I’ve always used it as my primary driver, so I know very well how to get the most out of it and customize it to my standards. Some of the software I use has no acceptable replacement on other OS. I don’t experience even a fraction of the problems that are reported online.

there is an automatic cutting device used to make crafts projects and the only way to run it is with its manufacturer’s software which only runs on windows

I tried to get it to work on Linux and had mixed success just getting it to start, but it failed miswrably at trying to communicate over the USB connection to the device no matter what I did

the only thing that worked was running a windows VM with VirtualBox and that got the connection to work but the experience of operating it became poor so until that device dies or the app gets Linux support (neither happening soon) at least one machine must be windows, and right now getting another PC is prohibitively expensive

I’m hesitant to leave 10 because there are a few games I play that don’t support Linux, and I like em too much to quit if 10 still works. However, once support officially ends forreal, I will say goodbye to those games o7 11 will never touch my outers.

At work tho they had to upgrade to 11 in the office, and since it’s retail the office isn’t really that important but 11 is so poorly designed the computers barely run anymore

I have a surface pro x I bought during the pandemic that I plan on use until it’s physically broken (software-wise, you may as well say it already is busted) just to watch YouTube and browse the web on the sofa.

Otherwise, I haven’t had to use Windows on my desktop in a year or so ever since switching to Linux. Hooray.

Legacy windows projects development. I switched to Linux and run windows as virtual guest with minimal usage though.

It just never gets old. Can you say it again?

I had ONE bad update… good thing Bazzite keeps a backup. Never figured out what went wrong. Now, the Firefox bug is my nemesis. Every time it loads I go from 10Gb free to ZERO in about 10 minutes. Chromium… works. That’s all I’ll say about that program.

Joke’s on them, I’ve been using Linux for nearly 27 years now.

They fired their QA department in 2015 relying on telemetry of users to diagnose issues. Then last year they boasted a third of all their code is AI generated. You don’t have millions of lines of code over 2+ decades and have a high quality standard of a third of that was generated in 2 years.

Hell yeah made the move myself at the end of last year and am loving it

I’ve been skipping windows updates for years.

This guy/gal skips Windows

Man, I feel like I went 15 years without anybody talking to me about using Gentoo but now THEY’RE BACK! Glad to see you.

Eyyyy gentoo gang 👋

It’s an optional update. It doesn’t automatically install without activating the option to do so.

Even registry changes won’t stop their stomping. My final straw was changing the drivers for AMD for the fifth time, despite editing the registry, sending console commands, and exiting settings. MS drivers just bulldozed right over them. I said fuck it, set up another ssd with Bazzite, dual booted, and three months ago converted the Windows drive to a VFAT, after not booting Windows for a full year. I miss Fusion 360, that is all. I do not miss the headaches. Linux took time to setup, time to learn, and time to personalize. I still think it saved me time overall with how few problems arise, however.

You can pause Windows updates, although I’m not sure I would suggest it because they are usually patching a baotlad of security vulns.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/updates-lifecycle/pause-updates-in-windows

Not defending Microsoft in any way, just pointing out that the option exists. Of course you will get updates once it unpauses, but maybe another CU down the line won’t break shit.

Switch to linux but keep your old windows on a partition or different hard drive for whenever you want to work on that stuff.

Duel boot until you can ween yourself off. You can use both.

No it isn’t. I have a secondary Windows machine and I got that update without being on any insider channel.

That was my move at the end of last year and loving it