Im surprised i never did an update on my linux journey.

From my last post i did say i was using linux mint, and that completely failed and almost made me quit. I couldn't find a fix for my crashing issues i was having. Since then i have made another attempt to use linux. First with Ubuntu, then went to Kubuntu because i liked KDE Plasma.

Now i use CachyOS, and its fantastic. I switched mainly to have a bleeding edge distro since it benefits my hardware. Along with that im running a Windows 11 (ioT Enterprise LTSC) virtual machine for a few things not supported or poorly supported on linux. I still have Windows 11 Pro for dual booting. Its only used as a fallback, and whenever im in the mood to play GTA Online.

supercool22 : Sounds like you've had a long, eventful journey! I personally went from Windows 10 to Ubuntu, then to Manjaro. Despite the reputation Manjaro has, I've just kept it and it's just worked for me in just about everything, barring a couple of issues in the past. Glad to hear your little journey has settled and you've found something you're comfortable with - who knows, maybe someone will eventually find a way to deal with the super-invasive anti-cheat software that won't work through Proton?

I'm on a (legitimate trust me bro) copy of good ol' Windows 11 on my main computer and work computer.... and I very actively dislike it lol. Hate train time:

WHY is the damn file explorer so slow? Open a folder with more than 20 files and yep sorry gotta take a minute to load some of these. Was never a problem on Win10 and I have a pretty meaty computer, relatively speaking to the average, so I know it's not the hardware that's the problem. I'm pretty sure I saw a report a few months ago that Microsoft acknowledges it's slow... good that you acknowledged it man, can you fix it???

WHY is the search bar useless 50% of the time? If I need to access the command line, I'll type "cmd" and half the time it acts like I wanted to do a web search for that. NO you dingus, I wanted to open the program!!!! It's SO bad with this... it does this for programs, specific applet pages (which, by the way, they've depreciated the control panel so you HAVE to use their settings applet in some instances)... it's maddening. Yeah sure I could (and am) learn to just navigate the applet so I don't have to use the search bar for these purposes, this isn't a problem without a solution, but I don't know why they had to kill a feature that USED to work. It's a problem that didn't even have to exist in the first place.

Not relevant to my personal computer, but relevant to my work computer, WHY is Copilot shoved down your throat at every opportunity? I don't want to use your crappy AI knockoff man, I've been using computers for 20 years now and I can pretty confidently navigate around myself. I don't want to "Ask Copilot" about a file, I just need to compress it... I guess it's an "old man yelling at clouds" type of deal here because this one is rather inconsequential, but on principle I don't like extra programs installed onto my computer that I'm not using. I do have control over this on my personal computer and have fully removed it, but I can't do that for my work computer so I have to deal with it there.

The OneDrive integration is so bad. If you don't nip it in the bud the SECOND you get your computer configured, before doing ANYTHING AT ALL, you will NEVER be able to effectively find files. Saved a document? Maybe it went to your local drive... maybe it went to OneDrive... who knows? Take the gamble! Reroute your default paths but OneDrive will just take those files anyway and then oops sorry your storage is almost full. I don't want you storing anything anyways!!!! Go away!!!!!

I configured a media server recently on an older laptop of mine, using Wubuntu, and I guess my years of experience in IT/computer science are paying off (and also it's been developed further to be friendlier I'm sure) since I didn't really find it nearly as hard to use as the last time I tried out a Linux distro. If Windows 12(?) is some bulls*** I really might be switching. Hell, I might just switch anyway with all the Copilot and AI nonsense that I've disabled on my personal computer for now, but they eventually may make it so that I can't disable it!

Sheesh.

Well, they did try to force me onto Windows 11, but my laptop doesn't support it, so my laptop opened a tab for me to find a new laptop, they did this for a few weeks straight for some reason.

Minuano : You gotta swap to linux! At least give it a try. I'm using PopOS at the moment, it's very easy to transition over to. Kubuntu might be closer to the Windows feel, it's also pretty easy to transition over to.

Most computers in my house are on Windows 10 as I've refused to upgrade any of them. Some barely function on that so updating to 11 would probably ruin them.

There is one newer computer that we have on Windows 11 because it came with it when we purchased and I don't think I knew how bad it was at the time. I've tried to do things to help fix it and remove the bloat and what not but I know I haven't done enough.

merf may or may not have influenced me a little bit... but I actually did swap to Linux some time in August alongside my PC upgrade. Currently I'm on the CachyOS distro and I am enjoying it! It's certainly incredible that pretty much all of the issues I mentioned in the previous post do not exist here, although it does come with it's own set of headaches. Getting onto an Arch distro first thing probably wasn't super smart, but I think I'm acclimating decently well.

I think my only QoL annoyance is every time I reboot, there's like a 20% chance that the audio channel on my headphones will randomly be set to the Headset channel, which makes everything sound like you're on a phone call, and thus massively lowered audio quality (although this is like a >10 second fix). The actual issue that I've yet to solve is the 5% chance on reboot where my browser will forget all my tabs, and none of them appear in the recently closed list...

I am now using Windows 11 on my new laptop, not really as good, and not at fast, but better security might be a good thing, though I never was worried about getting viruses.

They did, in fact, pry windows 10 from my cold hands. When I bought a new computer, I went ahead and got 11. It doesn't feel any different really, except some of the navigation menus kind of suck.

I don't really care what operating system I am running as long as it works, and windows 11 works...fine.

Barathemos : I also had Windows 10 pried from my cold hands. Switched to Windows 11 when I built my new PC last month.

I agree with you that it doesn't feel too different, but I do prefer Windows 10.

Barathemos : they did the same thing to me. and i agree that it works... fine.

tgags123 : happening to everyone lol