Reminder for Windows 10 users who can't upgrade to Windows 11

This is the first time I've seen a Roblox meme template 💀💀

Weird to use a game that decided to drop its official Linux support for this meme

Using roblox to talk about linux

I'm a Linux noob so I put Mint on my PC. I like it a lot, very smooth and clean looking.

I love this absolute fantasy Linux folk have come up with

Oh is this an excuse to hop on the Mint praise train? Don’t mind if I do!

For me it was smoother than windows to install, it runs much better moment to moment (it’s like the people that made it were worried about making nice software rather than the business goals being pushed by their managers), and most importantly the fact that it is the “beginner” distro doesn’t compromise its capabilities. I am in the terminal all day every day and I use the machine to work on software for embedded Linux systems.

• Plasma is more similar to Windows
• Plasma is more customizable
• Plasma is just as beginner-friendly
• Plasma has more features
• Plasma is more actively developed
• Plasma looks better

Don't get me wrong, Cinnamon is fine, but it gets recommended religiously to beginners for some reason. It just doesn't make sense, so I will keep repeating this, not least to keep alive the ancient linux tradition of Desktop wars.

Still, any Windows to Linux transition is a step forward and I support this, upvoted.

I will likely go back to mint once Windows 10 is done. 11 is pure trash.

The major hang up I have is gaming. I have an Nvidia card and it's never behaved well with Linux. I also like GTAO but I will no longer be able to play it. Most of my other titles work fine.

I don't know what I'm going to do yet.

Like if people actually cared that a Windows version goes EoL. That literally means nothing to most people and typical PC user won’t even notice anything until something will functionally break, which will take YEARS after it's EoL.

Reminder for Windows 10 users who can't upgrade to Windows 11

/s/can't/won't

The Steam Deck and it's desktop mode are why I decided to try jumping head first into a single boot of Bazzite on my main computer, it's basically like using a Steam deck, just across four monitors, a year in and I haven't looked back.

Microsoft added a CoPilot icon to my Windows 10 Taskbar yesterday. It looks to me like they're not going to take "no" for an answer.

They also added a "it's time to upgrade to Windows 11" full screen message on my login screen (with the option to decline in tiny text).

I've installed mint on my laptop, I like it so far. Everything was super easy to get set up, even the graphics drivers

I'm experimenting with Pop!_OS on my aging laptop running it on a USB drive. Was happy to see it supports 2-in-1 functionality.

Remember when Windows XP reached EoL the first time in 2009 and people abandoned it? Yeah, me neither, but I remember Microsoft groaning and extending some support for a few more years, until the final EoL in 2014. I expect the same to happen to 10.

Linux Mint is easy af, that or Ubuntu

The average user cares less about their OS being EoL, than that they have to learn a whole new OS that works "completely" different to what they are used to.

Does anyone else find these OS wars silly? To me an OS is a tool and you should be using whatever tool is best suited for the job. For me I'm regularly switching between all 3 major OS's.

I've got windows systems, Linux systems and MacOS all under regular use at home

I started on mint a couple months ago and so far I've tried as many distros as I could find. I liked manjaro but then found out about their controversies so I'm currently on endeavour os. Half of the fun for me has been experimenting with different desktops and whatnot, which has gotten me back into computer stuff.

Serious question from someone who is in this situation: What the best os for someone who want to switch from window 10 to Linux because of the eol? Is it really mint ?

Damn. My 10 year old HP all in one is gonna be bricked? Damn shame

Ironically Roblox doesn't work on Linux(On Wine at least not sober).

Distro-hopped a lot till I landed on Manjaro with XFCE desktop environment. Been daily driving it for about a month now without any complaints. There is an option to install with NVIDIA drivers as well.

Jut put my Mother on mint. Her windows 10 pc is reaching EOS, and I finally convinced her that having to buy a new computer every several years is unacceptable.

God I hope there will be a good enough solution for professional audio stuff when Win 10 is done. This and when will the new proper CAD software.

It sucks ass, but I don't see how one will be able to change to Linux in those spaces on a professional level. All my private stuff is on Linux systems, though.

I put Mint on a PC for my dad because it's first thing easy for him to use and second a 32-bit machine and Mint the best choice I found that runs on that.

I have literally talked to one person at work, that he might want to try out Linux Mint in VM. Dude have never used Linux, but seems to be skilled enough to install it on his own.

or a distro using kde plasma.

People will keep using Windows 10 even if Microsoft will not fix any vulnerability

I’ve been learning Linux (Ubuntu) with an old Laptop a friend was going to throw away.

I like it, but I’m not ready to switch. My biggest complaint… why the hell is it so hard to access an external drive??

I eventually got it, but now I can’t for the life of me remember the command line I used to set access for the first one to set up another one.

Closer to the EoL time, someone is going to release a version of Linux that is basically windows, with a super locked down interface etc to make it so newbies can install and use with zero CLI or setup.

Or at least some serious consumer-grade onboarding.

Presumably it will have reduced functionality to make it as stable as humanly possible too.

And they'll probably become one of the larger distributions until people get the confidence to "upgrade" to a more complex one.

Ow I can upgrade, I just blocked TPM motherboard side to stop windows from doing it.

But in the end I really would like to give Linux a shot, these days I basically only play steam game or watch a movie, most of it should be easy enough nowadays in linux

Linux doesn't run what I need, getting some form of LTSC is my only option.

I tried mint for a little bit but ended up using Kubuntu.

Huh, and i just installed it on my secondary computer (laptop). Maybe i should setup a dual boot on my main one soon and disable network communications in the windows partition, and then migrate ny files slowly until i can confidently get rid of that partition.

what are the opinions on Bazzite, Garuda, Trisquel? are these ideal for those coming from windows?

Weird everyone suggests Mint, when it's way less user friendly then KDE Fedora. I mean, I guess on old hardware Mint is good, but anything newer (like the last 4-5 years) Fedora is pretty much set and forget.

Same with gaming, Bazzite is a WHOLE lot better than Mint.

Mine was when they have windows 8 out for free for a limited time. Then I wasn't able to go back to 7 somehow. Was already into linux by then. That just made me commit 100%. Gamer, CAD user, but still haven't looked back.

lol @ all these arch/Ubuntu/mint users. been using debian for years.

praying for valorant to get a mac port before they kill win10. the second we get that port, i am nuking windows from my drive

I’ll go Linux when I don’t need any more windows based software, and there’s been almost 0 progress made in that sector in the last 5 years.

Between games that don’t run on Linux (Apex, CoD, any other shooter) and professional tools such as Lightroom and photoshop, there’s no way to switch to Linux without needing to boot back to windows multiple times per day.

Carlin said it best

Ughh my RDP into work is the only reason I have a minimal windows install :/

I love mint, but I can't get work's IT support people to go near it (needs the preshared key and some settings to get their Sharepoint VPN working). It grates having to boot into windows!

Really hope more people at work ask for Linux support and I don't need 11, but not holding my breath. :)

I finally switched when I got truly familiar with the terminal in collage and then I happened to get a hand down pc to play around with. Installed Linux on it, and it surprisingly quickly became my main computer, especially once I got it a proper graphics card.

What flavor do you recommend?

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Windows 11 is not that bad really. People are freaking over some annoyances