Windows 11's KB5120998 optional update is breaking custom cursors and resetting wallpapers to black. Here's why you should hold off for now.
  • alphabethunter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    I want so badly to switch to Linux on my main machine, but I have some projects of my on Adobe InDesign, anyone has an actual good alternative that can read InDesign files?

    • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      Switch to linux but keep your old windows on a partition or different hard drive for whenever you want to work on that stuff.

  • mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    9 hours ago

    For the people not using Linux in the comment section, you can’t skip a Windows update. It’s going to happen no matter what.

    I mean I guess you can adjust the registry or whatever but 90% of Windows users aren’t going to do any of that.

    I could have done it and I didn’t. I updated and now my cursor is all fucked up.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    11 hours ago

    Skip today’s Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more

    there, I fixed it.

  • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    18 hours ago

    Skip today’s Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more

  • Bipauler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    15 hours ago

    I’m so glad my win 10 rig stopped working and my son fixed it with a Linux os. Hopefully I’ll never have to update windows again, only wine 🍷. Never going back if i can help it! Never even got to experience the pleasure of win 11 lol

    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      221·
      1 day ago

      I have a 60TB disk pool with DrivePool software and have no place to put my data and create a Linux based pool. I have to wait until I can afford a new 20TB disk as a temp storage.

      Unless there is an easy way to convert a DrivePool to mergerfs etc.

      • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        23 hours ago

        Unless there is an easy way to convert a DrivePool to mergerfs etc.

        If I understood right, it’s just software joining together multiple NTFS drives. When you open in another os it’s just a normal NTFS drive

        You could take two drives and create a raid1 (right? Or yolo without redundancy?) btrfs array. Move stuff from one drive, when it’s empty, format it as btrfs and add it to the array. Repeat for every drive.

        But…

        With this much data I wouldn’t risk if you don’t have experience with btrfs via cli

    • Damarus@feddit.orgEnglish
      82·
      1 day ago

      I’ve always used it as my primary driver, so I know very well how to get the most out of it and customize it to my standards. Some of the software I use has no acceptable replacement on other OS. I don’t experience even a fraction of the problems that are reported online.

    • Caesium@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      22 hours ago

      I’m hesitant to leave 10 because there are a few games I play that don’t support Linux, and I like em too much to quit if 10 still works. However, once support officially ends forreal, I will say goodbye to those games o7 11 will never touch my outers.

      At work tho they had to upgrade to 11 in the office, and since it’s retail the office isn’t really that important but 11 is so poorly designed the computers barely run anymore

    • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      Legacy windows projects development. I switched to Linux and run windows as virtual guest with minimal usage though.

    • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I have a surface pro x I bought during the pandemic that I plan on use until it’s physically broken (software-wise, you may as well say it already is busted) just to watch YouTube and browse the web on the sofa.

      Otherwise, I haven’t had to use Windows on my desktop in a year or so ever since switching to Linux. Hooray.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        23 hours ago

        SteamOS isn’t magic, you know. Other distros already work just fine right now.

        • Platypus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          32·
          23 hours ago

          None of the big ones have matched Win11 performance on my machine, or even come close enough to justify switching. I’m hoping that SteamOS’ planned Nvidia support, which reportedly is being developed with some degree of collaboration with Nvidia, will move that needle.