Im so glad I fully switched to Linux a year ago. Never going back to Windows.
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2025
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i’ve been on linux on and off since 1998, however I fully switched about 5 years ago and never looked back.
I was curious around 3 months ago, between distro swapping and I installed W11. It lasted 2h until I rage installed linux and took me an entire day to wash the windows taste off. bleah…
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Wine will probably run it fine. Try posting to the linc gaming community though
They just try to force people to buy another PC and so many "computer ignorant" people will...poor old ladies who click on the ads...
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Hold on to your butts.
Big influx of Linux-compatible office PCs hitting eBay soon.
That and/or a big influx of vulnerable unpatched Windows machines...
Any unpatched windows machine can be patched into a Linux machine.
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You can literally buy new thinkpads with ubuntu pre installed for $140 dollars off the price of a windows PC
Oh I misread that and thought you said they thinkpads themselves were $140 lol
That's cool, but a lot of people (myself included) aren't able to justify a brand new laptop. I can absolutely afford a new laptop...I just have no desire to buy one when older ones work just fine and have plenty of life in them.
My current laptop is a T495 that I bought at a flea market two years ago for $100 and it still handles all of my needs completely fine. My kid is using a T470 I bought not too long before that for around the same price, and it does everything he needs too (though it could stand to handle Minecraft JE a bit better...but in fairness he installs nearly every mod he finds and I never really taught him about adjusting settings).
If you aren't doing high-end gaming or video editing, practically any computer can handle like 95% of other daily home computer tasks.
That said, his laptop speakers are blown...so maybe it's time I start looking for an upgrade for me. Kids are good for that type of stuff. Still remember convincing my wife we needed to get him a Switch for Christmas...his first Christmas. I wouldn't buy myself a switch...but for my 5 month old kid? Yeah he needs Breath of the Wild.
I got a Framework a little while back for this reason... The modularity of it means that I can upgrade it piecemeal as needed without having to buy a brand new laptop, or suffer with outdated hardware before I can justify buying a new laptop.
It was not cheap though.
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Throw it away.
Gently
In my direction
Why gently?
Cause lobbing 25+lbs of hardware at someone is frowned upon most of the time.
Don't wanna hurt the other person or the computer, duh. After all, a device infested with Windows doesn't really need to be punished for it.
Also make sure to remove all BIOS passwords first
I want to ditch windows so bad, but I can't run any autodesk products on Linux atm.... Revit, Autocad... Sad noises
Install atlas os and dual boot linux as your daily driver. Honestly linux experience is what you think windows experience is and vice versa. Windows is just insanely bad now. I haven't touched my psu power button, done anything close to using reg edit or have a bsod equvilent just from playing a video game since I moved to fedora.
Not familar with AtlasOS... Interesting. Not that I have any use for it personally.
And all Windows-only software works natively on it?
Its a stripped down windows 10, that's all.
Is this a better alternative to going with bazzite or garuda? Or will support be lost once ms moves to win 11 only ? I love linux but I am worried I won't be able to game or use vr (quest2) without a bunch of work. I play a lot of racing Sims, steam games which I'm fine with, but my friends do play pubg which I'd have to abandon due to the stupid anti cheat. I'd like to not have to dual boot but I may have to for vr..
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I just lost out on the sale of two Lenovo P51 thinkpads because the CPU has been literally arbitrarily cut off. 32gb ddr4 2400mhz, quad core xeon, Nvidia GPU w/ 4gb gddr5, 512gb SSD. Because Microsoft decided to leave it off of a spreadsheet. Fuck this company….
I have two Xeon E5-2697A v4's in my system. 32 cores. My machine runs the latest AAA titles like Indiana Jones on maximum settings flawlessly.
Microsoft: "Just throw it away, bro." Bless Lord Gaben for making Proton so good, I can run 95% of my Steam library on Linux, with better performance.
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That moment when Microsoft tells people to throw away perfectly good working computers because they're running Windows 10. When Windows 10 was just coming out or had just come out, Microsoft promised that Windows 10 would be the last OS of theirs, and there would only be updates. Also Microsoft is constantly sending messages to people running Windows 10 urging them to update.
I remember that "promise" too. And here we are
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I just installed Mint instead.
This is the biggest garbage a tech company did to almost 256 million PCs in use and fully working. I installed Linux Mint on all three PCs I own. Free and works far better than I thought.
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Sweet, bunch of cheap laptops about to flood the market
Trade it in or recycle it with local organizations
And what are those organizations expected to install on systems that can't support Windows 11, Microsoft? What are they expected to install exactly?
I upcycle old tech and put Linux Mint on them. The people I've given them to seem pleased as do the charities.
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Holy shit they really just said, "throw it away". Troglodytes!