For me, at least. Finally moved my desktop off Windows 10 and on to CachyOS. Things just… work. Finding applications to install via AUR is easy, gaming is great. The only thing I’m missing is Fusion360 but I didn’t use it too much to begin with. Happy to be Microsoft-free. Several friends have switched off of Windows as well which is great to see. I’ve really been enjoying Arch (btw) I have CachyOS on my laptop and also in a VM which is nice to have the same desktop experience on all my devices. Looking forward to the road ahead!

  • IratePirate@feddit.org
    2·
    9 hours ago

    Mint has worked well (although because it does seem to want gets updates every day).

    FTFY. It’s how you keep your machine secure.

    so I guess they are actually noticing the migration away from their OS

    Not really. It’s only for another year and then they’ll pull the plug (but they’ve now got you hooked on a Microsoft account). If things work for you on Linux: kill that Win10 partition for good and add it to your storage.

    • puntinoblue@lemmy.ml
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Thanks for the update fix! - I didn’t sign in to MS - as I only use it very occasionally - a program on an old usb drive only reliably works on Windows 10 (and not 11)

      • mpramann@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Have you tried running it through Wine? Bottles is a nice UI for Wine with sensible default settings. I got a lot of older Windows apps working decently well through that. And especially older not anymore fully supported Windows programms often run more reliable through Wine than through Windows’ own compatibility layers.