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- technology@lemmy.world
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- technology@lemmy.world
Last month, Microsoft announced that it would continue its put-ChatGPT-in-everything adventure with a new Windows 11 feature called Copilot. The company added generative AI to Edge and to the Bing-powered taskbar Search field months ago, but Copilot promises to be the most visible and hard-to-ignore version of Microsoft’s big AI push in its most visible and hard-to-ignore product.
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If Microsoft continues its push towards a SAAS Windows model, it might be just the push I need to make the switch to Linux for my daily driver. :|
Man, it’s easier now than ever.
I got a laptop for writing back at the end of the year. Set up dual boot, majority of the drive space for mint. Only reason I even kept win10 on there is one of the programs I use for self publishing ain’t WINE friendly yet. Fucking amazon, of course, lol.
But that’s literally the only thing I use it for on there.
On my desktop, I have two drives, because musicbee doesn’t play well with WINE either. So I still have 7 on the media drive, and mint on the main drive. I do use the win 7 plenty, because arrr matey, I like me songs to stay on that drive to cut down issues. It’s just way easier to download, tag, and play all on the same drive.
But for anything else, it’s mint. I started using it when win 10 came out because I could see the shitshow developing before it actually released, and started figuring out options. By the time it came around, I had settled into a few distros that worked well for me, and mint w/ cinnamon was the favorite. Don’t get me wrong, I love plasma, but mint and cinnamon just work for me so well.
Unless you’ve got professional needs for Windows, or you’re stuck with a killer program that won’t work via WINE, (or other solutions) any distro is better than 11. My kid got a laptop for Christmas, for gaming, and it’s on 11. Most annoying damn thing I’ve had to deal with in years.
Windows 11 was the breaking point for me, if I have to learn a whole new operating system it’s going to be one that I actually have control over. I jumped into the deep end for niche reasons but you can make a seamless jump from windows to many distros - there are desktop environments that feel just like Windows. The last great barrier has been the windows-centric disposition of gaming, and Valve has made incredible strides in that field by way of Proton. For extreme needs, I’ve reduced Windows to an application, and one that I rarely touch.
And once you get comfortable with Free and Open Source software, you start to feel dirty letting corporations frisk you at every conceivable juncture.
there are desktop environments that feel just like Windows
Would you be able to recommend a couple, for someone who has for all intents and purposes never touched Linux?
Honestly, the Steam Deck is what would finally let me make the plunge. Gaming has always been the thing holding me back, but after using the Deck and seeing how good compatibility is, if I had to just not play games that weren’t compatible with Linux, I don’t think I’d mind overly much.
Any flavor of Ubuntu is a good first dive, but I personally like Ubuntu Budgie for various reasons, followed by Mate and then Xubuntu.
Ubuntu has wide community support though, it is unlikely that you will find applications that don’t provide a version already made for it, and most issues can be easily solved with Google.
