So many of these things just seem incredibly bizarre once you’re used to Linux.
Until you do a dist-upgrade and random shit breaks (:
At least that’s usually an honest mistake, instead of some managers trying to juice their numbers through dark patterns.
Unless, of course, you’re using Ubuntu. Then it might also be a manager trying to juice their numbers.
I do a yay (sudo pacman -Syu, under the hood) every two weeks or so and shit don’t break. Dunno what weird program dependencies y’all have for stuff to break so often.
In any case, if shit broke, I have snapshots of the last 5 days and last 5 upgrades. It’s automatic, not rocket science.
Dude, Arch is a rolling release, it has no dist-upgrade equivalent. You’re not even in the right conversation.
Debian, Ubuntu, … and plenty of other distros have. Just upgrading my server from Ubuntu 22 to 24 (both LTS) took an hour or two of fixing things.
“Your system does not support Windows 11”.
Best error message I ever got!
Or, windows 11 doesnt support my system. Not my problem.
Its actually interesting how they phrased it so that our systems are the problem and not their product.
You’re goddamn right!
+1 for using “You’re”
Pro tip: If you must use Windows, pick Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021. Most things still run on it, and that baby’s got no user-facing slop and five more years of support in it. Mass Grave dot dev.
+1 massgrave. Got the extended support for my regular W10 pro. After that, it’s going to be debian if - fingers crossed - nothing breaks. It’s a 6700K build.
It’s a 6700K build.
That’s hot, are you sure you hooked up the fans?
That’s just the RGBW LED color temperature.
Going to Linux is probably the more sustainable solution (I ended up on Ubuntu and my 4130 is happy enough) but you apparently might be able to convert-in-place to the IoT edition, if that’s the route you’d prefer to go down.
Pro tip: If you must use Windows, pick lobotomy
I put Windows 11 on it’s own hard drive, so it couldn’t corrupt the rest of the system.
For an additional layer of security, throw the hard drive into a deep lake.
Of magma or plasma, whichever is most convenient.
Or you could just install linux.
I’m a Linux user but not everyone has that privilege.
I just want everyone to have an OS that works for them, and I’m getting kinda tired of that being a hot take.
I can understand that point. But putting more effort into making windows half normal and kinda usable seems like wasting time, Its an uphill battle that you are loosing anyway at some point.
Sometimes linux is just not possible with the hardware :(
I tried my best, but neither my SP7’s touch screen or pen functionality work properly with linux (even with the linux-surface-kernel). And there’s still no good alternatives for SPs in the market either, for tablet+computer+works properly for art (at least any I could ever afford)
That sucks :(
The Framework 12 actually seems really ideal for this, being that it has a 360 degree hinge and works properly with Linux.
It’s also expensive as fuck, but then, you can repair and upgrade it, and I’ve heard Surface tablets are an absolutely miserable experience to try repairing. So up to you if the upfront cost is worth less pain down the road.
I don’t think the pen input sensitivity/features on it is suitable for pro-level artists, but I might be wrong.
see my other comment, the framework includes “MPP 2.0 and USI 2.0 stylus support”, so it should be able to use other pens it if the one they sell isn’t to your liking.
Still not there for art, sadly. For example their pen has only half of the pressure sensitivity SPs better pens have :(
The Framework 12 lists “MPP 2.0 and USI 2.0 stylus support”, so you can use other pens with it, I think. Your stylus won’t be repairable, but perhaps if you complain at Framework loudly enough they might eventually release a higher quality stylus themselves.
If it’s a limitation of the machine’s hardware/the protocol they support, complain at them for that instead. I’m not an artist so I don’t actually find myself needing/using a pen often, thus I don’t know whether that means it has good or bad pen support, but it certainly sounds like it supports SPs.
Really pissed because about a year ago in february it upgraded without my informed consent and I never noticed until something else bad happened. You can only downgrade if you notice within a week.
It’s real fuckin insidious, I had already reformatted my PC once too recently so I juuuust kinda toughed it out.
Anyways, they keep everything same-ish which prevents you from noticing they changed your whole OS which should be illegal.
I’m deeply sorry. If it’s any consolation, it will eventually happen to everybody.
Or at least everybody that didn’t see the light and adopt The Penguin… But let’s leave religion to another time.
BTW, Arch is awesome.
( actually, i use Manjaro. but it’s based on arch. so that still counts, right?)
so that still counts, right?
Still counts. You now have to say you use arch every hour, otherwise you’ll implode.
Wait…does this apply to all Arch based distros? If so I haven’t been talking about it nearly enough.
please don’t go any further without mentioning you use arch, it can be dangerous!!!
I noticed this while I was using arch, btw.
Well I do use Arch
and you look marvelous! btw
Don’t leave us hanging. What distro?
Hannah Montana
I have to use it, it’s the corporate setup. Every day I envy plumbers who unclog toilets.
Downgrade your PC to avoid having this issue. Follow me for more terrible tech tips you should never have to do in the first place.
My boss at work told it to download thinking that he would have a choice to install in when he wanted. Now he understands what a virus is.
More like a downgrade
Damn, that never happens on my Arch Linux install.
I dual boot windows because of a few things that don’t matter too much to me, and i haven’t really figured out wine as much as i should. Anyway, i booted up windows again after like 5 months. I hated every second of it, but overall, nothing of note happened. The next day, i had to boot windows again, and when i shut it down, it gave me the option to update and reboot or update and shut down, nothing else. I should’ve just unplugged my pc, but I updated and shut it down and left my room. When i came back a few hours later, my pc was stuck in a reboot loop and i couldn’t really boot anything. Just fuck everything about windows.
I would honestly suggest using Lutris or Bottles as a convenient interface for Wine, rather than trying to figure out Wine itself.
Lots of convenient features and pretty turnkey, depending on what you’re trying to install.
I set up a “Bottles” setup for older 90’s-00’s games and, know what? Sims 1 ran perfectly. Was mind blowing. (Notoriously difficult to run on modern windows)
Hope that is somewhat encouraging!
If you dual boot, you need to keep the windows partition on a separate disk, otherwise it will most likely fuck your boot partition.
Honestly disconnect all other disks when installing it too. Otherwise you move your Linux disk to another computer and Windows might not boot because it decided to use the efi partition on your Linux disk
In 20 years of using Linux, I’ve only had a broken Linux four times. Four of those times, it was because of Windows being shit.
That happened to me, but I’m happy with CachyOS now for most things. I can’t believe how much it a step down 11 was from 10 though, it was astounding. Worse than 7 to 8, even.
Removed by mod
ZorinOS is nice to Windows users if you want ui similarity
Thank god it requires enabling something my BIOS has disabled by default and I don’t need it for anything, otherwise my install of 10 would have already been turned into 11 on its own.
You can rollback easily. I’ve upgraded to Windows 11 a while ago and after 48 hours, I rolled back to 10. But this is how I will feel like in October.
And no, Linux is NOT an option for me, at least for my main PC. My laptop gets Linux, as there I don’t do stuff, that isn’t running under Linux. But I still hope that Microslop does something good and fix their shit.
What’s limiting you to windows?
In my case, my GPU (Nvidia 1060 something) has problems with Linux, games don’t run as well as on Windows by a huge margin.
Odd, I’ve found that anything 970 or newer has good support.
1060 may be some weird exception. But I have found the same issues with a gtx 670, badly implemented drivers from nvidia and the open source one can’t even properly render. But it’s a 12y old card or something, so I’m not really surprised.
Not OP, and i main linux on all fronts, but still have to have a few windows machines around:
There are still some viable gaming reasons, There’s still software like blue iris and corporate crap (Outlook, Office and you need to collaborate with office users). There are Adobe products, Autodesk products.
You can try to play swapsies with things here and there, but sometimes it’s more work than it’s worth and sometimes you’re straight up not allowed to swap.
Oh I absolutely agree, I was just curious
Fear and ignorance
