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Microsoft killed Windows 10 to push Windows 11, but Windows sales crashed 27% as holdouts still refuse to switch
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It's me, I'm holdouts.
My experience with Linux hasn't been good enough for me to move yet. I want to, but I'm really resistant to having to fix a bunch of stuff and use CLI for basically anything.
I have zero desire to distro hop until I find what I like, but when it comes to my PC, I'm lazy.
What?
I moved to Fedora this year and barely had to touch the CLI and I even have Nvidia.
There are distros that do literally everything for you.
The only reason not to switch is software for work, or laziness.
Just FYI, I am another holdout but Linux hasn't been a command line required OS for like 20 years. (Unless you're doing driver installs) You should try KDE. I'm mainly holding it out because several games that I still play with my friends will not run in a non-windows environment.
I have an Ubuntu server I set up recently for streaming and I was surprised at how much it was still necessary to do about 50% of setup and troubleshooting in the terminal. Maybe Ubuntu is the issue instead of other distros.
I find using the terminal better for many things, mostly because you can actually just copy and paste solutions / install links / etc. I recommend getting to know at least the basics.
But just saying, as I get that you can't argue on preferences.
One day I'll remote into another PC to browse the web, and only allow steam protocols on my win10 machine through a firewall to play games. Life will be good.
Inb4 Steam drops support for Windows 10, foiling your plan
Doesn't mean it won't work on it still
At first, yes.
But eventually you'll have the same kind of trouble that we see with Steam on Windows 7 today
There are websites where you can demo distros. You don't have to download or install, and can just check them out from the browser.
To his point, that requires effort and just not interested.
And I use Linux every day for servers - ESXI, NAS, Proxmox, etc - because it's fantastic for those uses.
But a desktop replacement is a much bigger thing to tackle, and I'm not interested in spending time on that. I've done some (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint) and ran into issues just doing what I consider basic things on a test machine.
Windows has its issues, for sure, but all the basic tools are there out of the gate - my 10 year old Logi mouse just works (doesn't on Mint), RDP to/from any machine just works (doesn't on Ubuntu), etc. And I only found out by running those distros as a desktop on hardware.
This is the gap we have getting people to switch. Regular users don't have our interest in getting things to work - to them a PC is the tool for doing the things they want to do, and tinkering with the PC isn't part of that.
Being in IT for most of my career ruined me on troubleshooting and fixing my own stuff. If it just works without needing to fix it then that's all I really want.
I have an Ubuntu server that required a decent amount of tinkering to get going but it's more of an appliance I use for Plex, music, and audiobooks. I just don't have the desire to tinker when I have time to play.
Same deal here. I'm happy running Linux servers, just not as a daily driver.
That's where I'm at as well. I don't want to think when it comes to just playing something. I have a streaming server setup on Ubuntu and that required a lot of tinkering that I just didn't feel like doing on my minimal downtime.