As posted in the WTF Thread:
Microsoft is releasing Windows 11 soon, after telling people that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows in 2015. Windows 10 will likely be end-of-life by 2025.
I feel like ditching Windows even more. At least if I used Linux, I'd have a consistent-ish timeline for upgrades for the "just-works" distros (mostly those based on Ubuntu). The fact that they can't keep promises is shit. I don't know if I'll have to do a fresh install and buy a fresh license key, and without that knowledge, I think I'll just give up on Windows. Fuck it. Linux Mint w/ Cinnamon is currently my target, but I'll take anything that's more familiar.
Oh hi there, me from 6 months ago.
I've finally gone and ditched Windows' ass completely, and am now a happy Fedora user on the same laptop I once used Windows on. Yes, the one that ships with GNOME and
systemd. Yes, the one that ships with stuff that Linux Enthusiasts™ would consider the Unix Antichrist. Yes, the one that whose parent company is the Big Sad, IBM. That one.
Honestly, as much shit as people talk about GNOME... I actually do like it. I can focus on one task at a time. Or two, if I'm feeling adventurous. My OS may be multitasking, but I sure as hell ain't. You try not panicking when you catch a glimpse of the 20 icons on your taskbar, half of which are pinned, ⅞ of which are things you opened up for Something™ but can't remember what for now, all 2 programs that are actually useful right now...
The main point is that the "task view" mode is chunked off from the "task use" mode. I can devote my full attention to doing tasks without having to consider what programs I have open, and I can devote my full attention to "organizing" (more like garbage-collecting) the open programs without getting distracted by what's in them.
I'm not too distracted by GNOME Software, mainly because I don't bother— I just use the terminal. Graphical frontends are great sometimes, but sometimes I just really want VLC, Firefox, FFmpeg (from RPMFusion), Audacity (the better one that comes with FFmpeg support,
audacity-freeworld), proprietary Nvidia drivers, so on, in one command-line invocation.
That was my main gripe with Michaelsoft Binbows; you were doing the equivalent of installing from debs/RPMs for everything that wasn't strictly the base system. And you updated
manually for every program you had (unless you had a program that autoupdated, which requires its own infrastructure, thus being a massive duplication of effort). I'm sorry, it's not 1995 anymore, this bullshit isn't acceptable for a supposedly "modern" OS. And yes, package managers exist for Windows, but why are there 4+ of them? Why am I replicating the open-source experience when I shouldn't be dealing with that in the first place? No, the Microsoft Store does not count.
I work with Raspberry Pis, so just working with them is a far more pleasant experience on Linux than on Windows. My file manager can mount drives over SSH just like any other drive. Can you say the same with unmodified Windows?
My life has been so much nicer with Linux. I'm actually happy to use my laptop now. It's made computing fun for me.
Also, it's my birthday! It's been one heck of a year, that's for sure. I'm glad it's ending on a high note.
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