Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop From The Landfill

On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:56:30 -0700, T wrote:

On 6/25/25 9:39 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:02:00 -0700, T wrote:
 

On 6/25/25 5:46 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Another daily-diary article, this time trying out a few Linux distros
that might offer a less painful transition for Windows users
<https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/before-windows-10-goes-eol-

im-

testing-three-alternative-linux-distros-to-save-my-6-year-old-laptop-

from-

the-landfill>.

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A lot of the time, it seems to me, the hardest step for a Windows
user is copying a bootable Linux image (either live OS or installer)
onto a USB stick. What would be a quick, easy job on Linux itself
requires a fair bit of faffing about with third-party tools on
Windows.

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https://fedoraproject.org/spins KDE, MATE, and Xfce are all great.
gnome is too weird to be usable.
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There are two easy ways to burn a flash drive with a Linux ISO from
Windows:
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Rufus Web Site:
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      https://rufus.ie/ https://rufus.akeo.ie/
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Fedora Media Write for Linux and Windows:
     https://fedoraproject.org/en/workstation/download
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Fedora is less complicated.   You will notice when running that it
calls some libraries from Rufus

 
I don't remember the details but Fedora Media Write didn't work for me
and I wound up using rufus. I would not call it 'a fair bit of farfing
around'.
 
 

Fly before you buy!
 
Did you try KDE?

Yes, I'm running the KDE Fedora. When I installed it it was a spin but now
it's a full fledged version. Fedora has worked out well and I knew what I
was getting into but it's not a distro if you don't like updating it
frequently.

$ dnf history list
ID Command line            Date and time       Action(s) Altered
65 dnf update              2025-06-26 06:37:18                24
63 dnf update              2025-06-25 04:45:02               152
62 dnf update              2025-06-24 00:55:03               118
61 dnf update              2025-06-19 21:53:46               431
60 dnf update              2025-06-13 05:40:12                54
59 dnf update              2025-06-11 19:31:51               106
58 dnf update              2025-06-10 04:09:00                60
56 dnf update              2025-06-08 03:55:24               384
55 dnf update              2025-06-06 07:18:00                94
54 dnf update              2025-06-01 06:21:12                96

Ubuntu is nowhere that intense.