Vista only really sucked if it was installed on an old PC or one of those cheap "Vista capable" machines that only had 512MB RAM.

Linux users when Windows: 🐧

Had a presentation to make yesterday so figured fuck it, maybe the copilot integrated into power point can make this task I don't want to do easier.

So I made a title slide and explained what was going on, then tried to get it able to edit the current file. Wasn't able to but it was able to create a new file.

Took one look at the result and decided fuck it, I'll just do it myself. How much it tried to play up everything without really saying anything was almost nauseating.

So I guess thanks copilot for sucking so much it inspired me to just spit out a better presentation. At least better to my standards; I bet an MBA would have preferred the other one that acted like the whole category the task was in was my own work and needed to be explained to the rest of the team that has been doing related tasks longer than I have.

Better build the whole OS around this tech which basically just exploits how easily we're fooled by confident words.

Just installed cachyOS yesterday. Read this today. The timing is solid.

You guys are getting management tools? I got a spreadsheet I made. Apparently the boss is more lazy than me.

I totally understand and I do hate recommending Arch right from the start, but CachyOS is a great entry level Arch distro. The installer is pretty straight forward and setup is very minimal if you're just going to game. The only thing lacking IMO, for beginners, is an "app store" with pretty pictures.

But if you're gaming, I think you should be on the latest kernel possible, so a rolling release(Fedora) or bleeding edge(Arch). Latest Ubuntu derivative(25.10, soon 26.04) is fine but not ideal. It's the main reason SteamOS is also based on Arch.

Again, not gaming? Mint is probably the defacto unless you're on newer hardware.

Remember the golden rules for those seeking enlightenment.

Older hardware?
Mint

Newer hardware?
Fedora.

Literally only gaming?
Bazzite

And remember to educate them about the concept of Desktop Environments.

If they aren’t overwhelmed, share some possible future “upgrade” paths like CachyOS, Debian, etc.

Just putting a word in for OpenSUSE. I've been happily using Tumbleweed, their rolling distro, for years now on several different machines.

Hahaha perfect

I love OpenSUSE, but would consider it one of those “upgrade path” distros.

Looks like 2027 is shaping up to be the year of Linux on the desktop.

LET’S SLOP IT UP! 💦💻

FUKKIN GOTTEMMMMMMM DAB. ON. IT.

Fully modular as in it runs in a VM in the cloud that you pay them for access to

Windows 12 has been postponed until 11 is fixed.

LMAO

Right, yes. Your recommendations are good for new users.

Yeah, especially considering that 11 appears to be fundamentally as broken as a vibe-coded AI sloppified clone of Windows 10 would be. The only real "fix" for it in my opinion is to re-open support for 10, and commit to remaking 12 from scratch with entirely different goals, focused on performance, privacy, security, and efficiency. I would consider spinning up an AI PC project, but as an entirely separate brand from Windows. Might as well even call the new thing CoPilot and make use of all the branding they've committed to.

I don't understand what you're saying here, can you expand on those points?

I don't care at work because I'm not paying for it or doing anything involving my personal data or any power user stuff. Windows barely matters there. Everything has moved into web apps and websites.

Absofuckinglutely not.

And I say this as a dedicated Windows user who spent a year on Ubuntu Linux a decade ago and hated it. Windows does this, and sign me up for penguin lessons.

So, indefinitely.

They saw the first few minutes of Tron legacy and said “YES that!”

Linux is really easy now. Ofc if you want to find problems you will.

I can’t wait to give my credit card information to my AI agent so it can buy more features for me without me monitoring it!

Imagine waking up to a fully decked out Windows 12 plus pro 365 hell yeah 730 Copilot ?

I'm a linux noob still, i guess mint is focused on being user friendly while debian is focused on being stable and more lightweight. The installation process of mint is similar to windows it just takes half the time and you want to click yes on everything instead of no, once your done the cinnamon environment looks and feels alot like winxp.

Still not a subscription service. Just install it with a local account and european country and you will be golden!

I imagine that red walpaper is candy it looks so goopddddddddddmmdm

if the ai bubble pops, watch them need to do a windows 12.1

Hahahahaha, get fucked Microslop

My big issue was that every time I wanted to use software that wasn't native to Linux it could take up to two weeks of forum hunting, Google searches, and just plain hair tearing to find out how to do something.

Getting Eve Online to run wound up requiring a font install and deleting the in-game music folder. Not the things you expect an average or even better than average user to know or expect to do.

And that is just one of the instances that stick in my memory

Even if Windows 12 is postponed or canceled, It is clear that Microsoft will integrate AI into Windows with the release of 26H2.

The worst case is that subscription-based OS will be pushed in the next Windows 11 update.

A local device with local storage can choose cloud computing while managing importance of local copies. It's unclear if you will be able to log in to win12 when internet is down. A PC can be your only device, or at least your central device.

Nowadays the only Windows software I run on Linux are games, and those work great, for everything else I try to stay native anyway. Some production software is still unfortunately lacking, but for most users it's a decent experience, especially compared to what modern Windows has become.

But I would avoid Ubuntu.

I'm not sure if you're being serious, but software engineering and IT systems administration are different roles typically filled by different people.

A company or organization can have a quite sophisticated IT department without having any software engineers on staff.

They added sources through the article, including a youtube interview between two Microsoft execs, so I'd say its a least plausible.

Wtf is a “fully-modular” OS

Older hardware?
Mint

Mint requires 1GiB minimum to be usable, as do any Canonical clones, and dropped support for 32-bit (or will soon).
So for older software go for TinyCore, Puppy, Porteus or similar.

Never tried it but at least it's EU-based.

You compiled the version number as a string?

Switched mine to Mint, no issues.

Yeah but gen 2 was peak Pokemon

Can't speak to your specific issues but I also tried Ubuntu about 10 years ago, and went back to Windows. Last year I gave Mint a try. Works great, gave my old PC a new lease of life, and there are such quality FOSS packages that you never need to touch any MS bloatware again. Things are not what they were 10 years ago

I guess they’re embracing microkernels architecture lol

Finally the year of linux desktop!

That is how Windows 11 started (NT was a microkernel OS). Then they slowly went monolithic for performance.

I know the Epstein files revealed that all the last Windows versions have been named after Microsoft leaderships' preferred rape victim ages but I still don't think I'm ready to switch to Linux.

Not doing a subscription based OS.

Just throwing that out there.

One can only hope it means Edge will be a module and you'll finally be able to yeet it off the hard drive.