I ditched Windows in 2022. I'm not going back to Windows unless Microsoft makes an OS for professionals that is stripped down out of the box to show how serious they are. No ads of any kind, no garbage online account features, nothing, just core offline-ready Windows. I bet it would perform drastically better too.

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cafebabbe 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Same (2024), but i wouldn't come back in a hurry if they did so. Basically everything works now in Linux world, including my obscure devices, music & video editing, and my whole steam library... with better performance. It's sort of insane.

	▲	GordonS 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I just installed Bazzite-DX, and have been really surprised with how easy it was to install, and how well everything "just works". It even tells me when my wireless keyboard batteries are running out, something Windows couldn't do without running proprietary Logitech software.
	▲	My_Name 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Which distro do you run?

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marak830 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yup, Windows 10 LTSC here. It's a lot faster and smoother, but I'm already transitioning to Linux on my other boxes. Will probably move before LTSC runs out as well.

edit: I realised I overplayed how much faster and smoother it is. compared to standard win 10 or 11. Example being my login screen sometimes struggles to come up when the computer is locked (work around double mash CTRL-ALT-DEL)

	▲	giancarlostoro 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have a Surface Book 2 which was insanely fast when I bought it. Its pretty vanilla, I dont like to tweak Windows often it usually feels like it degrades, its been sluggish the last two years or so. Idk what Microsoft did but used to be vanilla Windows was performant enough, they must have fired their performance guys? Idk

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0x1d7 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sounds like Windows 11 Pro would do it for you, then.

	▲	giancarlostoro 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have already used that version of Windows, it is hot garbage.