@@Lord-Sméagol It's first and foremost for data mining to make more money, but yes absolutely it will get into the hands of the government. I already knew they were spying, this just makes it blatant at this point.
I had to bump the like counter to 70. Windows Recall could also on some systems cause an additional hit on performance if it's going to take screenshots that frequently.
And only a couple years old too! Not even really old. Lightly used. My laptop with a 960m and an i7 in the 6000 series is really old. Gotta get them before the flippers do and artificially jack up the price. Can probably get something circa 2020 for a couple Hondos this year
Yes, I even heard Microsoft claims it now lets you install Windows 11 on unsupported devices and Microsoft lied. You still can't install it but using Windows 10 will payment to extend supports is recommended (Which it's a waste a money).
Well @@mattreaction, I'm glad you're able to install Windows 11 on an unsupported PC, did you use registry editor to bypass the verification of your system requirements?
Lol. With my laptop it didnt even last a single minute on windows 11. I turned it on saw the windows 11 logo pop up and immediate restarted it and booted into Fedora on my current computer. That was about 3 years ago now and im running EndeavourOS on it now. Its a Lenovo Thinkpad t480s and it runs pretty much all distros like a charm.
If I may ask which app? I've had to flst install office on popos which is a thing with play on Linux. It's always nice to learn about the sticking and pain points
@@Anyfantis0 wine doesn't always work. There are known troublesome apps. Though a VM should be a stopgap, while you figure how to stop using the troublesome app.
Windows 11 causes more problems that never end. It is the worst version of Windows ever. There is one simple solution to all of this. Get away from Windows 11 and switch to Linux. Problem solved.
Cool to see a comment from the legendary Andrea Borman! Hope you can do a review of the new XFCE 4.20 and Solus XFCE (still a Beta, but is fast, light and stable!) (Posted on Wed 18 Dec 2024 at 18:26 UTC)
Agreed. I have an old PC here that does not support Win 11. I installed Win 11 as a Win 10 / 11 dual boot system back when Win 11 fist came out. It worked fine until I upgraded to 24h2. It was a dog. Last weekend I restored my 23h2 image file and now all well again.
I stopped using Windows at home when support for Windows 7 ended but work still gave me a laptop with Windows 10 on it - which I just "endured" and only used for running a minimal set of work tools like Outlook and a few bespoke telephony apps. We were recently "upgraded" to Windows 11 which was just horrible - specifically the huge amount of screen real estate that is wasted in the default set up. In the end, I had to do something about it and ventured into "Control Panel" to change the settings as best as I could. Bearing in mind that I've not gone into Windows at this level since Windows 7 (which I already thought was a downgrade from XP where Microsoft peaked), I couldn't believe how unintuitive it was to find and change the settings I wanted. I got there after a lot of messing around but I then realised that I could raise the same complaint about Windows that many Windows users complain about when they encounter Linux - that it's unintuitive and difficult to use.
I am a fan of Linux Mint - I got it on an older i3 working fine, but not much used at present, just waiting to be able to make Windows plug-ins work - tried already for a month... If the efforts were spent 'more' on that, rather than the rest, a horde of people will move to Linux. I do not believe there will be much increase on Linux switching, I hope so... the majority of people and I have met many, barely can work out windows and only because is quite intuitive... every time I mentioned Linux, I saw strange faces... what? Hopefully it will happen, but as mentioned above - wine and similar application must be priority 'right now' ... I will have another go in a few months, using external drive on a more powerful laptop... got no problem with Linux itself, it is the £££$$$€€€ plugins for windows mine and many others problem...
Once youre familiar with linux might i recommend you switch to Fedora? Its a very well maintained distribution and is pretty polular but also requires a more deep understanding of linux. I myself started with Linux Mint 4 years ago and after a year or so I switched to fedora for 2 and a half years. It served me well but now im using Endeavour OS. Fedora though allows access to more recent software updates and typically is not anywhere near as far behind with the KDE plasma desktop environment which is one of the more popular DE's there are among the linux community. I highly recommend it if you ever get bored of Linux Mint or want to expand your knowledge of Linux. Just a friendly suggestion.
Rushing is definitely a bad idea. In my switching to Mint this year, I learned Audacity, GIMP, and Kdenlive on my WINDOWS machine over a few months. THEN, I went over to Linux Mint. Took a lot of the stress out.
FYI I'm using an older Photoshop on my Mint running Virtual Machine (with no internet allowed). This is a newer PC, but it runs like a charm. I only started learning editing a year ago, and yes, Kdenlive is more pleasant to use than Adobe Premiere. And it's FREE. Switching to Linux is VERY painless now.
@@Grogeous_Maximus there's something that mimics photoshop called photopea that runs in the browser and works pretty decently from a vid i saw. i don't have personal experience using it because i use krita but thought i'd mention it in case its helpful as another alternative
Unfortunately, these days, Linux can also be its own worst enemy, especially those that are militant woke, not to mention the organizations that are supposed to be investing into Linux continually make the linux kernel the least prioritized thing they financially support while putting the majority of the money into who knows what non-linux projects. Then there's another major linux organization that's basically going bankrupt, and various distros telling potential users of their distro that they don't want them because anyone not as far left as them is a litter 'Yahtzee' that should not be alive, and definitely shouldn't be using their Linux distro.
Still, that's a weak proposition. You want people flocking to your operating system based on what's good in that system, rather than something that is bad in another system.
@@LarixusSnydes that would be the case in an ideal world; realistically, the factor that'll cause the majority of people to switch to Linux is Microsoft inconveniencing them so much that switching to an entirely different OS is more convenient despite the inertia that's already there and the learning period for using a new OS combined.
@@mlpfimguy NVIDIA runs very well on Linux now, especially with them supporting OSS over the last few years. Dell has strong Linux support, and they even sell PC and Laptop offerings with Linux preinstalled. Mac use is a niche scenario, but there are projects that exist like Asahi. Not having full support on Mac isn't a fault or capability of Linux, however -it's Apple who forces a proprietary use-case for their hardware. Hopefully that can change in the future.
@@terminalvelocity4858 I'm just speaking from my own experience. I've previously had issues with NVIDIA GPUs (and I'm definitely not alone in that), and my Dell machines are the only ones that consistently struggle to run Linux properly. But even with those issues, Linux still has better hardware support than Windows 11 lmao
Yeah dunno where he got that idea I've literally never heard double down being used in any other way in the UK. It means the same as it does in the US and I assume all of the English speaking countries.
@@centy64 I suspect the UK person who commented maybe had a different idea of what doubling down means? Here in NZ it means the same as how it was meant in the video, and in fact the Oxford and Cambridge English dictionaries define it the same way.
I decided to switch back to Linux, after discovering that my laptop manufactured in 2021 can technically run Windows 11 but it runs it terribly and takes up most of the limited and non upgradable storage. I tried "upgrading" and found that immediately I had warning messages saying my storage was nearly used up. For some reason after installing GNUcash it said I only had 1.2GB left of 64GB. After many more stupid issues I decided to "downgrade" back to Win10 and when Microsoft pulled this end of life and having to pay for security updates thing I decided to ditch the O.S. entirely and return to Linux Mint. I've been using Linux on and off since the late 1990s and all I'll say is it's great to be back on Linux again.
Might have had the "old" windows 10 still on the drive...you have to "clean up" to remove the old windows entry...but you will not be able to go back if you do
Microsoft is not your friend, they will leave you hanging. It takes a couple weeks to a couple months to get used to Linux, then you just laugh when these things happen. Stop letting them screw with you.
Well, this will mean unsupported but perfectly workable business PC's are going to flood the secondhand market in a few years. This is good news for us Linux users!
There are so many still fully working laptops and desktops that are going to be trashed all because Microsoft is forcing their users to upgrade to Windows 11 by soon ending end of life support on Windows 10. It's not environmentally friendly to have so many devices being trashed into the landfill dumpsters. Windows 11 is still having lots of issues and in my personal opinion it still should be in beta testing phase.
I see no reason to complain about the situation - it means lots of cheap used hardware goes up for sale online that make perfectly good daily driver machines for Linux. It utterly amazes me that I can pick up a perfectly good and used 3rd or 4th generation Core i5 or i7 PC online for a lot less than the cost of the wife and I going out to dine in a restaurant for an evening.
No one who has Win10 "has to" upgrade to Win11. It's just they wont get security updates anymore. I personally plan on using Win10 until Steam no longer supports it. And that may be a good 10+ years off, if ever. Win11 has too many problems for anyone to be thinking about upgrading to it.
I was able to use Steam on Windows 7, until Oct 2024. The October update broke it. I believe Steam stated they ended Win 7 Support in 2022. I am still using Windows 7, & will absolutely not switch to Win 11!
Same as long as they are AMD Athlon II X3/4 DDR2 era, or better with SATA ports, SSD, and 8GB of DDR2 800Mhz RAM, d they can be made into useful machines once again with good lower resource using Linux distros like Solus Budgie, Mint DE, etc..
@@CommodoreFan64 A million thumbs up for your username. I was 13 in 1983 and worked all summer HARD to buy one. When enjoying a Sprite meant something other than a soft drink!
I have 2 perfectly good systems: Sandy Bridge 6-core i7-3930K & 12-core Ivy Bridge E5-2697-v2, each with 64 GB DDR3; They will be great for Linux, hosting Virtual Windows machines for any unavoidable 'Windows' things I will need to do. I have some programs that could benefit from AVX2 (AVX-512 even better), so I will be looking out for some unsupported kit going cheap in 2025 :)
It was this attitude from MS that caused me to decide to learn Linux. I am not an IT guy, nor am I young. However, I have learned Linux enough to resurrect my antique machines with lightweight MX Linux. I'm now about five years into my Linux education. Up until the point I changed MS Windows, taught me nothing about computers. Since then, the Linux community has taught me about computing.
The way out of all of this is to just install Linux and use that. I am glad I am not on Windows anymore. I loved Windows 7 but we can't use that anymore as it's end of life. So if I had chosen to stay on Windows I would have had to upgrade to Windows 10. Which I hated but I wouldn't have been able to install Windows 11. Because it's doesn't support 32 bit which is what my netbooks were. In the end I bough a new laptop and installed Linux Mint and I have been on Linux ever since. I think I made the right decision. Even if you have a new 64 bit supported computer Windows 11 is still horrible. I would never use it.
@@AndreaBormanI love Windows 7 as well. Linux cannot replicate the beauty of Aero Glass with blurred effect unfortunately, so I chose Mint-X in Cinnamon. I have CachyOS in my desktop PC.
@@graysonpeddie I would have expected an Aero Glass lookalike to have popped up by now, it's weird. So many people want it, me included! I hate the flat square era.
Hehe, I was trying Linux Mint (as dual-boot) while keeping my trusted Windows 7. Then the bloody windows failed to update -> reboot -> failed to update -> reboot -> etc. So I had been dropped to the deep end by MS. But to me it was not a problem, I'm an old-timer. I've had computers before Windows existed. And I have worked on a plethora of OS's , so meeting a friendly penguin was no problem at all! Thank you MassiveSoft for showing me the right way.
This "news" was something fishy from the very beginning because it came up when the MSDN windows 11 24H2 distributive images were *already* released, that means that even technically nothing was to be changed in the process of installation, so all the Microsoft limitations remain in tact. Microsoft's just declared that they are aware that people use the intentionally obfuscated method of installation of Windows 11 on older hardware. This was not backtracking, this was a warning: *"we know what you are doing and we'll find some way to make you pay for that, not right now though"* .
Indeed. I think the original commenter that attempted to correct him was possibly confusing the term 'double down' with 'double back', which commonly refers to what one does after making a U-turn and returning to their original point of departure.
For several years now when asked I have been installing Windows 11 on a number of ancient "eWaste" PCs, including some as old as 2007-2008 era. I typically use the Rufus installation method. They are solid and receiving monthly updates. There is a place for both. Many of my PCs are dual-boot. All of my servers are Linux.
One more option is use Windows 10 LTSC, i saw somewhere that key for ltsc costs $20 - $30 (supported until 2032) so its much cheaper than buying "extended support" for only a year.
I would recommend you make a full backup of the Microsoft fonts if you want to cooperatively files that use them. There is support for otf- and tt? font files on Linux. However, if you create a new document it's best if you use a libre font instead, since only then you won't be bogged down by the restrictive licensing of the Microsoft (and other non-open sourced ) fonts.
Have you asked yourself why there are such requirements in W11 (this is not a Windows security issue, it's a cryptography issue, because 20 years ago the computer icon was called My Computer, now This PC)...
I havent watched your videos in a while but i wanted to compliment both the quality of this video as well as the setup you have in your van. Very nice.
I've been running unsecure windows for more than 10 years, nothing bad ever happened, still have all my accounts, mails, bank accounts, everything is safe. Also never installed any anti-virus and never used VPN, it's all money schemes.
Unsupported, meaning PCs that didn't make them any money. It was never about security because many older PCs already met the requirements. They added the processor requirement because they don't make any money if you activate something already in your Bios but probably disabled. We've also seen them remove processors from the list that originally passed, so it was an obvious money grab. But, I have to thank them for their utter greed because without it, I wouldn't have made the switch to Linux. I also like the Idea that my updates don't work on a Russian roulette basis. You may be getting updates on unsupported hardware now, but sooner or later...
The first thing that will not "work" anymore on those supposed unsupported devices, is any drm media playback, because those companies will require hardware trusted computing to secure "their" media.
The biggest problem on switching to Linux, is for those like me that have spent quite an amount of money on Windows/Mac applications and plugins for use with audio... ie DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) I am a veteran Linux attempter since Ubuntu 12! I tried to use wine app and friends... nothing really works well. I am not a fan of Apple Macs and they are too expensive per same specs than PCs. There must be hundreds of thousands like me. Just HATE Microsoft now... I do not want any AI and all other poop and encryption forced in me. What the heck!
@@AncientGranules Your DAW ( including your expensive plugins ) might just work on Linux Wine. If not now, then maybe in the near future. I do understand that if they are tied to your livelihood waiting is not an option.
The best thing you can do as far as fonts go is to save your fonts to a usb so you don't lose all the microsoft fonts. The aptos font is in a weird place though.
I used mostly free applications, so moving to Ubuntu was easy back in January 2009. Today I prefer Debian. Neither operating system forces me to buy new hardware. I upgrade when I want to.
Thanks for clarifying "doubling down" USA vs UK. My main misunderstanding came from: "Microsoft Doubles Down on E-Waste" - my misunderstanding was that they were going to try and reduce it, not force more. Yeah, wishful thinking! I'm really happy with recent upgrades to Libre Office, it's even more compatible with MS Office and I can even open Excel Spreadsheets without issues (I'll check that out more over the Christmas holidays), and there were no issues with the reports I wrote using it either. When I asked I was told they just opened like Word Doc's. As always, really appreciate your informative videos. Thanks!
The businesses in America need to divorce themselves from the MS Office Productivity Suite. Once they switch to Open Source applications, then the switch to Linux is effortless. I am lucky, because my own business uses online web-based tools almost exclusively. Any other tools I use can be Open Source. With the Ubuntu One free membership, your OS will be supported by security updates for over 10 years. I won't have to involuntarily update my Kubuntu 22.04 until 2032. By that time, my machine will need to be replaced anyway. (Also consider that I installed a 2022 OS on a 2019 manufactured laptop, so the hardware requirements are also lighter than Windows.) I have two other laptops running the same OS that are 12 year old hardware. Fight E waste - switch to Linux. Zorin OS is very good for newbies.
keep up the good work! p.s. i was born and raised in the uk, spent the first 30 years of my life in the uk/ireland, and for 10 years now i've lived in the us, and as far as i know "double down" means the same either side of the atlantic. never heard of it meaning to back down before. maybe i'm wrong though! 🤷
I'm kind of a spectator here - I really don't care whether I could "upgrade" to Windows 11 or not. The question is more "Do I even WANT to?" I run one PC offline which has Windows 10, and it will STAY running Windows 10 offline. I have zero reasons to want to change to Windows 11, and lots of reasons not to want to. Linux isn't an option for this machine, unfortunately. However I have two other Windows 10 machines that ARE going to Linux.
What I did recently was, installed Bazzite onto the 1TB SSD in my computer, since I have a 2TB NVMe for Windows already, been messing around with it, and so far, not too shaby.
When the last update installed & started taking screenshots it was the final nail in the coffin for me now all my devices are linux and I'm not going back
I’ve refused to update from windows 10 for a longtime. I’m really looking at switching to Linux as my primary. Only thing I have a concern with is using Linux on a windows laptop. Can windows still track my data through the back door intel chip or does using Linux kinda mask my data so I can’t be tracked and data mined?
If you do a full wipe of your drive, and go all in on Linux, then there is no windows to worry about, except maybe a bootloader option being left behind on some laptops, and desktop motherboards (Linux can do the same thing), which is no big deal. The main thing you will need to worry about on Linux are some oddball WiFi/Bluetooth chipsets, and Nvidia graphics can be a problem on some distros not running the best as Nvidia has been hostile to the Linux world for a long time (look up the Linus Torvalds Nvidia middle finger meme), but that's very slowly changing, and hopefully it will get better. Good Luck. 🙂
Install Linux Mint OS, it will wipe Windows off completely, no more worries like that at all. ..Write down all the steps and follow, step by step and just do it.
If you turn it into a Linux/Windows dual boot machine, run Linux in an ext4 partition and Windows in an NT partition. Linux can read and write to NT file systems, but Windows cannot even read ext4 file systems. That should stop Microsoft from snooping in any work you do under Linux.
@@Milosz_Ostrow so basically boxing windows into a compartment. I still think the intel chip system can scrape data/telemetry off your system even with it partitioned am I wrong?
It just dawned on me why those very annoying "Upgrade to Windows 11" offers after every forced update reboot quit showing up. Not being forced to update could be looked at as a feature.
Thank you for this video, I'm a (nearly retired) sign writer and I ammpretty sure my sign software (Signlab) will not run on Linux, I will check out the forums. So keep my win10 PC offline will be my best choice. My laptop is windows so I will study your videos to try out Linux. I've always wanted to switch to match the privacy on my degoogled android devices (running GrapheneOS). I'm not clever, but if I can switch from full blown Apple fan to Graphene/android then I reckon it can be done with your tutorials. may the LORD bless you nfor the help you give. Gray in Tasmania
If you're a gamer, then Arch based Manjaro Gnome is a good option as Wayland runs well on AMD CPU/APU/GPU, and Intel IGPU, but does not roll too fast to risk a lot of breakage that can happen with vanilla Arch, Solus Budgie(their flashship DE) is good for an older system as it's still on X11(they are taking their time on Wayland), and their main software repo has a lot of good software in it. Those are my 2 goto distros for just getting stuff done, but a lot of people seem to like Linux Mint, but I'm personally not a fan of Ubuntu, or Ubuntu based distros for the direction they have been going for a few years now, but there's always Debian based Mint DE(Debian Edition), I'm also not a big fan of Cinnamon DE as it does not fit my workflow, but good luck in your Linux journey. 🙂
There's a lot of fun in distro hopping. I've run almost every one in Distrowatch's listings over the last four years. For rock-reliable uptime and the most software package coverage out there, use a Debian-based distro. Arch distros will be more performant, but require more hands-on at times and since they rolling-update they can break more often than Debian. Have fun with your journey!
So many content creators gave Windows users false hopes!! The only hope is to install Linux Mint OS, Zoren OS, (Tuxedo OS KDE) and be done with Windows.
I'm all for security so I dont get why there's not an addin card for older pc's with the latest tpm chip? I'm heck I can run many vm platforms that let me add a virtual tpm chip.
MS Windows 10 hit my gag limit, and that drove me to investigate GNU Linux. Settled on Mint / Cinnamon desktop and have zero regrets for doing so. There are ways to declutter MS Windows 10 and then deny that OS internet access such that 10 stays fast and useful.
I first heard about it on UA-camr Bryan Lunduke channel that gives hope of Microsoft at least looking at a compromise. Many have expensive software packages and need to stay with Windows for practical reasons. I'll wait and see.
I'd guess that the change is meant to address use cases like Vagrant boxes, which is a tool used to create test environments for development. Meeting the TPM and secure boot requirement is not easy on some hypervisors.
Would you consider doing a video on how one can get started developing apps for Linux? I'm a developer moving back to being a Linux user, and I'm thinking to get into building some Linux alternatives.
The American meaning of "doubling down" is from gambling. Someone makes a bet, then the odds change for the worse or they become aware that the odds are different than they thought for whatever reason, and rather than backing off, they double their bet. That is doubling down.
I have a windows 11 laptop lying around somewhere collecting dust. My desktop is Linux Mint. It's old and runs 6core xeon 3.6 32g ddr4 nvme. I only keep the laptop because it came with an Intel Optane nvme. Like a museum piece.
I remember the difficulty of upgrading my brand new at the time AMD 5950X system to Windows 11, shortly after Windows 11 came out. It took me days to figure out how to enable TPM2 - which for some reason ASUS has disabled by default in the BIOS 🤷♀️. Since then I’ve never had a need to run Windows, so it was a waste of time. It’s been entirely a Linux machine.
I have a PC that can run windows 11 and meets the requirements except I use win 10 and do not use secure boot one of the requirements. I know I can easily change this but I refuse. I have 40tb raid enclosures set to NTFS. Instead of using windows 11 I will pay$ to get a new raid enclosure with 80tb of storage set it to fat and transfer my files to the new system. Install linux then I will have a complete backup of my Movies n TV shows. About $1,200 to get away from windows. I have tested Linux mint to run Plex and Emby runs like a dream. Thanks for all the info you share!
@@what-about-bob Probably but windows wont read that for me to transfer old to new using the 1 PC I want to run ZFS but I would need 2 PC and do a slower network transfer of files. working with 2 21tb enclosures and will put both on a 5 bay 80tb ZFS. Thanks for this question bacause I now will make ZFS happen.
@@what-about-bob I actually need to rethink this whole thing because my enclosures are hardware raid they don't allow me to create a separate raid with ZFS unless I hooked four of these up together and ran them as a raid package on top of it it's Internal raid. Yeah, I'm gonna have to rethink this but I already have all the equipment I just need to get some drives now so this is Probably not going to happen on this round. I may rethink it if I need to expand beyond 80 terabytes. Right now I'm close to 40tb And I filled the 40tb in about five years.
@@back4more420 If your enclosures are hardware raid, just use linux. Linux can read NTFS fine. Install the distro of your choice, initialize your new raid and format it with BTRFS or whatever, and migrate your data off the NTFS.
I like being in control of MY OWN COMPUTER ! - I frequently swap boot drives to make images of my working system for backups. I'm sure TPM will just make that process more difficult ! What happens if you are using BitLocker and your TPM fails so you can't even boot to login to your M$ account (which I don't have or want anyway) to get your BitLocker keys ?!?!?!?! A business could have an annoyed employee who cracks open some machines and steals a pocket full of TPMs to hold the company to ransom!
I had a Thinkpad e585. The only "deficit" was a CPU that was one generation "too old" for Win 11. I used Rufus to update to Win 11 about 2 years ago. The e585 got full support and worked as hoped. I just got a Thinkpad x260 as a Linux machine. I installed Win 11, for kicks, a few weeks ago. No updates at all. Just a generic display driver. Full brightness all the time. Intentionally make the experience suck. I now have that x260 running Sparky Linux XFCE based on Debian Stable. Works a treat.
noob here, been trying to get a good linux box up and running, i do have a good understanding, still have alot to learn, however every time i boot from a usb onto anther machine, its either too slow, or dont work. what ive been trying to figure out, and my question is,,,,, could this be some sort of undetected malware? possibly related to certificates? and yea windows 11s last update ruined my home subwoofer, and im not the only one that had speaker issues this past update.
What we're experiencing is Microsoft's usual FUD. They want to slow down migrations to Linux. I'll just say it's not stopping me. Windows 10 PCs not upgradable to Windows 11 will be switched to Linux well before the support deadline.
2025-Oct-14 : end of support for Windows 10 Home & Pro. 2027-Jan-12 : end of support for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC. [1 year and 3 months beyond Home & Pro] 2032-Jan-13 : end of support for Windows 10 Enterprise iot LTSC. [6 years and 3 months beyond Home & Pro]
I spent the whole weekend wrestling with Windows after the 24h2 update on Friday. Nothing seemed to work! First, I had to fix the EFI partition. Tried uninstalling the updates from the recovery screen-no dice. Falling back to a previous restore point? Nope. Even tried fixing corrupted files with sfc /scannow and doing disk checks. Finally got into safe mode, which felt promising since I couldn't even do that before. Thought I'd be able to uninstall the faulty update from there, but no luck. Deleted all the downloaded files from the hidden update folder-didn't work. Tried upgrading using an ISO, but you can't do that in safe mode. Even uninstalled most of the programs and drivers that might be causing issues-still no go. So I ended up spending the rest of the weekend backing up all my data and config files just to reinstall Windows 11 from scratch and set up my computer the way I need it for work. The kicker? My job insists we use Windows!
Yes, I believe you can easily make a Ventoy thumb drive in Windows. I recommend noobs put MInt, Zorin and Pop OS live ISOs on one (download directly to it) and try each. They will probably go with Zorin cuz it's not ugly.
While I don't work proffesionally in this myself, I've seen many, MANY comments over the videos that DO use Photoshop professionally and every single time when GIMP is mentioned, they tell that it's not even close, that it's an insult, that whomever says that absolutely has no idea about what Photoshop does and is used. One one the things I vaguely remember that was a deal-breaker for them was something related to color spaces. I don't know exactly why, but apparently GIMP 2 had 0 support for what they needed. Which makes me very happy to see that GIMP 3 has some colorspace improvements. Maybe this will eventually no longer be an issue. One can only dream.
Some of the color spaces use to be missing but I believe even before Gimp 3 came out they had added the most common ones. As he said 90% of everything most people need is available directly in both and there are workarounds for the other 5-9%. Most of the people I've seen post from or talked to that said Gimp didn't do something they wanted when you really pinned them down on it turns out to be they just wanted it to have exactly the same control structure because they are unwilling to learn something new or change to default shortcut keys so it matches better. Basically they have the "I'm an ARTIST" and have an underlying hate for any tech.🙄
@@michaelcummings7246 *No.* GIMP can't even rescale images properly. Some greedy academic broke the scalers on purpose over a decade ago, and they've been broken ever since. Anything scaled up or down in GIMP loses tons of detail, becoming blurry _and_ jagged _at the same time,_ while also afflicted with severe ringing artifacts. I'm not some luddite who is "unwilling to learn". I'm not an artist, so I can't justify the cost of Photoshop. I exclusively use GIMP for image editing, and have done so for the past two decades, but I always have to use ImageMagick whenever I want to scale something, which I do, from the terminal, or sometimes using shell scripts of my own creation. Is that _willing to learn_ enough for you? As long as this is the benchmark for quality in the Linux world, and Linux fanboys like you continue pretending it's okay, the Year of the Linux Desktop shall never arrive. Here's some more context: Back in 2012, "an imaging researcher making his career in academia" (google that phrase if you want to learn more) named Nicolas Robidoux decided to completely remove GIMP's old Lanczos filter (instead of leaving "legacy" scaling modes which are sometimes desirable just like the "legacy" tools and "legacy" layer blending modes), and make new filters from scratch. However, he wanted to be paid thousands of dollars to do so. When the money didn't spontaneously materialize for him out of the volunteer open source community (because duh), he abruptly quit working on it and left GIMP's scaling filters in a broken state. For the _past 12 years._ Also, I invite you to draw in GIMP with a 1 pixel paintbrush. Watch how it waggles back and forth between two solid pixels and one solid pixel. It's not even just not supersampled, it's literally uglier than MS Paint. To do any brush drawing in GIMP, I actually have to scale up the image to 4x resolution, draw at that gargantuan higher resolution, and then scale it back down. Oh but wait, that's right, the GIMP scalers suck! I've written my own supersampling code as an icing feature in UIs where it wasn't even needed, and GIMP can't figure it out? Painting was better, albeit still not great, in GIMP 2.8, which is also the last version that can rescale images decently. Alas, as is the case with Inkscape, which gets slower and glitchier with every release, Linux desktop software forever advances backwards.
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Users who didn't want to leave windows 10 are not going to switch to Linux. These people's relationship with technology is one where they refuse to learn something new--they're not going to suddenly change that and learn Linux. Yes, they'll complain about Microsoft and Windows very loudly, but they'll stay.
Windows 11: Just buy a new PC. Also all apps updated to Windows 11's SSE 4.2 requirements will no longer run on your 16 year old Core 2 with SSE 4.1 support, even with Windows 10. (During a cost of EVERYTHING Crisis?!?) Linux: Install for free on your Core 2 and enjoy your applications!
Linux is an excellent system and much more secure than windows by a long shot. That being said... many users are given bad advice on setting a Linux system up.. like using a single partition instead of multiple. I personally am a Debian user since 2000. Also... those who switch should test different distros to find one that they prefer instead of the one size fits all Ubuntu option lol. Those who are new to Linux... don't be discouraged because you are not used to the system... once you learn the ins and outs... you will wonder why you haven't switched long ago. Lol
I believe the force of these requirements, at least on paper, is based on a closed tamper-free system where apps can be controlled much akin to on iPhones and the like. Basically it will not longer cease to be *your* PC but under the de facto control of Microsoft especially for their partners. For DRM-purposes.
so just a question to ponder: what do they mean by in-secure exactly??? they are using a boogeyman to scare you! IMO here is a highly probable meaning: the "features" such as Recall, Telemetry, etc... will not transmit your data SECURELY to MS unless you have a "compliant" system.
I now have linux mint on a laptop and desktop. Giving my wife my windows 11 laptop. The only problem I am having is how do you change the way Thunderbird brings your your email properly. All email reads from the bottom up and not the other way like normal. Can't find anything in the settings.
In terms of those people with a make or break deal with Photoshop. Adobe does have a web-app version of Photoshop. Although it doesn't have all the bells and whistles (yet, they are being worked on) that the fully fledged desktop application does, it still gets the job done with what it offers.
Recall is another reason to switch to Linux. Who wants their OS to take screenshots every five seconds!?
I'm sure it's one of the main reasons for many people.
This is what prompted me to switch. I draw the line here.
Who wants it? The NSA!!!
@@Lord-Sméagol It's first and foremost for data mining to make more money, but yes absolutely it will get into the hands of the government. I already knew they were spying, this just makes it blatant at this point.
I had to bump the like counter to 70. Windows Recall could also on some systems cause an additional hit on performance if it's going to take screenshots that frequently.
One good thing to come from this is that there are going to be lots of really good second hand computers for sale.
Rubbing my hands together and twirling my evil villain mustache in anticipation! So many projects, so little time!
And only a couple years old too!
Not even really old. Lightly used. My laptop with a 960m and an i7 in the 6000 series is really old.
Gotta get them before the flippers do and artificially jack up the price. Can probably get something circa 2020 for a couple Hondos this year
Mid tier*
"windows doesn't allow you to install windows...." GOOD NEWS!!!
That's very close to a truly safe operating system.
Yes, I even heard Microsoft claims it now lets you install Windows 11 on unsupported devices and Microsoft lied.
You still can't install it but using Windows 10 will payment to extend supports is recommended (Which it's a waste a money).
@@Romactu Yes Microsoft lied! I already installed Windows 11 on unsupported PC and can get updates too. So, no issue at all.
Well @@mattreaction,
I'm glad you're able to install Windows 11 on an unsupported PC, did you use registry editor to bypass the verification of your system requirements?
@ yes and my pc is 6 years old and already have tpm 2.0
I recently bought a new laptop that came with Win 11. I played around with it for a month and wiped it out with Linux Mint.
I did the same thing LOL Windows 11 is total dog shiet. Adds in the mail App, in the start menu, popups, banners, yeah not any good.
Lol. With my laptop it didnt even last a single minute on windows 11. I turned it on saw the windows 11 logo pop up and immediate restarted it and booted into Fedora on my current computer. That was about 3 years ago now and im running EndeavourOS on it now. Its a Lenovo Thinkpad t480s and it runs pretty much all distros like a charm.
I needed Windows for one troublesome app, so I installed Linux and installed Windows in a container on my Linux desktop.
Modern problems require modern solutions.
If I may ask which app? I've had to flst install office on popos which is a thing with play on Linux. It's always nice to learn about the sticking and pain points
You'll find another app or a way around it eventually and then you won't need windows 😊
you could also use wine to avoid VM's
@@Anyfantis0 wine doesn't always work. There are known troublesome apps.
Though a VM should be a stopgap, while you figure how to stop using the troublesome app.
Windows has had a stranglehold on the throats of users for a very long time now. So glad I no longer use it.
Windows 11 causes more problems that never end. It is the worst version of Windows ever. There is one simple solution to all of this. Get away from Windows 11 and switch to Linux. Problem solved.
Cool to see a comment from the legendary Andrea Borman!
Hope you can do a review of the new XFCE 4.20 and Solus XFCE (still a Beta, but is fast, light and stable!)
(Posted on Wed 18 Dec 2024 at 18:26 UTC)
Linux Mint is Amazing,and Big Linux also.
Agreed. I have an old PC here that does not support Win 11. I installed Win 11 as a Win 10 / 11 dual boot system back when Win 11 fist came out. It worked fine until I upgraded to 24h2. It was a dog. Last weekend I restored my 23h2 image file and now all well again.
I stopped using Windows at home when support for Windows 7 ended but work still gave me a laptop with Windows 10 on it - which I just "endured" and only used for running a minimal set of work tools like Outlook and a few bespoke telephony apps.
We were recently "upgraded" to Windows 11 which was just horrible - specifically the huge amount of screen real estate that is wasted in the default set up. In the end, I had to do something about it and ventured into "Control Panel" to change the settings as best as I could.
Bearing in mind that I've not gone into Windows at this level since Windows 7 (which I already thought was a downgrade from XP where Microsoft peaked), I couldn't believe how unintuitive it was to find and change the settings I wanted.
I got there after a lot of messing around but I then realised that I could raise the same complaint about Windows that many Windows users complain about when they encounter Linux - that it's unintuitive and difficult to use.
Many people are now doing everything on their cellphones, with fewer people owning desktop or laptop computers.
Linux Mint on both my machines. Never going back.
I am a fan of Linux Mint - I got it on an older i3 working fine, but not much used at present, just waiting to be able to make Windows plug-ins work - tried already for a month... If the efforts were spent 'more' on that, rather than the rest, a horde of people will move to Linux. I do not believe there will be much increase on Linux switching, I hope so... the majority of people and I have met many, barely can work out windows and only because is quite intuitive... every time I mentioned Linux, I saw strange faces... what? Hopefully it will happen, but as mentioned above - wine and similar application must be priority 'right now' ...
I will have another go in a few months, using external drive on a more powerful laptop... got no problem with Linux itself, it is the £££$$$€€€ plugins for windows mine and many others problem...
I like your badge, it's very pretty.
Once youre familiar with linux might i recommend you switch to Fedora? Its a very well maintained distribution and is pretty polular but also requires a more deep understanding of linux. I myself started with Linux Mint 4 years ago and after a year or so I switched to fedora for 2 and a half years. It served me well but now im using Endeavour OS. Fedora though allows access to more recent software updates and typically is not anywhere near as far behind with the KDE plasma desktop environment which is one of the more popular DE's there are among the linux community. I highly recommend it if you ever get bored of Linux Mint or want to expand your knowledge of Linux. Just a friendly suggestion.
Rushing is definitely a bad idea. In my switching to Mint this year, I learned Audacity, GIMP, and Kdenlive on my WINDOWS machine over a few months. THEN, I went over to Linux Mint. Took a lot of the stress out.
U had the Audacity to switch over to Linux?
@@Michael-it6gb Ha ha! =)
Same. Moved over to apps that worked in both OSes, then made the jump. Switching to Linux also solved my frame loss problem when streaming.
FYI I'm using an older Photoshop on my Mint running Virtual Machine (with no internet allowed).
This is a newer PC, but it runs like a charm. I only started learning editing a year ago, and yes, Kdenlive
is more pleasant to use than Adobe Premiere. And it's FREE. Switching to Linux is VERY painless now.
@@Grogeous_Maximus there's something that mimics photoshop called photopea that runs in the browser and works pretty decently from a vid i saw.
i don't have personal experience using it because i use krita but thought i'd mention it in case its helpful as another alternative
Nothing more makes people flee to Linux side than MS themselves
Unfortunately, these days, Linux can also be its own worst enemy, especially those that are militant woke, not to mention the organizations that are supposed to be investing into Linux continually make the linux kernel the least prioritized thing they financially support while putting the majority of the money into who knows what non-linux projects. Then there's another major linux organization that's basically going bankrupt, and various distros telling potential users of their distro that they don't want them because anyone not as far left as them is a litter 'Yahtzee' that should not be alive, and definitely shouldn't be using their Linux distro.
Still, that's a weak proposition. You want people flocking to your operating system based on what's good in that system, rather than something that is bad in another system.
Too right and with More people using android (Linux) smartphones every day it's only a matter of time
@@Look_What_You_Did iz yu spik london?
@@LarixusSnydes that would be the case in an ideal world; realistically, the factor that'll cause the majority of people to switch to Linux is Microsoft inconveniencing
them so much that switching to an entirely different OS is more convenient despite the inertia that's already there and the learning period for using a new OS combined.
Linux has never looked so good for all hardware types 🐧
Unless you have Nvidia graphics drivers, or DELL hardware, or a mac system.
@@mlpfimguy NVIDIA runs very well on Linux now, especially with them supporting OSS over the last few years. Dell has strong Linux support, and they even sell PC and Laptop offerings with Linux preinstalled. Mac use is a niche scenario, but there are projects that exist like Asahi. Not having full support on Mac isn't a fault or capability of Linux, however -it's Apple who forces a proprietary use-case for their hardware. Hopefully that can change in the future.
@@mlpfimguy I have a Dell laptop and the only thing that does not work is the fingerprint reader. The rest works perfectly.
@@terminalvelocity4858 I'm just speaking from my own experience. I've previously had issues with NVIDIA GPUs (and I'm definitely not alone in that), and my Dell machines are the only ones that consistently struggle to run Linux properly. But even with those issues, Linux still has better hardware support than Windows 11 lmao
@@LarixusSnydes have you tried setting up libfprint?
I switched to Fedora 41 and felt at home.
It’s a pretty nice sweet spot between Ubuntu and Arch, isn’t it?
@@SirChristoferus It really is. Having relatively up-to-date packages while maintaining stability.
I picked Nobara instead since it seemed easier to use lol...
@@elechain2441 it is a nice distro. It’s Fedora plus the extras you would expect.
Arcolinux,Geckolinux and Fedora btw, 3 good Distros.
Doubling down to me means the same as your interpretation. That is, to be even more determined to stick to the script and stay on course.
Yeah dunno where he got that idea I've literally never heard double down being used in any other way in the UK. It means the same as it does in the US and I assume all of the English speaking countries.
@@centy64 I suspect the UK person who commented maybe had a different idea of what doubling down means? Here in NZ it means the same as how it was meant in the video, and in fact the Oxford and Cambridge English dictionaries define it the same way.
@@stefanpark1788 It's really baffling where that person got that idea then because that feels like a lost in translation thing.
I decided to switch back to Linux, after discovering that my laptop manufactured in 2021 can technically run Windows 11 but it runs it terribly and takes up most of the limited and non upgradable storage. I tried "upgrading" and found that immediately I had warning messages saying my storage was nearly used up. For some reason after installing GNUcash it said I only had 1.2GB left of 64GB. After many more stupid issues I decided to "downgrade" back to Win10 and when Microsoft pulled this end of life and having to pay for security updates thing I decided to ditch the O.S. entirely and return to Linux Mint. I've been using Linux on and off since the late 1990s and all I'll say is it's great to be back on Linux again.
Windows Recall is active in the background, a giant chunk of resources are being dedicated to it, I just assume that's what it is.
use Arch or QubesOS
Might have had the "old" windows 10 still on the drive...you have to "clean up" to remove the old windows entry...but you will not be able to go back if you do
Let me guess Walmart computer with 64gb of storage, that can't run a bloated Windows 11.
Bruh why did you get 64gb trashtop in the first
Microsoft is not your friend, they will leave you hanging. It takes a couple weeks to a couple months to get used to Linux, then you just laugh when these things happen. Stop letting them screw with you.
"reliable" and "high quality" doesn't apply to Windows.
Well, this will mean unsupported but perfectly workable business PC's are going to flood the secondhand market in a few years. This is good news for us Linux users!
There are so many still fully working laptops and desktops that are going to be trashed all because Microsoft is forcing their users to upgrade to Windows 11 by soon ending end of life support on Windows 10. It's not environmentally friendly to have so many devices being trashed into the landfill dumpsters. Windows 11 is still having lots of issues and in my personal opinion it still should be in beta testing phase.
Give it up bro, just install Linux Mint and be done with that garbage. Windows is for Grandmas and Grandpas, out of style
I see no reason to complain about the situation - it means lots of cheap used hardware goes up for sale online that make perfectly good daily driver machines for Linux.
It utterly amazes me that I can pick up a perfectly good and used 3rd or 4th generation Core i5 or i7 PC online for a lot less than the cost of the wife and I going out to dine in a restaurant for an evening.
All part of the plan...
Windows un-verified itself last update and did some other creepy things.
creepy is standard MO
Windows used to be an operating system.... Now, it's an abomination. Linux is the way
No one who has Win10 "has to" upgrade to Win11. It's just they wont get security updates anymore.
I personally plan on using Win10 until Steam no longer supports it. And that may be a good 10+ years off, if ever. Win11 has too many problems for anyone to be thinking about upgrading to it.
Security updates means it's a insecure OS just like many people stop using windows 7 after Microsoft stopped supporting it.
I was able to use Steam on Windows 7, until Oct 2024. The October update broke it. I believe Steam stated they ended Win 7 Support in 2022. I am still using Windows 7, & will absolutely not switch to Win 11!
I game on steam in LMDE with a sempron 20gb of dimms a 1070 nvidia. from sins of a solar empire to the first descendant it runs fine.
That's why I switched to Linux. Windows should have stopped at 7
Throw those old PCs my way for Linux.
Same as long as they are AMD Athlon II X3/4 DDR2 era, or better with SATA ports, SSD, and 8GB of DDR2 800Mhz RAM, d they can be made into useful machines once again with good lower resource using Linux distros like Solus Budgie, Mint DE, etc..
@@CommodoreFan64 A million thumbs up for your username. I was 13 in 1983 and worked all summer HARD to buy one. When enjoying a Sprite meant something other than a soft drink!
I have 2 perfectly good systems: Sandy Bridge 6-core i7-3930K & 12-core Ivy Bridge E5-2697-v2, each with 64 GB DDR3; They will be great for Linux, hosting Virtual Windows machines for any unavoidable 'Windows' things I will need to do.
I have some programs that could benefit from AVX2 (AVX-512 even better), so I will be looking out for some unsupported kit going cheap in 2025 :)
It was this attitude from MS that caused me to decide to learn Linux.
I am not an IT guy, nor am I young. However, I have learned Linux enough to resurrect my antique machines with lightweight MX Linux. I'm now about five years into my Linux education. Up until the point I changed MS Windows, taught me nothing about computers. Since then, the Linux community has taught me about computing.
The way out of all of this is to just install Linux and use that. I am glad I am not on Windows anymore. I loved Windows 7 but we can't use that anymore as it's end of life. So if I had chosen to stay on Windows I would have had to upgrade to Windows 10. Which I hated but I wouldn't have been able to install Windows 11. Because it's doesn't support 32 bit which is what my netbooks were. In the end I bough a new laptop and installed Linux Mint and I have been on Linux ever since. I think I made the right decision. Even if you have a new 64 bit supported computer Windows 11 is still horrible. I would never use it.
@@AndreaBormanI love Windows 7 as well. Linux cannot replicate the beauty of Aero Glass with blurred effect unfortunately, so I chose Mint-X in Cinnamon. I have CachyOS in my desktop PC.
@@graysonpeddie I would have expected an Aero Glass lookalike to have popped up by now, it's weird. So many people want it, me included! I hate the flat square era.
@@MadsterV I'm pretty much the same with disliking the flat UI design.
Even if I manage to install W11 on unsupported hardware I wouldn't trust that security updates stay up to date.
Hehe, I was trying Linux Mint (as dual-boot) while keeping my trusted Windows 7. Then the bloody windows failed to update -> reboot -> failed to update -> reboot -> etc. So I had been dropped to the deep end by MS. But to me it was not a problem, I'm an old-timer. I've had computers before Windows existed. And I have worked on a plethora of OS's , so meeting a friendly penguin was no problem at all! Thank you MassiveSoft for showing me the right way.
Doubling down doesn't mean backtrack in the UK. It means exactly what you said.
This "news" was something fishy from the very beginning because it came up when the MSDN windows 11 24H2 distributive images were *already* released, that means that even technically nothing was to be changed in the process of installation, so all the Microsoft limitations remain in tact. Microsoft's just declared that they are aware that people use the intentionally obfuscated method of installation of Windows 11 on older hardware. This was not backtracking, this was a warning: *"we know what you are doing and we'll find some way to make you pay for that, not right now though"* .
Term Double Down in UK means the same as your description. To backtrack is to make a U turn
Indeed. I think the original commenter that attempted to correct him was possibly confusing the term 'double down' with 'double back', which commonly refers to what one does after making a U-turn and returning to their original point of departure.
For several years now when asked I have been installing Windows 11 on a number of ancient "eWaste" PCs, including some as old as 2007-2008 era. I typically use the Rufus installation method. They are solid and receiving monthly updates.
There is a place for both. Many of my PCs are dual-boot. All of my servers are Linux.
Computer industry and MS found golden formula with Y2K hardware upgrade, so much new computers sold in 1999. So they repeat it every 5 years.
They're really scared about when October rolls around and millions get that Linux Mint/Pop OS/Zorin memory stick out of the Drawer.
a bootable stick to try it out is a good idea, I forgot those existed
One more option is use Windows 10 LTSC, i saw somewhere that key for ltsc costs $20 - $30 (supported until 2032) so its much cheaper than buying "extended support" for only a year.
Thats lame bro, won't work well with Apps, thats good for terminals. Just install linux and bring yourself up to date on computing.
@@HOBBS-4XDDD
Where can I buy a windows 10 ltsc key? Need it to run turbotax.
Edit: never mind. Turbotax may require win 11 also.
@@joeshmoe7899 you can use Turbo tax online. That way you can use any computer even Linux.
You don't have to pay for it. Shouldn't,in fact.
Linux, High Seas, and virtual machines for thee.
I would recommend you make a full backup of the Microsoft fonts if you want to cooperatively files that use them. There is support for otf- and tt? font files on Linux. However, if you create a new document it's best if you use a libre font instead, since only then you won't be bogged down by the restrictive licensing of the Microsoft (and other non-open sourced ) fonts.
Have you asked yourself why there are such requirements in W11 (this is not a Windows security issue, it's a cryptography issue, because 20 years ago the computer icon was called My Computer, now This PC)...
Our Computer
I havent watched your videos in a while but i wanted to compliment both the quality of this video as well as the setup you have in your van. Very nice.
Glad you stopped by again!
I've been running unsecure windows for more than 10 years, nothing bad ever happened, still have all my accounts, mails, bank accounts, everything is safe.
Also never installed any anti-virus and never used VPN, it's all money schemes.
Unsupported, meaning PCs that didn't make them any money. It was never about security because many older PCs already met the requirements. They added the processor requirement because they don't make any money if you activate something already in your Bios but probably disabled. We've also seen them remove processors from the list that originally passed, so it was an obvious money grab. But, I have to thank them for their utter greed because without it, I wouldn't have made the switch to Linux. I also like the Idea that my updates don't work on a Russian roulette basis. You may be getting updates on unsupported hardware now, but sooner or later...
The first thing that will not "work" anymore on those supposed unsupported devices, is any drm media playback, because those companies will require hardware trusted computing to secure "their" media.
The biggest problem on switching to Linux, is for those like me that have spent quite an amount of money on Windows/Mac applications and plugins for use with audio... ie DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)
I am a veteran Linux attempter since Ubuntu 12!
I tried to use wine app and friends... nothing really works well.
I am not a fan of Apple Macs and they are too expensive per same specs than PCs.
There must be hundreds of thousands like me.
Just HATE Microsoft now...
I do not want any AI and all other poop and encryption forced in me.
What the heck!
@@AncientGranules Your DAW ( including your expensive plugins ) might just work on Linux Wine. If not now, then maybe in the near future. I do understand that if they are tied to your livelihood waiting is not an option.
The best thing you can do as far as fonts go is to save your fonts to a usb so you don't lose all the microsoft fonts. The aptos font is in a weird place though.
I used mostly free applications, so moving to Ubuntu was easy back in January 2009. Today I prefer Debian. Neither operating system forces me to buy new hardware. I upgrade when I want to.
Thanks for clarifying "doubling down" USA vs UK. My main misunderstanding came from: "Microsoft Doubles Down on E-Waste" - my misunderstanding was that they were going to try and reduce it, not force more. Yeah, wishful thinking! I'm really happy with recent upgrades to Libre Office, it's even more compatible with MS Office and I can even open Excel Spreadsheets without issues (I'll check that out more over the Christmas holidays), and there were no issues with the reports I wrote using it either. When I asked I was told they just opened like Word Doc's. As always, really appreciate your informative videos. Thanks!
Try now in the different ways you suggested are the best way before one is in a panic. Great advice.
The businesses in America need to divorce themselves from the MS Office Productivity Suite. Once they switch to Open Source applications, then the switch to Linux is effortless.
I am lucky, because my own business uses online web-based tools almost exclusively. Any other tools I use can be Open Source. With the Ubuntu One free membership, your OS will be supported by security updates for over 10 years. I won't have to involuntarily update my Kubuntu 22.04 until 2032. By that time, my machine will need to be replaced anyway.
(Also consider that I installed a 2022 OS on a 2019 manufactured laptop, so the hardware requirements are also lighter than Windows.)
I have two other laptops running the same OS that are 12 year old hardware.
Fight E waste - switch to Linux. Zorin OS is very good for newbies.
keep up the good work!
p.s. i was born and raised in the uk, spent the first 30 years of my life in the uk/ireland, and for 10 years now i've lived in the us, and as far as i know "double down" means the same either side of the atlantic. never heard of it meaning to back down before. maybe i'm wrong though! 🤷
from the UK myself and I've never heard of it meaning back down either lol
I'm kind of a spectator here - I really don't care whether I could "upgrade" to Windows 11 or not. The question is more "Do I even WANT to?" I run one PC offline which has Windows 10, and it will STAY running Windows 10 offline. I have zero reasons to want to change to Windows 11, and lots of reasons not to want to. Linux isn't an option for this machine, unfortunately. However I have two other Windows 10 machines that ARE going to Linux.
What I did recently was, installed Bazzite onto the 1TB SSD in my computer, since I have a 2TB NVMe for Windows already, been messing around with it, and so far, not too shaby.
If I didn't run CachyOs, I'd run Bazzite
what you stated at 1:50 min mark all you have to do is update your bios on your motherboard and that massage willl go away period
When the last update installed & started taking screenshots it was the final nail in the coffin for me now all my devices are linux and I'm not going back
If you install 24h2 with rufus, you have installed 11 with unsupported harsware. Issue will be updates later
And that is why I stick to 23h2 lol
Doubling down means the same thing here in the UK as you said for over the other side of the pond 🙂
I’ve refused to update from windows 10 for a longtime. I’m really looking at switching to Linux as my primary. Only thing I have a concern with is using Linux on a windows laptop. Can windows still track my data through the back door intel chip or does using Linux kinda mask my data so I can’t be tracked and data mined?
If you do a full wipe of your drive, and go all in on Linux, then there is no windows to worry about, except maybe a bootloader option being left behind on some laptops, and desktop motherboards (Linux can do the same thing), which is no big deal. The main thing you will need to worry about on Linux are some oddball WiFi/Bluetooth chipsets, and Nvidia graphics can be a problem on some distros not running the best as Nvidia has been hostile to the Linux world for a long time (look up the Linus Torvalds Nvidia middle finger meme), but that's very slowly changing, and hopefully it will get better. Good Luck. 🙂
Install Linux Mint OS, it will wipe Windows off completely, no more worries like that at all. ..Write down all the steps and follow, step by step and just do it.
If you turn it into a Linux/Windows dual boot machine, run Linux in an ext4 partition and Windows in an NT partition. Linux can read and write to NT file systems, but Windows cannot even read ext4 file systems. That should stop Microsoft from snooping in any work you do under Linux.
Thanks everyone for the replies that helps a lot!
@@Milosz_Ostrow so basically boxing windows into a compartment. I still think the intel chip system can scrape data/telemetry off your system even with it partitioned am I wrong?
It just dawned on me why those very annoying "Upgrade to Windows 11" offers after every forced update reboot quit showing up. Not being forced to update could be looked at as a feature.
Thank you for this video, I'm a (nearly retired) sign writer and I ammpretty sure my sign software (Signlab) will not run on Linux, I will check out the forums. So keep my win10 PC offline will be my best choice. My laptop is windows so I will study your videos to try out Linux. I've always wanted to switch to match the privacy on my degoogled android devices (running GrapheneOS).
I'm not clever, but if I can switch from full blown Apple fan to Graphene/android then I reckon it can be done with your tutorials.
may the LORD bless you nfor the help you give.
Gray in Tasmania
One of my computers was being left behind, so i am currently bouncing between distros to settle on a replacement.
If you're a gamer, then Arch based Manjaro Gnome is a good option as Wayland runs well on AMD CPU/APU/GPU, and Intel IGPU, but does not roll too fast to risk a lot of breakage that can happen with vanilla Arch, Solus Budgie(their flashship DE) is good for an older system as it's still on X11(they are taking their time on Wayland), and their main software repo has a lot of good software in it. Those are my 2 goto distros for just getting stuff done, but a lot of people seem to like Linux Mint, but I'm personally not a fan of Ubuntu, or Ubuntu based distros for the direction they have been going for a few years now, but there's always Debian based Mint DE(Debian Edition), I'm also not a big fan of Cinnamon DE as it does not fit my workflow, but good luck in your Linux journey. 🙂
There's a lot of fun in distro hopping. I've run almost every one in Distrowatch's listings over the last four years. For rock-reliable uptime and the most software package coverage out there, use a Debian-based distro. Arch distros will be more performant, but require more hands-on at times and since they rolling-update they can break more often than Debian. Have fun with your journey!
So many content creators gave Windows users false hopes!! The only hope is to install Linux Mint OS, Zoren OS, (Tuxedo OS KDE) and be done with Windows.
I'm all for security so I dont get why there's not an addin card for older pc's with the latest tpm chip? I'm heck I can run many vm platforms that let me add a virtual tpm chip.
MS Windows 10 hit my gag limit, and that drove me to investigate GNU Linux. Settled on Mint / Cinnamon desktop and have zero regrets for doing so. There are ways to declutter MS Windows 10 and then deny that OS internet access such that 10 stays fast and useful.
Thanks for mentioning gaming, Tom. Bazzite is my Linux gaming, retro emulator and desktop.
I first heard about it on UA-camr Bryan Lunduke channel that gives hope of Microsoft at least looking at a compromise.
Many have expensive software packages and need to stay with Windows for practical reasons.
I'll wait and see.
I'd guess that the change is meant to address use cases like Vagrant boxes, which is a tool used to create test environments for development. Meeting the TPM and secure boot requirement is not easy on some hypervisors.
Would you consider doing a video on how one can get started developing apps for Linux? I'm a developer moving back to being a Linux user, and I'm thinking to get into building some Linux alternatives.
@Switched what distro are you using?
Apache Open Office is just a very old , unmaintained , version of Libre Office
Libre Office was forked from Open Office
The American meaning of "doubling down" is from gambling. Someone makes a bet, then the odds change for the worse or they become aware that the odds are different than they thought for whatever reason, and rather than backing off, they double their bet. That is doubling down.
I have a windows 11 laptop lying around somewhere collecting dust. My desktop is Linux Mint. It's old and runs 6core xeon 3.6 32g ddr4 nvme. I only keep the laptop because it came with an Intel Optane nvme. Like a museum piece.
I remember the difficulty of upgrading my brand new at the time AMD 5950X system to Windows 11, shortly after Windows 11 came out. It took me days to figure out how to enable TPM2 - which for some reason ASUS has disabled by default in the BIOS 🤷♀️.
Since then I’ve never had a need to run Windows, so it was a waste of time. It’s been entirely a Linux machine.
I have a PC that can run windows 11 and meets the requirements except I use win 10 and do not use secure boot one of the requirements. I know I can easily change this but I refuse. I have 40tb raid enclosures set to NTFS. Instead of using windows 11 I will pay$ to get a new raid enclosure with 80tb of storage set it to fat and transfer my files to the new system. Install linux then I will have a complete backup of my Movies n TV shows. About $1,200 to get away from windows. I have tested Linux mint to run Plex and Emby runs like a dream. Thanks for all the info you share!
Are sure FAT is the way to go as a file system if you are moving to Linux? Wouldn't it be better to use ZFS, BTRFS or the default for Linux (ext4)?
@@what-about-bob Probably but windows wont read that for me to transfer old to new using the 1 PC I want to run ZFS but I would need 2 PC and do a slower network transfer of files. working with 2 21tb enclosures and will put both on a 5 bay 80tb ZFS. Thanks for this question bacause I now will make ZFS happen.
@@what-about-bob I actually need to rethink this whole thing because my enclosures are hardware raid they don't allow me to create a separate raid with ZFS unless I hooked four of these up together and ran them as a raid package on top of it it's Internal raid. Yeah, I'm gonna have to rethink this but I already have all the equipment I just need to get some drives now so this is Probably not going to happen on this round. I may rethink it if I need to expand beyond 80 terabytes. Right now I'm close to 40tb And I filled the 40tb in about five years.
@@back4more420 If your enclosures are hardware raid, just use linux. Linux can read NTFS fine. Install the distro of your choice, initialize your new raid and format it with BTRFS or whatever, and migrate your data off the NTFS.
Will a hardware fire wall help after support ends?
There are two things that are stopping me from upgrading to Win 11: 1 -> Secure Boot ~ 2 -> CPU. I do have TPM 2.0
I like being in control of MY OWN COMPUTER ! - I frequently swap boot drives to make images of my working system for backups.
I'm sure TPM will just make that process more difficult !
What happens if you are using BitLocker and your TPM fails so you can't even boot to login to your M$ account (which I don't have or want anyway) to get your BitLocker keys ?!?!?!?!
A business could have an annoyed employee who cracks open some machines and steals a pocket full of TPMs to hold the company to ransom!
I had a Thinkpad e585. The only "deficit" was a CPU that was one generation "too old" for Win 11. I used Rufus to update to Win 11 about 2 years ago. The e585 got full support and worked as hoped.
I just got a Thinkpad x260 as a Linux machine. I installed Win 11, for kicks, a few weeks ago. No updates at all. Just a generic display driver. Full brightness all the time. Intentionally make the experience suck.
I now have that x260 running Sparky Linux XFCE based on Debian Stable. Works a treat.
What do you use to play AAA games on Linux? Are all the drivers and software needed available?
Server 2022 can be good replacement but i duno how much it will be comp with new games coming up
I’ve switched to Linux mint and never looked back
Good channel, you got my sub 😄
noob here, been trying to get a good linux box up and running, i do have a good understanding, still have alot to learn, however every time i boot from a usb onto anther machine, its either too slow, or dont work. what ive been trying to figure out, and my question is,,,,, could this be some sort of undetected malware? possibly related to certificates? and yea windows 11s last update ruined my home subwoofer, and im not the only one that had speaker issues this past update.
Usually a slow computer on a USB drive is because the drive is not USB 3.0 or higher
What we're experiencing is Microsoft's usual FUD. They want to slow down migrations to Linux. I'll just say it's not stopping me. Windows 10 PCs not upgradable to Windows 11 will be switched to Linux well before the support deadline.
Thanks for the Alternativeto ressource !! I didn't know it, it's awesome
I used windows 7 all the way up until about a month ago.. Most people are just going to keep using Windows 10 anyway.
I loved (and still love) Windows 7. It was the best OS Microsoft put out there (next to XP)
I'm using Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC. I'll still keep getting updates.
2025-Oct-14 : end of support for Windows 10 Home & Pro.
2027-Jan-12 : end of support for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC. [1 year and 3 months beyond Home & Pro]
2032-Jan-13 : end of support for Windows 10 Enterprise iot LTSC. [6 years and 3 months beyond Home & Pro]
@@Lord-Sméagol Still gives me a little more time before I have to move on to Linux. I REFUSE to use Windows 11.
So some systems, like those with an Intel 7th generation CPU, _have_ TPM 2.0 but are still unsupported. That is insane. What gives?
I spent the whole weekend wrestling with Windows after the 24h2 update on Friday. Nothing seemed to work! First, I had to fix the EFI partition. Tried uninstalling the updates from the recovery screen-no dice. Falling back to a previous restore point? Nope. Even tried fixing corrupted files with sfc /scannow and doing disk checks. Finally got into safe mode, which felt promising since I couldn't even do that before. Thought I'd be able to uninstall the faulty update from there, but no luck. Deleted all the downloaded files from the hidden update folder-didn't work. Tried upgrading using an ISO, but you can't do that in safe mode. Even uninstalled most of the programs and drivers that might be causing issues-still no go. So I ended up spending the rest of the weekend backing up all my data and config files just to reinstall Windows 11 from scratch and set up my computer the way I need it for work. The kicker? My job insists we use Windows!
Yes, I believe you can easily make a Ventoy thumb drive in Windows. I recommend noobs put MInt, Zorin and Pop OS live ISOs on one (download directly to it) and try each. They will probably go with Zorin cuz it's not ugly.
While I don't work proffesionally in this myself, I've seen many, MANY comments over the videos that DO use Photoshop professionally and every single time when GIMP is mentioned, they tell that it's not even close, that it's an insult, that whomever says that absolutely has no idea about what Photoshop does and is used.
One one the things I vaguely remember that was a deal-breaker for them was something related to color spaces. I don't know exactly why, but apparently GIMP 2 had 0 support for what they needed.
Which makes me very happy to see that GIMP 3 has some colorspace improvements. Maybe this will eventually no longer be an issue. One can only dream.
Some of the color spaces use to be missing but I believe even before Gimp 3 came out they had added the most common ones. As he said 90% of everything most people need is available directly in both and there are workarounds for the other 5-9%. Most of the people I've seen post from or talked to that said Gimp didn't do something they wanted when you really pinned them down on it turns out to be they just wanted it to have exactly the same control structure because they are unwilling to learn something new or change to default shortcut keys so it matches better. Basically they have the "I'm an ARTIST" and have an underlying hate for any tech.🙄
THIS is exactly what I was getting at.
They will never change, they got sucked into being in the Microsoft environment through out school and were brain washed into thinking that way.
@@michaelcummings7246 *No.* GIMP can't even rescale images properly. Some greedy academic broke the scalers on purpose over a decade ago, and they've been broken ever since. Anything scaled up or down in GIMP loses tons of detail, becoming blurry _and_ jagged _at the same time,_ while also afflicted with severe ringing artifacts. I'm not some luddite who is "unwilling to learn". I'm not an artist, so I can't justify the cost of Photoshop. I exclusively use GIMP for image editing, and have done so for the past two decades, but I always have to use ImageMagick whenever I want to scale something, which I do, from the terminal, or sometimes using shell scripts of my own creation. Is that _willing to learn_ enough for you? As long as this is the benchmark for quality in the Linux world, and Linux fanboys like you continue pretending it's okay, the Year of the Linux Desktop shall never arrive.
Here's some more context: Back in 2012, "an imaging researcher making his career in academia" (google that phrase if you want to learn more) named Nicolas Robidoux decided to completely remove GIMP's old Lanczos filter (instead of leaving "legacy" scaling modes which are sometimes desirable just like the "legacy" tools and "legacy" layer blending modes), and make new filters from scratch. However, he wanted to be paid thousands of dollars to do so. When the money didn't spontaneously materialize for him out of the volunteer open source community (because duh), he abruptly quit working on it and left GIMP's scaling filters in a broken state. For the _past 12 years._
Also, I invite you to draw in GIMP with a 1 pixel paintbrush. Watch how it waggles back and forth between two solid pixels and one solid pixel. It's not even just not supersampled, it's literally uglier than MS Paint. To do any brush drawing in GIMP, I actually have to scale up the image to 4x resolution, draw at that gargantuan higher resolution, and then scale it back down. Oh but wait, that's right, the GIMP scalers suck! I've written my own supersampling code as an icing feature in UIs where it wasn't even needed, and GIMP can't figure it out? Painting was better, albeit still not great, in GIMP 2.8, which is also the last version that can rescale images decently. Alas, as is the case with Inkscape, which gets slower and glitchier with every release, Linux desktop software forever advances backwards.
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for the last two years, every time i buy a new machine i wipe 11 from it and put 7 or 10 on it
My Windows 10 computers CPU is not compatible. So it doesn't have TPU 2.0 and getting around it is only a temp fix but CPU has to compatible.
Users who didn't want to leave windows 10 are not going to switch to Linux. These people's relationship with technology is one where they refuse to learn something new--they're not going to suddenly change that and learn Linux. Yes, they'll complain about Microsoft and Windows very loudly, but they'll stay.
Windows 11: Just buy a new PC. Also all apps updated to Windows 11's SSE 4.2 requirements will no longer run on your 16 year old Core 2 with SSE 4.1 support, even with Windows 10. (During a cost of EVERYTHING Crisis?!?)
Linux: Install for free on your Core 2 and enjoy your applications!
Linux is an excellent system and much more secure than windows by a long shot. That being said... many users are given bad advice on setting a Linux system up.. like using a single partition instead of multiple. I personally am a Debian user since 2000. Also... those who switch should test different distros to find one that they prefer instead of the one size fits all Ubuntu option lol.
Those who are new to Linux... don't be discouraged because you are not used to the system... once you learn the ins and outs... you will wonder why you haven't switched long ago. Lol
Don't have to throw the hardware away, turn it into a pfsense firewall / router.
To reuse (and modify) a quote from Cato the elder, "Windows 11 is Landfill 11".
I believe the force of these requirements, at least on paper, is based on a closed tamper-free system where apps can be controlled much akin to on iPhones and the like.
Basically it will not longer cease to be *your* PC but under the de facto control of Microsoft especially for their partners.
For DRM-purposes.
I'm looking forward to the flood of perfectly good PCs to hit the used market for dirt cheap.
so just a question to ponder: what do they mean by in-secure exactly???
they are using a boogeyman to scare you!
IMO here is a highly probable meaning: the "features" such as Recall, Telemetry, etc... will not transmit your data SECURELY to MS unless you have a "compliant" system.
Bluefin Linux is Great. The developers still have a way to go but this will be the new standard for Linux.
Yes you can they provide a work around on the website. But ok, do you.
I now have linux mint on a laptop and desktop. Giving my wife my windows 11 laptop. The only problem I am having is how do you change the way Thunderbird brings your your email properly. All email reads from the bottom up and not the other way like normal. Can't find anything in the settings.
Click the Date column heading.
In terms of those people with a make or break deal with Photoshop. Adobe does have a web-app version of Photoshop. Although it doesn't have all the bells and whistles (yet, they are being worked on) that the fully fledged desktop application does, it still gets the job done with what it offers.