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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 End of Life: October 14, 2025

« Last post by wraith808 on October 25, 2025, 05:13 PM »

Anyway, I just learned about Zorin OS, and I think I'm going to check it out soon. It's Ubuntu-based, but has included features to make it easy to transition from Windows, such as handling Windows .exe or .msi files/installers (probably with Wine).

-Deozaan (October 16, 2025, 03:25 PM)

Thanks! I'm going to try it on my old laptop that I'm trying to get up and running.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 End of Life: October 14, 2025

« Last post by Deozaan on October 24, 2025, 01:11 PM »

Thanks for the advice. I use my printer infrequently enough that it might be 6 months before I need to print something and realize I can't get it to work on the distro I've been using. 😅

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 End of Life: October 14, 2025

« Last post by Carol Haynes on October 24, 2025, 09:54 AM »

I could never figure out how to get ESU to work on my primary machine. For some reason the Windows Update screen says "some of these settings are managed by your organization" but I don't have an organization. I must have tweaked something in the registry or group policy years ago to keep it from rebooting on me when it updated itself. 🤷‍♂️

But I did get it to work on another computer that's almost never on these days.

Anyway, I just learned about Zorin OS, and I think I'm going to check it out soon. It's Ubuntu-based, but has included features to make it easy to transition from Windows, such as handling Windows .exe or .msi files/installers (probably with Wine).

-Deozaan (October 16, 2025, 03:25 PM)

It does use Wine

Before choosing a distro look at which hardware you have and what support it needs (eg. if you want Linux printer drivers not just the generic ones built in) - and if you plan to use various programmes check which distros are recommended (eg. da Vinci resolve needs a lot of messing about if you don't use the distro they set up for).

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021: yaydl

« Last post by Tuxman on October 21, 2025, 06:11 AM »

Major rework: 0.18.0 (and 0.18.1). Fixed YouTube, improved the smoothness of adding new handlers (introducing a yaydl-specific HTTP(S) agent that adds proxy detection automatically), large changeset, small actual changes, basically.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 End of Life: October 14, 2025

« Last post by erikts on October 19, 2025, 08:01 PM »

I use windows 11 laptop at work and for personal use I purchased $160 pc (i3 1005G) with Windows 11 pre installed in April.

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General Software Discussion / Gum: A tool for glamorous shell scripts

« Last post by Edvard on October 17, 2025, 02:04 PM »

This is very cool, a suite of TUI tools harnessing the power of the Charmbracelet Go libraries, but for bash/cmd/powershell scripts:

Charmbracelet Gum
Gum provides highly configurable, ready-to-use utilities to help you write useful shell scripts and dotfiles aliases with just a few lines of code.

https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum






Lots of examples at the Github site, and more here: https://tech.aufomm....-improve-my-scripts/
This has now replaced Select, Dialog, and Whiptail for me. 
It is still in active development, so there may be bugs lurking, so YMMV.

from trying to create better interactive scripts and ending up hating select, dialog, and whiptail all at the same time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 End of Life: October 14, 2025

« Last post by Tuxman on October 16, 2025, 03:34 PM »

All Linux distributions are the same kernel with varying desktop themes. Try GhostBSD. It’s Ubuntu without a shitty kernel.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 End of Life: October 14, 2025

« Last post by Deozaan on October 16, 2025, 03:25 PM »

I could never figure out how to get ESU to work on my primary machine. For some reason the Windows Update screen says "some of these settings are managed by your organization" but I don't have an organization. I must have tweaked something in the registry or group policy years ago to keep it from rebooting on me when it updated itself. 🤷‍♂️

But I did get it to work on another computer that's almost never on these days.

Anyway, I just learned about Zorin OS, and I think I'm going to check it out soon. It's Ubuntu-based, but has included features to make it easy to transition from Windows, such as handling Windows .exe or .msi files/installers (probably with Wine).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chat app recommendations

« Last post by Deozaan on October 15, 2025, 07:39 PM »

This isn't necessarily a recommendation because I haven't really used it, but it appears as though the FOSS software called Tox (like "talks") might fit your requirements:

https://tox.chat/

I think it is P2P, so it's kind of locally hosted, but definitely decentralized/distributed. And it's end-to-end encrypted, so that should alleviate any concerns about proprietary work stuff.



There's also an open-source Discord alternative called Stoat (previously called Revolt) that you can try, but again I haven't really used it other than installing it and tinkering with it for a few minutes (a few years ago):

https://stoat.chat/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chat app recommendations

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on October 14, 2025, 02:42 PM »

IRC?