My laptop has been discontinued by the manufacture for a couple years now and with support for Windows 10 ending, I wanted to increase the lifespan of my device so I looked into Linux. The lack of ads, bloat, and spyware are also major selling point to me.

I heard about this on Lemmy a couple weeks ago. I’m so jealous, I wish my city would host something similar.

I’m glad someone got the reference for my wallpaper ^-

Here’s the link https://embed.pixiv.net/artwork.php?illust_id=100894625&mdate=1661935764

Lmao

I was referring to how I have never used anything but Windows and have only seen a BIOS screen when I called HP for tech support. I guess having a Miku wallpaper made nobody think that was the case lol.

I’ll try that out, tysm!

Thanks! I’m so happy I’m free of seeing Copilot, Cortana, or Bing results each time I try to search for something on my computer its very refreshing.

I think is more of the loading power of my computer, sometimes there’s a bit of a delay when I open an application or try to close it, opening some setting will have more loading time than others. Although now that i think about it, I most likely had this problem with Windows, so its probably a hardware thing. My laptop is “old” by today’s standards (or at least, that’s what HP thinks lol). I have an HP Pavillion x360 2017 model. It has 8GB Ram, Intel Core i3 7th Gen processer, Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 620 and a 1TB SSD.

Ikr it pissed me off to no end! Planned obsolescence should be illegal.

What does OOTB mean?

Essentially. Waterfox is a Firefox “fork” (a reimagined version of Firefox using its original source code) Unlike Firefox, Waterfox is more privacy focused with no telementary and a built in tracker blocker.