I’m on 24H2 Windows 11 with a local account set up, ran windows debloat tool and have CoPilot/onedrive/other data mining features un-installed.
Edit: I have a plan to make the switch to Linux. For now I was just looking for any feedback on how to handle current Windows OS. I whole heartedly hate Microsoft as much as the next, I promise lol.
When you have to spend more time fixing Windows than actually using it, it’s probably time to consider
buying a Chevyinstalling Linux instead.??? Took the same amount of time as any windows set up. Why would this even come close to the amount of times it would take for me to learn an entirely new operating system?
I plan to make a Linux drive to learn and test different software in but I’m not about to make that kind of blind leap without trying it out first.
I appreciate all the encouragement to make the switch but until I pull the trigger I’d like my current Windows OS to run as unmolested as possible.🍻
Linux never asked my mother’s maiden name nor insisted on creating a cloud account just to log into my computer.
Also, many distros of Linux come with all the main baseline productive software one should need on a live boot media, ain’t even gotta install it to try it out.
It’s not very different if you don’t dig into the guts of the thing. I think the people most afraid of making the switch are actually the ones it is easiest for. If you’re not used to digging into the windows registry and haven’t upgraded to powershell 7, then you probably won’t touch much of what’s different in Linux.
The hardest part is picking a distribution – I usually recommend either Fedora or Ubuntu. – and an xwindows system – and coming from Windows I usually recommend KDE Plasma or from MAC I’d recommended GNOME. So either:
https://fedoraproject.org/spins/kde/
OR
https://kubuntu.org/
The only reason I stuck with Windows for so long was PC gaming. But I don’t do much of that anymore and what I do actually do runs fine on Linux these days. So I haven’t looked back. But you can always install Linux after Windows is already present if you have a spare hard drive and boot into either at will. Just don’t try to do the opposite since Windows installer will corrupt your Linux boot setup.
But to each his own. Windows is now a platform like many others where you trade your personal information for services instead of or in addition to your money. Some people are OK with that and that’s totally fair.
While FreeCAD has made huge leaps forward it’s just not there yet, and it may never be what’s needed to replace windows exclusive CAD software.
I’m stuck with the windows second boot, for better or worse, unless i change profession.
Oof, I hear you there. So the CAD software you use won’t run under WINE?
Oddly enough, I’ve repaired a plasma cutter controller system running CAD software from 1991, running under Microsoft Xenix of all things.
It probably ain’t too much of a stretch to get that software running under Linux, if only the company released their source code.
It was cheaper for them to keep their old stuff running than dump $20,000+ into a new updated system.
Yeah, too glitchy (missing functionality) with wine and the cloud services are unreliable if working at all. Work stuff so gotta use it 🫠