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I'm doing my part!
I've loaded Mint on my prime system and a laptop, another laptop with Fedora, Manjaro on another main system I test with and EndeavorOS on all my media systems. I've also loaded about 8-10 other distros on Proxmox to play/test with.
Where I had doubts on whether I needed anything off of the old MS system, I P2V'ed the OS and spool it up on Proxmox if needed to review any history within the OS/browser.
I still have a couple of W10 VMs lingering and a Windows server. I'll "upgrade" the workstation VMs to W11 (and shut them down) since I have the license and I can see sometimes having to use Windows for whatever dumb reasons. I'll leave the Windows server for now to maintain the domain as that allows me to block telemetry with GPOs. I may tire of that at some point though as MS will further wane away on my network.
My summer task is to convert all my 'Arrr software over to Linux versions. Still on W10 there. Wasn't sure which distro to go to for that....
Re: Arr software, spin up an Ubuntu VM and install Docker. Spin up portainer and then use that to spin up all thr arrs. Ezpz
Windows 10 users encountering this post: this sounds like a lot of work. I'll just stick to windows 11.
Disabling all the dumb shit and ads on win11 is triple the work of switching to linux and learning to use it.
If you honestly believe that, this is another great example as to why people would stick to Windows 11.
Because they love spending hours and hours on removing bloatware? And hate having a clean, functional os? Yeah that is the last remaining use case of windows beyond proprietary apps.
Well, thanks for confirming you really do believe the memes lol.
idunno how you can have an another opinion after using both.
Because as someone who does use both, disabling Windows settings that arent great takes about 15 minutes.
If it takes you multiple hours, you're really bad at using computers or something.
The ones im talking about can't be disabled with settings. Im glad youre enjoying windows with telemetry and ads and soon ai and forced screen recording. I aint.
But they can. You're just bad at using a computer, I suppose.
Okay, ill reccomend linux instead of windows to people since windows is an advanced user only shitfest i guess.
Thank you for confirming you don't use Windows.
Your message is extremely confusing. I guess its easier not to reccomend windows to anyone anymore since even its fanboys cant pin down whats the point of it.
The point of windows? It's the same point as Linux. It's an operating system.
You do know what an operating system is, dont you?
Its for performing surgeries. Duh.
Oh, I get it. You're a purposefully ignorant dumbass.
KDE Neon here. I really really like it.