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  • FlappyBubble@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Understandable but bad since all newer Windows versions are really heavy on telemetry and privacy hostile practices.

    Of course I use Linux but I don’t live in a bubble and see that most people won’t switch in the near future.

    • Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      Not sure why this made me look but it is cool that Linux as a whole has a bigger user share than Windows 7 and 8.

      I am relishing the idea of switching, I just need my last few creative outlets (mostly music software) to work on Linux fully, and I will jump. 😊

    • TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      I tried. I finally wanted to switch away from Windows and installed mint. Spent about 3 hours trying to get my headphone jacks to work with some mildly obscure tools and commands but no dice. Then I managed to destroy one of my partitions by trying to Mount it but it gave me an obscure error. Searched the forums and found NTFS fix, well turns out I accidentally had turned the partition dynamic when moving it to a larger drive. NTFS fix didn’t like that and promptly destroyed the file table. I lost a buch of data. So back to the cruddy Windows then…I’m not tech savvy enough, which is sad.

      • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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        8 months ago

        If you’ve never, ever used Linux before and are not confident about its tools, it’s almost always better to use a fresh machine. NTFS and Linux really don’t mix well, for example.

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    I expected five miliseconds of scrolling to find someone with a megaphone hammering on about Linux.

    It took none.

    Im one myself but this is just as bad as the circlejerks on the Teletubbies website.