12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux

Moved to Fedora many years ago, and also AMD based kit for the usual reasons. Had zero problems, uptime of months, if not longer, and still gaming and developing. No random pauses, and everything, including search, just work.

Windows 11 - used it $day job$ and it's ok. That's as charitable as I can be. They're looking to move staff to Macs and Linux, and retire W11. It's only in use because of things like Office, Outlook, and the odd bit of software that's Windows only. Which is kind of ironic, because there are quite a few programs I've come across that download only for Mac or Linux which is the opposite to 20 years ago.

It's funny and a bit sad that Windows 11 is the kind of version of Windows I would have associated with Ballmer. A sort of in-your-face money making machine with all its ads and cruft. Yet, it's Nadella. Does Microsoft, at some level, have a 'we know Windows is dying' attitude? They have their other billion dollar 'pillars' of Azure, Office, XBox, and so on.

There's not a lot to learn, desktop Linux is pretty much the same as windows was when it was still good.

Made the move myself at the start of this year and I love it.

For those considering it, I wrote this blog post which might be helpful: https://neluplatonov.com/posts/2024/the-mere-mortals-guide-t...

Caveat: I don't use any special hardware like audio interfaces or racing wheels, so no idea about the experience with those (I'd assume getting drivers to work might be a PITA/impossible?).

For those who keep Windows for the games.. there is this -> https://bazzite.gg/

Do nothing remains an option. It's what 95% of Windows 10 users will do.

It's crazy, people used to be excited when a new version of Windows came out. New features, prettier UI. People used to pay a lot of money for a new mayor OS version. I probably haven't payed more than 5 € for Windows in the last decade.

I think if Microsoft would focus on quality of life improvements and fix the mess that Windows UX often is, maybe implement a fancy new theme every once in a while, then they could get people excited about updates again.

Moving to Linux is not an option for everyone. I like Linux for development, but from time to time I use other software (e.g. graphics software) that is only available for Windows and macOS. Hopefully more commercial software will be available for Linux in the future.

For a site called pcgamer i wish they’d address the elephant in the room.

Much of the anticheat tech is still windows only. Same with video streaming DRM.

windows 12 will be out before then. As per the tradition, w12 will be what w11 tried to be. That being said, I really need to consider using linux for gaming. I only use windows for gaming so and most of my games are small indie ones.

Yeah, but no. Proton is the best thing that happened to Linux gaming, but sometimes it's still not good enough to get full Windows-like experience.

HDR still doesn't work properly, there are no codecs (Atmos, DTS:X) for my surround system, latest nvidia driver broke Microsoft Flight Sim and other games on wayland. The list goes on.

And as for Copilot - I'm sure I'll be able to rip it out, just like the other crap MS forcefully pushes on people.

Every version gets a little shinier. That's part of the problem of course.

MS should take responsibility for all the trashed hardware that they cause with their idiotic upgrade policies and ever increasing system requirements.

The article is calling windows 10 a "winning formula" - while it is already a dumpster fire.

Or install LTSC

What about the Apple?

FFS just pay for Windows Pro.

All the complaints are about bloat-ware and ads.

During the Pro install, Choose International vs US and you don't get any bloat. With Pro ($90?) nothing is pushed on you. The small things that are, can easily be removed with Powershell.