Unfortunately for Microsoft and Davuluri, the response has been overwhelmingly negative, so much so that the comments on that X post have now been disabled.
Unfortunately for Microsoft and Davuluri, the response has been overwhelmingly negative, so much so that the comments on that X post have now been disabled.
I found Linux Mint to be a reasonable upgrade path from Windows 11. I’m 60 years old and figured it out. It plays my games, runs Libreoffice, Jellyfin, Gimp, Inkscape, and Blender, which covers everything I want to do on a PC.
The only thing it can’t do is drive my cheap autofeed photo scanner (it drives my Epson flatbed just fine) I got to finally digitize my family photos for my kid, so maybe he’ll look at them someday. I have an old laptop running Win10 to do that. Once that project is done in a couple of months, I’ll put Linux Mint on the laptop and get several more years of use out of it, I expect.
I had a similar experience earlier this year. I want to convert my main pc to some flavor of Linux, and I tried out about 5 over a month by setting up a VM. The one I wanted to try the most wouldn’t install through vm, but the rest were fine. Once I found a few I liked, I tried seeing how hard it would be to find an alternative for everything I use and do. I think like 90% was great, but there were a handful of things that either didn’t have any alternative or it was not a very good alternative. Still, I really want to get off windows by next year. I am even tired of what they are trying to do.
Try VueScan: https://www.hamrick.com/
It is a great distribution that’s for sure! Ideal for the vast majority of users needs.
I actually live naps2 for all things scanning related. Give it a try. Cross platform baby!