Literally yesterday I had windows 10 shit out its own asshole and corrupt itself. Nothing I could do would recover the windows install. Wouldn’t even download a new replacement in the recovery menu.
Ripped the drive out and checked the files. All my personal stuff is there. Just windows that decided it had enough.
Took this opportunity to install Linux mint. Been using it on my old desktop in the living room and it’s been phenomenal.
Fuck you windows and thanks for making the decision easy for me.
I had the same happen to my Win 11 install. Best ad for Linux i‘ve ever gotten. I installed Bazzite OS on that machine a day later and over the next few days my other machines got Fedora.
Yes, similar here. Windows 10 had been telling me I needed to upgrade to 11 but that my PC (a Lenovo X1 Carbon with a pretty decent spec for 5 years ago - i7 and 16GB of RAM) couldn’t support it and would have to be replaced. I had run Linux Mint for many years on a Samsung from around 2010, which still works, so I thought now is the time to dump Windows. Installed Mint 22 and everything just works.
Heeey, another Windows to Mint convert! I did the same thing a couple of months back and have been having a great time, hope it goes smoothly for you too!
Currently dealing with getting DaVinci resolve running and getting more to grips with Linux as a daily driver.
Any issues that you have encountered?
Only issue I’ve experienced is with sound, I have a wireless plantronics headset I use for meetings and it likes to adjust the audio volume automatically for some reason. Doesn’t break anything, but is mildly annoying because of the pop-up slider randomly showing up.
Other than that, it doesn’t get in my way, and it’s the best compliment I can think of.
I don’t have specific software I need to run for work or anything, it’s just vscode and browser, so it’s smooth sailing.
For chilling, I’m massively impressed with how much proton/wine have improved, I’ve been able to run several windows games I usually play with zero hassle, except for the occasional visual glitch with shader effects (I have a Radeon card).
This is basically how I got started too, but worse lol. Mine was just w10 wouldn’t make it past the “pin” screen, just blackness, tried to let it load for 24hr and it never did, so instead of even trying recovery I just rescued my files with a live usb of fedora (mounted that drive and bypassed the pin no less, who knew) and once I was done just installed fedora. Never looked back, it physically pains me when I have to use windows at work.
That’s almost certainly due to a hardware failure. I would validate everything or else you might end up with a similar situation.
Good that you are moving off Windows 10 though
Probably a good idea either way but Windows has broken itself more than I have had hardware failures on the devices I’ve used with Windows.
So far everything seems to be in operating order. How would I go about testing it?
Ram then GPU
Can you imagine being in control of your hardware? With Linux you can.
I have to use Windows 11 for work. It’s bad. But this past weekend my son was getting poor performance of a steam game so I dusted off the old windows partition to see if it was a compatibility issue (it wasn’t, my hardware simply doesn’t cut it - but it sucked less on Linux). But damn, managing a windows system is TERRIBLE.
And what for? You can’t even change the system font. This ducking bullshit system won’t afford you any comforts! It’s all locked in place, shoved down your throat.
I accidentally did it because I wanted to resize the Windows partition but KDE partition manager failed and it corrupted the filesystem. I wiped the entire drive and now I use it as a Steam library. I don’t even regret it, my setup feels clean now and I have a ton of space for games
I’ve never gone full-Linux, always dual-booted. But I’m finally over it and gaming on Linux has matured. So I’ve resolved to wipe my drive and force myself to only use Linux. Kind of excited about it! But mostly, I just don’t want Recall, bloatware, or Microsoft’s propriety bullshit and selling my data…
Steam os any day now (งツ)ว
Maybe they don’t want to use Linux? Perhaps we should stop trying to force Linux. Use whatever floats your boat.
Maybe they don’t want to clean up a fresh install of Windows, maybe they don’t own a computer, maybe they don’t have arms, maybe they can’t read
Your sentiment is good and all, but we’re talking about !linuxmemes@lemmy.world here :)
