That full screen win 11 thing had me going for a while until I noticed the “opt out” button. When an OS starts to become obtrusive, I start to look for alternatives. The primary reason I use Windoze is because of gaming and most of that is through Steam. SO, now that the Steam Deck has pushed some great improvements in gaming on Linux, Linux MINT may be in my near future.
I already use open office on my home machine instead of the MS Office I have to use at work.
Highly highly recommend Nobara over Mint if you’re primarily going to be gaming. It’s a fork of Fedora by Glorious Eggshell Eggroll (the guy behind Proton-GE), who himself works for Redhat.
It. just. works.
v40 should be out within a week or two of Fedora 40 dropping on the 23rd.
That’d be doable. A lot of people would recommend installing it to a separate drive so that windows cant try overwriting boot partitions or anything. Also If its anything like standard fedora I’m sure that windows will still show up as a listing in grub so you won’t have to switch boot drives in the bios constantly
Interesting how long will it take for Microsoft to notice people are angry enough to try Linux to loose their dumb policies and their intrusive changes a little.
There are some good advancements on the free desktop in general, that’s not only around gaming. Fingers crossed it gets good enough for at least some people to stay when there’s an influx of angry Windows users.
Let’s he honest - Windows is not going anywhere anytime soon and it will keep dominating for years to come, no matter how intrusive and anti-consumer it becomes. That doesn’t mean we can’t have competitive system with significant user base (around 10% of desktop market would probably be just enough)
The bullshit I put up with. Goddamn.
That full screen win 11 thing had me going for a while until I noticed the “opt out” button. When an OS starts to become obtrusive, I start to look for alternatives. The primary reason I use Windoze is because of gaming and most of that is through Steam. SO, now that the Steam Deck has pushed some great improvements in gaming on Linux, Linux MINT may be in my near future.
I already use open office on my home machine instead of the MS Office I have to use at work.
Keep pushing M$. You’ll push me right away.
Highly highly recommend Nobara over Mint if you’re primarily going to be gaming. It’s a fork of Fedora by Glorious
EggshellEggroll (the guy behind Proton-GE), who himself works for Redhat.It. just. works.
v40 should be out within a week or two of Fedora 40 dropping on the 23rd.
Edit: Wrong Egg-thing
I went with popOS. It’s been fantastic.
Side from being really out of date, yeah, it’s a good distro. Once they finally finish Cosmic Desktop, I may give it another look.
Thanks for the tip!
Is it possible to dual boot that and keep my existing win 10 install?
That’d be doable. A lot of people would recommend installing it to a separate drive so that windows cant try overwriting boot partitions or anything. Also If its anything like standard fedora I’m sure that windows will still show up as a listing in grub so you won’t have to switch boot drives in the bios constantly
Pretty much all this. I do use my OS drive to dual boot both windows and Nobara. Grub does the heavy lifting. Windows plays along fine.
I tried Fedora a while ago and this seems like the perfect answer to some or my gripes with it
I moved my gaming system there couple of weeks ago. It really is a nicely packaged system.
Interesting how long will it take for Microsoft to notice people are angry enough to try Linux to loose their dumb policies and their intrusive changes a little.
There are some good advancements on the free desktop in general, that’s not only around gaming. Fingers crossed it gets good enough for at least some people to stay when there’s an influx of angry Windows users.
Let’s he honest - Windows is not going anywhere anytime soon and it will keep dominating for years to come, no matter how intrusive and anti-consumer it becomes. That doesn’t mean we can’t have competitive system with significant user base (around 10% of desktop market would probably be just enough)
I’m only on 11 because I want to learn it from a support perspective for work.
I am not enjoying it. I swear I have to reboot multiple times a day, against Win 10 which was only for updates… or linux, and basically never lol.