#Linux migration

[aedininsight]

The Windows 10 EOL Dilemma: Upgrade or Migrate?

🔹 Windows 10 EOL is coming. Windows 11 is the last x64-supported OS before Microsoft moves to ARM. Why buy new hardware when Linux keeps your current machine alive? 💻🐧 #Windows10EOL #LinuxMigration #TechStrategy #Microsoft #Linux #IT #Engineering

As a Principal Systems Architect, I don’t just follow trends. I analyze their long-term impact. And with Windows 10 hitting End-of-Life (EOL) on October 14, 2025, Microsoft is nudging users toward Windows 11, which will be the last version to support x64 processors before Microsoft fully embraces ARM architecture—just like Apple did with its M1 chips. For businesses and individuals reliant on x64…

[hindbodes]

Guess who's posting on Tumblr right now using a Linux system!

[violentkeysmashing]

Man i love working with hardware.

Gave my main PC bravo a clean today, took em outside and blew all the dust out her radiators with the air compressor and cleaned out her case.

Gave her a fresh bit of cable management and insalled a CD drive i was meant to install a while ago.

Fuck optical media <3

After all that clean i gave her annother wipe down and took off her cooler to re-paste the CPU.

So now she is all clean, her thermals look great and im pleased with todays work on her.

Gotta make sure you give your computer a good clean and some love after you abuse them. Especially when you set them up with positive airflow to maximise cooling at the cost of becoming a dust collector.

Overall Bravo had a good clean today, and i've eveb taken some good time to fix how her insides looked, had to be very carefull while doing that, since i dont want electrostaic to mess with her parts so i had to set her up on my desk and take all her panles off to get a good poke arround inside.

All good even dowm to the PSUs management, gonna be a hell of a lot easier to maintain her in the future.

Specs below \/ \/

-= Bravo - 2

+ AMD Ryzen 9 12c24t CPU with a base clock of 3.7GHz

+ 32GB corsair vengange RAM (Ik its the wrong ammount im stupid and will fix it soon)

+ Sapphire RX 6700 XT 12GB (love this card)

+ MAG B550 motherboard

+ 1TB WD Black SSD

+ 1TB samsung SATA SSD (870 evo)

+ 2TB Segate HDD

@arch-official @debian-official - if you guys wanna see :3

[ailelie]

So Why Linux?

If you've followed my "Adventures in Linux" tag at all then you know I am a technical layperson. I use my personal computer primarily to write and browse the Internet.

So why am I switching to Linux? A taskbar.

Let me explain.

In Windows 11 right now, you cannot move your taskbar from the bottom of the screen to the left side. You can move the icons in the taskbar, but if you want to go vertical, you're out of luck.

This has irritated more than just me, especially because you could in Windows 10, 7, and etc. Microsoft chose to remove functionality.

If you search online, you'll see plenty of posts in forums and on reddit asking about this missing feature. If you want a vertical taskbar, you have to download an additional program. (StartAllBack is what I got; it isn't free).

Microsoft seems uninterested in adding this functionality back.

To me, this suggests that they have an idea or vision for how users interact with their computers, as if a right and wrong way exist. Individuals don't matter; only the vision (and sometimes the majority) do.

It isn't just a taskbar.

When you open Windows 11 (Home) for the very first time and try to install Firefox, you may find that you can't (at least you couldn't when I reluctantly upgraded). The application simply isn't trusted enough to be in their app/software store, which is the only place from which you can install new programs.

If this happens to you, you're likely in S mode. Getting out of S mode is a very non-intuitive process. I'm sure plenty of people don't bother.

Microsoft uses S mode, which they claim is for security, to limit options and further define how people interact with their computer and the Internet.

It isn't just S mode.

I used to use Microsoft 365. When my computer bricked last year, 365 was a godsend because I, foolishly, did not have my documents backed up anywhere else. I did not mind paying each year for cloud storage and the Office Suite.

Then I learned that the price was jumping and all because of Copilot, a feature I wish did not exist. A "classic" version with limited AI was available, but likely only for a year.

The offer of a limited time "classic" subscription felt like a sop to irritated users who did not want to pay more for an unnecessary (unethical, environmentally unsound) "feature." A temporary placation until the noise died down and Microsoft could kill Classic quietly.

All in all, I felt like Microsoft had decided that Windows was their program that I, as a user, was simply lucky and blessed to be able to use and therefore should be grateful to use it as they dictated rather than as I wanted.

I'm not a power user. I'm not in the tech industry. My coding experience is limited to when I played with Python a decade ago and Choicescript, which I use to write my interactive fiction.

But, I have preferences. I like my taskbar to be vertical and aligned to the left of my screen.

I do not think it is that large an ask to want a computer that works how I want it to work, that lets me interact with my files and the Internet the way I want to rather than the way some far-off company decides I have to.

So that's why Linux. Yeah, it is harder to set up at times, but not as hard as some posts and articles make it seem.

I'm sharing my experiences with it to hopefully make someone else's switch easier.

Ultimately, it is just an operating system. I'm sure there's a lot I don't understand or am not appreciating, but, aside from some very minor hiccups, it works.

It works and lets me do what I want; what more could I want?

[angels--twice--descending]

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[andmaybegayer]

very funny reading the docs and feature requests for wpctl and seeing them slowly reinvent all the handy shortcuts pactl had built in, which they got as they slowly reinvented all the handy shortcuts raw alsa controllers had built in

[kittydoggie]

I am not looking forward to losing CSP when I switch to Linux.

I've been on the fence about Microsoft's bullshit for literal years at this point, and they've finally angered me to the point that I'm just fucking done. 3 generations of loyal customers ends here. Like, man, my gramps was doing the computer thing before computers were even available to the public. He did some sort of nonsense with the Navy (not that it brought him any fortune, he was not some big researcher or anything) and got the electronics bug and from there it was all she wrote. He passed down his love of tech to his kids, and then his grandkids.

It makes me a little sad to leave Windows, silly as that is, and as pragmatic as the choice is. I'm just over Microsoft right now.

But damn, y'all, there is absolutely no way to get Clip working on any of the Linux distros that I can see. There was a project to get it up with Wine, but that's been dead in the water for years at this point. If it weren't literally a choice between "directly spies on you, no not just your data, but actually you" and "has to use a different program to draw" I wouldn't be picking the latter.

Yes, btw, I am aware of Krita and Gimp. Krita is great, I know Krita is great, lots of people love it! (fuck Gimp, it knows what it did, and I know it feels the same.)

But Krita really isn't what I want, it doesn't have my beloved brushes or a lot of the dynamic tools that I use daily, and it's... I don't want to settle into a new nest. I like my nest in CSP, I have all my stuff in CSP, it's lived-in and I'm not going to trip over things because everything is where I want it. I feel like Arthur Dent, going around finding stuff that is just almost, but not quite like tea. Krita is just almost, but not quite what I want, and I'm just not looking forward to the withdrawal on that one.

[amiibo-king]

so far switching over to linux has been really smooth and honestly this shit rules. i have had very few problems switching over and in fact this is a notable improvement over windows. im never going back

[ewanspence]

Why did the #TwitterMigration fail? – Café Lob-On

Less about an ultimate fail, more about not breaking through to be acceptrd by the mainstream. Whether you consider that a fail or not is a personal choice (for me it's not a fail it's a feature), but some fascinating discussions on gatekeeping, expectations, and idealism.

[muffinlance]

You can also unsubscribe for real, and download LibreOffice! Which is free forever! And read/writes Word format with no fuss! And isn't stopped from harvesting your kidneys only by lack of a physical presence!

Why! Give money to them! At all!

if you're subscribed to Microsoft word, you probably received an email recently saying they're upping their prices. Like, a lot. ($9.99/month instead of $6.99)

guess what though? you can log into your account, click Cancel Subscription, and get the option to continue your subscription at the same price WITHOUT their bullshit AI.

That's right, the new, higher price is actually a different subscription that includes AI that everyone is being opted into by force! What a cool and fun product that clearly everyone wants.

you can also choose to buy Word 2024 without AI for a single lump sum that will be yours in perpetuity, with no updates, for one computer.

Check your subscription if you need Word for work! Don't get duped into paying for something you might not even want

[simple-logic]

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[my-tummy-hurts]

I'm not gonna fucking use win11

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[dalishthunder]

Okay dual boot is set up on my gaming PC! And I have successfully gotten overwatch to run on Linux! I am keeping my 2024 new years resolution after all!

[multithinker]

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