Won? They will do it again. The only winning move is not to play their game. Choose Free Software.
Genuine question: What do you recommend? I want to replace Windows 10 on a 8-year-old midrange laptop with something that works reasonably well in terms of performance with a connected 4K monitor.
I’ve already tried Ubuntu, but unfortunately the experience has been marred by bugs such as poor performance, visual glitches, windows jumping around when attempting to move them, and DPI settings not being able to be applied per screen.
If you identify your laptop (including model number) someone who has the same hardware might be able to make a solid recommendation.
It’s a HP Pavilion Power 15-cb091nd.
I can’t say I’ve had those issues myself, so my recommendation may not be valid in your case. I’d say maybe give Fedora with KDE Plasma a try, and try switching between X11 and Wayland sessions if issues persist.
I personally don’t like Ubuntu, but that’s mostly because of Canonical making the occasional sketchy decision.
On the whole, distro choice doesn’t matter quite as much these days, as most distros should work fine out of the box. Whatever issues you have should technically be solvable with a bit of troubleshooting.
Sometimes Linux just doesn’t play well with your setup. Good luck, and I hope you find something that works for you!
I am more impressed you got windows 10 to work well on 8 year old computers ngl. I had an HP pavillion around that age and it had torturingly low startup speed.
Definetely try mint-cinnamon and mint-xfce4, latter one uses xfce4 which has very good performance.
A lot of experienced users will find linux run without bugs for them but that’s because it’s an OS that gets better as you learn more.
In my case battery life was 2 hours on windows and 1.5 hours on linux. But once I past the skill-curve I tweaked it to be 6 hours because I knew how to find what caused the problem and fix it.
Either that or there is the IT-guy effect going on where once an experienced user shows up the aura just makes computers work normal again lmao.
Linux is definitely the route. A lot of people use Mint or Ubuntu. But they are usually running out of date drivers.
I’d recommend looking into distros based on Fedora Workstation. It stays up to date but not as much as Arch so that it’s stable.
My recommendation is any of the Universal Blue images that fit your need. They are based off of the Fedora Atomic image with added quality of life features.
I’ve had more luck with Mint, thanks to its Windows-adjacent GUI and user-friendly on ramp. Still encountered a few issues (a couple of peripherals that didn’t support Linux drivers). But on the whole, it’s improved system performance over Win10 and synced smoothly with my workstation.
The only thing they’re rethinking is how to repackage this so people accept it. They learned a lot from this, but I promise you it wasn’t the right lesson.
LOL, I won when I installed Mint.
Cheers
I read “a major shit”
common freudian slip when talking about windows
Oh, and only now am I re-reading it to see that’s not what it actually said…
Bullshit and too late, bitches
It mostly looks like a mild slow down of user-facing release and rebrand of unpopular features.
It is not a retreat. The marketing team is just trying to figure out how to reframe things that caused public backlash.
Microslop Microslop Microslop. Microslop?
Microslop.
Too late! That and requiring TPM and SecureBoot made me switch. I love it.
I won? Of course I did, I don’t use Windows anymore, I’ve been using Linux for years now.
It would be nice if they change the Office app back to its old name, rather than M365 Copilot or whatever insane nonsense they picked. They should also review their corporate culture, and how the way they set performance rewards leads to insane unintended consequences across the company.
Office has been Microsoft 365 for five years now. They added “Copilot” to the name at some point last year, but it’s been M365 for a while.
Tbf 5 years ago is 2021 and I remember disliking Microsoft’s decisions even back then.
Oh, absolutely–but back then it was just normal, ordinary platform decay, not the sparkling AI hellscape of today.
“Are you really staying off windows for good?”
Yes | Remind Me Later
I bet they turn this into even more AI
too late. saw win95 and ran
Edit: wanted to reply.
Like, even if they do listen to the community, it still isn’t good enough for the Linux shills on here.
God, the Linux community is so uptight. It really doesn’t do FOSS any favour acting like this.
It would be less bad if they could all agree to one recommended distro, but even that is an impossibility.
Your problem with the Linux community is that there’s a lot of options? I cannot understand how that’s a bad thing. If there was only one distro it would be the same as now, but with less diversity.
The reason this isn’t good enough is that it’s a shallow capitulation by a company still massively over invested in AI. Nobody believes Microsoft is actually going to give up on shoving AI down people’s throats, they’re just gonna be more subtle about it now.
