• potcandan@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I’m holding out until they force me to upgrade from 10. They’ve tried probably a half dozen times or so already to have me choose to upgrade but it’s been a minute.

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        1 year ago

        Not necessarily too old, but as long as it can boot in “legacy BIOS” mode, I think I’m safe 🤫

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      1 year ago

      Doesn’t have to be Ubuntu, Mint would work too, but yeah, windows keeps going down hill, I switched to Linux early last year and not regretted it once

      Side note: if you want something more windows like, KDE is a good desktop environment, its got a lot of customization settings too

      Though I’m told cinnamon (what Mint uses) is also pretty windows like

      • LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Seconding Mint on this, It’s so easy to get used to it that it felt almost as familiar as Windows during my first week of using it.

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        1 year ago

        I’m sure lots of other OS work but not really worth the energy for me to switch over and learn a new OS just because I’m annoyed by them wanting to update me to a new version. Once I’m all set up and have learned it, it’ll probably be better than Windows but I’m just not willing to spend even a minute on it.

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            1 year ago

            Windows is just so ingrained in everything. Like this job I’m starting soon I’ll need it. At the very least it would be like a dual boot situation and like I said, not even willing to spend a minute let alone begin a whole project. Cheers

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              1 year ago

              I have dual boot on my work PC. I think the last time I booted into Windows was a year ago.
              I can boot the physical Windows partition in Virtualbox and QEMU. I do that maybe 3 times a month for a few hours.