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Windows 11 gains momentum with over 35% market share as Microsoft pushes for upgrades — Windows 10 still has the stronghold on the PC market (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've already installed Arch on a spare laptop to assess the difficulty of switching over. So far I'm very impressed!

arch-install made the setup pretty easy, and KDE Plasma feels very natural for someone migrating from Windows. Flatpaks make installing/updating apps a breeze, and there's way more apps available than I expected, including commercial ones like Spotify.

Most of the "muscle memory" habits translate across too, for example pressing Meta and typing "notepad" shows KWrite in the start menu. That was a nice surprise.

I can already tell it's going to be viable for 90% of my needs, and the fact that there's good free software to do everything from video editing to office tasks is really amazing. Linux desktop has come a LONG way.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

Same, but with Mint.

Haven't encounted more than a few problems up until now and most I could fix by myself after a quick search and some very light reading.

I've been very satisfied with the OS switch.