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Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What version of Linux does Fedora install?

Whatever resides in its repositories for the specific release of Fedora. What exactly do you need the specific version for? I'm sorry, but this question sounds as if you were trying to imitate some kind of savvyness.

Is it directly compatible with Windows software such as games and OBS,

Linux doesn't present Windows NT ABI, if that is your question. It's a different operating system, and it would be a very weird expectation of it to do that.

or does it require modifications/compatibility installations such as WINE?

Wine is a userland implementation of Windows subsystem for NT, only for Unix-likes.

So yes, if you want to run Windows applications, you are going to use Wine.

Does it have documented support online or is it a matter of haunting forums and such for when problems occur?

Good documentation is present, unlike with Windows. Haunting forums is generally not our way of doing things. However, that will yield better results than Windows, too.

And no matter how solid an OS is, I will tend to break it, generally by doing stupid shit, but I will break it. Before putting it back together. Which is generally how I tend to learn software.

I'm not sure you're an adult. I'm also not sure you've written a single line of code in your life.

[–] Worstdriver@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm 58, and the only "code" I've ever written is hexadecimal for the Apple ][+ we had back in high school. Which isn't even remotely close to what actual code is. Thanks for the attempt at insult, but it's my reality, so fuck you too.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It wasn't an attempt at an insult. It was an attempt to inform you that the whole comment seemed strange.

That kind of pretense is even more stupid when

and the only “code” I’ve ever written is hexadecimal for the Apple ][+ we had back in high school

it turns out you've seen some parts of real computing many people haven't.

Also sorry for making you feel whatever way, my comment was basically intended to prevent more of that in future.

So, about using it - the advice would be to try something convenient in dualboot (shrink the NTFS, shrink the partition it's on, install Linux on the freed up space) and see for yourself.