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Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash (www.neowin.net)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/windows11@lemmy.world
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[–] 47 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

I found Linux Mint to be a reasonable upgrade path from Windows 11. I'm 60 years old and figured it out. It plays my games, runs Libreoffice, Jellyfin, Gimp, Inkscape, and Blender, which covers everything I want to do on a PC.

The only thing it can't do is drive my cheap autofeed photo scanner (it drives my Epson flatbed just fine) I got to finally digitize my family photos for my kid, so maybe he'll look at them someday. I have an old laptop running Win10 to do that. Once that project is done in a couple of months, I'll put Linux Mint on the laptop and get several more years of use out of it, I expect.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I had a similar experience earlier this year. I want to convert my main pc to some flavor of Linux, and I tried out about 5 over a month by setting up a VM. The one I wanted to try the most wouldn't install through vm, but the rest were fine. Once I found a few I liked, I tried seeing how hard it would be to find an alternative for everything I use and do. I think like 90% was great, but there were a handful of things that either didn't have any alternative or it was not a very good alternative. Still, I really want to get off windows by next year. I am even tired of what they are trying to do.

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