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[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

How can I convince the GF to switch? She only plays The Sims and the occasional hentai game; her Skylake i5 and 1050ti are more than adequate for those tasks. Yet she refuses to try Linux; won't even let me install LTSC to buy some time.

I think she just wants an excuse to buy a new laptop. She's the kind of person who replaces her shower curtain every six months, rather than do the sane thing and simply wash it. I'll never understand such a wasteful mentality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

My gf is on win 11 and doesn't uses it mainly for very light gaming and work. I offered it to her once and she doesn't care.

Her windows is already having fun problems people think only linux has like her not being able to pay except using edge and other small annoyances. I just say "weird, if it works flawless on linux why doesn't it on windows" every once in a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Bazzite and don’t tell her it’s Linux?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

This isn't helpful at all.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

As do I. Sorry, but KDE's HDR support is trash; half implemented at best (and it doesn't even support AutoHDR nor RTX HDR). Until that changes, I will continue to dual-boot Win11 and Arch.

Linux makes more sense for the GF than me, because her laptop has a basic 60Hz SDR display. It's the perfect OS if you don't have modern hardware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Hdr? I barely know her!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

There is nothing wrong if someone doesn't want to switch to a new OS. That being said, isn't her buying a new computer better? Old one becomes unused then.

Putting lightweight linux on an unused old computer and seeing it become better is like the standard procedure. You could even make a custom rice for her.