Just watched a video on how Windows 11 can interfere with dual-boot setups in different ways, with the larger, overarching insight that Windows is doing its best to lock us in.

I feel that, as with climate change, we are at this crossroads but here with our privacy rights. The big companies want us to let go of our privacy and lock ourselves within their systems so we can be spied on in the best way, to feed us as much ads as possible and make us dependent on them (e.g. with "genAI"). Governments support this because they can use it to make us more compliant, control the information we receive and send, and easily target any "rebels".

I'm really grateful to all the people who support open source and alternative systems like Linux. But I worry that in a few decades, most of the Linux - aware people will be gone, or simply unable to work on open-source on their free time because of all the exploitation... I hope "normal people" are waking up about this and installing Linux before it's too late!

I'm personally trying to resist with the following actions:

• I have installed #ZorinOS, as dual-boot for now, on 3 computers + supported my partner with their install!
• I am asking my IT at work to install #Ubuntu (also dual-boot) on the new computers we are getting. They didn't want to install Zorin for unclear reasons, and seem to be struggling with the dual-boot installation. All of the staff is pushed towards using Windows and other MS products, including Copilot, yes, in a university!
• I am exposing my students to Linux and open source software (e.g. Python, Zotero), telling them not to use AI etc. But I am just a postdoc..
• I'm trying to figure out how we can promote Linux some more, but it's hard without the support of IT.
• are you also doing something about this (helping the world leave Windows' claws, if yes, what)?
  

This is the video, from Rob Braxman on youtube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C44iCr6czAo&pp=0gcJCTMBo7VqN5tD

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#Windows11 #Win10eol #Copilot #Linux

Interested in moving from #Windows to #Linux but not sure where to start?

This is going to be a 'live-thread' of me trying to install a windows-like distribution of Linux, "ZorinOS", on my 4-years old #Lenovo Windows10 laptop. I will install it as a dual-boot so that I can still access Win if needed.
It's probably not going to go too smoothly but I'll edit this first post when the thread is done!

Edit: Several hours later, mostly due to setting things up in Windows prior to the install: it works! (for now ) 🥳

If you read this (messy) thread and have any questions, comments, or advice, please don't hesitate! I will try to make it more streamlined later, especially the Windows part...

#DualBoot #Win10eol #Win10ToLinux
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Oh hey, another week without being forced to reboot my development machine on the whim of some code-bot in Redmond.

#Win10EOL #Linux #Lubuntu #KDE #Plasma #WindowsUpdate #Windows

Good article in consumentenbond about upgrading your windows system to linux. One tip, you can always boot linux from usb to check if everything works.

https://cloudfront.consumentenbond.nl/binaries/content/assets/cbhippowebsite/gidsen/digitaalgids/2026/nummer-1---januari/dg202601p10-over-op-linux.pdf

#linux #win10eol #windows

@jalefkowit Put my last Windows OS to sleep, permanently and am feeling pretty chuffed with myself, If I do say.

Turns out they were able to convince me I didn't need that extra year of support after all, didn't even make 2 months.

#Win10EOL #Win11EOW

Also consistently failed at reboot, sleep and power cycles usually in very close proximity to update forcing it.

Hassle free, AI free, Rock Solid,   Great performance.

#Bazzite

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/gamers-are-installing-bazzite-instead-of-sticking-with-windows

#Linux #Win10eol

So the motherboard on my PC died, and I decided to take the working components and reuse them in a custom PC build. All I ended up reusing was the graphics card and hard drives, but it feels worth it: I fit an AMD Ryzen 5 9600x based PC build into a 13"x4.5"x11" case. It is small, and fast, especially now that I'm running Ubuntu Studio instead of Windows. Shout out to Microsoft for prompting the move by end-of-lifing Windows 10.

#linux #kde #win10eol