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Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by temporallobe » Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 2:57 PM UTC

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #418

temporallobe wrote: post #327

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They also seem to be reinventing Windows Vista (visually).

That's fine by me. Vista was by far the best looking Windows release imo. I would be using Aero right now if I could.

Completely agree! Aero was stunningly beautiful, and even the flatter Fluent Design version in Windows 10 was great, but not so much how it was applied in 11.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by nedt » Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 9:17 AM UTC

Is this still news? I did the same thing with Windows 98, so it has been some time. Also had dual boot with Windows 95. That was on my 486.

But after a while I switched back to Windows 2000 on my notebook, because of hardware support. So it would be interesting if they do the same after a while.

Since over 20 years I‘m now on mac, which has great hardware and a Unix underneath. Don’t let that stop you from going Linux desktop.

Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Post by nh2 » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 4:51 PM UTC

forgotaccount22 wrote: post #320

VertanaNinjai wrote: post #304

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Well, huge shoutout to you for following up on your word! https://gitlab.gnome.org/rickyb/network-manager-applet/-/com...

Ashamed to admit that the power of monetary motivation got the best of me here. But it was also nice to apply myself.

Update: The PR was merged upstream and I'll pay out the full bounty.

Thank you very much!

Now Linux is a good amount better on the desktop.