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My steam deck has taught me that I'll be completely OK running linuxn(probably arch) as my daily driver with a win 11 dual boot (maybe just a vm?) for things that simply won't work on proton.
every few years on Linux Discord groups across the internet
"Hi, Windows just stopped support, you guys got any suggestions?"
I'd rather pay for security updates than invite more AI and Microsoft sponsored spyware onto my computer...
With the different distros of Linux, do different things support different distros? Like Zoom is support on Arch but not Mint, and Steam is supported in Mint but not Arch; or if an app supports Linux, it is on all distros? And if there is differences, do you have different partitions for different types of Linux?
All distros are equivalent, as far as software is concerned. They all have access to the same open source software, and Flatpak; AppImage; and Snap can be used for extra portability.
Think of a distro like a pre-configured image of linux. You can always change the configuration later, if you desire. For example, the Desktop Environment. All you have to do is just install a different DE package (usually via command line)
The DE has a major impact on user experience. Use KDE plasma for a more windows-familiar experience, or Gnome for a more Mac-familiar experience. Or experiment with others
The Linux Experiment is a good resource
mine hasnt been updated for about 3.5 years now. not having online access has its moments
I'll probably put windows enterprise iot lts on a vm in case I ever need to use a windows computer.
So, could users just ignore that and just buy an anti-virus product or use 0patch? If it's like Widows 8, most apps will still be updated for a few years.
Generally speaking that's ill-advised, antimalware tools rely on heuristics and active samples.
You don't wanna be the first person to get xyz virus. It's certainly better than nothing though.
Unless you have an app you can't live without Linux is the most accessible than it ever has been.
I'll switch my windows drive to the LTSC IoT version, when this happens. The only reason I have dual boot is for a fallback, if some games make trouble. For example for whatever reason BG3 multiplayer freezes randomly on linux. Single player is fine though. So until I got that sorted out I can fall back to windows. But when even the LTSC support runs out, then that's it completely for me.
