KDE creates a safe haven for Windows 10 exiles.
KDE creates a safe haven for Windows 10 exiles.
In the context of the @Endof10 campaign, we have created a new "for" page, this time "for Windows 10 exiles":
https://kde.org/for/w10-exiles/
In it we explain how Linux with Plasma can help users escape the deranged cycle of having to buy a new computer every time Microsoft force-upgrades their operating system.
@kde@floss.social @Endof10 @kde@lemmy.kde.social
This action finally spurred me to install vanilla Linux with KDE, and wow. KDE is so good nowadays. Thank you for your great work!
What's Vanilla Linux? Vanilla OS?
Lovely to hear. Thanks! We hope you enjoy it and please give us feedback so we can improve.
Plasma ended up being my DE of choice a year ago. Native Wayland support, HDR and VRR, and general adherence to the same Windows paradigm for managing apps/desktop shortcuts made things easy. I don't think that design is wrong, and it's been plenty efficient. It was also the only DE at the time that seemed to be prioritizing matching Windows features where they were clearly strongest rather than trying to pretend Windows had nothing to boast about at all.
Now, if we could talk about letting me enable display outputs without using the terminal that would be greeeeaaaat.
Wait, Plasma has HDR support? I thought only really Gnome was that far the Wayland pipe that they had support for HDR?
Being constrained by HDR support has been the bane of the last few days of moving to linux since Gnome causes me no end of issues, its simply very unstable in my system.
What do you mean by display outputs? Like what screens it uses? (That should be manageable with Win+P or the little monitor icon in the system tray.)
@kde@floss.social @Endof10@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Usually I'm all in favor of campaigns designed to make people get rid of Windows I'm not a big fan of how the Endof10 campaign is run.
They do not recommend any specific distribution. Instead they literally say "Search for Linux distributions for beginners to get some suggestions."
A search query like this will make you end in SEO hell and you will not any good suggestions. Please actually recommend a few distributions for you campaign instead of leaving the most important step very vague.
On top of that it talks about Linux and not GNU/Linux, while also avoiding mentioning the issues of software freedom.
For what it's worth, I just switched from Windows 10 to Fedora KDE Plasma and it's been perfect so far. Only hurdle was windows kept corrupting the flash drive I was trying to make until I figured out the right order to do everything. Now I can make it so that when I close a window it bursts into flames and disintegrates, awesome.
@kde@floss.social @Endof10 @kde@lemmy.kde.social
I have a Windows 11 / Kubuntu dual boot setup.
Windows 11 crashes about 1x per hour.
Kubuntu has never crashed.
@kde@floss.social @Endof10 @kde@lemmy.kde.social also, the only reason i have Windows AT ALL is because Rekordbox (dj software) does not run on Linux. if it did, i would delete windows forever and never look back.
Rekordbox is also one of those softwares that i wish i didnt need to use at all.
im seeing a pattern here…
Its sorta funny but I like kde overall but the windows like distro I use utilizes gnome and my setup is lazy install and go. I think it would make sense for the distro to use kde mainly but I think the distro is sorta lazy and uses ubuntu with changing as little as they have to for what they want.
So if you use a *buntu based distro, but prefer kde, why not KDE neon?
so its a string of lazy. I don't want to change anything more than I have to with my out of box distro and I think they don't want to deal outside base ubuntu for their changes. Honestly I have no idea how they decide to do their distro but they make the gnome feel like windows and their claim to fame is a desktop design switcher to have it be osx and many variations in the paid version.
@kde@floss.social @Endof10 @kde@lemmy.kde.social Just terminal commands are gonna be a huge hurdle for Windows exiles. Had to have someone guide me through a bunch of code after the Nobara upgrade didn't install gpu drivers.
That's one of the best things about Linux tho ... no matter what flavour you're using you can always find someone to help you with it.
That's a great page. Very well done! I'm sure it'll help a whole lot of people. Thank you for making it and sharing it!
So my PC will run W11 without a problem, but fuck that bloated mess. I have to use it on my work laptop and the number of times I’ve wanted to take a sledgehammer to it is innumerable.
I’ve settled on Bazzite because 90% of the time I’m playing steam games, but I’m having trouble understanding what (if anything) I need to do with my photos and music to migrate those over.
Also, I have 3 SSDs- 1 M.2 nvme for the OS, and 2 others for storage. After I back up my files to an external drive… and that’s where my knowledge of the process ends.
Anyone happen to know of any resources that can get me from the 1st grade understanding of Linux that I currently have to where I need to be to successfully migrate my PC?
Bazzite has a guide on how to format and mount drives: https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/Auto-Mounting_Secondary_Drives/
Let me know if there's something specific you need.
@kde@floss.social @Endof10@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social ok i love the spirit of this but did u need the word exile. like we live in a world where ppl are literally exiled from their actual homes
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Nice!
I would love helping to translate it to german, where would I head for that?
@Numerfolt @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
See: https://community.kde.org/Get/_Involved/translation
Easiest way is probaly to contact somone from the german team in via mailing list. They can guide you through the process
That is so kind. Danke!
Exactly how can Windows break my computer. My wife has a computer still running Windows XP and it still works. She never connects it to the internet, think that's the way.
Will I be able to run my steam and Epic games with this? What about another PC games I own? And my hundreds of mp3 books and thousands of music files. I have them on internal harddrives. If I upgrade my main hard drive to this will I be able to access the files and docs on the two another drives?
Will I be able to run my steam and Epic games with this? What about another PC games I own?
Possibly yes, and incressingly possible over time. Check out ProtonDB. Proton is built into Steam. I don't know anything about Epic.
And my hundreds of mp3 books and thousands of music files.
Absolutely yes.
I have them on internal harddrives. If I upgrade my main hard drive to this will I be able to access the files and docs on the two another drives?
Yep, there's support for multiple hard drives, and Linux can read NTFS-formatted drives. But what's more, Linux installers have long supported "guided partitioning," which helps you install the OS alongside an existing one like Windows, and then choose between the two when you boot. Of course, when you're installing any new OS, even Windows, you should make sure you have backups of all your stuff, just in case.
I still recommend getting a new SSD to install Linux on if you want to keep the ability to run your old Windows on that same machine. It is cheap, safe for both your Windows and Linux installs, usually allows you to take advantage of advancements in SSD speeds, lets you have access to your old files so you can transfer them over and makes the whole process far less terrifying.
At some point you'll realize you haven't used your Windows drive in a year and it will be a lot easier to make the decision to finally erase it all and repurpose the drive for something else.
games some but not all. music and video files no problem. I don't know of a disk format linux cannot use its only with windows that it does not natively read the unix ones. ntfs and fat should be no issue.
@Fredselfish @kde yes, most of them, if not all. I recommend using heroic games launcher, it has a direct portal to get and install your epic and gog games. Don't hesitate to ask me if you need help 🙂
Thank you saving this for when I make that jump.
@kde@floss.social @Endof10 @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Lol. I was a KDE/Kubuntu user for several years & KDE on OpenSUSE before that. I may even have had KDE running under CDE on an UltraSPARC BITD.
Then the powers that be decided that KDE4 was "better" for some value of better that I could never figure out. Stepped back to CentOS w/GNOME before I found the Trinity fork. Used that until I retired. Most of my typing is on MacOS now.
My W10 box will remain at W10 until the 4-5 things that I need W10 for force me to change.
@kde@floss.social @Endof10 @kde@lemmy.kde.social but we can't explain how to get headless desktop working with kde and plasma, after like, 10 years
Off topic much?
@Bro666 no my point was kde is broke and people like you won't help, just be sarcastic and useless
stick with windows the community is better