https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu6zViY3sbo&t=1s
I saw this pop up and I found it pretty interesting, it looks like Microsoft is making more DRM moves on Windows generally and like it or not they're going to force everyone to upgrade to Windows 11. I went through the pain of learning the bypasses early on because I knew this was going to happen but it looks like they really are going out of their way to shut down local account setups.
This is important to bring up, oh I wish, I wish the Linux community would get their thumbs out their arses and make some kind of easy to use normie distro. The microsoft market share is ripe for the taking with every dick move that they attempt.
I would have jumped ship ages ago but the problem is the ease of use when it comes to windows the beauty of the simple double click and GUI is not to be underestimated. It's going to be a lot like anything that big tech does now it seems and people are going to be pushed more and more towards open source options because of big tech stuff simply becoming unusable crap due to the types of people that are being hired en masse at these companies.
I guess I should potentially look into Linux again and at least research my options but I don't know if in 2024 things have gotten any better beyond the god awful endless terminal nonsense that reminds me of a worse version of DOS. Please autists, please make a normie distros for Linux that let's me do gaming easily because I want to do stuff like play Morrowind and other old windows based games.
The "but my sound drivers" schtick is just half-remembered sneery nerd shit from 20 years ago at this point, anybody who goes into the routine now has absolutely no idea what they're talking about but wants you to think they do.
It really isn't, I had huge issues with wifi drivers on a raspberry pi that were fixed by turning it off for 24 hours and coming back recently.
Nvidia has entered the chat.
Many of my drivers, like with art tablets barely work on Windows. I have zero expectation that they would work on some Linux distro.
I can speak for exactly one brand of tablet (Ugee) that I sought out that was officially supported on Linux by the company and it works fine. I have absolutely no idea about any kind of generic tablet driver solution.
I think I had problems with a USB Wi-Fi adapter years ago that kept me from migrating to a Linux desktop 8 years ago instead of 4. It was a total piece of Chineseium Wifi adapter anyway. Gave me issues in Windows at times too.
Like the other said, I've heard about Nvidia issues, but I don't think I've tried Linux on an Nvidia system.
I bought a little tiny USB wifi thing for a desktop a few months ago and it plugged in and worked out of the box with no drivers or configuration. I've never had a single Nvidia driver problem and I've set up multiple systems with different Geforce cards in the last few years.
Yeah, that was years ago.
I actually took a bit of time I had free this afternoon and actually pulled the trigger on putting Linux on my laptop. It's a Microsoft Surface of all things. It's working fine after a couple manual things specific to making the touchscreen work on a Surface. I didn't even spend an hour. I've still got some minor software to set up, but I don't use that for much really so it will happen in time.