I found the switch quite easy from Windows to Mint. Think the reason it is recommended so much, as it makes the first step into Linux easier. But as you said it has it limitations in gaming.
I ended up with two distros, Bazzite for gaming and still using Mint for office staff.
As I have to say the performance and speed of Mint distro is much better, for just doing my day to day things.
I was hoping they would bring back Clippy, when they announced Microsoft Copilot. At least Microslop would have had something funny and nostalgic.
But no they can’t even get that right.
In Germany he had an actual name: Karl Klammer
I used it at the start in the supermarket. Now I kind of know the brands and where they are from so have not used it since 6 months.
But I found it quite useful back then.
Well back in 2016, when I was working for a European car manufacturer, all the data of cars in China went straight to a mirror server of the government. For all other countries the data was stored at the company servers.
Back then Chinese EV vehicles were no thing, so not sure how they handle it now.
But as you said, you can safely assume all the data goes to someone. Depends if they have something like GDPR in place or not, they can see most of your data and connect it to he user account.
They probably just introduced: “Bring your wife to work” scheme.
Next up will be the kids, when they get to press those nice looking red buttons to launch missiles. Who of us wouldn’t have dreamed of launching actual missiles as kids…
What a shitshow.
So for me it works fine on e/OS doenloaded through Aurora Store.
The results are not as good as the other huge LLMs, but for the stuff I use it is efficient enough.
I really like it. Was impressed how good it works, as I only have a Community version, not an official build. Especially that they show you how many trackers the apps have, never thought there would be so many.
Never had any major issues since using it nearly a year.
Only thing I do not like so much is their App Lounge, as updates there come a bit later, so mostly I use Aurora Store instead.
Depends where you from, for me all banking apps work. Here is a list of working banking apps: https://community.e.foundation/t/list-banking-apps-on-e-os/33091
What is not working is in App purchases, as I do not use a Google Account.
Hope this helps a bit, if you have more questions you send me a message.
I managed to delete most of it through the course of last year.
Windows --> Linux Mint Office --> LibreOffice WhatsApp --> Signal Android --> e/Os Gmail --> Posteo & Tutamail Reddit --> Lemmy Maps --> Comaps & Here Microsoft Authenticator --> Aegis Shazam --> Audile
In general I found lots of Open source Apps on F- Droid
I permanently deleted Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Netflix. I looked into alternatives but nothing really good. To be honest I do not miss them, as mainly all are just bloated with Ads.
Spotify is still on the list, but as I have 5 other people in my account I could not yet switch from it.
Best comment.
I am very thankful to Microsoft, without them I wouldn’t have made the switch to Linux.
I really loving it. So much better, faster and powerful + no Spying.
Thanks for sharing, really insightful.
In my personal opinion after being also responsible in AI for our company, I do not see how it will be profitable for them.
For example Microsoft Copilot license, costs 30$/month, but a lot of things I can do with it a free Chatbot can do too.
It definitely has it strengths and use cases and I am sure it will not go away. But it is not the way the market it as a full AI, it just generates answers with the highest probability. I cannot see it developing from there to the real AI.
I think this year will be really interesting to watch all the AI companies, especially Oracle as they have to refinance a lot. If one falls it will send them into to a spiral, the big companies will be fine, but I am sure they will cut their funding of OpenAI.
But who knows could be the other way around and OpenAI finds anything new to make them more profitable.
I guess he just wants to give bis buddies a new chance to buy the dip, same as he did last time with the tariffs. When he boasted about how much they made in one day.
Only thing he does is to manipulate the market.
Meal Team Six made my day. Cannot stop laughing when looking at this dude.
I am thankful for reddit becoming a mess and Trump made me ditch american companies anyway.
Otherwise I never would have discovered Lemmy.
With Google Pixel you should be able to install Graphene OS or e/Os to degoogle your phone.
And if your Google Pixel stops working in a few years you still can switch then to Fairphone.
Regarding the notifications, if it turns up and you long press on it, you get into the settings and can turn it off. Somehow had to do it couple of times but now since more then a week I don’t get them anymore.
Yeah I agree with you, they probbaly thought would be a nice feature to make people aware of tracking. But as nearly every up has dozens of trackers it gets annoying.
For me the summary on the left page is enough.
Ah thank you very much for enlighten me about Graphene OS, that so far the best description I have seen.
Used Aurora before on Android too.
I probably will wait until they find a way to not be dependent on Google services, as I want them to have no data at all, if I have the chance to do it.
Hopefully there will be more alternatives in the future. But we will see where it will go with Google trying to stop side loading.
Does it mean that you basically cannot use apps then, which require Google Services? Or how does it exactly work there?
Currently trying e/Os and wanted to look into Graphene and Lineage to see the which one works the best. I just don’t want to use anything from google.
I really can recommend Hanwag as hiking boots very durable. I also use often Avocadostore looking for European made shoes.
Unfortunately cannot recommend any specific winter boots, as I my old ones are still solid and not made in the EU.
Quite late reply, but maybe something helpful for you.
Try to discover a new Hobby, Sport. Join a lobrary, take a physical book and read it outside.
I highly can recommend voluntary work, good to meet new people and doing something good gives you a good feeling.
I made a hard cut and got rid of all social media, really reduced reading the news as everything feels very toxic online atm.
So maybe Trump is actually caring about climate change.
Not only has he lowered the CO2 emissions, through the closure of the straight of Hormuz. Gives electric cars a big boost and now he turns people away from meat to a plant based diet.
Wonder what is next on his agenda to save the planet. Keep on going.