• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 hours ago

    Im loving Bazzite.

    Except for the whole “now I have 6TB of SSDs that I can’t figure out how to get rhe data off them without buying new hardware”

    • TheOctonaut@piefed.zipEnglish
      34·
      28 minutes ago

      “I love Linux except for <devastating hardware compatibility issue>”

      Sounds frustrating, I wonder if anyone’s ever had that kind of problem?

      • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
        3·
        13 minutes ago

        Not a hardware issue; Linux handles NVMe and SATA drives just fine. They probably encrypted everything with BitLocker. Of course Linux can’t access an SSD encrypted using a proprietary Microsoft software with keys that may no longer be accessible.

  • saltnotsugar@lemmy.world
    43·
    4 hours ago

    When I first got windows 10, I hated it. Then time went on and my hate flowered into a deep loathing. When it was time to say goodbye, I thought about all the times I hated that OS.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
    8·
    3 hours ago

    Our family PC still has 8.1 (parents really don’t like change and Firefox got security updates until recently). I think I’ll upgrade it to 10 when I have time, the amount of debloat required to keep it sane is manageable as opposed to 11. Mom could handle mildly riced XFCE Linux with Firefox and our legal copy of Office 2007 under Wine but dad uses Total Commander and won’t use anything other than drive letters.

    • Zombie@feddit.uk
      4·
      1 hour ago

      A suggestion:

      Dual boot!

      Call the Linux partition “Mom’s speed machine” and the old Windows 8.1 partition “Dad’s slow shitheap”.

      Make the Linux partition as easy and intuitive to use as possible. Let the Windows partition rot.

      I’m sure dad will come around pretty soon when he sees mom’s sleek setup and he gets a pang of jealousy.

      Good luck!

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        We’ve been using Classic Shell since Day 1 of course. I modded it to quit qBittorrent when Mom opens the Shutdown dialog* (yes, she always opens that awful window) because that takes the longest to terminate. I’ll use it plus Explorer Patcher on 10, a semi-transparent taskbar without blur is so handy

        * Classic Shell Start Menu can run arbitrary and predefined commands from buttons but not both at once. The Shutdown dialog can only be triggered with a JS script so I’m using a VBS script (unlike BAT or JS, it can run silently) that runs the JS script and taskkill command.