Reasons to switch:
- It’s waaaaay cheaper
- A new laptop costs a lot of money. Repair cafes will often help you for free. Software updates are also free, forever. You can of course show your support for both with donations!
- No ads, no spying
- Windows comes with lots of ads and spyware nowadays, slowing down your computer and increasing your energy bill.
- Good for the planet
- Production of a computer accounts for 75+% of carbon emissions over its lifecycle. Keeping a functioning device longer is a hugely effective way to reduce emissions.
- Community support
- If you have any issues with your computer, the local repair cafe and independent computer shop are there for you. You can find community support in online forums, too.
- User control
- You are in control of the software, not companies. Use your computer how you want, for as long as you want.
Hexbear-related reasons to switch:
- Still can use hexbear
- Hexbear requires a web browser (firefox) to use.
- Don’t have to pay for it.
- You’ll receive updates and features for your operating system free of any personal charge to you till the end of time. You can donate directly to volunteers and workers to make your computer better (better yet non computer related things)
- using Windows for Windows’s sake or Apple for Apple’s sake is liberalism and supports USA/piSSrael
- TBH they copied from us (KDE, GNOME) anyway. Their innovation is being a monopoly and advertising to you.
- Makes you smarter (it’s like reading theory but with computers)
- Using Linux makes you big brain because you’ll learn you can do a lot of things for free that you’d have to waste your soul on.
- Using Linux makes you big brain because you’ll learn you can do a lot of things for free that you’d have to waste your soul on.
Damn I guess you might have to talk to them and work things out because it’s not in there. They have a suite of software which is somewhat like simhub I have heard and you can set up everything in one go including the wheels with their drivers. The pedals and accessories should work fine. If you have made custom stuff with ftdi supported boards like that arduino leonardo custom handbrake then that would work well too. I found openxr which claims to works with WMR but I can’t tell how good the support is because I don’t have it. I hope it works out. I am guessing the support would be decent soon enough since the win10 end of life stuff is happening and there is an increase in users. I have an awful ssd which works flawlessly on linux but causes a lot of stuttering and audio sometimes on windows. I guess you could also try win10ltsc iot that has 10 years of support that comes without the bloatware and telemetry I think. Getting a license officially is hard but there is a tool that gets you one through windows official servers with a glitch off some sort but I am afraid windows might crack down on them in the future.