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I upgraded to windows 11 by accidentally pressing spacebar on startup (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
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[–] 148 points 11 months ago (15 children)

It’s fine. You can upgrade to Fedora as soon as it’s done.

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  • [–] 134 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    I'm surprised it took 2 hours for Lemmy to recommend Linux. We're getting sloppy

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  • [–] 47 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    I was genuinely surprised it hadn’t been said yet.

    Let the arguing about distro choice begin.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Fedora is a fine choice…

    I hope it stays that way…

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    This is linux, you could just not install that.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago*

    In this case IBM is involved tangentially but enough that I fear interference. Fedora already is opt-out rather than opt-in to diagnostic feedback.

    I am also concerned about the priorities of the person who posted that. The comments indicate somebody who isn’t willing to listen to the fact that basically every output in the article is wrong.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I feel like the only "good" distributions nowadays are Arch and NixOS (everywhere else, you become a construction worker every time you want a slightly niche program), while both having shitty stereotypes about users. And Arch currently only properly works on amd64. And NixOS's model isn't for everyone...

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    What’s wrong fedora? I’ve barely used it but it’s what I usually recommend to non tech savvy people, specificially the kinoite version (KDE + atomic updates).

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    Oh, nothing wrong with Fedora specifically. I also recommend Fedora KDE to people like this.

    But, imagine you saw someone use a project somewhere online you want to try and it's not popular enough to be in the repos. Now you have to git clone --depth 1 --recursive blah blah blah, source ~/cflags.sh, mkdir build, cd build, cmake .., make -j4...

    Doesn't sound difficult. But over time, your home directory becomes FULL of random ass git repositories. AND your /usr/local/bin is full of outdated stuff, sometimes overwriting updated stuff in /usr/bin. Having the AUR reduces that significantly.

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    • [–] 36 points 11 months ago

    a mistake to use win 10 in the first place

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    [–] [S] 16 points 11 months ago*

    centurii-chan | XCancel | Bluesky

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    [–] 29 points 11 months ago

    Large tech companies aren’t known for their understanding of consent. Consider yourself one of the lucky ones that they actually asked you first.

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    [–] 12 points 11 months ago

    Loo roll and lotion besides the computer.

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    [–] 4 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    “Cancel”

    Right there.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

    I don't recall the exact details anymore, and this is more a Gigabyte problem than a Windows problem per se, but at one point I couldn't enter BIOS on startup because it wouldn't accept USB inputs in their fast start up, and I couldn't turn off fast start up without restarting with Windows secure boot of whatever, which was a small problem because while in boot it would accept numerical and function keyboard inputs, the option I needed was only selectable by mouse (and presumably touch screen) for God knows what reason. I also assume it was, in the before times, designed to be used with tab+enter as well but guess what key didn't work?

    Point is, I wouldn't assume just because there's a button they can click on it with Windows.

    Or that clicking it won't brick your system for that matter.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Having had this screen appear on me…

    No, it didn’t brick any of the computers I’ve canceled this on. Then I went and did a quick regedit so it wouldn’t happen again. It will tell you when you cannot interrupt the changes.

    Also, even linux has issues with some input devices, I’ve had it decide to use some unexpected keyboard format where keys don’t match and it doesn’t automatically load a mouse driver leaving you to try an alternative install that allows customization. But I got it installed just fine.

    Real stretch there, trying to make sure “windoze bad.”

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Mmhmmm, the vaunted "it's never happened to me" line, very convincing

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Not on this screen. I’ve not had a crash/reinstall since pre-Win7. XP? Plenty of times. Rebuilding registry hives. Reinstalling. Sure. Goddamn XP winsock error. 10? No. Occasional graphics driver issues when gaming? Yep. Seems like every second update.

    Linux? Updates break my installs or installed apps all the damn time. Frustrating AF. Just tried updating my Raspbian desktop which broke my remote desktop install. Had to roll that back.

    Nothing is perfect.

    Believe whatever you want.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I’ve not had a crash/reinstall since pre-Win7.

    Perfectly normal and believable.

    FWIW, a 'driver issue' and 'breaking an install' seem like two different ways to describe a similar situation.

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    • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Rip

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    [–] 16 points 11 months ago (16 children)

    At this point win 10 is discontinued, security updates have stopped haven't they?

    I get the hate for win 11 but it's not a solution to stay at 10. You WILL get compromised.

    11, Mac, or Linux. It's an infuriating move but you have to choose, or get pwned and get your identity stolen.

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Win10 LTSC with the funny activation script gets you security updates until 2032, with no added garbage. That's not viable for business owners, but should be fine for individuals.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (3 children)

    I think some applications and drivers might have issues with Win10 after a few years.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    That probably will be true at some point, but I use win10 LTSC as a stable platform to use apps incompatible with Linux until they have support (most notably VR). I'm also not using bleeding edge hardware.

    Luckily Valve may already be solving the issue lol.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Windows 10 and have hackers steal your identity, or Windows 11 and have MS steal your identity? It's a real Occam's disposable razor kind of decision

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    At this point win 10 is discontinued, security updates have stopped haven’t they?

    That's not really right. They are only discontinued for some editions, and only if you didn't enable the extended security updates.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I installed pop os today. Really slick. Unfortunately i have a few things that aren't linux supported and keep windows on dual boot. But oh boy, I can't wait to give it the boot so hard. Linux is pretty cool and exciting for me, and i don't really get everything yet.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Congrats on partially switching to Linux! pop OS is a great choice as it is very user-friendly from what I've heard. It may take a while to get used to things you have to do differently, but you'll learn by using it.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Free updates for a year in Europe (I think only Europe is for free). Many years for "free" with IOT edition (what I do for my dual boot and my partner's main)

    As a Linux user of 25 years, I can still say not everybody can move to Linux, and not everybody can move to Mac or W11 (buy a new machine or tinker to install in old machines).

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