Yeah. I’m still on win10, and after some viability tests on a secondary laptop, it really feels like my future upgrade path isn’t to win11, but finally a Linux distro. Probably Pop_Os! or something to that effect.
I think at this point I’d rather put up with jank than capitalism, and Steamdeck convinced me that games will be mostly fine.
I’m also in the “riding out win10 as long as I can, switching to Linux when win11 finally comes knocking” boat. I haven’t actually touched Linux myself yet, but I also have an old laptop lying around that I’m just gonna toss Ubuntu on at some point and play around on to learn the ropes. Windows has just continued to frustrate and infuriate for years with the ad insertions, obfuscation of settings, shoving garbage software into windows updates. Something as simple as photo viewer feels like it hasn’t been fully functional since Windows XP. Everything about Windows 11 just looks like a continuing nightmare and the hassle of regediting Windows 11 into something actually usable feels like way more of a hassle than just learning Linux. At least if Linux breaks, I’ll know it’s probably my own fault, and I can look up people calling me dumb on reddit for solutions, while when Windows breaks I know it’s because Microsoft hates me personally and wants me to suffer.
I hope Linux is more friendly to use than when I tried back in 2010. Windows 11 sounds rooooough.
People who are deep into it definitely underestimate which parts are user-unfriendly (and how many of them there are), but I think any of the self-branded user-friendly distros will work out-of-the-box for 95% of stuff.
I tried Mint back in 2010 on my college laptop, dual booting it with Windows, and had ot do a full on Windows 7 reinstall after a freak power outage of the laptop caused it to not load anything when I was switching modes lmao.
Probably not a fault of Linux but it’s something that’s stuck with me.
sorry about that
I’ll be jumping to Linux too, but from macOS rather than Windows because…I have found Windows annoying since before Win11 But I do have to use Win11 for work and as long as I don’t interact with the really annoying parts–or with any of Microsoft’s things, which is nearly impossible–it’s just. Okay. Same old problems I’ve always had with Windows, which makku already outlined.
(technically I get some Linux experience since I run that at work too but it’s just WSL)