Those of you who still use windows for one reason or more, where do you draw the line about the shitty things microsoft is doing? By drawing the line I mean using some other operating system no matter how bothersome it might be.
Not judging or anything, i’m just curious where the general mindset is about it.
I’ve drawn the line when my files were eaten by their cloud, and also because fuck monopolies and yadwleeyaddeeyada.
Drawn the line but haven’t stepped over: I have one laptop and can’t really afford a new one. What if I brick it installing Linux? I really really really really want to, haven’t dared yet.
you cant brick computer just by installing operating system. That happens if bios breaks but mostly there is no reason to mess with that.
The main thing I think is a valid fear is losing things necessary to reinstall Windows in case of emergency.
With 11, they tie it to MS account which makes a reinstall easier. Some devices, I think it’s tied to the hardware though? That’s actually something I’d like to learn more about so people doing Linux tryouts have a safety net.
Sooo… you say I should. What if I’m not entirely tech illiterate but enough and too confident that I fuck up the BIOS inadvertently?
I’m gonna do it… I’m gonna install Mint tomorrow.
Thank you for giving me the push
You always have the option to run Linux from a flash drive and see if you like it, disregarding slowness.
make a bootable linux image on a USB. boot off it to gain confidence
and/or get another drive and install onto that. swap back if you hate it
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[your laptop model] linuxand see what other people have experienced. IME it’s almost always painless unless you just happen to have a proprietary wifi chip or something that devs are still reverse engineering.