From some more articles I grasped that it is shady. Some lobbying groups, secret commissions and stuff like that. They try really hard to not be the ones to point fingers at.
I think that there are more issues like archaic connectors and stuff like that. You can’t find new hardware with 30yo standard io.
The oldest version of Win I used was 95 about 2 years ago on chromatography machine (I think hplc or gas).
It is to my knowledge still in use in the school because the software don’t run on newer machines. The teacher told me that he don’t know what will he do when it dies. It isn’t really an issue on Linux.
It will be probably more. I talked with sysadmin from some smaller provider in my country few months ago. And he told me that the migration will take them for most systems about 2 years (depreciation of hardware) and for some machines about 5 years.
So lot of customers are in process of replacing it but it will take multiple years.
It is little bit more buggier but it may be the hardware and I can’t get it with xfce.
I don’t want to mess that deep in the system, just get it to my favorite theme and leave it be. So it is basically out of the box experience.
Which flavor did you choose? I am now rocking basic mint with XFCE on my older machine and LMDE on newer.
Look in to F-droid, I tried few games it is hit or miss some are really good and some meh.
AAAAXY, super retro mega wars, minetest, lots of puzzle games - just a few that I tried and were decent or really good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f8SliNGeDM
Tldw:
Battery less phone. He removed battery to make some embedded display.
As someone using maps only for cycling and walking. I mainly use mapy.cz, they work well in Czech but can be clunky in other parts of world but EU should be ok. They have incomplete car navigation, it is getting there more of my friends use it now.
Othervise I try OsmAnd+ and Organic maps (osm clients) and it is good but mapy.cz are better in most cases.
I switched because w10 got too heavy for my old shitty laptop. Now I got new shitty laptop with w11 and will soon it will be cured by Linux.
My old laptop will retire as server.
I got hands on w11 after 3 years on Linux and didn’t know what to do - it was some home edition and I couldn’t find what I want in the amount of unwanted apps.
Btw it was fresh install.
It is nice app but the problem is it doesn’t show Czech hiking and cycling routes by default. I didn’t figured out how to enable them.