Windows hit its lowest market share in decades, Microsoft lost $400 billion in a week, and now their own president is admitting they need to fix the OS. SteamOS and Linux aren’t waiting around.

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      14 hours ago

      My switch to Linux has been so easy. I’m not some high end IT guy. If you can install windows from a USB, you can install Linux.

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        7 hours ago

        Yeah, it’s super simple.

        I’m selling a pile of computers I bought off auction. People are choosing Fedora over Windows 60% of the time.

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          1 hour ago

          I just installed kubuntu on a couple of 4th gen Microsoft surfaces rather than upgrade to win11. I needed to install a little extra for the touch screen but it was easy to find and easy to do.

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            58 minutes ago

            Surface 4 sucks on w11. Mint is also a great choice. That’s what I’m using on mine at home. My only complaint is hardware, either the battery is finally falling or it has weird parasitic draw.

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              22 minutes ago

              My battery died years ago so that’s no thing for me. It’s a bed and shed laptop, I’ve got mains power in both those places.