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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (5 children)

My aging windows tower and retired work laptop were both struggling to keep up with my photo and video editing. Linux asnt an option for Capture One and Davinci Resolve, and the writing was on the wall for what Windows is becoming.

Combined with the failures in Intel Raptor/Alder lake CPUs, I took an unexpected leap into the realm of Apple silicon with an M4 Pro Mac Mini.

Apple is not a perfect company, but this new machine processes video faster than anything I've ever used, and for the first time since the 2010s it has replaceable (proprietary) storage.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I use Linux at home but my work computer uses windows. Work just bought me a new laptop with windows 11 pre-installed and I got ads to upgrade to a new "AI capable computer" on the login screen. This computer is maybe 3 months old and there are already ads telling me I need to get a new one.

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Those aren't prompts. Those are ads. Call a spade a spade. "Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen ads"

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I say this in a lot of threads lately but, here I go again:

I’m so glad I swapped to linux

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Arch (well right now more precisely cachyos)

I’ve been using Linux on my homeserver (debian) and on previous laptops (arch) for almost a decade, but I only swapped my main desktop over this spring when nVidia sorted out waylaid explicit sync

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

I'm just curious how much more shitty they can make it. I laugh every time they announce some new "feature". Makes me appreciate Linux Mint more and more each time.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't need a new motherboard. TPM got accidentally turned off and I keep forgetting to turn it back on. Darn.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

I recently installed Linux because windows pissed me off and I laughed out loud at this..

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

I love how they advertise it as they're doing you such a great big favor by allowing easy access to transferring files to the new system

Talk about creating a problem that way they can sell you the solution, they completely treat it as if they weren't the original cause of having everyone have to buy new systems for the next windows in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

And it's worked on my brother in law who's announced he's buying new PCs for the whole family specifically to upgrade to 11. jFC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Are you excited for him to finally get everything setup and then he sees the ad again?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm about to rebuild my dev box and I'm seriously considering a Kinoite host with a Windows 10 LTS guest. Anyone have a good Fedora-centric guide to kvm?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

On my kinoite computer i just create a fedora distrobox container, install qemu on it, and boot my vms off that, works quite well, no fiddling with the filesystem or systemd services

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Ty! I'll do some research in that direction.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Has anybody found a way to turn Microsoft's ads off yet? I'm tired of dismissing their prompts to switch to Edge and Office 365 every few months.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I run a local account and toggled off all the telemetry stuff during installation nine years ago. Never saw one of those. Didn't even get toggled on with updates. Only problem I had was Copilot getting added a few weeks ago. By that time, Win10 had become the compatibility fallback for Linux, though.

So, create a local account, go into Settings, and toggle off everything that could maybe be telemetry related.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

As an experiment I revoked the certificate that is used for code verification on the executable responsible for the popups. So far the only thing I broke was the .net installer. But no more pop-ups. :D

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yes, but you won't like to hear it...

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I installed Linux one time and now im a cat girl

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Don’t listen to them, I installed Linux multiple times and I‘m still a fat nerd

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

…go on…

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

sigh

gets his Ventoy USB drive ready for a new ISO...

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