Today, lovely Windows 11 installed an update. And since then I don’t have internet access because Microslop Wincrap 11 can somehow magically no longer connect to the DNS server - to any DNS server. No other device in my network has the same issue. I’ve been bugfixing for over an hour and haven’t found a solution. setting the DNS manually, resetting the network adapter, flushed all DNS entries (I used the commandline tool on Windows!). nothing works.
I don’t have ANY more patience with W11!
I already tried Linux. I’m using Ubuntu Server for hosting Nextcloud and Fedora just to play around.
Do you prefer Fedora or Ubuntu? I have an old Thinkpad…
(And no, I will not go down the rabbit hole of Arch ;-) At least not for now.)
I’m on Win10 LtSC IOT… The only reason I moved from Win7 to that operating system was so I could keep steam alive. My steam account is 18-19 years old. Any one have step by step instructions on how to get the nicest, easiest to use Linux distro for a guy who uses 5 different windows keyboard shortcuts entry 5 minutes?
I’ve been with Windows since 95, I’ve been working in IT support since XP… I just want to get away from Microsoft, keep all my games, keep a file explorer and be able to quick change my brain to learn new (just as easy ) keyboard shortcuts like Crtl-C, Ctrl-F, Win-R, Win-E…
With most Linux OS’s you have a choice of what desktop environment to use. The desktop environment controls most of what I would call the OS experience. Most linux distros will have KDE or Gnome installed as the default desktop environment, though there are often some more minimal or power-user focused desktop environments offered. I’ve heard Cinnamon is another good choice.
Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-F, F3, F11 generally behave the same on most Linux desktop environment and software as they do on Windows.
Alt-Tab, Alt-F4 are commonly supported
For the run menu, Alt-F2 opens a similar menu in KDE and Gnome. I can only go into the specifics with KDE, but I can also run commands with the regular Windows key start menu. Though when I personally run commands, I generally open a terminal (Ctrl-Alt-T) so I can get tab completion. On KDE, Win+E opens a file explorer. Almost all the keyboard shortcuts are customizable on KDE, but I prefer to swim with the current whenever possible.
For some distros, you can write a “Live” version to a flash drive to try it out before installing, but opening applications will be slower than running on an SSD.
these days computers are fairly cheap. just have two, one for games and such, the other for browsing and wotnot
Having multiple OSes is such a boon for doing… everything hahaha. Last night Windows was playing games and my MacBook was taking a long while to copy a huge folder over from server to server in my house, so I initiated the transfer from a Debian machine that was just playing media for our cats and let that run for a few hours. I had to walk over to it, though—my machine didn’t wanna RDP into it. What kinda world do we live in where I have to GO TO IT?! Wild.