Soldato
You've all heard the stories of migrating users from the pos that is Windows, and this is such a story.
Been using Windows since the 3.0 days, and over the past years have been saddened with the mess it has become. My old PC gaming rig which sits at my mothers house now is still very capable (12GB i7 2600k @ 5.1ghz, 1070 GTX) runs Win10 still, which has steadily becoming filled with crap I never asked for. I only use it for Office365 work now if I am staying at my mums because at my home I have moved to a MacMini with MacOS and a PS5 for games. Like my Mac - I want my daily driver to be MY daily driver. Windows for a while just does its own damn thing whereas MacOS just leaves me well alone.
Yesterday I decided to slap Fedora40 on a USB stick and try out a live install on my PC. I was saddened to see the end of Ubisoft and Epic's game launchers but I haven't played Windows games in over 1.5yrs so I'm past that.
After 10mins of use I was mostly convinced and installed that. I wanted more from the GNOME desktop though, so I switched to KDE Plasma via some entries in Terminal and was blown away by the customisation options. Overall I was up and running in an hour with the programs I needed, Firefox, Betterbird, VLC etc and the entire OS is fast as hell. I got Steam installed but didn't have the time to try some games.
My only annoyance is that there is no OneDrive or Office365 (I believe?) client though I can use a browser for accessing them. Overall I am seriously impressed - I won't use that PC that much but should I need to, at least I'll have a solid, reliable OS that just doesn't intrude on my work.
Been using Windows since the 3.0 days, and over the past years have been saddened with the mess it has become. My old PC gaming rig which sits at my mothers house now is still very capable (12GB i7 2600k @ 5.1ghz, 1070 GTX) runs Win10 still, which has steadily becoming filled with crap I never asked for. I only use it for Office365 work now if I am staying at my mums because at my home I have moved to a MacMini with MacOS and a PS5 for games. Like my Mac - I want my daily driver to be MY daily driver. Windows for a while just does its own damn thing whereas MacOS just leaves me well alone.
Yesterday I decided to slap Fedora40 on a USB stick and try out a live install on my PC. I was saddened to see the end of Ubisoft and Epic's game launchers but I haven't played Windows games in over 1.5yrs so I'm past that.
After 10mins of use I was mostly convinced and installed that. I wanted more from the GNOME desktop though, so I switched to KDE Plasma via some entries in Terminal and was blown away by the customisation options. Overall I was up and running in an hour with the programs I needed, Firefox, Betterbird, VLC etc and the entire OS is fast as hell. I got Steam installed but didn't have the time to try some games.
My only annoyance is that there is no OneDrive or Office365 (I believe?) client though I can use a browser for accessing them. Overall I am seriously impressed - I won't use that PC that much but should I need to, at least I'll have a solid, reliable OS that just doesn't intrude on my work.
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