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I switched from ubuntu to debian and from debian to fedora (37). Fedora is just great. And being a red hat certified sysadmin, I'm liking it even more.
I am old enough to have had years before Windows even existed. So I never switched to Windows, dodged a bullet there :)
Maybe it's because I've been a longtime Mac user, but Windows 11 is the first time Windows has actually felt intuitive and usable to me. The only hard part was that I had to look up the whole oobe\bypassnro trick when installing so I wouldn't have to set up a Microsoft account. The other adware / junk is probably there of course, but at least it's unobtrusive enough it hasn't bothered me yet.
a bit late, no doubt
> it's unobtrusive enough it hasn't bothered me yet.
it's all relative to what we are used to: it's nowadays super accepted to being interrupted by (loud) ads while watching a movie, it was not before (ask Fellini )
I have to spend a lot of hours cleaning up that junk for my customers' pc, and I hate it: it is the most stupid way to spend your time (I don't even know how Bill Gates can sleep at night), but all my windows customers always tells me: "I cannot stand my computer at home, I'm so used to a clean one at work that all that craps in my home computers just makes me wanting to tunn it off".
> Next: Casual games. Minesweeper, Solitaire… who didn't waste time with those in the 1990s? Now they are cluttered with in-app purchase offerings. Wat? What are the purchases in Minesweeper and Solitaire? (My old laptop can't get Win11, thankfully I guess). Anyone could screenshot?
While it has its issues, this is where Linux does still shine. It keeps the spirit of computing free alive and well.
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That's because _people have different usecases for OS_, not hard to imagine, right?
This doesn't really make sense as you have no idea what my use cases are.
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I don't understand how Microsoft can cheapen their main OS that much. If they really wanted to emulate Apple, they wouldn't fill their OS with trash in every corner. This also extends to the default landing page of Edge. This is the worst form of bullvard, it is a tiny bit better than directly advocating for penis enlargement on the internet. But not by much at all. There should be no ads on the OS level. Especially…
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste." — Steve Jobs
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I'm one the verge. I switched all my secondary devices to Linux and all of a sudden, I hardly heard fans running any more. I literally had enough with Russian roulette like Windows Update, all kinds of spyware for a long time but it's really really hard to find substitution for some of the stuffs I use also the drives were not that good on Linux.
Switched over ~10 years ago. Was rough then -- pretty dang easy now. Fedora 36 is pretty smooth. Only issue was a nvidia driver update a couple of years ago, but was easy enough to unwind. Otherwise no issues. It's like that Neil Stephenson passage where he compares BeOS to the Batmobile, MacOS to a Lexus, Windows to a station wagon, and Linux to a tank, with the problem being that people are scared to learn how to d…
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Thinkpads are solid devices but they’re really falling behind in screen and trackpads. Most higher end Thinkpad models have 1080p screens with 300-400 nits of brightness at most. The base M2 Macbook Air is 2560x1664 with 500 nits brightness. And it’s cheaper than a Gen2 Thinkpad T14. And of course, all Thinkpads can’t hold a candle to Macbook trackpads
You should check out what Lenovo is doing currently; I just picked up a X1 Carbon 6th gen for £340 and loaded Ubuntu on it. The machine runs incredibly well, the trackpad is fantastic and it's a very quiet machine. Literally blew me away with the value for money, coming from my experience with Dell / Huawei laptops they're great.
Screen resolution caps out at 1920x1200 which feels blurry coming from the 2560x1600 a Macbook provides.
Its speakers are awful - they use EQ under Windows (provided by the Lenovo Vantage software) to sound vaguely reasonable. Under Linux no such EQ exists (even though Linux is supported by Lenovo on this laptop) so the speakers sound like a smartphone (not exaggerating).
The trackpad is so-so, to get a trackpad in Lenovo's lineup comparable to a Macbook Air you'd have to buy their Z13 which costs £700 more.
Pluses are the AMD CPU and graphics are good enough to actually play games, like Flight Simulator 2020 at 30 fps on low settings, or older titles like Witcher 3 or Arkham Knight on high settings also at a constant 30fps.
The laptop itself is good value, I picked it up on sale for £1200 with 1TB SSD and 32GB RAM for £1200. A comparable Macbook Air (M1) is £1600.