Distro-hopped a lot till I landed on Manjaro with XFCE desktop environment. Been daily driving it for about a month now without any complaints. There is an option to install with NVIDIA drivers as well.
Ironically Roblox doesn’t work on Linux(On Wine at least not sober).
What flavor do you recommend?
People will keep using Windows 10 even if Microsoft will not fix any vulnerability
Closer to the EoL time, someone is going to release a version of Linux that is basically windows, with a super locked down interface etc to make it so newbies can install and use with zero CLI or setup.
Or at least some serious consumer-grade onboarding.
Presumably it will have reduced functionality to make it as stable as humanly possible too.
And they’ll probably become one of the larger distributions until people get the confidence to “upgrade” to a more complex one.
If they can get a version that just runs all Windows programs (not just games) out of the box without user modification then great. I’d consider that to be an actual Windows replacement.
If all you’re running is a browser and some light office suite use then great, Linux can do that now. Otherwise what people saying “just switch to Linux” are really saying is “stop using your PC”.
is this not what the steam deck os will eventually offer? cause I can see myself using that on my desktop eventually
Didn’t know that was a thing outside of steam deck.
But yeah I’m waiting until the last moment because it’s likely that’s when the best contender will appear.
I think they’re working on it, I could have sworn they said they were but a quick Google search shows nothing for me…
I saw someone posted bazzite as an alternative to steam os, but I’d just rather wait for whatever valve puts out at this point. I trust them to make it happen a little bit too much lol
Like if people actually cared that a Windows version goes EoL. That literally means nothing to most people and typical PC user won’t even notice anything until something will functionally break, which will take YEARS after it’s EoL.
Considering people kept using Windows XP well after EOL… yup.
A lot of people will be happy not to have windows update asking to restart the computer anymore.
Sure, Linux has some selling points and it’s a good moment for it to try and gain new users, but I’m tired of people acting like it’s the YOTLD because of what Microsoft is doing to Windows. It’s just delusional
I love this absolute fantasy Linux folk have come up with
I do some e-wasting for a number of big companies and have piles of old laptops. I’ve taken to giving the laptops to people that need computers and the ones with Linux don’t taken. I literally can’t give away Linux computers. They can buy their own windows licenses.
Yep, people are so stubborn they would rather risk their entire online presence than learn that penguin hacker thingy with the white text. Also the Walter is wet
- Plasma is more similar to Windows
- Plasma is more customizable
- Plasma is just as beginner-friendly
- Plasma has more features
- Plasma is more actively developed
- Plasma looks better
Don’t get me wrong, Cinnamon is fine, but it gets recommended religiously to beginners for some reason. It just doesn’t make sense, so I will keep repeating this, not least to keep alive the ancient linux tradition of Desktop wars.
Still, any Windows to Linux transition is a step forward and I support this, upvoted.
- Plasma is wayy more buggy in cinnamon (Alteast my experience)
Plasma and Cinnamon are two different Desktops, one can’t be in the other :) Did you mean Plasma on Mint?
No Plasma on Kubuntu,KDE neon,etc
ah, I think you meant “than”. Fair enough, my recent experience has been super smooth
As someone who has extensively used both Cinnamon and Plasma: I find Plasma a lot less polished, by a huge margin. Not only do settings have unusual defaults and are located in places you wouldn’t expect, it also often has desktop-breaking bugs out of nowhere even in stable versions, and this has only gotten worse with Wayland. Even as someone who has been using Arch for years now, I still struggle with getting Plasma to not shit itself every once in a while.
Cinnamon on the other hand does have a lot less features out of the box, but the few things it does, it does them well, and every setting is where a sane person would search for them.
I would not recommend Plasma to a Linux beginner at all. It’s the kind of unpolished mess that would make anyone who doesn’t care enough about computers to just give up and go back to Windows.
Hm thanks for sharing your experience, it’s very different from mine though. Have you used Plasma recently (Version 6+) ? And have you used it on a distro where it came pre-packaged? In my (limited) experience any DE installed on Arch is janky out of the box.
I am running Plasma 6.2.1 as we speak. Admittedly, yes, using Arch has certainly made it less stable. But more often than not, when I search the web for some strange behavior/bug/limitation in my desktop, I often find dozens of threads with lots of people reporting the same misbehavior or limitation from all over the distro space, and I have come to the conclussion that it’s not entirely Arch’s fault at that point.
Have you done literally any customization to panels? I swear that shit keeps crashing whenever I do so much as unpinning a simple app launcher plasmoid, and even if it didn’t crash, it still takes patience to navigate through all the menus. They completely overhauled the way panel settings look and behave, and I still find the experience annoying as hell. In contrast, customizing panels is pretty straightforward in Cinnamon, and works as expected. It merely doesn’t look as good.
I don’t hate Plasma, or else I would have switched to another DE by now, but this is mostly because I have learned to tame it, and that took a lot of effort that no beginner should have to go through. Cinnamon is like, the polar opposite of that, which is why I’m okay with it being religiously recommended to beginners.
KDE’s priorities are just kinda weird. I have the similar issues with Krita, an otherwise excellent drawing program.
- Plasma is more resource intensive, and this meme is specifically about machines that are 7-10 years out of date
Plasma is more resource intensive,
maybe back during the plasma 4 days, this meme needs to go away
Hmm TDE is not resource intensive?
That’s a good point!
I’d say kde plasma is closest to windows 10 while Linux mints cinnamon covers vista, 7, 8.1 and 11
For me kde is closer to windows 8.1 10 and 11
Remember when Windows XP reached EoL the first time in 2009 and people abandoned it? Yeah, me neither, but I remember Microsoft groaning and extending some support for a few more years, until the final EoL in 2014. I expect the same to happen to 10.
Maybe they’ll drop the fake requirements from 11 so people can actually upgrade to 11 from 10.
Weird to use a game that decided to drop its official Linux support for this meme
Not only that but they also detect VMs so if you want to play it you have to dual boot
At least Sober’s working.
Lutris is a thing
They disabled the use of Proton/Wine.
I don’t think that there’s ever been an “official” client for Roblox?
Unless Linux hits 2-digit market share and iPad kids start to use Linux
Official Linux support is silly honestly. It will always be janky.
Windows just works with wine and proton most of the time.
What?
By “ending official Linux support” they meant that they disabled the use of Roblox through Proton/Wine.
The average user cares less about their OS being EoL, than that they have to learn a whole new OS that works “completely” different to what they are used to.
This just objectively isn’t true. The XP EOL date actually forced users hands. There WAS refresh cycle in 2014, the only reason it didn’t turn in to the uprising it is seemingly turned into, is because Microsoft kinda got lucky, and this refresh cycle purged Pentim 4-s and Celeron M-s and Pentium D-s, and old Athlons, all of which were ewaste from new.
Using roblox to talk about linux
It once played perfectly fine under WINE, then Roblox explicitly blocked it for no good reason.
This is the first time I’ve seen a Roblox meme template 💀💀
The future is now old man!
I’m in my early 20s 💀
Sheesh gramps get with the times
TwT
What’s wrong with it?
nothing in particular, I was just taken by surprise that a Roblox meme was in my feed lol
Trying to get Roblox running inside of mint is a pita
The Steam Deck and it’s desktop mode is why I decided to try jumping head first into a single boot of Bazzite on my main computer, it’s basically like using a Steam deck, just across four monitors, a year in and I haven’t looked back.
I learned of bazzite today and will be trying an install soonish
Oh is this an excuse to hop on the Mint praise train? Don’t mind if I do!
For me it was smoother than windows to install, it runs much better moment to moment (it’s like the people that made it were worried about making nice software rather than the business goals being pushed by their managers), and most importantly the fact that it is the “beginner” distro doesn’t compromise its capabilities. I am in the terminal all day every day and I use the machine to work on software for embedded Linux systems.
Mint was so easy to install. I’m pretty new to Linux. Not afraid of having to do things in the terminal, but I don’t really know many commands yet. So, I appreciate the graphical managers for updates and drivers. You can definitely tell they really worked to make a polished OS. And I really like Cinnamon. It’s a very clean looking DE that has been super easy to transition to from Windows.
Unlike Kubuntu, I didn’t have to do any tricks or install anything from github to get stuff from my Steam library to work, everything just worked. And Kubuntu (or perhaps just Wayland) would crash upon waking my PC from sleep and wouldn’t recover.
