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Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 days ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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I'd like to hear people's journeys and motivations from people who switched over the last few months, and if there were particular challenges that were faced.

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[–] Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I installed Fedora last Friday and I have no regrets. Win11 was never an option for me, my laptop is "too old" and I have no desire to touch that horror in any

~10 years ago I had a Win7/Ubuntu dual boot laptop, but I dropped Ubuntu when I upgraded to SSD and needed all the space I could get. Ubuntu was OK, but there was something with the UI that just didn't click with me. I meant to try other distros but never found the time, so I just stuck with Win10 until now.

I have several legacy software that I need, so I went with dual boot again. If I can get them to run smoothly on Fedora, I'll do a complete clean install.

The only challenge in installing Fedora was Windows' crappy partition manager, which would not let me minimize C: for more than 54MB. I did every trick I knew and learned a few new ones, nothing helped. Then I just flashed Gparted to a USB stick and it worked instantly.

After that everything went smoothly, with the exception that Fedora didn't recognize my Bluetooth device at all. I'll dig into that single issue tomorrow, I'm fairly certain that a fix can be found easily.

[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you considered a Windows vm? That's how i run that single program that i can't get working on Linux. Yeah it's slow AF on my system, but it's not used often.

[–] Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, I mean to try running them with VM. The software I need are old and light, so there's a good chance that my laptop can run them.

[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 1 points 2 hours ago

Cool. It's pretty slow on my machine. I almost tempted to pickup one of those mini pcs with windows 11 on them and just use it for that one thing... But it's only a though and not a very good one... Lol

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