Mate, there's people out there still on XP.
The "end of 10" will be people breathing a sigh of relief that they don't come back to their PC to find it's done a sneaky reboot while they were on lunch.
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What happens when you connect win xp to the net nowadays? Genuine question.
Assuming you're behind a NAT like just about everyone is these days, probably very little.
Only TLS 1.0 works unless you install extras, so you'd be unable to load some sites. Microsoft in particular have turned it off, so you'll have trouble getting anything from them. The likes of Google and Facebook have it enabled still. It might be enabled for the update channels, but I don't have a box on hand to test.
Going off road might earn you a browser vuln from a dodgy video hosting site, since most browsers stopped getting updates a while ago.
Honestly your biggest problem is that machines still on XP are as old as the hills and about as quick. A modern website will bring a Pentium 4 to it's knees.
You look proprietary.
I installed Mint on another partition alongside Windows 10, and I’m giving myself until the end of the extended security update period to fully migrate.
I think I’m going to do this soon too but maybe with bazzite
Here here
Edit: Hear hear?
The latter, it originates from the British parliament, as in I hear you and agree.
Completely obliterate Windows from project laptop Mint and Ubuntu installations go smoothly Both OSs will run just fine for about 30 minutes before freezing Even when I leave it alone and don't have anything running
I won't let this break me, I still have images for Fedora, KDE, OpenSUSE, and Manjaro. Even if we end up running Zorin, we're going to get this right.
Games and mods are really the only reason I still put up with the BS, but that straw is gonna break eventually. I don't want to dual boot, but once SteamOS can play D2 that will probably be the day.
The only thing I'm really not sure on is mods. I tend to mod the fuck out of any game that supports it, and since mods are all written independtly, I'm worried many won't be written well enough to be functional outside of the environment they were MacGyvered in.
If by D2 you mean Destiny 2, then I recommend making the switch so you CAN'T play D2. As a former addict myself, I can tell you it doesn't have control your life. I know it doesn't seem like it now but there is a way out if you're open to it.
Sending thoughts and prayers ❤️
Lmao. I'm actually pretty good about just playing the story content and moving on now. I pretty much treat it as a single player game. Got too much goin on in the real world to play an mmo seriously.
I just kinda see D2 as a turning point. Once they make the shift, lots of other things will probably work too.
4k hours in and I finally realized it had become a second job. Stay strong out there, recovery is possible!
Now I'm playing a bunch of fun single player games that I missed out on because I was so sucked in.
Yes! It really was a second job! When it's good, it's REALLY good but it gets to the point where you're playing because you feel you have to, not because you want to. You're constantly grinding mindless crap so you'll be ready for that next content drop that hits as hard as the last thing you actually enjoyed over a year ago (spoiler alert: it won't).
I was lucky. I came to that realization at 1.1k hrs and it still took another 100 to quit. Afterwards, and I am dead serious about this, it took a bit more time before I could enjoy single player games I used to love again.
D2 is a pit that can and will suck you in. It's digital crack.
sigh
USE PROTON!!!
Doesn't work for Destiny 2. BattleEye reads it as a cheat and bans.
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I spent 4 hours today trying to remove previous employers' emails from the setup window for OneDrive - the one where you choose which email to sign in with and configure OneDrive.
I deleted credentials, erased mentions in the registry, updated my Outlook from classic to new, uninstalled the app about 10 times, enabled/disabled the hidden administrator account, moved the cache folders out from their normal locations, deleted my Outlook accounts, unlinked my PC, deleted OneDrive folders, tried completely resetting OneDrive only to get an error saying that I couldn't - even after using a command that should have forced the program to reset. Nothing worked.
This is legitimately breaking my brain.
In contrast, I recently set up KeePass and Syncthing. How fucking easy that was, both on my Windows PC and phone.
If Linux promises a better modern OS experience than Windows 11, then I will ADORE switching to Ubuntu or Mint when I order my new Framework.
You have a domain credential. You need to strip domain rights out of the system. The best way forward is to either wipe and start fresh or create a local user account to use as your new primary. You can likely pull the app data folders over into the new user as well as the documents and desktop folders. If you move the data you need, you can then delete the user folder for the old account. Most registry changes for domain users are Current_User entries which means you will have a clean registry as well.
Thanks, I'll try that if I fucking care at this point lmao. Windows has beaten me down lol
How I predict my migration will go:
- Take a week off work so I can focus.
- Load Ubuntu and get Proton / Steam up and running.
- Spend remainder of the work troubleshooting audio & video issues.
- Either get everything working by the end of the week, or live my ass up and install Windows 11.
Gaming...straight to Bazzite, you'll likely be playing in an hour. Why wait, just point the installer at an external drive and see what it's like.
Just install Mint if you’re already planning on ubuntu. It’s basically the same thing under the hood, but with more polish and shine and without Canonical’s junk.
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My VPN expires tomorrow. After that, my media center laptop goes offline forever, until the penguin gets its filthy flippers on it.
What's the best distro for a shitty 10 year old Lenovo Yoga? I'll be using it to acquire (through purely legal means) torrents including Wikipedia backups and Linux isos
Debian is nice
Agreed. For a server, Debian is awesome.
If Adobe would put its products on Linux I wouldn’t need Windows (or Mac) anymore. Unfortunately a lot of my work still requires being able to open things in Indesign and XD.
Can you run a virtual machine on Linux just for Adobe?
Yes, but I would still need Windows for that. I meant I could remove Windows/Mac entirely from my life except that I need access to Adobe products.
In the same boat. Been practicing GIMP but 25 years of PS is difficult to break away from =/ plus god forbid colleagues put in an ounce of effort in meeting to understand that PS isnt the only way to crop a damn image
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I've tried installing Linux on two computers four times last month, but I haven't been able to for one reason or another. I've already spent an hour debugging simply because I cancelled the installation once at the wrong time (ie. any time after hitting start) and had to go in there and rename shit (??????). If the community really wants us to switch, it needs to iron out all this garbage at the front door. I can only imagine the frustration of getting everything else up and running. Fuck these headaches. I've had a better UX installing Windows, which I did about 10 times last year without a hitch.
Bit of an odd question, but did you try booting it from a USB on that machine and see if it worked alright for a few days with what you wanted it to do? Typically if it works fine from the bootable usb, it shouldn’t really have any issues installing unless your drive is copy protected or something, especially if it’s Mint like you mentioned below, also I’d recommend poking their forums if you haven’t yet, somebody might be able to shed more light on what’s wrong with specific errors and behaviours
I have to agree. I love Linux. I’m using it for all of my servers and it works great. I recently tried to switch my daily use computer from Windows 10 to Linux, and it’s not gone well. I’m on my 5th install and third disto. I’ve been told it’s a hardware compatibility issue, but if I need to buy a new computer to run Linux, I’m in the same boat as switching to Windows 11.
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I don't know what distro you're installing or what the hell you're doing, but most of the time it's trivial. From my experience, the Linux installation is much simpler and easier than Windows.
It is different though, so if you bash your head against it expecting Windows then you're obviously going to have a bad time. You need to start with the understanding that it's a different thing and you'll have to learn it, just like you did Windows when you first started with that. You weren't instantly an expert. You just forgot what it was like to be a noob who doesn't know what they're doing.
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