Before your change to Linux

Linux@lemmy.ml – 134 points – 4 months ago

What was the last version of Windows you used before hopping on over? This includes the Linux greybeards too.

I was on Win10 but moved over as the end of life cycle is drawing near and I do not like Win11 at all.

Another thing for this change was the forced bloody updates, bro I just wanna shut down my PC and go to bed, if I wanna update it, I'll do it on a Saturday morning with my coffee or something.

Lastly, all the bloat crap they chuck in on there that most users don't really need. I think the only thing I kept was the weather program.

So what's your reasoning for the change to the reliable and funni penguin OS?

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You can try asahi linux on the macbook :)

I could, but I still need Mac OS for work-related things.

both can be installed side by side if you have enough disk space.

both can be installed side by side if you have enough disk space.

Yeah, this is exactly what I do using QEMU and Aarch64 Debian. I suppose I could try the Asahi Linux in QEMU but that actually might be more difficult since I don't think QEMU can emulate the MacBook hardware, as far as I know. And I can't do dual boot, I want to be able to switch back and forth between Mac OS and Linux without rebooting anything.

If you need to switch without reboot then dual booting is out of question and hence so is Asahi. Asahi is for running linux on apple hardware. In VM you can run anything; drawbacks include non native performance, can't directly use touchpad, gpu and other hardwares, it's still running macos underneath which might be a concern of privacy depending on how much you trust the proprietary code by apple, not using free software stack etc.