Your Windows 10 PC will soon be ājunkā - users told to resist Microsoft deadline::If youāre still using Windows 10 and donāt want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition
And I never did. I just started with Linux Mint when I got my first laptop.
But I do see the perspective of Windows users, perhaps. I did briefly try using Windows, but it was frustrating. I donāt know how to set anything in there. For some reason thereās 2 setting apps (control panel and settings), each only being partially usable. My Wi-Fi kept dying, the only solution was replacing the Intel Wi-Fi card for one from Qualcomm. Bluetooth only worked randomly like every 20th restart. Drivers for my 20 year old printer didnāt work in either 10 nor 11. Only up to Windows 7.
Painful experience.
Yeah, when they went from 7 to 10 (thereās no 9 for horrible hacky reasons, and 8 was the mandatory half-baked test-run of the next proper version), they tried to redo the aesthetics of those systems to be more touch-input styled, but they only half-did it. If you want anything more advanced than the settings app gives you, you need to dig into the control panel. Then thereās the deeper settings - device manager, computer management, startup services, firewall, the registry, and on and on, all of which are designed entirely differently and many of which havenāt seen any update since windows 2000 at least. I wouldnāt be surprised if some went back further. It all speaks to ancient legacy code nobody wants to touch and the unfathomable depths of technical debt that implies. I get the sense the settings app change is another in a long line of updates that became legacy and added yet another layer to this byzantine system.
Then thereās the lovecraftian user permissions system that seems like it layers three levels of abstraction that you have to utterly master to get literally anything done and which I have given up trying to understand. If I need permissions, I run a third party batch file that assigns complete ownership of everything in a folder to me, and then I donāt think about the consequences.
I really want to move to Linux, but Iāve gotten burnt out on attempting and not being able to do all of the many things Iām used to on Windows. Iāve been hearing good things about it lately and I may just have the energy to try again soon.
I wish you a good luck! And donāt hesitate to ask - often times itās very simple, actually!
Thanks, itās been many years since my last attempt. I have a Linux server since about a year ago, I just need to switch my main computer.
Honestly shifting from reddit to lemmy has lifted such a mental burden that I feel like leaving Windows will be even better. Itās so oppressive dealing with the unending - and apparently increasing - current of enshittification.
After purging Edge from my system it came back after the latest update, and I got some notification that turned out to be an ad. When I went to turn it off I found they were all already off so idk if I even can disable that without first finding a tutorial that acknowledges the problem - rather than just telling me to turn it off - and following whatever arcane bullshit I need to fix it.
I remember once there was X setting, and it did nothing. Then I found a tutorial that explained how you could dig into the registry and flip the āRespectXSettingā setting. Actual gaslighting.
Sorry, I realise I am trauma dumping now. I just want off mr bones wild ride.
