when they run into HW issues they post on fourms and reddit like its personal tech support
For folks reading along, we absolutely are your personal tech support. Most of us owe way more than that to our mentors, and can never pay our mentors back, we can only pay it forward to folks like you.
Ask away!
and to my surprise everything seems good! (knock on wood)
After a few aborted attempts to switch to Linux, over the years, that has been exactly the vibe of my latest journey.
“So this all just works now?” has been my repeated surprised thought.
Standard disclaimer: I don’t have any hardware by Nvidia. Not by choice, I was just feeling broke when Nvidia got hot.
Couldn’t you also make a throwaway ms account?
I could, but them I’m up a creek later if I need to use any recovery functionality, as it all ties back to that MS cloud account.
It’s certainly possible to get working, disable all of the cloud saves and telemetry, and then just save the MS account in a password vault for later.
But all of that is much more work than clicking “next” a few times in the Linux Mint installer. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
1993 called and wants the inferior FOSS software you last tried back. Haha.
I find that Linux apps for basic stuff are now well ahead of their Windows counterparts.
It’s getting hard to find quality free software that is Windows native, and not just a recompile of a Mac or Linux tool.
I’m happy to pay for software too, but the paid stuff has all been shit, for awhile, in my weird experiences. (Weird, in that I’m not doing music or video editing or non-developer power user stuff. I’ve heard mileage may vary with those.)
I’m pleased to report that all those other promised utopia frameworks turned out perfect, and aren’t in any way still a huge daily pain in the ass. I expect no less from this time around. Computers are finally smart. It’s great.
It’s the AI that is prone to delusions, or was that just me?
A little more time and a lot more money. But the savings will be huge. The savings will make the current era of extravagant burning piles of money look like a sound investment. You’ll be glad you got in on the ground floor…
We do need a little more time, though. And money.
Pen and paper is great for whenever I can’t get my hands on a chisel and rock wall.
This is the way.
That looks promising. I wonder if it will be friends with me?
A tricked out tank, covered in specialized launchers.
My experience installing Linux for tech illiterate parents and grandparents was lovely.
They never noticed they’re not on Windows. They just wanted their two desktop icons - web and email.
Edit: Funny related story - they (grandparents) always rebooted with the power button after Linux told them it had updated - which was almost never necessary. I always just told them “good job”, when they mentioned it, though.