Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn’t always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?

  • Zink
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    5 months ago

    Any long-time windows users frustrated with how things are going really should try installing Linux Mint and just see how it goes. No need to nuke windows, just dual boot for now.

    There are plenty of things that can end up keeping somebody on Windows, and admittedly I have not switched over all my machines at home yet. But for general usage, it’s such a night and day difference between the OS designed to be nice to use and the OS designed according to a complex matrix of corporate goals. And that’s using a distro that’s the opposite of stripped down and light weight.

    I’m able to dual boot at work, and at this point I only fire up windows occasionally to make sure it doesn’t get out of date and isolated from the network or something. Even using outlook and doing video calls on Teams works great with the web versions in Firefox.

    • Harvey656@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      This is me, though I use Kubuntu atm, since mint wasn’t playing nice with my Nvidia card a few months ago.

      Most things work flawlessly except a few games and some programs. (If anyone knows a fantastic Excel replacement that doesn’t suck please let me know)

    • kava@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      There are very few items worth keeping Windows for. I have window on a VM on my MacBook for one specific program for work.

      On my desktop, I used to dual boot but deleted my windows install after a couple of years.

      All the games I play on Steam work on Linux. There are some multi-player games that have anticheat that don’t work well with Proton.

      Besides that, if you’re a professional and you need a software like Photoshop or Ableton or whatever, when you can’t get by with the open source alternatives, then I think it’s a valid reason. Although even in that case, I prefer MacOS

      MacOS is a little annoying at first because it has a bunch of safety rails but with some tweaking, you can get it more or less functionally identical to Linux.