Well, Microsoft is getting ready to annoy its faithful Windows 10 user base with yet another prompt. This time, Microsoft wants Windows 10 users to switch from using a local account to their online Microsoft account.

  • Refurbished Refurbisher
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    108 months ago

    As a NixOS user myself, I wouldn’t recommend it to someone new to Linux.

      • @ABCDE@lemmy.world
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        08 months ago

        Aye, I used Ubuntu back when I was working retail, as I’d put it on units which didn’t have Windows licences.

        • Refurbished Refurbisher
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          18 months ago

          How comfortable are you with using the Terminal and learning a new scripting language (called Nix)?

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            8 months ago

            The former is fine for copying and pasting. The latter probably not something I can be arsed with.

            • Refurbished Refurbisher
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              28 months ago

              The latter is still mostly copying and pasting too FYI, along with reading error messages that generally tell you exactly what’s wrong.

              Also, NixOS, is not FHS-compliant, so regular Linux binaries will not run without pagching or running it through a wrapper. AppImages work, but needs appimage-run. Flatpaks work fine as well.

              I would only recommend NixOS if the concept of everything being inside of a configuration file that you can copy between machines sounds intriguing to you; otherwise, if you still want ultimate control over everything and want to use a Terminal, Arch. If you just want something that works without having to worry about configuration or copying Terminal commands, I’d go with Pop OS or Linux Mint Debian Edition.