Microsoft is fucking butthurt no one wants Windows 11 so they're stopping the sale of Windows 10 licenses this month

For those following this advice: Keep in mind that if you're running Mint off a flash drive it will be noticeably slower than installing the OS and running it off your computer's hard drive/ssd, so if you like what you see other and it's just slow, then go ahead and (BACK UP YOUR FILES) and install that distro. You'll get a large speed increase going from flash drive to proper install.
I find it runs faster in live mode which makes sense as it's writing to RAM instead of a SSD/HD, it only has to read from the USB drive and once the OS is loaded into RAM it rarely needs to access the USB drive again. Live mode has it's limitations though, storage space is limited and you must save anything to an external drive in case power is lost. On the other hand Live mode is great for experimenting, mess something up and all that's needed is a reboot and start over.
 
With the planned obsolescence of Windows PCs and laptops older than 8th gen Intel, getting a good used PC or laptop to run Linux is going to get cheaper as millions of perfectly good PCs and laptops are scrapped. Maybe Bill Gates should be concerned about the environmental impact of the huge mountain of E-waste Windows hardware instead of methane from cows and Covid.
 
Linux trannies should really write a compatibility layer for it instead of pretending FOSS creative software is worth its salt at all.
They literally do. However chasing a moving target will never be perfect. If you want Adobe software to work well on Linux, you need Adobe to support it. There's just no way around that reality.

By your own admission Adobe is cucking you out of using the OS you want to use.
Yet somehow you're mad at Linux instead of Adobe.
 
I will NOT take the vaccine

I will NOT eat the bugs

I will NOT respect your pronouns

and I will NOT install linux
 
Because it's obvious then when you install a software on your system by your choice and said software is unable to function on the hardware because the hardware manufacturer has not done anything to support that portion of their customers that want to use that combination of software on hardware. It's clearly the fault of developers of the software! No way either you, or the hardware manufacturer plays any part in it.

Because if tool A is shit, but tool B cannot solve all problems in the world, then it's clear that tool B cannot be better than tool A, for anyone.
You know what, I agree with you. Linux is shit. That's why I use Windows, which is still shit, just less so.
 
You know what, I agree with you. Linux is shit. That's why I use Windows, which is still shit, just less so.
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nooooooo you can't just make a practical choice between two bad options, you have to prove that Windows is flawless or switch to Linux
 
Lol every single thread about Windows just ends up with linuxfags sperging
The subforum has a decent chunk of linuxfags, as any generic tech forum will.
You know what I want to do a poll, since everyone here keeps talking about 'special use cases':

Is Linux Mint the best option for someone that wants as close a Windows experience as possible?

Like = Yes
Dislike = No
I think it is the easiest step into Linux for Windows users but no sane distro has a goal of being as close to a Windows experience as possible. There is an insane one whose name I can't recall that basically roleplays as Windows as much as possible and even has its own telemetry baked in but at the end of the day it's not Windows.

This is what lifelong Windows users struggle with, the concept that another OS is not going to behave like another OS. Nowadays it mostly boils down to the interfaces and how programs are installed but for many that's a step too far.
Your situation in particular is extra fucky wucky, I've not had or known anyone to have such issues with Linux Mint of all things as it supports all mainstream hardware I'm aware of quite well, which is its purpose.
 
This is what lifelong Windows users struggle with, the concept that another OS is not going to behave like another OS. Nowadays it mostly boils down to the interfaces and how programs are installed but for many that's a step too far.
That's nonsense.

Literally billions of people have learned to use Android or iOS (despite the immaturity and jank of those platforms) in the last 15-ish years because they're compatible with software that's worth using. If desktop Linux could make any compelling use case for anyone but a tiny enclave of autistic programmers, learning the new operating system would be trivial.
 
Your situation in particular is extra fucky wucky, I've not had or known anyone to have such issues with Linux Mint of all things as it supports all mainstream hardware I'm aware of quite well, which is its purpose.
To clarify, I am not mad that I have a fucky wucky. My problem is that neither I nor anyone else can figure out a solution to it. Computers are fickle things so I can handle some glitches, but Mint has given me jack shit to work with. The old root issue is related to a partition that doesn't fucking exist.

My 2 minute boot time seems to be related so what I assume is a single file that's corrupted or something since when I hit esc to see the detailed boot it just says file number/bigger number. It would be nice though if they could tell me what that fucking file is.
 
That's nonsense.

Literally billions of people have learned to use Android or iOS (despite the immaturity and jank of those platforms) in the last 15-ish years because they're compatible with software that's worth using. If desktop Linux could make any compelling use case for anyone but a tiny enclave of autistic programmers, learning the new operating system would be trivial.
Most people don't even think of smartphones as computers or Android/iOS as operating systems. It's just a smartphone to them.
Most people don't know what Linux is and most people who use Windows would bitch about using Mac and vice versa because using another OS where the buttons, hotkeys, etc are different is too much.

Also worth noting I was referring to Windows users who are fed up with Windows in some way or another but if you give them an alternative they recoil, even if it's Mac where your point falls flat.
To clarify, I am not mad that I have a fucky wucky. My problem is that neither I nor anyone else can figure out a solution to it. Computers are fickle things so I can handle some glitches, but Mint has given me jack shit to work with. The old root issue is related to a partition that doesn't fucking exist.

My 2 minute boot time seems to be related so what I assume is a single file that's corrupted or something since when I hit esc to see the detailed boot it just says file number/bigger number. It would be nice though if they could tell me what that fucking file is.
No one can easily replicate it or seems to have experience with it so it seems pretty niche. The logs would tell a lot but the one guy had a good point with UUIDs being potentially problematic if you ever posted them somewhere else on a personal account.

I think it's commendable you've put up with the malarkey to date and continue to try to figure it out, it's not a trivial issue else it'd be solved by now.
 
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Most people don't even think of smartphones as computers or Android/iOS as operating systems. It's just a smartphone to them.
I don't understand how that's a rebuttal of what I said. They learned a novel OS in droves because there was a worthwhile reason to do so, period.

I guess it's not truly learning an operating system unless you're fully aware of and deriving a nearly sexual thrill from just how goddamn alternative you're being, huh? That would explain a lot about Linux users, actually.
 
I don't understand how that's a rebuttal of what I said. They learned a novel OS in droves because there was a worthwhile reason to do so, period.

I guess it's not truly learning an operating system unless you're fully aware of and deriving a nearly sexual thrill from just how goddamn alternative you're being, huh? That would explain a lot about Linux users, actually.
It's apples and oranges and you're discounting how the people I'm referring to treat MacOS the same as Linux in this situation because it's also different. I don't get why it's such a big deal to act like people don't lock themselves into Windows and are their own worst enemy when it comes to the solutions on offer.
 
They "lock themselves into Windows" because Windows has useful applications that Linux doesn't. The idea that people ought to stop using useful Windows-specific applications to avoid "lock-in" is perhaps the most idiotic thing I can imagine.
Most people don't use "useful applications" these days. They use Google Chrome, Safari, and Edge. The vast majority of people don't do anything fancy on the computer which is why they can jump from their laptop to their phone to their work computer without missing a beat.
 
Most people don't use "useful applications" these days. They use Google Chrome, Safari, and Edge. The vast majority of people don't do anything fancy on the computer which is why they can jump from their laptop to their phone to their work computer without missing a beat.
I do so love how Linux nerds will deny and discredit and minimize the importance of everyone else's use case and workflow, but also fight decade-long holy wars over which forked distro of a forked distro of a forked distro is the best.
 
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