Why not put Linux on the Thinkpad? Just curious not Windows bashing.
I did. I’m dual-booting Windows 11 & EOS.
17 years ago. 
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Nethack is on the extra repository 
All kidding aside it’s a great game that I play from time to time, but probably not for everyone, but GOG has a really great selection of awesome games that don’t require much from the hardware even the games that aren’t ascii based. 
One of the games on GOG that I play quite often is Heroes III (with the HOTA mod/expansion). It’s also great for multiplayer, so I often play with one of my brothers.
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2004: I changed from winmodem (dialup) to router (dsl). My last (mine) windows installation was with the classic dos floppy disk in the beginning and then the legendary nero-burned cd with the serial number as cover.
For some (many) years after 2004 I was my family’s IT 
(format and basic win setup for my kids and SO) but no patient for 1000000 reboots to complete an installation.
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On my personal devices I haven’t touched Windows in a few years already. I’m going to start new studies at a uni soon, however, so that might change.
At work I still use Windows regularly.
I am not ready to remove winblows from my R16 gaming puter just yet. It is running just fine. So, yea, I ran winblows just the other day. Did I mention that it runs just fine? And it s nothing to get all worked up about. In reality I like the fact that I have winblows and Linux. Each has it s advantages. This reminds me of that old rivalry argument: Army/Navy, or Army/Marine…In reality both units are on the same side. One just has to remember that.
Yesterday i helped someone get their new W11 computer set up. It had been years since i had been confronted with installing windows. And the experience was enlightening to say the least: the way many ‘services’ are forced upon the user, the ‘dark patterns’ used to obscure the ‘no, I don’t want to’ options, the distracting pop ups telling you to start playing games, and many other aspects of the experience made me very aware again of the elegant simplicity of installing Linux distributions.
I’m very happy to be using Linux since Ubuntu 6.06.
Even happier with EOS.
Even more so after this recent encounter with Windows.
last time i have done something serious on windows was same on xp.. with a Thinkpad 600E using blackbox as normal gui was not usable. And it was also dualbooting with arch/slackware.
Had to for doing taxes .. Nowadays you do not need windows in anyway.. its useless.
But yea i have still w11 install to check on installer related issues .. very useless.
No one is saying anything hostile about Windows users however a lot of people who consider computing to be a hobby only really use Windows either at work or for gaming, hence all the Linux gaming talk in this thread.
I have been using Win98 in 86box lately just to reminisce (I’ve just realized I lied on this “poll” whoops although even still I was like naah and installed MSDOS6.22 instead for a few games) and did look on ebay to buy some edition of Windows to run on bare metal. Either Windows is too old for the hardware, activation is an issue due to EOL and now we have the issue where new Windows versions wont run on even my daily driver (All my machines are “e-waste”) .
To me Linux is all about control for those who can program and about not feeling left in the dark for people like me who can’t code.
Excluding work, in my life I’ve only used Windows for gaming, dual booting on Intel Macs - XP between 2006 and 2010 and then Windows 7 until 2017. I haven’t used Windows at home since, and have only ever used Linux since switching to it in 2020 when I bought my current computer, I still have that working 2009 iMac but I think I haven’t turned it on in about a year now.
When the support of Windows 10 ends, I decide new.
I have used Linux distros since about 2008/9 and the providers of control systems would disagree with you. I spent 20 years programming logic controllers and the only software that I can recall being able to be installed on a Linux distro was Siemens Logo Soft. Every other piece of software from Siemens, Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi, Idec, Beckhoff, Wago and a whole host of others required a Windows install. Some did use Linux as an embedded OS on their devices though.
I imagine the control industry isn’t unique either.
You and a few others in this thread made me look up ProtonGE and as such I now have Assetto Corsa (driving game) working in EOS/Steam. So happy! Took me a few goes to get .Net installed correctly in the prefix (I think it’s for the launcher).
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When I bought my laptop about 2-3 months ago, I needed to use proprietary vendor software to change the color of my keyboard leds because openrgb doesn’t support it yet. It sucked btw, I figured I’d try to install windows on a usb, I mean linux can easily be run from usb, why not windows?
Well… Windows can not be run from a usb, I mean it can, but it will be so agonizingly slow it’ll be basically unusable.
today at 3 am, i was tired (literally and of windows) and i installled Arch to my new laptop. not using windows anytime soon xD
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That’s probably down to the speed of your USB device. If you use a decent USB3.1 device (I use Ugreen USB to SATA convertor) in the appropriate port it should be fine but don’t you have to use some trickery to get it to install to USB?
Conversely, someone on another thread recently mentioned HirenPE. A legal bootable basic Windows environment that auto reboots after 70 odd hours to stop you using it as a daily driver, designed for quick tasks.
yeah, had to use rufus to do it, doing it from linux is near impossible.
At the end of 2020.
Because I wanted to? Windows XP.
Honestly, if it was still viable, I’d probably still use it. XP was the best OS I’ve used so far. When was that? I don’t know. I’ve really never used Windows 7, 10 or 11 outside of work. I think I used XP pretty much until I started using Linux in about 2014ish??
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