedilink source parent [–] chunes@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago This happened to me when I installed a new GPU. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 months ago (1 child) It's definitively something along the lines of "knows just enough to be dangerous" Like, sure, I've also broken my Linux system, but I'm deliberately running distros like arch and doing things that the average user would never do, like, say, messing with the bootloader. If you just install something like bazzite or mint, and use it like a normal user would, the risk for something breaking should be really low permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] StitchInTime@piefed.social 5 points 11 months ago Yep. I’m fortunate enough to be on the other side of the curve, but “it just breaks” when you first start tinkering. The average computer user who will never open the terminal will never run into this problem permalink fedilink source parent
[–] StitchInTime@piefed.social 5 points 11 months ago Yep. I’m fortunate enough to be on the other side of the curve, but “it just breaks” when you first start tinkering. The average computer user who will never open the terminal will never run into this problem permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago Probably Arch or Fedora permalink fedilink source parent
[–] chunes@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago This happened to me when I installed a new GPU. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 25 points 11 months ago I think you need Bazzite in your life (or some other immutable distro). But hey, fucking things up and recovering from it is how I learned both Windows and then Linux so there are upsides. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago That's how you level up in Linux. You break things, learn what you did wrong and do better next time. Linux won't hold your hand, you can and will shoot yourself in the foot. You are doing it right by having backups and playing it safe. You'll be ok. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* Since switching to Linux I have nuked my system maybe 5 or 6 times? When I initially installed it I set the EFI partition to ext4, that caused some trouble when I updated my kernel lol. Grub just stopped working a few times and then just recently I accidentally wrote a floppy disc image to the wrong drive and wiped out my /home partition. Luckily testdisk is a thing. For everything else I can just rely on my BTRFS snapshots. My drive setup is more than janky, but it works. Every time something went really wrong I was able to fix it myself. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago "Why don't you like our copilot features?" -Microshit- permalink fedilink source parent