Windows-like Linux distribution claims over a million downloads in the past month for its latest build.
  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Bruh ain’t no way people are choosing Zorin OS over all the available options.

    If this is a result of people searching “best windows like distro”, they’re profiting off of a windows theme for GNOME, not even a full DE.

    You can achieve the same thing with zero effort on any distro because DEs and themes aren’t tied to a distro.

    • Anivia@feddit.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      You can achieve the same thing with zero effort on any distro because DEs and themes aren’t tied to a distro

      No, YOU can. But for the average Windows user this is far from “zero effort”. Just the fact that Zorin OS will automatically run Windows executables through wine without the user having to set it up is a huge deal for people coming from Windows who want their PC to “just work” without fiddling around

  • axh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I downloaded Mint last week and started the installation but got cold feet when it came to drive formatting. I still want to keep my win10 operational in case I won’t be able to run something on Linux.

    I never actually used Linux before… I installed it 3 times before and always quickly went back to windows due to some compatibility or driver issues, but…

    <Rant mode=“venting”> I am NOT switching to win11… It’s enough that I am forced to use it at work. That system is so fuckin stupid… They took a lot of minor elements and just made each of them worse… I get that the sales department told you to shove OneDrive and Copilot everywhere, it’s stupid and annoying but I get it, it’s just plain old greed, but why can’t the Calendar show the whole month and don’t work on the second monitor?!? (Are you planning to add it as a paid subscription later?!?) </Rant>

    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      If you have issues with mint, try something based on Debian or Fedora rather than Ubuntu like Mint is.

      For Fedora I recommend Bazzite if you do gaming and nothing too technical. Flatpaks make it easy to find and install software without messing things up. Otherwise Fedora Kiinoite.

      For Debian I recommend Debian itself really. Also runs very well on much older machinery.

  • Ex Nummis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I know some who went to Linux and a few who moved to Mac. But no one is seeing Win11 and saying “oh man, I gotta get in on that”.

    • sidelove@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I jumped in to the Win11 beta and really liked it, they finally got most of the control panel into the new settings architecture and I never once had to dig deep into things to adjust something small, a lot of stuff that took finagling just worked.

      And now I fucking hate it. The release version is jammed so full of bullshit features and useless AI junk that it is an active hindrance to whatever I’m trying to do. And more and more stupid fucking bugs bubble up in to the desktop and never get addressed, all while I get pop up after pop up urging me to try some bullshit new feature.

      I already had one foot into Linux with my desktop but kept this because it was a Surface and nice at some point, but my next buy has to be a Linux 2-in-1, I can’t deal with Microsoft’s horseshit any longer.

      I do want to emphasize that for the moments that it was unadulterated by rent-seeking, the new Win11 actually was kinda great.

      • st3ph3n@midwest.socialEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I finally committed to the switch last weekend. My desktop PC was the last holdout still on Windows in my fleet, because of Adobe Lightroom. I decided to just force myself to learn Darktable, and nuked the Win 11 install and replaced it with Fedora 43.

        Fun side note, some of my games run way better than they did on Windows, despite not having native Linux builds. lol.

        • Zidane@lemmy.caEnglish
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          5 months ago

          My bottles borked my battle.net install somehow so instead of tackling the issue I’ll put it off for months/years and continue dual booting

            • Zidane@lemmy.caEnglish
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              5 months ago

              I tried Lutris before and it would constantly stop installing and freeze up… and when I let it set up in the default directory it will install and then when I launch bnet it doesn’t show any games at all… anddd when it inevitably decides to force quit out of bnet and I click stop on lutris I get “sequence item 0: expected str instance, int found” … also constantly slowing the fuck out of my mouse/computer… I think I fucked my install up when I initially set up mint… might just wipe and start over again…

                • Zidane@lemmy.caEnglish
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                  5 months ago

                  Flatpak, I’m pretty sure that’s what the software manager installs right? I tried again today and it gave me the same shit. I do want to keep trying to get it to work though if you have any ideas!