• lamabop@lemmings.world
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    5 months ago

    For the average user, with maybe a little bit of IT knowledge but doesn’t work in IT, what can we do for ourselves and our families other than go to win 11 eventually?

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      5 months ago

      Unironically, switch to Linux. Mainstream distros like Mint, PopOS or Ubuntu are very friendly for casual users, have GUIs for everything and if something does go wrong, the error messages actually have proper meaning and you’ll find tons of resources online as well as people willing to help.

      Most stuff nowadays runs in a browser anyway, so here there’s no compatibility issues, office is available in Linux through libre office and gaming has come far with steam and proton.

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          5 months ago

          I don’t like Canonical either, hence my recommendations for Mint or Pop being listed first. But let’s be real, if someone wants to just get away from windows and wants something that works without having to learn much new, this is good enough.

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    5 months ago

    As worse and worse win11 features are unveiled it’s so funny to see these posts slowly filled with more “yeah i just switched to linux” comments.

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    5 months ago

    Horrifying privacy implications aside, AI has really become the new cryptocurrency.

    Don’t get me wrong, both technologies are interesting, but it’s tiring to see both be forced into applications that functioned just fine without them.

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    5 months ago

    So, how will this work and comply with laws regarding its use in a medical institution?

    What about its use in a company that has extremely valuable trade secrets that need to be kept that way?

    What about the military?

    Wouldn’t this make for an excellent target to harvest data for hackers?

    I wonder if Win 11 LTSC will leave it out.