I killed windows with Linux
same.
i overwrote the entire disk with linux. (i was really worried that my computer will go kaboom at the time. thanks to installing arch, the wonderful archwiki and the … adjective not found community.)
no matter what circumstance, I’M NEVER TOUCHING WINDOWS EVER AGAIN.
For many years I’ve had at least one Windows machine and at least one OSX machine (and then everything else runs linux). As MS started pushing this (and as Proton and Lutris got good enough to support almost any Windows software I would need to run, mostly games) I finally made the jump to zero Windows machines about a year and a half ago. Don’t miss it.
I just last month tried out Bazzite for fun and haven’t switched back. I feel like an idiot for sticking with Windows as long as I did. I was the metaphorical frog in the pot of water not realizing how shitty it had become. I guess I should be grateful there isn’t any program I need that’s Windows only because Bazzite is better than Windows in every way I can think of.
If you’re not familiar with wine, it can be your friend. Run Windows applications in Linux if you can’t find an alternative application
Thanks, I’m still learning but so far there hasn’t been any application I need that there isn’t some equivalent of.
“Are we being an asshole corporation that’s about to lose what little customer respect we still have?”
“No, it’s the users who feel entitled to be able to use their computer without signing up who are wrong.”
BASH killed the PowerShell star.
All the hardware in my life is Linux or FreeBSD . . . with one embarrassing exception. For years I’ve kept an Acer laptop on Win10 for a single task - running a windows application to update the firmware on a Garmin satellite SMS device (we do long distance hiking well off grid in Scotland). Micro$oft’s ongoing bullshit shamed me into finally sorting out even that one edge use case. After several hours of playing . . I was able to overwrite Win10 with . . . ReactOS!
If you’ve never heard of it . . and most people in the FOSS community never have . . it’s an attempt at reverse engineering Windows NT, using a combination of WINE plus a written from scratch open source Windows like kernel. It will never be “done” and it’s FAR from ready to be anyone’s daily driver . . but still a fun project to follow.
And yes, after hours more of tweaking, I was able to get the Garmin app to update on React!
i wish reactos worked with the android bootloader unlocking & rom installers software that some phone makers like redmi & xiaomi require for their phones.
it’s also bizarre that a linux based device requires a windows system to enable customization when it’s the opposite in every other arena.
it’s even stranger that chinese brands are more common in requiring proprietary means for products while its gov’t is so gung ho about open source that it’s open sourced industries critical to future like ai & chip development.
I’m on Graphene and deleted Windows for ParotOS home edition with a secure router. I’ve just about halted all of my data collection.
I’ve had zero Windows physical computers in my life for something like seven years now. If I do for some strange reason need Windows for something, I’m perfectly capable of putting it into a virtual machine and running it for as long as needed.
With that said, I have not had to do that for quite a while.
Buy x86 hardware and install Linux on it.
just register a dummy microsoft account to do the initial install for your root account so your license and your bitlocker keys get saved and create local accounts after that.
