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Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution (www.techradar.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It’s not like it used to be where you absolutely needed to know command line and memorize them. It hasn’t been that way for at least a decade now.

Most Linux distros look identical to Windows that the average user would assume it’s Windows with a different skin.

And with WINE and Proton, Windows apps (except Windows Store apps) can be run with little to no issues in many cases.

The biggest obstacles are going to be:

Choosing a Linux distro, which can be fun in some ways
Making some apps compatible or finding an alternative if it doesn’t already exist there or isn’t compatible with a translation layer like Proton
creating the USB to install, but this has been made a lot easier in the last decade and the installation process has been simplified on many Linux installations

I’m currently on KDE Neon which I love. Thinking about moving over to it fully on other computers too.

I’d say getting a distro with KDE Plasma is a good thing if you are accustomed to Windows.

GNOME if you are more accustomed to Mac.

Just in the way it looks and behaves. KDE Plasma feels a lot like Windows 7/10.

Some good distros to try with this would be KDE Neon, Zorin, or SteamOS. There are others out there to try.

YouTube is fantastic for any setup questions or just to follow for a painless experience.