'At school on my laptop'

'School ends'

'Packing my shit'

Windows: 'Update and shutdown ;)'

Yup- been there.

@mrtnrdl if only more people installed Gentoo

Updates are disabled on my school laptop... 😂

I had the stupidest reason to switch to linux. Windows lagged too much for me :P

@mrtnrdl I wanted to start using Arch Linux but it has been a pain In the ass getting it to work. Even on virtual box. I've been told I should try Linux Mint

It's still possible to shutdown normally without doing the updates first, though.

@Sharky6 Mint is almost plug and play, depends on the hardware actually... Give it a shot, you might like it, personal best mint flavour: Cinnamon

Always. Right now it's in my bag trying to install the Win 10 Creators update.

Alt-F4. Works every time (used to at least, haven't used Windows for a while now)

@ChrRubin I used to be impatient and just do a hard shutdown, but it fucks up the filesystem wasted more time fixing windows than waiting for it to update

You should try Linux or Mac.

"closed the lid. Goes home"

The influx of Microsoft shit is too much. Just set your settings correctly and you should be fine. Microsoft is about baby steps to handle everything.

This is the part where you go into the settings and have "close lid does nothing" then tuck that bastard away, so you don't have to deal with it.

@Sharky6
just take xour time and go through the arch linux beginners guide step by step - it's really good and should be enough to have a basic setup at the end (if you don't have any special requirements).
somewhere i should a have a step-by-step tut from my last install lying around ... *starts searching*

Linux ftw. Lol

No kidding, a friend of mine just went through the same yesterday.

Telling a windows user "Install Arch!", "Install Gentoo!", "Use i3 windows manager!"... heh. If that's the stuff you suggest to a newcomer, you'll chase them right back to Windows.

If you're sick of Windows, just throw Mint, Ubuntu or Fedora on a machine, install all the tools you need to be productive, and use it for a month or two. Diehard linux fans will all have their opinions about which distro & desktop environment combination is the best, but if you start out you just need a simple solution which works reasonably well out of the box.

Systems like Arch and Gentoo with i3 or xmonad are awesome, light and modular. But "can be customized" is often a bad feature when you need to finish up your feature branch before the end of the week...

@bittersweet I agree, I would personally recommend Debian or Ubuntu depending on the requirement; however, the "Install Gentoo" thing is merely a common joke.

Linux, install a Linux distro.