Droppie [infosec] 🐨    ​Jan 10, 2025

Me be trying, hoping, wishing, to persuade dad to let me finally convert his win10 pc to Linux [+ a permanently offline win10 VM for his proprietary pgms that ofc do not run in Linux, & for which he won't or can't let me convert him to FOSS equivalents], instead of doing the feared upgrade to win11, sometime in the coming months. 🤞 🤞 🤞

I've not had time yet to read all these, but so many of the links here seem to portray win11 as total tripe & hideous horror... which IMO would be some achievement given i loathed win10 from the start, so if 11 is actually even worse than 10, then... OMZ 😱

https://nogoo.me/search?q=this%20is%20why%20so%20many%20people%20hate%20windows%2011&language=auto&time_range=&safesearch=0&categories=general

#win10 #win11 #windows10 #windows11 #Linux #DadsPooterProject

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Am gonna remote-into dad's win10 pooter Mon arvo, & create two VMs in it:

  • a #Fedora #KDE #Linux one, to test his printer & scanner compatibility
  • a win11 one 😮, so we can both begin to get a first-hand feel for what it's like

    • If Test1 fails, i will have to finally accept that dad's never gonna become another #Penguinista, coz ongoing use of his printer & scanner is absolutely non-negotiable; he uses these HEAPS of the time every week, & whilst i don't care about printing & scanning at all, to dad these are absolute showstopper issues. I feel a sense of gathering gloom... 😨

    The corollary ofc is that if Test1 fails, the only remaining option is to proceed with accepting win10's persistent nagging finally, & do the upgrade to win11, with all the horrors that entails. 😱

    I feel dirty already, sigh.

    #DadsPooterProject

    Jan 11, 2025 at 2:09amWeb
    Show threadKevin Karhan Jan 11, 2025
    @MsDropbear42 unless it's a shitty inkjet from Canon ir sth. stuff will likely work on Linux better and longer...