I finally made the switch to Mint recently. My day to day experience is so much better. I set up a fresh Windows VM so I could keep using a few programs that don’t play well with wine, and even having to purchase a new activation key for it was totally worth it to have it segregated out from my day to day. And I’d guess that not all that many people really need the specialty stuff I do.
Do a little research on what you use daily and/or can’t live without, but I can confirm that it isn’t as complicated as you might think.
I have to ask, why buy a key for the VM at all? Windows functions perfectly fine without one, and you can always use MAS if you want to change your wallpaper or something.
Entropy reduction. I do a lot of development work and need Visual Studio to work. It’s a complex beast already, and I don’t need to deal with the headache of fighting some activation hack or running the risk that some DLL or feature is gimped and causes weird behavior in an inactivated state.
I’ve got a Mint box that I use for file sharing and it gets by just fine. Set that up a year ago and the worst problem I had with the conversion was my old hard drive crapping out in the middle of it.
But I’m waiting for a nice long weekend to back everything up and do a proper upgrade. My computer doubles as a home theater and I know I’m going to have at least a day or two of “Why doesn’t thing thing that used to work do what its supposed to anymore?” while I juggle a grumpy wife who just wants to watch movies and a sneaky toddler who just wants to steal my keyboard.
I finally made the switch to Mint recently. My day to day experience is so much better. I set up a fresh Windows VM so I could keep using a few programs that don’t play well with wine, and even having to purchase a new activation key for it was totally worth it to have it segregated out from my day to day. And I’d guess that not all that many people really need the specialty stuff I do.
Do a little research on what you use daily and/or can’t live without, but I can confirm that it isn’t as complicated as you might think.
I have to ask, why buy a key for the VM at all? Windows functions perfectly fine without one, and you can always use MAS if you want to change your wallpaper or something.
Entropy reduction. I do a lot of development work and need Visual Studio to work. It’s a complex beast already, and I don’t need to deal with the headache of fighting some activation hack or running the risk that some DLL or feature is gimped and causes weird behavior in an inactivated state.
FYI there’s scripts that will fully activate windows, not via any local modifications to the OS, but via the official Microsoft activation servers.
I’ve got a Mint box that I use for file sharing and it gets by just fine. Set that up a year ago and the worst problem I had with the conversion was my old hard drive crapping out in the middle of it.
But I’m waiting for a nice long weekend to back everything up and do a proper upgrade. My computer doubles as a home theater and I know I’m going to have at least a day or two of “Why doesn’t thing thing that used to work do what its supposed to anymore?” while I juggle a grumpy wife who just wants to watch movies and a sneaky toddler who just wants to steal my keyboard.