All I wanted to do was install and play a Windows game outside of Steam and I tried everything the documentation and people here on Lemmy (who swore up and down that it’s the easiest thing in the world, like every Linux advocate always does) recommended for TWO WEEKS without getting this simple task accomplished before reaching “fuck this bullshit” and switching to Tiny11.

It’s stated clearly in the documentation that CORE can’t be updated and is thus only recommended for testing and not as a daily driver, which is listed as one of the differences between base and core.

Happy testing, though 🤷

EDIT3: VM not tested yet, but an issue on the GitHub seems to corroborate my initial assumption.

Dude. That’s one user making an incorrect assumption. I’ve used it as my laptop daily driver for several months and updated a few times. It did NOT turn into Windows 11.

Do note that this system is liable to leave your computer vulnerable as it has no way to update itself from within the OS.

Yeah, as shadowtofu points out below, you’re thinking of Tiny11 Core, which is the extra stripped down version that’s not recommended for most users.

Tiny11 can update just fine, it just won’t nag you to immediately update all the time like regular windows does.

I’ve been using Tiny11 as my secondary daily driver (my desktop main is stil running Windows 10) for a few months now, updating roughly once a month (with the option to do it more often if I want to) with absolutely no problems.

And is about 50 times as much of a hassle to work with based on my experience with Jammy Jellybean…

On a laptop with 8GB+ though (or probably even half that), Tiny11 feels like Ned Flanders’ ski suit: does everything you want it to easily without getting in the way.

Personally, I’ve been really happy with Tiny11.

It’s basically Windows 11 without all the bloat, spyware and other annoying anti-features. Switching from Windows 11 to Tiny11 took my 2019 ThinkPad from a boot time of over two minutes to under 10 seconds with all other performance aspects similarly improved as far as I can tell!

It’s basically the best of all worlds as far as I’m concerned. And without financially incentivizing Microsoft to keep screwing their end users too!

And also in that most people don’t care either way unless you’re preachy and arrogant about it 🤷

I’m more into .cue and .bin dates but then again, I’m very old 😁

Eating lentils off a tractor tire halfway up a rock wall?

That depends: are you holier than thou and bigoted about either? If not, then sure!

I wonder how much shit I would get if I was to declare Arch the veganism of Linux 🤔

Complaining about Reddit content on Lemmy, how creative.

Have you tried calling Kostman’s?

Solar flares and the moon ascending in Venus for sure.

🎵 when you were young and your brain was an oozing wound, you used to say “skill issue, noob” (you know you did, you know you did, you know you did)

But if this ever-changing world in which we’re livin’ Makes you facepalm and sigh

Help out a guy! 🎵

I’ve only ever experienced the first kind firsthand when asking for guidance, but seen a lot of the second in the form of online bickering not involving myself 😄

He paid the copper price

To be fair, he IS too good for a free banana!

Sure, but how much time do you really spend looking at the OS UI rather than that of the games and applications you’re running when everything is going smoothly?

Very little in my case, so beauty is very low on my list of priorities for an OS of all things.