TheLastOfHisName ,
@TheLastOfHisName@beehaw.org avatar

I regret upgrading to 11 on my home machine. I want to either go back to 10, or just migrate to Linux Mint. Only two things stopping me from jumping is a) My graphics are Nvidia, and b) making time for it.

jared ,
@jared@mander.xyz avatar

The Linux and nvidia situation is getting better, I haven't had problems in a while.

MHSJenkins OP ,
@MHSJenkins@infosec.pub avatar

Mint's Nvidia support has gotten A LOT better over the last few years. You can try it out and see how it goes. Message me if you want help with that.

TheLastOfHisName ,
@TheLastOfHisName@beehaw.org avatar

Thanks very much!

MHSJenkins OP ,
@MHSJenkins@infosec.pub avatar

Get in touch if you want and I'll do what I can to help.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Is it better than PopOS's NVIDIA-specific ISO?

MHSJenkins OP ,
@MHSJenkins@infosec.pub avatar

Personally I've never used PopOS so I can't speak to it.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Fair enough. :)

HATEFISH ,

I switched to mint this year with a Nvidia 4080. so far I have been able to get everything I need running with minimal or no involvement. Counterstrike 2 is the most obnoxious which requires me to disable my secondary monitors. That doesn't happen with anything else and most new games have been good.

If you don't play something with an ajticheat you know is incompatible with Linux I'd definitely reccomend jumping.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

this is just proof that the internet will complain about the most meaningless things.

Blizzard ,
@Blizzard@lemmy.zip avatar

We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage.

They are saying like they just invented something amazing, yet they are just pushing a fucking ad.

The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC.

How would you know what we actively do on our PCs, huh? Huh???

Good news is that you can turn off most ads, including app promotions in Windows 11's start menu.

For now, but you have to be extremely naive to believe they don't plan to change this as soons as they reach a certain number of users. They already did things like that in the past.

MHSJenkins OP ,
@MHSJenkins@infosec.pub avatar

Enshittification comes for all things eventually. "You'll own nothing and like it."

Zworf ,

Yeah that slogan really captured very well the intentions at the world economic forum.

I know it's not what they officially stated but it really captured (they since walked it back and said it only was meant to "describe emerging trends") the intentions of what happens when they all come to Davos and divide the world between them.

But I don't believe "as a service" models are more sustainable. They will just enable more rent-seeking behaviour meaning we will get even less for our money. The incentive to deliver will be even lower as they will get paid anyhow.

MHSJenkins OP ,
@MHSJenkins@infosec.pub avatar

My Sibling in Christ, giving us less for our money and giving them more control over our lives is the intent of all of this. Time to seize the means of computation.

belated_frog_pants ,

Help your friends install linux today!

MHSJenkins OP ,
@MHSJenkins@infosec.pub avatar

I am an apostle of Saint Penguin.

darkphotonstudio ,

Small businesses that can’t afford a dedicated IT department and pro licenses are gonna love this. I’m sure Linux will pick up more users but the real winner will likely be Apple and Macs.

BearOfaTime ,

Small business that can't afford dedicated IT usually outsource to a consultant or MSP, who damn well better sell them on Pro.

If you can't afford proper licensing as a business, I doubt you're gonna make it

I have friends in the SMB consulting space - ALL of their clients run Pro, with at least one DC. Their smallest clients are 2-3 person environments.

A business needs a lot more than a workstation or two - backup, security (IDS/IPS/firewall/spam filtering), email (pretty much all hosted these days). You're not doing this without pro licensing. You can't even use Group Policy on home.

These issues truly only affect home users - specifically the non-technical. And that's such a small set of people it's almost doesn't matter to MS, which is why they're pushing this crap there.

darkphotonstudio ,

That kind of depends on the business, doesn’t it? I’m sure there are plenty of small businesses that don’t even know what a SMB consulting space is. I suspect there a lot of people running businesses off their laptop. You might have a narrow view of what constitutes a small business.

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org avatar

the real winner will likely be Apple and Macs

I'm sure they will find a way to enshittify in a equally intrusive manner.

CaptObvious ,

Makes me really glad that my Win 10 machine can’t be upgraded – despite upgrading to Win 11 being one of the selling points when I bought it. It may have something to do with the kludge to make Home accept a group policy. I’m also quite happy; I never intended to install Win 11 on it, so stopping the reminders that it’s ready to go was a blessing.

I’ve always planned to replace Windows with Linux anyway. Mint, either Ubuntu or Debian flavor, has been a great replacement on my 2008-era Macbook (still in use) after Apple pulled a similar stunt 15 years ago. I see no reason not to take the same route with more modern Dells. With advances in Wine for gaming, there's not much I need to do that Firefox and LibreOffice don't handle.

Uniquitous ,

Probably something that could be dns blocked. Hopefully anyway.

MHSJenkins OP ,
@MHSJenkins@infosec.pub avatar

I hope so, sincerely hope so.

onlinepersona ,

It's called "upselling" isn't it?

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