• DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I am a macOS user for work and had windows mostly for games on my personal computer, when I got a new laptop last year it came with win 11… it was so annoying to need to skip literally ads for Microsoft services… that even being my “leisure” computer… I spent the time getting Linux Mint, deal with Nvidia drivers on Linux just to have steam there

    The games I am playing recently are working great on Linux and my computer feels faster now.

    This particular laptop had a problem with WiFi drivers and Nvidia drivers, but getting past this first setup, I must say Linux Destop is easier and fast to use.

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      27 minutes ago

      I keep hearing about ads on computers, smart tvs, fridges and shit, is that solely an american thing? I’m in Europe and never get any of that shit. Sure, Microsoft will tell me at installation that they’d like to “personalize” some adds for me, but I have never actually had a single one. Did the EU block them or something?

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      19 minutes ago

      I just bought a machine with an NVIDIA card which I am going to install Mint on. Do you have any advice?

      (I had planned to get an AMD GPU, but was unable to for various reasons.)