You aren’t allowed to stop there. It is mandatory to share the distro she is using, the desktop environment, and what she loves most about it so far.

I obviously don't know her exact needs but so much can be achieved by web versions of Office and Outlook that I didn't have issues working with MS-using clients.

Such a wholesome story!
Thanks for sharing.

That's why I finally made the switch!

🥂

This is a smart move by Microsoft, as a struggling small company they can use VC money to keep them afloat until they come out on top of the AI game once the technology reaches fruition, This wouldn't work for some big monolithic company like linux.

I switched to Linux Mint (Cinamon) two weeks ago and I'm surprised how easy it was, and now wonder why I didn't do it earlier. So far I have been super satisfied!

I'm gonna do the same in october. Though I'm really dreading it, even though I know it will be fine and already use Mint on two other computers.

I mean, you can't really blame this one on AI outlook has been crap for decades.

Join us! I switched to Mint about 8 months back and I have noticeably fewer regular issues than when I was on Windows.

Do it. Enjoy the new freedom.

Oof. I only upgraded my last Windows 10 install to Linux Mint a week ago. It feels like I may have dodged a bullet, this time.

As you said, I just don't have the time or energy for this particular bit of computing excitement.

It is driving the world into the loving arms of Linux, our Lord and Savior, so I think it’s marvelous that Windows has gotten so bad.

The problem is that the Windows monopoly isn't worth having any more and Microsoft is flailing in trying to make it worth it.

Microsoft can't force an app store like Apple and Google can for iOS and Android. No one is going to buy an OS subscription like they do for Office 365. And, I'm sure that Microsoft earns almost nothing on new installs because of how cheap hardware has gotten.

Fuck windows. I got fed up of their constant monitoring. I am glad to be rid of it. They still have a lot of my data, sadly, but nothing spicy, and given their incompetence they will probably lose it all by the time any buyer wants it.

.... always was.

Yeah—misfortunate, but that's expected; I'm happy it's pushing people towards FOSS OS like Linux. The more people get ahead and switch over the better. Implementation of FOSS from corporate is a hurdle, always favoring myopic efficiency 🫤

The articles for windows 10 aren't going to be great either once the security updates stop

Edit I can't read you're using the longer supported version

How were you certain? Drives fail all the time.

Obligatory "windows updates can break Linux on dual boot" comment

Never tried it myself, but looks promising, you should try it on your dual boot. https://github.com/TibixDev/winboat

If you have that update, it 100% will 🙃

Isn’t it funny how news bias bubbles work? The articles about the update causing SSD failures were everywhere on Lemmy. But after thousands of hours of testing from Microsoft, Phison, and various journalism outlets, the issue isn’t replicable. But I haven’t seen that reported on here at all because it doesn’t make Microsoft look bad.

Microsoft is plenty bad, we don’t need to massage data to make them seem even worse.

(To be fair I wasn’t on Lemmy much this weekend, it’s possible I just missed this.)

I heard too many stories about people’s hard drives failing after the update for the news to be false. As far as I know, the issue isn’t easily reproducible though.

I didn't think a lot of drives were actually permanently borked, were they?

I'll pitch in my anecdote: I updated to Windows 11 3878, everything was fine. Downloaded Helldivers onto my gaming drive overnight, and woke up in the morning seeing that the SSD was not being detected (WD Black NVME, no heatsink). Pulled it out, put it in another PC, saw that it was being detected, so I rolled back the Windows update because that's the only other thing that had changed. Drive works fine again.

SOMETHING definitely happened, but I think it's waaaaaaay over-reported tbh.

It is about to go EOL