Daniël Franke 
As I was doing the intake for a migration from Windows 11 to a Linux (undecided which, although Mint is leading the charge), yesterday, I got to use Windows 11 for the first time in my life. Now, I heard so many times about just how bad Win11 is, but nothing could have prepared me for the absolute shit show that is Microsoft's modern OS. I honestly feel sorry for anyone who is forced to use it for any reason. Like, I think I might prefer using WindowsME over that.
jbz🐧Developer Claims Photoshop Installers Now Work on Linux Using Wine
｢ A community developer says they have resolved long-standing Wine compatibility issues that prevented Adobe Creative Cloud installers from completing on Linux, publishing a patchset and prebuilt binaries that they claim enable installation of Photoshop 2021 and Photoshop 2025 ｣
https://linuxiac.com/developer-claims-photoshop-installers-now-work-on-linux-using-wine/
AnthropyA friend brought up an interesting point about how 'installing things on linux is hard', which I agree with.. if you're kinda Windows minded
There's a deep, ancient difference between Windows, Mac and Linux that people rarely seem to name, which also explains why Package Managers exist: DLL Hell. This explains the Windows SideBySide config, and Linux's Package Managers
To explain further, see the posts in the screenshots below (full alt text available):
Erin Church 
🏳️⚧️Getting bored with Ubuntu (and annoyed by Snaps, lol). Which distro should I switch to?
Feel free to suggest something else, though I'm not really interested in going back to something super technical like Gentoo, Slackware, or a BSD variant.
I would prefer something that is user-friendly for everyday use, but customisable. Gaming and programming friendliness also desirable.
#Linux #LinuxDistros #LinuxMigration
×xp
Debian (probably testing branch)
elementary OS
something Arch-based
Fedora or other RHEL-family OS
Poll ended at .
Kevin Dominik KorteHelped someone switch to Kubuntu at our Linux User Group this week. The highlight? Her delight in learning “Kubuntu uses Firefox too!”
It’s a small thing, but it says so much about user expectations. Change feels safe when something familiar remains.
In open source, we talk a lot about freedom and features, but sometimes the real magic is showing that new doesn’t have to mean foreign. 🦊💻
#Linux #Kubuntu #OpenSource #LinuxMigration
📎Nick 
@crash_bandicoot @jwildeboer Egal welche Metrik wir nehmen, Linux wächst.
Und jedes Jahr wird es mehr Mainstream. In Deutschland 6% ist durchaus realistisch, trotz etwas fluctuation sehen wir sicherlich noch dieses Jahrzehnt stabile 10%.
In Norwegen übrigens schon >20% Marktanteil: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/norway
#LinuxMarketshare #LinuxStats #Statistiken #Zahlen #Windows10EOL #WindowsEOL #LinuxMigration
13reak 
Awesome Message!
I join the cause and am willing to help people who need help migrating to Linux.
Edit: as you can guess, I'm mostly using Fedora but can also help with Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS...
geraldewHere are links to the two articles I've written about this.
- https://dev.to/geraldew/running-linux-purely-on-a-usb-drive-3mfg
- https://dev.to/geraldew/ubuntu-linux-installation-to-a-usb-external-drive-with-efi-boot-46pj
They are aimed at the "tech capable friend" rather than directly to the end-user. Ideally I'd like some popular YouTube video makers to cover this method.
In a fantasy where I've won Lotto, I'd set up a service of providing these to people - ideally as a place people could drop-by with their laptop and watch one be made for them, and be shown how to boot on it.
A note that if you want to help people move to using Linux, one *option* is to build them an independently running USB SSD.
I've documented a good method for doing this, which has two distinctions:
- it allows them to not modify their existing computer at all;
- it will be their *long term* portable Linux, that can be used with (most) other computers.
The one big caveat:
- for each run-time host computer, they will need to find out how to have it boot from USB.
chronohartI'm reading that Microsoft has announced support for Windows 10 is already ending in only a couple more months, which is making people understandably angry and some may be interested to try out #Linux. This is great! Linux thrives with more users and a diversity of experiences! Unfortunately, fedi has a bad reputation for being... unhelpful when it comes to folks asking "basic" tech questions, especially about Linux.
I'm certainly not the most knowledgeable or experienced, so I can't promise to be able to help directly with many questions, but I *do* promise to be patient and understanding to anyone experiencing some difficulty migrating away from Windows. Linux has been my main driver for regular computing for several years now and I even switched over for gaming a couple years ago, so feel free to reach out!
Hoping folks can reach people actually willing to help with some hashtags:
#LinuxMigration #DigitalMigrant #EndOf10 #EndOf10Ambassador