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I don't want to support microsoft and I don't want them controlling my computer.

Pros and cons of ditching them?

Any guides or tutorials or the process?

Any advice is appreciated!

I don't want to support microsoft and I don't want them controlling my computer. Pros and cons of ditching them? Any guides or tutorials or the process? Any advice is appreciated!

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Then what said

And when you test the live USB, check the wifi connection for a couple of minutes (browse the web) make sure it's stable and working, no driver problem, same deal with sound, make sure it works properly

And then you should be good, linux mint is the better ubuntu essentially

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Yeah the sound can be weird on some systems.

On this one (Mint), the sound just stops working, so I have to do a "$pulseaudio -k" every so often to get the sound back.

[–] • 1 pt

I only had that issue running Linux in Oracle VirtualBox under Windows. It was mildly frustrating to be sure.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Apparently, the author of the buggy pulseaudio has other buggy linux shit he's released and won't fix... blaming everyone else. He has flat out lied before, claiming PA was ready for release when it wasn't ready. He has also placed 100% blame on problems with his release on another driver (ALSA), which was only about 33.33% true... At one point PA daemon crashed so frequently that it was set to automatically restart, needed a special command to stop it. Matter of fact, it looks like that's still the default behavior.

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While it's annoying it's not an absolute pain in the ass such as missing drivers or weird shits such as 32 UEFI on 64 bit architecture (yeah... Asus did that...)

That's the main problem with linux, either everything works just fine, or it's going to turn into hack festival, and you have manufacturers that are champions when it comes to non open source drivers and all sorts of fuckeries... Such as asus...