It's likely Microsoft's largest job purge since it said goodbye to 10,000 employees in 2023.
      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        5 hours ago

        I sometimes feel like bare-metalling FreeDOS. Except that and modern laptops, ha-ha, shouldn’t work too well, but at the same time Lenovo even sold some with it pre-installed.

        Would just play X-Wing and TIE Fighter and WarCraft II, edit simple text documents, smile at how right it’d feel.

    • TheFonz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      10 hours ago

      Already on the way babayyy. Ubuntu gang here we gooooo I know, i know. There are other popular distros but I wanted to start there

    • PeterisBacon@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      11 hours ago

      I will be looking into these, thanks for sharing! Any top recommendations from the three??

      • shininghero@pawb.socialEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        It’s not on the list, but I’ve been rocking the same KDE fedora installation through about ten version upgrades. Once you dial in your settings and software choices, it’s fairly solid.

        The only issue I can recall was some weirdness with steam’s dependencies blocking my last version upgrade, but it was easily bypassed.

      • damdy@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        I started with pop os 5 years ago and haven’t found a reason to change. I’m not hugely techy and just wanted something to play games on. Had very few issues overall.

      • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        10 hours ago

        Pop!_OS is my top recommendation for Windows expats, followed by Mint (Cinnamon Edition), and then Bazzite (KDE Plasma desktop). Bazzite is so, so, so good, but it has some unique features that make it a little more frustrating for Windows power users who are new to Linux. But honestly they are all good. Pick one, and if you aren’t vibing with it, try something else.

        Also, keep in mind that “distro” and “desktop environment (DTE)” are two different things. Sometimes a distro has a default DTE and sometimes it gives you a choice. The DTE makes the biggest difference to your experience. There are many different DTEs, but the two biggest are GNOME (MacOS-like and moderately customizable) and KDE Plasma (Windows-like by default, but very customizable).

      • Oniononon@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        141·
        11 hours ago
        1. Disable secureboot so you don’t have to run a few commands and restart in order to sign keys
        2. Ensure your drives are formatted to a linux format to reduce headaches with steam libraries
        3. if the command starts with “sudo(superuser Do)” it’s time to read up on what each part of the command does exactly.
        4. Linux wants you to mount and unmount your drives(filesystems) manually. Plugging them in won’t instantly allow data transfer.
        5. Don’t be surprised that almost any linux is a perfectly functional OS with fantastic UX and less day to day hassle and management compared to windows.
        • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 hours ago

          Disable secureboot so you don’t have to run a few commands and restart in order to sign keys

          Stay away from HP. Secureboot will re-enable itself whenever it wants, and the kernel panic is scary if you don’t realize that’s what’s happening.

        • SuperUserDO@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11·
          10 hours ago

          Also…

          1. everything is changeable. But not everything should be changed.
          2. There will come a time when you need to interact with the command line. This is expected, and no you did not do something wrong.
          3. Have fun.

          Oh if your looking for a distro? Mint is a great entry point (and even can support crusty old graybeards as well).

      • vga@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        62·
        9 hours ago

        I cannot recommend Bazzite. It’s an atomic distribution, which is pioneer tech that tries to make some things better but in effect makes a lot of things more difficult. FWIW, I’ve been using Linux for 20+ years.

        Just go with regular Fedora KDE Desktop. https://fedoraproject.org/kde/

        • Matriks404@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          7 hours ago

          I see that Fedora uses Btrfs, so it should be able to take file system snapshots, which are sort of an alternative to the immutable thing, isn’t it?