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Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch"

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Re: Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch"

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Post by adastra22 »

d3Xt3r wrote: post #50
esperent wrote: post #4

I'm one of these people. Although it was a several years long plan for me, which involved learning new software (especially 3DS Max to Blender). I finally decided to bite the bullet around 8 weeks ago. Backed up everything, wiped Windows, installed Ubuntu. I wouldn't says it's been smooth sailing. I've had a ton of technical issues which are not all resolved (I still can't get my laptop to wake from sleep, I have to…

I'd wager that a lot of your issues could boil down to GNOME and the ancient software stack that Ubuntu is infamous for. I would recommend giving a more sensible distro like Fedora with KDE a try, or even CachyOS if you're not afraid of the terminal.

GNOME is just as maintained and up to date as KDE.

Re: Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch"

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Post by adastra22 »

aussieguy1234 wrote: post #12
daveoc64 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As the Stack Overflow developer survey shows, a majority of developers use Windows: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#1-computer-o... HN is atypical of the world, particularly anything outside of the USA.

I ditched windows and switched to Linux back in the Windows 98 days. Have not looked back since.

Good for you. You are part of a minority of users.

Re: Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch"

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Post by d3Xt3r »

adastra22 wrote: post #91
d3Xt3r wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd wager that a lot of your issues could boil down to GNOME and the ancient software stack that Ubuntu is infamous for. I would recommend giving a more sensible distro like Fedora with KDE a try, or even CachyOS if you're not afraid of the terminal.

GNOME is just as maintained and up to date as KDE.

Not when it comes to Wayland support.

Re: Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch"

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Post by d3Xt3r »

fallinditch wrote: post #70

I have a 7 year old mini 'NUC' PC that ran Windows 10. I installed Windows 11 and used a popular Debloat program [1] - this produced a very nice operating system that suits me well and performed well. I also tried to install various Linux distros on a partition but all of the installations failed towards the end of the process, causing various boot loader and other problems that required a lot of uncomfortable fixing…

That's odd, usually older computers, especially NUCs are very well supported under Linux. I've got a 3yr old NUC-like Mini PC (from Minisforum) and it everything worked OOTB (with Fedora and Arch).

Re: Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch"

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Post by mikewarot »

I'm contemplating my options. I'd love to move to a secure OS like Genode but it still doesn't seem to be a complete daily driver.

I completely switched to Ubuntu a few years ago, but the loss of a functioning version of WikidPad, which was my calendar at the time forced me back, having missed a few critical doctors appointments was the straw that broke me.

It was a breaking change to the WxWindows python Library that killed it. Because the windows version of public release from 2012 was an executable, it just kept working, while the software supply chain failed for the Linux world. Many other things written in Python were killed when Python 3 hit and took them out, unless they were actively being maintained.

I've even considered the possibility of switching to VMS, having used it back in my college days, but the cost seems to be almost $100/month for a license. ==8-o

Re: Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch"

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Post by esperent »

le-mark wrote: post #48
Gualdrapo wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if you want to use Linux, you need to buy certified hardware Or test yours with a live distro beforehand

Or use hardware a year or two old. If your hardware is bleeding edge you’re going to have a hard time. Or if you depend on some peripheral that’s not “mainstream”. The thing windows always, always had going for it was driver support. Linux never had that so it’s always been a game of catch up.

My laptop is about five years old.

Re: Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch"

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Post by esperent »

Yohvee7u wrote: post #41
esperent wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is good advice and I should have done that. However, most of the issues I had only showed up after some time of using it. For example, a big one was wifi and it was very intermittent and hard to debug. I think it was going into low power mode in some circumstances and my wifi speed would randomly drop to 100kbs or less. Sometimes turning wifi off and on would fix it, sometimes a restart was required. Thankfully…

Ah, the issues you mentioned are the top 3 nvidia issues :P - wake from suspend - laptop power consumption - poor wayland support - sudden desktop restarts - hidpi, external monitors, virtualization Nvidia's proprietary crap has always worked badly, the re-implement everything and put all their development effort into NIH syndrome instead of playing along with the already existing open source stack.

I don't know about that. If you search around you'll find that the two most common problems people have even installing linux (any variety) on a laptop is wake from suspend and power consumption. Very few of these laptops have discrete GPUs.

As to sudden restarts, this has never happened to me.

Re: Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch"

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Post by int_19h »

d3Xt3r wrote: post #93
adastra22 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GNOME is just as maintained and up to date as KDE.

Not when it comes to Wayland support.

GNOME is one of the most aggressive pushers of Wayland if anything.
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