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Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward

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310 points speckx | 3 comments | 27 Aug 25 10:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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127 ◴[27 Aug 25 11:57 UTC] No.45038436[source]▶
Just recently moved onto Linux. Most likely not coming back when these kind of things just keep happening. I'm really surprised how well everything works. 120Hz HDR 4k Nvidia no issues on Wayland. Kubuntu 25.04/Plasma 6.3 is very nice. EasyEffects/PipeWire makes audio better compared to Windows. Steam/Proton/Wine works very well for games outside ones that have kernel level rootkits. Outside DualSense controller having issues connecting to bluetooth I can't think of anything that's worse than Windows while many things are better.
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gregoryl ◴[27 Aug 25 12:07 UTC] No.45038531[source]▶
Ditto; ~20 years of dotnet dev, 1000+ games on steam. Couldn't be more baked into the ecosystem. Its just the work laptop left with windows now, and the team is working to support a non-windows dev env.
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ActionHank ◴[27 Aug 25 13:38 UTC] No.45039518[source]▶
This was me a few years back.

My wife switched this year after only ever using Windows and pure dotnet dev.

The first thing she said was "how is it so fast"

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beng-nl ◴[27 Aug 25 15:28 UTC] No.45041044[source]▶
Which distribution is she using, out of curiosity? I wonder if I could do this for (to) my wife..
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1. gchamonlive ◴[27 Aug 25 16:31 UTC] No.45041839{3}[source]▶
Not OP, but if I was installing Linux for the first time I'd either go with pop_os (not sure if it's as good anymore as last time I checked it, a couples years ago) or kubuntu, because KDE is a bit more familiar to windows users.
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2. brewdad ◴[28 Aug 25 05:02 UTC] No.45048559[source]▶
Pop and Linux Mint are both solid options for newcomers. Personally, I think LM looks better out of the box but Pop is a little easier to grok coming from Windows. Not much of a difference either way though.
3. gregoryl ◴[04 Sep 25 22:53 UTC] No.45133163[source]▶
Totally agree for non-technical users. For anyone technical, and willing to suffer a little bit, go with Arch. The docs are incredible, and you end up with a much better understanding of how everything hangs together.