My computer has accumulated some cruft that’s making it hard to manage, and resetting the PC seems like the most straightforward way to deal with it. I already have all my important files saved elsewhere. I also wanted to see if I could kill two birds with one stone and rid myself of the dependence on an MS account. I’ve seen there’s some terminal stuff you can do when installing Windows fresh that bypasses the mandatory account creation, but does that still work when resetting? Especially when resetting from the cloud?
And because someone is going to say “Just use Linux”, believe me, I’d love to, but the user experience sucks for literally anyone who isn’t a software developer and the accessibility has actually gotten worse over the 15 years I’ve tried to use it.
Mint requires running a terminal command to disable the stupid printer notification.
It also doesn’t support Logitech mice out of the box, you have to search for the solution, which is a third party app to support a 10 year old (or brand new) mouse.
Stop acting like it’s a direct swap and people will be less hesitant to switch.
Be open and honest that not everything is an easy transition, there will be hiccups, and there may be some things for which an easy solution simply doesn’t exist.
If you use Excel every day, switching is likely not pragmatic, as the OSS solutions simply don’t compare yet and will always fall short if you use tables (about 90% of the spreadsheets I’ve ever been sent).
Also, did you even listen to OP? Linux isn’t an option. Wow.
What do you mean by “support” here? I’m pretty sure Logitech mice will work fine, but you might need a tool to change on-device settings.
100%.
Logitech mice work fine out of the box as a generic mouse. You only need third party software if you want to mess around with the Logitech special-sauce stuff.
Neither Windows or Mac have ‘support’ for that either, until you install Logitech’s software. Of course, Logitech as a company don’t provide any software for Linux.
So if anything, it’s not that “Linux doesn’t support Logitech” it’s that Logitech doesn’t Support Linux.
thisthisthisthis. I use Excel tables constantly. It’s a common theme with LibreOffice. Got something simple, maybe a doc with a few headers? Great, no problem, you can interoperate just fine. But go off the beaten path and you inevitably run into trouble. If I were sharing documents with exactly nobody I could happily switch, but the reality is I have to work with other people. And Windows/Office is what other people use. This is what I mean when I say Linux only works if you’re a dev. There’s lots of excellent text editors and IDEs and compilers and the like, but outside of that verdant oasis it’s a desert of broken non-options.
Regarding Mint, Bluetooth is maddeningly inconsistent. I’ve had stuff that works perfectly… exactly once, then never ever again, no matter what unspeakable tortures I inflict on the Bluetooth settings or what arcane wizardry I attempt in the terminal.
I asked what they have tried, I didn’t say they have to switch. I was providing some information that perhaps they didn’t have. You don’t have to be a righteous butthole about it.