Windows 11 is an insane resource pig, so for the short to medium term stick with Windows 10 by using modest hardware. This approach can save money and frustration. Windows 10 is still pretty bad and full of spyware features, though.
What is the next step after spyware called Windows 11?
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Re: What is the next step after spyware called Windows 11?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Window snapping is coming in the next OS release, in September or October (finally some said, but I do not care for it). Maximise button has been there forever? The green button move the window on a separate space when clicked w/o modifiers since a few years ago (maybe one of the dumbest decision of macOS but YMMV) and maximize the window when alt-clicked. Before, the green button maximized and there was no other opt…
Window snapping already existed just only through the keyboard Different mapping of feature != the feature doesn’t exist
You’re right, I forgot. To be precise it existed through a menu with a modifier key activated and a keyboard shortcut could be assigned to the menu entry, or using the green button (highlighting it for half a second opens a menu).
Re: What is the next step after spyware called Windows 11?
#43For me, the next step after 10 is Linux. Maybe Debian, because Ubuntu is slowly going the same ad-laden direction.
The best Debian-based desktop Linux distro today is Linux Mint. There are versions based on Ubuntu but LMDE is based on Debian. Linux Mint is friendlier, easier to use, and is closer to the "it just works" ethos than Ubuntu and doesn't have Snaps (by default). It also supports multiple desktops such as Cinnamon, XFCE and MATE. You can also manually install other desktops such as KDE Plasma.
In my experience, Debian ticks all the boxes you mentioned about Mint. Not bashing Mint in any way, I'm sure it's a great distro - just saying Debian itself is perfectly good too.
Re: What is the next step after spyware called Windows 11?
#44For me, the next step after 10 is Linux. Maybe Debian, because Ubuntu is slowly going the same ad-laden direction.
The best Debian-based desktop Linux distro today is Linux Mint. There are versions based on Ubuntu but LMDE is based on Debian. Linux Mint is friendlier, easier to use, and is closer to the "it just works" ethos than Ubuntu and doesn't have Snaps (by default). It also supports multiple desktops such as Cinnamon, XFCE and MATE. You can also manually install other desktops such as KDE Plasma.
I installed Linux Mint for my Linux-aversive, non-techie wife after her Windows machine died. It's been several weeks with no real complaints. I did have have some driver issues, but that would have been the same story with other distros.
Re: What is the next step after spyware called Windows 11?
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
The best Debian-based desktop Linux distro today is Linux Mint. There are versions based on Ubuntu but LMDE is based on Debian. Linux Mint is friendlier, easier to use, and is closer to the "it just works" ethos than Ubuntu and doesn't have Snaps (by default). It also supports multiple desktops such as Cinnamon, XFCE and MATE. You can also manually install other desktops such as KDE Plasma.
In my experience, Debian ticks all the boxes you mentioned about Mint. Not bashing Mint in any way, I'm sure it's a great distro - just saying Debian itself is perfectly good too.
I haven't found Debian to be as slick an experience as Linux Mint. For a non-techie, Debian requires more tech help. I work in IT and ran my own Debian web/email/etc server for 15 years, and it was a great experience, but even I prefer Linux Mint on my desktops and laptops.
Re: What is the next step after spyware called Windows 11?
#46AMD64/Intel: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/ ARM: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/arm64/iso-dvd/ RISC-V: https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V
Re: What is the next step after spyware called Windows 11?
#47In the beginning 'twas the command line, and cmd was good, and it sufficed, for computing was the product. And we looked around and saw the IBM PC and Mac - and Amigas and STs and Commodores before them, and Spectra, and Lisas and IIe, all after their kind, and all was well - for they were computers.- Then the OS became the product. And it needed glitz, and it needed a GUI. And so a GUI came. And then "updates" came…
> all is well and will be well, for AI shall be unto us a confort (comfort?) in loneliness Uh, I don't want all of my online social connections being replaced with robots, thanks.
Went too archaic there with the typo :)
PS. No. Me neither. No one, methinks (at least, no one now) ...
... it was meant skeptically.-
Re: What is the next step after spyware called Windows 11?
#48Almost half of my friends are switching to mac, the other half to linux. The rest is staying on windows 10 for the foreseeable future. Depends if apps they use for work are able to work on linux or not. Steam solved the game issue, now all that is left is software. I would love to see people leaving learning another piece of software instead, but that's not realistic.
Same thing happens with businesses, though the planned usage of windows is unfortunately much higher, mainly due to laziness and/or cost of training.