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Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux [advice needed for a Linux workstation at home]

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james_s:
You don't *have* to use the command line in Linux, although some things are certainly done more easily from there. A year or so ago I switched my computer illiterate mother to Linux as her ancient laptop was getting flaky. So far it has been almost entirely a success, once she got through the teething pains of learning a new interface (which she'd have had to do going to Win10 anyway) it has just worked with no problems at all. I don't have to worry about antivirus, I don't have to worry about malware, I don't have to worry about Windows Update screwing things up or adding/removing/changing features so she calls me in a panic the night before she needs to send out her newsletter after trying all afternoon to figure out the problem herself.

Where Windows went seriously wrong is lumping security updates in with feature/cosmetic updates and making it all mandatory then making the system restart itself. It is just completely ridiculous, very rarely does a presentation at work go by without some kind of update notification popping up over the presentation slides while the whole room collectively groans and giggles rolling their eyes. Security updates are a good thing, but they should install painlessly and provide ample scheduling abilities so that the computer is *never* rebooted without the user's express permission. Feature updates annoy the hell out of me, I hate it when something changes on my PC that I didn't explicitly change.

NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: blueskull on January 17, 2019, 10:00:11 pm ---I don't like VMs. Windows 10 requires constant update. If I power it up only once a month, it will hog the CPU all the time installing updates.
I don't design boards everyday. More likely, I turn out two or three designs at a time, once a month.

Either no Windows, or Windows as main OS.

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What about a Windows VM with either no networking or a very restricted network connection?

langwadt:

--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on January 18, 2019, 12:34:33 am ---
--- Quote from: blueskull on January 17, 2019, 10:00:11 pm ---I don't like VMs. Windows 10 requires constant update. If I power it up only once a month, it will hog the CPU all the time installing updates.
I don't design boards everyday. More likely, I turn out two or three designs at a time, once a month.

Either no Windows, or Windows as main OS.

--- End quote ---
What about a Windows VM with either no networking or a very restricted network connection?

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I'd think you can just tell it you are on a metered connection

sleemanj:
Ubuntu or other debian derivation for me, perhaps historical but rpm systems never seemed very good to me, "rpm hell" was certainly a saying in common with "dll hell" from windows in my younger years, very seldom in the last... hmm... 20 years of deb based system usage have I had any dependency issues that apt-get could not sort out.

I think Ubuntu probably still has the better "it just works" experience in terms of hardware than Debian, certainly that is why I switched to Ubuntu back in the day.

Actually, I use Kubuntu, because I prefer KDE over Gnome (actually, I prefer the current KDE over the current Gnome, but it wasn't always this way... that is a different debate though), but whatever, either way, it's the same under the hood.

OwO:
Video tearing is mainly the fault of the video player. I've found mpv to be the best performing video player on linux. Also I would steer clear of nvidia at all costs. If you have intel graphics then all you need to do is remove the graphics card.

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