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I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by buzzardbait »

haunter wrote: post #173
molteanu wrote: post #48

I thought this was Hacker News! How come dumping Windows for Linux in the year 2026 makes the headlines?

Easy karma on HN. We have these posts every couple of days. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566465 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457770

Ah, so karma is a thing on HN as well. That would explain it.

Since 2001 I've used Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware, Ubuntu, and Mint. I got rid of them at the first available opportunity. Elon Musk himself couldn't pay me enough to switch to Linux.

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Post by raffael_de »

NegativeK wrote: post #315
crocowhile wrote: post #278

I have been using Linux exclusively for twenty years now. I don't understand people who use anything else, to be honest.

> I have been using Linux exclusively for twenty years now. Ditto. I can't stand other OSs; they are constantly in my way for just the basic tasks. > I don't understand people who use anything else, to be honest. Anti-ditto. I would never give Linux to my parents. They're capable enough to maintain their own Windows computers, and switching them to Linux would mean that I'd have to take over all of those tasks -- bec…

> Anti-ditto. I would never give Linux to my parents.

I don't know about your parents but most people (including my parents) just use a browser and some applications that are identical to their Windows versions or sufficiently similar. There isn't really anything new to learn.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by francoi8 »

sovietmudkipz wrote: post #301

I’m so close to the switch myself for silly reasons. I don’t like windows due to their creepy business practices and negative design patterns in their OS so I’m very bias against it. Forcing copilot is just the latest in their creepy practices… For more details on why I came close to switching: I use my win desktop as a host for ai services such as Comfy UI for stable diffusion generation since it is a beefy platform…

There's nothing silly about those reasons.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by formerly_proven »

nickjj wrote: post #143
formerly_proven wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be fair to mention that this is happening for you with a decade old GPU using an EOL driver, which sucks, but is unlikely to be a common experience.

> It would be fair to mention that this is happening for you with a decade old GPU using an EOL driver, which sucks, but is unlikely to be a common experience. The drivers are still getting maintained by NVIDIA until August 2026. They also got classified as "legacy" on paper 1 day before I installed them. The compositor memory leak is affecting a lot of people. Since COSMIC and niri both use the same one (smithay), t…

> The compositor memory leak is affecting a lot of people. Since COSMIC and niri both use the same one (smithay), there's threads on GitHub with people using modern GPUs, both NVIDIA and AMD who experience it. There's a lot of replies across all of the different open issues.

But then this sounds like a bug in that particular compositor rather than the driver(s)?

fwiw, I have a modern nvidia card, and use the proprietary drivers, and Wayland (KDE/KWin), and that box has a few weeks of uptime.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by GlacierFox »

osigurdson wrote: post #314

I don't know about the "you should too" part. I use Arch, it works fine for me but I am patient and want to use it. Realistically, I would expect the largest migration should be devs switching from mac to Linux. I don't see any reason at all to use a mac for development anymore.

Has apple severely degraded the developer experience on MacOS recently or something?

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by WesolyKubeczek »

shevy-java wrote: post #191
adontz wrote: post #86

These articles... I'm not sure who are the target audience, because I am definitely not and I don't know anyone who is. Specific OS is not the important, anything with modern KDE is good enough to replace Windows 10/11. But do I (and all my colleagues) need Microsoft Office (Word, Excel at least) and/or Drawing software (Adobe or something) and/or god forbid Visual Studio 2026, and some other corporate software to ma…

We really need to make LibreOffice much better. I am tired of Microsoft really.

This begs the question of who “we” are.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by littlestymaar »

sovietmudkipz wrote: post #301

I’m so close to the switch myself for silly reasons. I don’t like windows due to their creepy business practices and negative design patterns in their OS so I’m very bias against it. Forcing copilot is just the latest in their creepy practices… For more details on why I came close to switching: I use my win desktop as a host for ai services such as Comfy UI for stable diffusion generation since it is a beefy platform…

Having just yesterday installed a fresh Mint distro on a newly received PC that came with Windows pre-installed, I can tell you that this is merely an hour of work, and most of the time will be spent downloading and burning the .iso on the USB key.

You should just give it a go tonight.

Re: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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Post by gchamonlive »

sovietmudkipz wrote: post #301

I’m so close to the switch myself for silly reasons. I don’t like windows due to their creepy business practices and negative design patterns in their OS so I’m very bias against it. Forcing copilot is just the latest in their creepy practices… For more details on why I came close to switching: I use my win desktop as a host for ai services such as Comfy UI for stable diffusion generation since it is a beefy platform…

Do you have reference for the krita+comfyui setup? I have a drawing tablet and always wanted to augment drawings using AI but never got around to deploying a stack for that. I have a 3090 that should be enough for it, I just need a reference for the setup.

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Post by hnlmorg »

layer8 wrote: post #252
hnlmorg wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's a constant race of keeping up with features, using mostly unpaid volunteer developers. What new features are Microsoft bringing out that are that critical for LibreOffice et al to catch up with? I can’t think of much which I use that wasn’t already available in Office 95 which was released 30 years ago. Aside from OOXML (which isn’t nearly as open as the name suggests) and the ribbon bar (which i personally ha…

Excel had tons of new and useful features over the past years.

…and they are?

I don’t doubt there’s been plenty of new features. But are they significant enough that users on older versions or non-MS suites are left longing for the latest version of Excel?

I just don’t think there is much innovation left. Or at least not without changing the UX and/or paradigm significantly. Neither of which have happened.

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