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What's stopping you from installing Linux this weekend? Why are you putting it off until your "next rig"?

by kalleboo 2y ago

elorant 2y ago
Windows 10 works just fine. When it reaches EOL I'll move.
- datavirtue 2y ago
  Explorer tabs are worth the move.
  - bishbosh 2y ago
    I have found them to be an utterly incompetent implementation. Maybe it's an issue with my set up, but they are shockingly bad in a way that makes them feel like they were hacked together. They lack basic functionality like scroll wheel click on any navigation buttons. They are constantly slow in opening. All while missing basic considerations like "Back" isn't separated by tab, so opening a new tab and navigating to a folder makes my "Home" the previous folder for all tabs on that window. Again, maybe it's my set up, but going back to dolphin I am shocked they get away with something so half-baked.
  - datadrivenangel 2y ago
    They changed Alt+Tab behavior. Windows 11 is dead to me.
  - dartharva 2y ago
    Absolutely not.
- dartharva 2y ago
  Exactly the same with me. W10 LTSC 2021 goes EOL on 2027, once that happens we'll have no choice.
donmcronald 2y ago
> What's stopping you from installing Linux this weekend? Why are you putting it off until your "next rig"? For me it's OneDrive. I wouldn't trust it with a grocery list, but I do work for people that use it and there's no way I'd be able to connect to a share with an unofficial OneDrive app. Microsoft has so many little hooks that's it's really hard to drop Windows if you work for / with anyone that uses anything in the MS365 ecosystem.
- ku1ik 2y ago
  You can run Windows in VM, e.g. with virt-manager, which is a nice GNU/Linux GUI for QEMU/KVM. I keep Windows contained like this, would never let it run directly on bare metal these days. I even used to game on this VM (before switching to Proton) with near-native performance after passing through a Radeon GPU to Windows.
magicalhippo 2y ago
Not OP, but a decent RDP alternative is my major blocker. None of the alternatives comes remotely close in terms of performance and features. I also don't like the backup situation. I really like doing (incremental) full-disk backups due to ease of restore in case of emergencies. But I think ZFS-on-root will scratch that itch.

What's stopping you from installing Linux this weekend? Why are you putting it off until your "next rig"?

elorant 2y ago

Windows 10 works just fine. When it reaches EOL I'll move.

datavirtue 2y ago
Explorer tabs are worth the move.
- bishbosh 2y ago
  I have found them to be an utterly incompetent implementation. Maybe it's an issue with my set up, but they are shockingly bad in a way that makes them feel like they were hacked together. They lack basic functionality like scroll wheel click on any navigation buttons. They are constantly slow in opening. All while missing basic considerations like "Back" isn't separated by tab, so opening a new tab and navigating to a folder makes my "Home" the previous folder for all tabs on that window. Again, maybe it's my set up, but going back to dolphin I am shocked they get away with something so half-baked.
- datadrivenangel 2y ago
  They changed Alt+Tab behavior. Windows 11 is dead to me.
- dartharva 2y ago
  Absolutely not.
dartharva 2y ago
Exactly the same with me. W10 LTSC 2021 goes EOL on 2027, once that happens we'll have no choice.

donmcronald 2y ago

> What's stopping you from installing Linux this weekend? Why are you putting it off until your "next rig"? For me it's OneDrive. I wouldn't trust it with a grocery list, but I do work for people that use it and there's no way I'd be able to connect to a share with an unofficial OneDrive app. Microsoft has so many little hooks that's it's really hard to drop Windows if you work for / with anyone that uses anything in the MS365 ecosystem.

ku1ik 2y ago
You can run Windows in VM, e.g. with virt-manager, which is a nice GNU/Linux GUI for QEMU/KVM. I keep Windows contained like this, would never let it run directly on bare metal these days. I even used to game on this VM (before switching to Proton) with near-native performance after passing through a Radeon GPU to Windows.

magicalhippo 2y ago

Not OP, but a decent RDP alternative is my major blocker. None of the alternatives comes remotely close in terms of performance and features. I also don't like the backup situation. I really like doing (incremental) full-disk backups due to ease of restore in case of emergencies. But I think ZFS-on-root will scratch that itch.