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I find this mildly infuriating, I only use Windows for work, I even personally purchased Windows 11. Local account and disabled as much as I could. I personally do not like Windows or Windows in general.

Well, now I do an update and they throw this up like I need to walk thru these steps (again). Not even a "Skip"/"Don't remind me again". Windows is not what it used to be and after disabling half the Microsoft stuff I'd expect not to be bothered again. It's really a built in ad more then anything.

2023-08 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5029351)

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[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 110 points 10 months ago

That's actually a good thing IMO, Microsoft is giving people more reasons to switch to Linux. How kind of them!

[-] Moc@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

The new Debian is fucking awesome.

[-] sep@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Debian have been fucking awesome since i installed it 23 years ago! It was leaps and bounds better then it's contemporaries.

[-] Moc@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I agree, although I used to use it for a dev server and SSH in. It’s a great piece of kit!

[-] oldGregg@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Random question but you'd probably know. If I had Debian 11 when debiann12 came out will it update or do you need to reinstall? How has this worked in the past and how do you think the jump from 12 to 13 will work?

I'm used to rolling releases but I recently put Debian on my laptop

[-] sep@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I have never needed to reinstall Debian. if sources.list say stable, you'd upgrade automatically. but normally the sources specify the release name "bullseye" and you would change that to bookworm when you want to upgrade.

I installed Debian potato right after 2000 sometime. Because i was so annoyed by running into rpm hell with early redhat releases whatever and having to reinstall all the time. and I apt upgraded to Debian woody, and following the release notes, everything worked. At the time that was wild to see. Have been running Debian on all the servers i touch at work since. The Release notes contain information about what is changed from a regular installation. So you can follow the new defaults if you so want.
I DD'd the installation to a larger harddrive, before upgrading to sarge. and by then it had become a bit of a sport, while not being necessary in any way I have kept on upgrading, and moving my daily driver over to new machines for fun.

If you want a rolling release, you can run Debian testing, if you want stability you can depend on, run Debian stable. testing will stick a bit before release, and then have a period of rapid changes after release, but for a not critical desktop, it is generally very nice.

if you want to keep your system healthy tru the decades make sure you read the issues to be aware of in chapter 5 of the release notes for each new release : https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ they contain vital changes you may want to do to keep your system more similar to a freshly installed one.

[-] tev@pawb.social 4 points 10 months ago
[-] Moc@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Debian is the most stable operating system ever, and it’s new version 12, is a really good OS.

What I liked was that it starts quick, never crashes, uses minimal system resources, and with GNOME has an excellent UI. Being a Linux OS that isn’t Ubuntu and isn’t Windows, it doesn’t spy on me.

Also love operating systems that use Bash or similar. I know how to drive them, I don’t know how to drive MSDOS.

I have a very powerful computer but the start time difference between Windows 11 and Debian is insane. Debian starts almost instantly.

I was specifically trying Debian as a gaming platform, so I installed Steam and GOG and a couple of Windows games running through proton. They worked really well.

In the end I had to go back to Window, because it’s just not there for me yet. Most games worked well, but a few have unacceptably low performance. It requires a bit of fiddling to get everything working right as well, because some of the defaults prevent people from just gaming.

[-] tev@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago

i tried mint a couple years back and had a similar experience as far as gaming went, yeah

[-] KrisND@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Good point, adds to the mountain. I may just see if I could run a windows VM at this point tbh.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago

I switched to Pop!_OS recently and Windows runs faster in a VM

(because you've only installed the 1 app you need to run not your entire life, and then snapshot it after debloating so it's always the same)

[-] KrisND@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I think I am going to setup a VM. I only need it for work due to Windows apps that would work just fine in a VM.

I am actually considering Qubes OS, which might take some work but overall would probably be a good seamless process.

How do you like Pop!_OS? I was looking at System76 computers one day and looked into it a couple years ago. Never gave it a try though, based off Ubuntu right?

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

Ubuntu/Debian base yeah.

It just worked out of the box for me and runs everything that kept me locked to windows so I've stuck with it.

I've run Handbrake in a VM because the linux version doesn't allow setting the default folder for some reason but otherwise haven't needed Windows in months. and as long as I don't need to do anymore bulk trascoding I've probably seen the last of it.

[-] gunpachi@lemmings.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you don't play games like valorant, and only need windows for specific tasks then going with a windows VM is a good option.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

We’re getting there! There’s still games that run much better on Windows, and some games still don’t have Linux support. But the numbers are shrinking like crazy (THANK YOU STEAMDECK, Steam is the best company for game health as a whole.)

Also with VR… well, I don’t actually know. I haven’t tried, but will my index be fully functional (and run as well) on Linux?

[-] Mio@feddit.nu 1 points 10 months ago

It would not help. They just buy a Chromebook instead because there are no other alternatives in the shop. It would be a different story if the thing when you start the new computer get a guide to choose your OS to use. Even better if Android was the same. EU should force this IMO.

[-] Napain@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago

ah yes the non-idealistic idealist, i always admired your kind

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