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Microsoft ends free upgrade from Windows 7 to 11::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 170 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Upgrading from windows 7 to Linux is still free

[–] Ghostalmedia 67 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Linux, the only thing Lemmy loves more than beans and the proletariat.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

linux users build and run this shit

[–] Ghostalmedia 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] seaQueue 25 points 1 year ago

What do you think powers shitposting?

[–] Molecular0079 6 points 1 year ago

Linux users build and run...everything at this point. Internet basically runs on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This needs to be best of lemmy shit 😂

[–] camr_on 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

God I love beans

and Linux and proles too I suppose

[–] ago 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what's awesome about Linux and in my opinion there are more options for what you can do with Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can run Linux in Windows now, so actually false.

[–] Lightborne 2 points 1 year ago

Wait what's Linux, never heard of it

[–] Jackolantern 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I wish I had the expertise to use Linux.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I'm honest a lot of what I learned about computers was as a result of switching to Linux. As a Windows user, breaking Windows is such a problem that you don't dare try to learn by doing. Linux is comparably easy to fix or restore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The biggest problem with breaking windows is nobody really knows how to fix anything, it's just a shit load of random "did you try this?" Until you either find it's working again (after trying something that didn't work, then backing out that change, or it just randomly starts working again without really doing anything) or you learn to live with it.

With Linux, if you can break it, you can be pretty sure someone somewhere has broken it the same way before, and analyzed the shit out of it including reading the source, and figured out how to fix it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t see how that’s true. Windows is a more widely used Desktop OS, and Linux has way more variation in running software be it package managers, desktop experiences, etc. Even things like what version you started with may influence the version of a package you have. The odds of finding an identical setup is a lot lower.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just speaking from experience - which of course is influenced by how much I am willing to pay for a solution, which is nothing. For the most part, people offering solutions for windows expect to be paid, while Linux gurus are more likely to do it for free

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Software wise that’s absolutely true for MacOS, but Windows has plenty of free and open source software.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you lack the bare minimum of knowledge to install a new operating system, there are plenty Youtube tutorials around which take your hand step by step.

Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ua-d9OeUOg

We get plenty of new users these days, primarily because of the gaming boom thanks to Valve. Don't be shy, it's easy if you've done it once

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

learning linux is a process, but it's way easier now than it used to be. It's more of an easy to learn hard to master situation today as compared to the old "heres a box of source, compile it and hope it works, lmao" in the days of yore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You don't need much knowledge to do the basics. Picking one to start with is likely a harder choice lol

[–] ThePizzaTimeBandit 3 points 1 year ago

Use Debian or a Debian fork like Linux Mint, Ubuntu, or Popos! And it should be a pretty easy transition. I recommend Debian because it's not as configured for you out of gate, but it's still easily configurable.

[–] Molecular0079 1 points 1 year ago

It really isn't that hard these days. Installation isnt harder than installing Windows and most Linux distros have a built-in store now to install apps from. Definitely takes a bit of a learning curve but it isn't as intimidating as it once was.