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Do you currently use Linux, or would you consider giving Linux a shot? (self.askbeehaw)

submitted 1 year ago by UngodlyAudrey to c/askbeehaw

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I get the feeling that Lemmy has a relatively higher concentration of Linux users. I'm preparing to move over to Linux when I build my new computer. I already put Linux Mint Cinnamon edition on one of my old laptops and I like it quite a bit. I figure that since I've been wanting to switch over for years, I should just do it. The games were the thing holding me back, and Proton seems to have taken care of that(I don't really play multiplayer games that require anticheat... I'm a singleplayer kind of girl).

For me, anyway, I want to switch because Windows has been creeping me out with its telemetry. Windows 11 looks lousy, and I'd have to jump through some hoops to get my old hardware on 11, anyway.

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[–] MarionWheeler 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve used various flavors of Ubuntu in the past on an old laptop of mine, it worked pretty well. However I don’t use it on my current device simply because the hardware support is kind of bad (no fingerprint sensor, terrible battery life, firmware updates aren’t easily delivered over fwupd, poor sleep support are the ones I can think off of the top of my head). Compared to windows where most of this just works. My current device also isn’t so old (bought it late 2021), so it runs Windows 11 perfectly fine. I use enterprise + a bunch of group policies to knock out telemetry, and winget to kill bloatware. There’s also the security aspect, as I do wanna take advantage of stuff such as Windows better secure boot support as well as WDAC to lock things down.