This might be a bit off topic but I hate how you can't dismiss these kind of messages and be done with them, instead you have confirmation or remind me later. They just keep pestering you and I find that insulting. The same thing with Google play pass whenever I install something, that damn popup keeps coming back.
You could probably install linux bare metal on your computer, and daily drive windows 7 in a vm. Good luck getting compatible software anymore, but if you can, create an image and you are set for the foreseeable future
I think it's mostly that it comes across more like religious proselytizing than "good advice".
Also, that "advice" is mixed in with just as much messaging about how fussy it can be and implications that you've got to basically be an enthusiast level user to make it work for you. Not that it necessarily is that way, but overall that's the messaging I see from this community.
As someone who tried Linux many years ago, disliked it, and went back to Windows, generally my take is that Windows is far from perfect, but it's the best option for me, and I'm happy to try and ignore the Lemmy buzz around it...but that buzz just gets more and more annoying over time.
Take it on good faith that I won't bible beat you. I'm genuinely curious. What are things about windows that are 'far from perfect' as you put it? What would you do to change them, and if you could wave a magic wand and change whatever you want, what would you change?
On self-reflection I'll admit that there's a bias experienced by people, like me, who live in the Linux bubble, surrounded by people who are happy Linux users, to overestimate the eagerness of other people to be on board. It's also easy to forget when you're on a general Technology community like this one, where a lot of people are talking about Linux, that it's not everyone is a Linux person.
In fact I don't even really detect much of a "Lemmy buzz" around it mainly because I participated in Linux-y parts of Reddit, and other places, before now. If anything from my point of view there seems to be more resistance to it on Lemmy.
It could be that having used it for nearly 20 years I've lost my ability to fathom why it would be difficult. But that said, both my parents use Linux and are non-technical users - they were fed up with windows crap like in OP so they asked me to set it up for them and it's been 5 years now trouble free. So even if you do need to be an enthusiast-level user to make it work, you only have to know one. What I still stand by is that it's good advice for most users.
I don't know anything about Minecraft but if Minetest is an appropriate replacement without that minor annoyance I would suggest that's solicited advice.
Pretty much the only thing I use my PC for is gaming so it really sucks that I can't just dump them for Linux...
I don't want some games. I don't want to have something I've been hyped about be out of reach for God knows how long just because Linux support is crap as the market share is so low, but man do i hate Microsoft...
Because of proton it’s not perfect but it’s damn close these days. And that means that linux support is rapidly increasing with linux marketshare. And when all else fails, I keep a windows partition just in case
Beside we-know-which games that use a root-kit anti-cheat, which games you think doesn't work on Linux or work terribly or straight out not work on Linux on first-day?
I don't play those and I don't own them on Steam. Out of 600+ games I own on Steam, everything literally run without me touch my terminal once.
Unless you don't think proton is good, then you might be mistaken somewhere. It's straight magic
To be honest I just see people commenting here and there that xyz game didn't work for them and they have to jump through a bunch of hoops for what does work that I just write Linux off for now.
That and I tend to like to check out early access games (cough star citizen cough) so I just dont want to limit myself just to give Mi€ro$oft the finger.
Also, (see early access comment) I'm kind of impatient so even though I'm pretty capable, the last thing I want to do is have to be an IT guy for my PC every time something doesn't work lol windows is pretty good in that respect.
Gaming on Linux is really not as bad as all that unless you play a lot of games with invasive anti-cheat; which honestly, even if you never try Linux and stick to windows, I'd recommend avoiding or at least having a separate windows install for. I'm not a fan of having to install a rootkit on my computer that constantly monitors everything I do just to prove to some mega-corp I'm an honest player (especially considering how poorly even those work to stop cheaters).
I'd highly recommend anyone upset with microsoft to at least setup dual boot with one of the popular gaming specific Linux distos and trying it out. Even if you did a few years ago, it has really come a long way in the last few years.
I love The Dark Mod, a great envolving game at the level of commercial ones, it's 100% free with a great community and works fine in Windows, Linux and Mac. A game for Years with currently more than 170 community made missions, more every few month.
“We tried asking. We tried begging. We tried bullying. We even tried tricking people into upgrading. We tried everything short of actually making a usable OS!”
I understand how it is possible for an OS to interrupt one's use of one's own computer to beg for money or to install spyware. I don't understand how such an OS would still have users.
If I didn't have to use it for work, and if Ableton Live made a Linux version, I'd never use Windows again. Every single activity is interrupted by messages that are effectively adverts for things you're not interested in. The Start menu still doesn't work after 29 years of development. Searching for a file is ridiculously slow and doesn't find the file. Everything else is also slow, all the time. I have given up trying to arrange my desktop icons because they always go back to the same position they've been stuck in for months. All the applications hang, and the whole system has frequent unresponsive moments where God knows what it's doing but it's nothing I asked for. I dual boot into Linux and it feels like an oasis of peace.
Oh yeah, sorry, didn't mean to rag on people that have to work with it. I think we're all frustrated that it's still so pervasive even though it gets worse every year.
I would have upgraded if they didn't include the UI changes. I don't know why Microsoft keeps trying to make these big UI changes given that they have a built-in audience of power users that have optimized since XP.
I think it's a way to justify the update. It's probably really about telemetry and hardware control, but normies see the centered taskbar and subconciously go "this must be new technology"
At least in the EU until now no such PopUps, but it's hilarious, that I can't update to W11 in a 3 years old Laptop, at least not without cheats, only because my Graphic Card, AMD Radeon with 2+1 GB isn't in the MS list, not for other reasons.
At least not in my, maybe I've gut Windows from all telemetries, notifications (except for updates) and other crap and services. If the Pop Ups persists, install the Optimizer (FOSS), which can help you to give it a kick in the ass.
