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Valve's monthly survey reveals that almost 45% of Steam users on PC are still using Windows 10 even with the sword of Damocles hanging over them
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Are any of these a smooth transition coming from Adobe programs? I really don't want to re-learn my entire workflow in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.I've heard that Clip Studio is pretty close but I have not tried it yet. My experience with Gimp and Krita is that they are fairly close to Photoshop. That is to say that it would be easy for a Photoshop user to jump into those and start working. I have searched for the occasional "how to do XYZ in Gimp or Krita."
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That would be great, but unfortunately for me I have too many programs that depend on windows, don't have Linux options, and if I'm being honest with myself I really just don't want to learn an entirely new ecosystem. I will if forced, but the moment this laptop shits itself or they discontinue support for the OS, I'm getting a crash course. I'd love to turn an old tablet or somethinf into a Linux device in the meantime so I can at least *start* something. Too bad my parent's old kindles won't work, there's enough of them laying around their house...I've been making the switch on my own new PC, some programs I was concerned about can be run ok through Lutris. It's been an adjustment but no regrets
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> Why does the start menu need to change locations... The INFINITELY bigger question is why isn't it my choice? I actually just modified my windows 10 to have the start menu be centered, but like, it should just be completely customizable to your liking... as if it were your own computer or something. If I wanted everything locked down and baby proofed I would have just bought a Mac.It is your choice, and you can customize it to be on the left.
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This post did not contain any content.If I did anything other than use my PC as a glorified gaming console, I might care about w10 not being updated anymore. Until games literally can't work on the OS, I'll stay on it. And when they do stop working, I'll probably just install Linux.
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It is your choice, and you can customize it to be on the left.I don't think you read my comment before you decided to respond to what you thought it said.
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Yeah, but this happens with every version. Windows 7 still had a big market share up until MSFT cut off support. Users are going to bitch and complain and talk about switching to Linux, but eventually just install the next Windows version.I'm a lifetime Windows user. I used to have to type run win3.exe on my first computer. I installed Linux mint on my new pc build a couple weeks ago and have been moving in and getting everything set up. Some people absolutely will make the change.
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The whole point of the Sword of Damocles was that the threat was always looming and Damocles didn't know when it might fall. We know exactly when Microsoft says they are going to drop support. There's a decent chance that they'll push that date back due to slow adoption at least once. This is more about rats not fleeing the sinking ship until the sea has reached the bow.With the shit they built into 10 I really would not be surprised if they put in a kill switch
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Yeah, but this happens with every version. Windows 7 still had a big market share up until MSFT cut off support. Users are going to bitch and complain and talk about switching to Linux, but eventually just install the next Windows version.I held onto Windows 7 even a year or two past so-called the EOL. I had a pretty powerful rig and I wasn't going to pay money to upgrade. Then I think Microsoft just gave Windows 8 for free? I finally got on Windows 10 when I bought a premade gaming computer. Still not upgrading.
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For the curious I’ve found bazzite to be the best and easiest Linux repo for gamingnobara is looking good too for games
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For the curious I’ve found bazzite to be the best and easiest Linux repo for gamingYup bazzite with KDE plasma for my gaming rig now, thing works very well for use case!
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This post did not contain any content.Pry it from my cold dead hands. I have linux on multiple computers, but it still can’t play all the games and give me my 5.1 surround. Despite all the claims, it’s still not ready for primetime to do *all* the things windows does.
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Windows 10 LTSC is supported until 2032 or so. I’ll be avoiding upgrading for a long time.I'm pretty sure the final version of Windows 10 LTSC 2021 had its window of support shortened to five years to align with the end of support. Only windows 10 LTSC 2019 has 10 years of support. If you're using LTSC 2019 for gaming please be aware you will be missing any features released for windows 10 that were released after version 1809. This will harm game performance for a lot of newer titles and hardware.
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This post did not contain any content.Sword of Damocles? More like the sword of Microsoft can go fuck itself!
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Crypto mining works better in windows!? GPU compute is usually a Linux forte. By a huge margin, for me.No, but it’s a set it and forget it thing. I pay zero attention to it and it just runs. Easy means it runs more if I had to check what to mine and switch and blah blah, well I’m lazy…. So for me - ya it’s better.
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For the curious I’ve found bazzite to be the best and easiest Linux repo for gamingBazzite is amazing. Pretty much all Ublue based distros have been the most painless Linux experience I've had in years. The biggest problem I think most users have is the Dominance of Nvidia graphics hardware. Nvidia does "work" but it's much more unstable than the much more stable AMD driver. I bought an AMD 7800xt and I'm pretty much problem free now. Since I have so many Nvidia cards I'm regularly testing Nvidia under Bazzite on a spare 2070super. It's impressive but it's not ready for average users.
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This post did not contain any content.At the moment I’m 50/50 between switching over to Linux full-time, or full booting Windows 10 LTSC. But having had to use it for work, I am adamant in saying that Windows 11 will **never** touch my home system drive.
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I just bought a laptop last year (portability and space constraints, I'd love to build a pc when I have the space for it) and it was supposed to come with windows 10. I got a windows 11 model shipped to me. I didn't ask for this. And I have to say.... I fucking hate it. Why does the start menu need to change locations... My next computer will absolutely be Linux, and it's Microsoft's own stupid fault. Windows 10 WAS supposed to be my last windows OS...I bought a laptop right after windows 11 was released. I hated it so much, I returned the laptop a few days later and bought a windows 10 one instead. Completely Linux now except that gaming laptop, but this year is the year of the Linux desktop! For me at least.
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I'm pretty sure the final version of Windows 10 LTSC 2021 had its window of support shortened to five years to align with the end of support. Only windows 10 LTSC 2019 has 10 years of support. If you're using LTSC 2019 for gaming please be aware you will be missing any features released for windows 10 that were released after version 1809. This will harm game performance for a lot of newer titles and hardware.LTSC 2021 - until 2027 - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-enterprise-ltsc-2021 But... IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 - until 2032 - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-iot-enterprise-ltsc-2021
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This post did not contain any content.Windows 10??? I’m still using windows 8.1 lmao
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Ngl that looks sketchy as fuck. Definitely gonna check the hash on that one if I can.I checked the hash, it matches
