It really doesn't take a lot of expertise to use linux, depending on what you're doing (and what distro you're using) it might not even take opening a terminal
If I'm honest a lot of what I learned about computers was as a result of switching to Linux. As a Windows user, breaking Windows is such a problem that you don't dare try to learn by doing. Linux is comparably easy to fix or restore.
If you lack the bare minimum of knowledge to install a new operating system, there are plenty Youtube tutorials around which take your hand step by step.
Use Debian or a Debian fork like Linux Mint, Ubuntu, or Popos! And it should be a pretty easy transition. I recommend Debian because it's not as configured for you out of gate, but it's still easily configurable.
learning linux is a process, but it's way easier now than it used to be.
It's more of an easy to learn hard to master situation today as compared to the old "heres a box of source, compile it and hope it works, lmao" in the days of yore.
It really isn't that hard these days. Installation isnt harder than installing Windows and most Linux distros have a built-in store now to install apps from. Definitely takes a bit of a learning curve but it isn't as intimidating as it once was.
I enjoyed my time with Windows 7. I even remember the Windows 7 launch party marketing. Never upgraded to 10, certainly not upgrading to 11. Happy with my adventures in Linux.
10 is way better for games than 7. I’m never touching 11, it’s awful. 10 is great when you debloat, use OOSU10, and use ClassicShell (or the updated version I cannot remember the name of) to bring back the 7-style start menu.
I’m excited to make Linux my daily driver for most things, but for a heavy game-player, a backup Win10 install is a must. Especially for VR.
I loved Windows 7. The reason I ended up switching to Linux is (ironically) that I felt like the KDE desktop was closer to Windows 7 than the tiled start menu that Windows 8.0 had.
You mean 2000 was the last tolerable version of Windows.
Everything since has been just the irritating pile of trash anyone doing anything decent with has had to put up with. Linux is nice to play around with but I sure the fuck have a long list of shit that isn't going to magically work on it.
Not who you replied to but I haven't had any issues with a 3000 series card and LTSC, but I only used it for a whooping 12 hours since I got the card (I do 99% of gaming directly on Linux) so take my answer with a grain of salt.
I might be missing something but can't you just manually download the drivers from the Nvidia website on LTSB?
Just updated a Windows 7 box to Windows 10 the other day. So apparently this only applies to Windows 11.
No idea if it lets you use Windows 10 as a stepping stone between 7 and 11 but don't care.
I have no plans to use Windows 11 anywhere anytime soon, so as far as I'm concerned if this means it will stop nagging me to upgrade, so much the better.
HWID or whatever is dead, but KMS lives on. I used this script for the first time recently and it’s magical. Best of all, you can just access it via powershell!
I want to run win 10 (or 11 if supports) on a VM with a GNU/Linux host. I have heard about ltsc and ltsb, and now this post has mentioned oo shutup 10. So which one is better to make my win machine lightweight and privacy friendly? I am planning to run only certain specific program like SPSS. No heavy gaming. Thanks.