Or you can do like I did and simply put an extra hard drive in, load Linux on it. Then use your old Windows hard drive as a storage drive. For the first couple of weeks it was a nice safety blanket to have.

Oh, and if your PC doesn’t have the room inside for an extra hard drive. Make it an external.

Backups are a good idea.

I’ve been using wifi on Linux since the ndiswrapper days. I haven’t had a wifi issue in many many years using Lenovo, Dell, Panasonic laptops and various self built servers (but they tend to be wired)

Nvidia works fine on my end, just installed the latest drivers and been running fine since I switched (~1.5yrs)

Is it? Got a 3080 and my pc goes to sleep and wakes up without issues. Or do you mean a specific mode? I just use whatever cachy with KDE uses as standard.

Goddamn this mf really did hold the gun up to his own head and pulled the trigger just to prove it would go click.

could this be based on the distro?

or is it built into the kernel?

I really take issue with the author suggesting that you need to. You do not need to, and it is a myth that needs to go away. Particularly when they said it was “exhausting” installing applications. Linux is miles ahead on that front: you look through a list of what you like, or search for them, and click on the ones you want.

Also for system management, there is no need for the terminal either and the author says “It’s an unavoidable part of the Linux experience”. That one in particular really doesn’t sit well with me.

Now can you? Yes. Should you? Also yes, because it is the easiest way to convey and execute an idea. But you do not have to.

And they fail to mention that windows does this too, for almost every task for system maintenance is done this way: press run+r, now type “whatever -command”.

Anyways a moderately mainstream article and they are going to scare people away over something they did not need to do. Which after a year you would think they would have figured that out.

Gatekeeping, I hate that word. So useless. In this scenario the author is gate keeping saying all the linux system management is the command line. Its “exhausting”. Well bullshit. Let me say it again: BULLSHIT.

It is perpetuating a myth. This is not true. They are gatekeeping the users who don’t want to because they are saying it has to be this way.

Look, I like the command line, I get why sharing information is so much easier by providing a command rather than a wall of screen shots.

Yet at the same time, my travel laptop over here, two years in, has never had to have “system administration” and package installation from a command line. Depending on the distro it simply is not necessary.

The user has choice.

Keep in mind that changes are coming even if you stay on Windows or Mac or Android or iOS. AI in particular is going to require everyone to relearn everything in non-deterministic ways, so you end up begging the system to do what you want in new creative ways. Also, the UI will be radically reworked over and over. There’s really no way to avoid learning new ways to do things on an invention that’s less than 50 years old.

Yes, it’s work that we don’t usually have the energy for, especially now, but the best we can do is look for a community to support each other through it all.

Awesome!

Huh ninite for Linux. That’s neat

I am running EndeavourOS and it’s possible to function without terminal. I use it because I love it but no need at least not for app installing having Discover.

Anyway can’t compare an arch based distro to Fedora or Ubuntu

Even some of those work, Helldivers 2 for instance. I usually check protondb.com to make sure if I can run the game if it does not have a native build.

Just throw away the money you spent, and the social groups that use those games as hangouts!

Mostly online multiplayer.

I don’t have this problem; You probably are using TOR or a VPN and it triggered the captcha

No but I do get about three or four challenges. I can paste the article for you if it helps?

LLM-driven web scraping is intense for some sites, so their bot detection software is tuned in a way that creates a lot of false positives.

Obscuring your browser fingerprint, or blocking javascript, or using an unusual user-agent string can trigger a captcha challenge.

If you’re not doing that and seeing a site suddenly start giving your captchas then they may be being DDoS’d by scrapers and are challenging all clients.

A site that archives content is especially vulnerable because they have a lot of the data that is useful for AI training.

It is incredibly annoying, but until we have a robust way of proving identity that can’t be gamed by bad actors we’re stuck with individual user challenges.

Not every time, but far too often. They don’t seem to care that they’re discriminating against people with AV impairment, plus locking out some secure browsers.

For sure. I actually detailed our VDI setup in another thread. We use linux minipcs running VMWare and Win10 IOT LTSC VMs to connect to clients that require Windows or “secured Windows” where they install all sorts of bloatware.

EDIT: I should note that the vast majority of our clients have since moved to VDIs, which can be accessed from Macs. Unfortunately, they mostly use Citrix and I have not found a way to get that citrix client to work well on Linux.

I mean, for that pretty much everyone uses Windows VMs on Windows as well

or unless something cryptic breaks on Linux and no one on the inner net can figure it out.

True

The right tool for the job is what I always say. Macs, especially on Apple Silicone, are next to impossible to beat for music production. The performance of those chips and the universal support from hardware and software manufacturers make it the best tool. What I find is that the number of scenarios in which Windows is the best tool is rapidly approaching zero.

We tried. Unfortunately, M chips require ARM operating systems as VMs, and they perform very poorly.

Linux servers are still the best option.

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No. Bazzite is pretty good at one thing and that thing is gaming. If you want do anything else and there is no flatpack/appimage for it you’re shit out of luck, unless you want to ostree and thereby breaking the reason for using an immutable distro in the first place. That is the whole reason I tried and switched my main rig over to Fedora 43 KDE so I could at least use a normal package manager.

I think I agree with this. I believe that if you are heavily into group policy or a centralized registry it would be a harder conversion. But you can even “hack” bat files to work for both Linux and Windows depending on what launches it. I had to do that with a testing bot that I sometimes ran on windows, sometimes ran on Linux. It involves abusing the label system on bat (which translates to a command true which accepts no arguments on sh). Granted you are still writing both files but, using this method you can have the windows version of it on the same page as the bash version so you can go line by line instead of having a second file open