Asus Just Gave You 1 Million Reasons To Switch From Windows To Linux

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[–]StalwartJames 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

Another reason to put Ubuntu on your laptop.

[–]solder0 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Some of us have to push our luck with arch though.

[–]sawboss[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Do you run Arch, BTW?

[–]solder0 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Getting used to it. I'm using Debian on my main machine right now.

P.S. I got the "BTW" ;)

[–]sawboss[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Welcome to freedom!

[–]JasonCarswell 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Or Linux Mint. FreeBSD.

[–]anescient 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I love Mint. it's Ubuntu classic.

[–]wizzwizz4 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Debian FTW!

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Mint Cinnamon is more user friendly, IMO. It finds network printers faster than Windows. Ubuntu is decent. I prefer Mint. The great thing about Linux distros is that anyone can download the Live versions and play with them before deciding which one works best for them.

[–]Zombi 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

So basically I'm getting from this thread that windows can get viruses and hackers can inject malware into legitimate programs? Is that news nowadays? 99% of windows users already know those two facts lol.

[–]sawboss[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The "news" is that in this case the malware is pushed through the device manufacturer's official update mechanism. It isn't the first time this has happened.

[–]Zombi 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm just saying it's already known. That's the tradeoff for windows really, security for convenience.

[–]Jac0b777 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I have been using Linux Mint for several months now and I'm really enjoying it.

I have an older laptop (now 10 years old, but still very solid) and it works like a charm. The security, the performance, the lack of inherent spyware that Windows users have to put up with....unless you need it for very specific programs or games that run only on Windows (and you can't use WINE [which emulates the Windows environment on Linux] to get them to work on Linux), Linux is the better choice.