which would you choose
which would you choose
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Listen. I do not want fucking ads in the start menu. I have no idea how to code and I can't use the command terminal to save my life but I swear to god I'm going to switch to Linux before I touch Windows 11 with a 10-foot pole
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Windows Pro doesn't have these issues, only Home. Home doesn't have group policy, so lots of this can't be managed easily. Pro has GP, which is where all this stuff gets controlled by Enterprise organizations.
Even better, LTSC has even less nonsense and only gets security updates (no feature updates, so nothing odd happening).
Get Win10 LTSC. It gets updates 2x/year, has very minimal bloat.
Then get O&O Shutup to reduce bloat even more.
And you can permanently license it using Microsoft's own scripts.
This all applies to Win11 too, if you just have to use it.
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Come on, man. Let them come to us. Linux needs more adoption.
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Can you get security updates more often than 2x a year doing this method?
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No, clearly switching to an entirely different operating system is the easier option.
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Many people suggest popOS for a new linux user which is based on ubuntu which in turn is based on debian. I never tried popOS but i found ubuntu hard to get packages or find help with when i was first learning.
I would recomend endeavourOS which is based on arch. In arch, its very easy to get packages and and find help since you can use the aur and the arch wiki . But it might require using the terminal a bit more than PopOS. Dont let that intimidate you however, the terminal is actually not hard to learn and many tools guide you through using it.
Both are better than windows and i would recomend you try them both on your machine. Just download the live image ISOs to a usb that has ventoy installed. Throw some other distros on there too like nobara just to round out your testing.
Then you can always install it on an old computer (even one that windows dosent work well on) or a spare hdd/ssd while testing until you are ready to leave windows for good.
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I use EndeavourOS, only because I wanted to get up and running quickly. It's still Arch under the hood, and all the fun nuances that come with Arch. I would probably suggest that EndeavourOS is more intermediate, probably popOS or Mint are more beginner-suited.
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Stop recommending arch and arch based distros to newbies. They break way too often for people who have never used Linux before.
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You don’t need to code or use a terminal to use Linux
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As someone who has fully transitioned to Linux myself recently:
You don't need to know how to code. But I don't know how you think you don't need to use terminal. Linux is complex. You run into problems. You will need to learn to troubleshoot. You will inevitably have to use terminal at some point (even if that's for copy/pasting commands, but you'll still need a very basic understanding).
Trying to underplay the complexity or learning curve for Linux is disingenuous and problematic for new users.
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Unless if you use Arch btw
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Didn't Windows 10 also have ads in the start menu from pretty much the start, like Candy Crush and such? Or maybe I just used a bloated OS image, wouldn't be beyond me.
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It did, yes. One of the first things I did with my Windows 10 machine was install Classic Shell to give myself the Windows 7 start menu.
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Good thing you don't need to know to code or use a terminal to use linux. Just install popOS! And you're good to go
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It's easier than it looks, figure out how to do the first step: create your live boot flashdrive that you would use to install linux to your hdd. Then boot into that and play around before you install. I reccomend to follow along with this nerd in your terminal like it's a class. Once you learn this basic stuff you're pretty much set.
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Same
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Windows 10 won't take screenshots of everything I do on my computer, sooooooooooo
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Oh its worse than just screenshots. They’re screenshotting, then they ocr the screenshot and store any text in a highly compressed searchable database.
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But it does scan everything you put on your computer and sends it to microsoft
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Neither will Windows 11 when I turn that feature off.
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Until they turn it back on again during the next automatic update.
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Until it is smuggled back in by an inconspicuous monthly security update!
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Don't try to bring reason to an anti-Microsoft circlejerk
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Neither.
laughs in penguin
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—which one do you like better, beef or pork?
—umm, have you tried being vegan?vegans got a bad rap but they were never as likely to show up in every conversation uninvited as Linux users or weed smokers.
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I've always wanted to try that distro just because of the mascot.
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I use Arch
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[cum explodes everywhere]
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Username checks out
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I USE ARCH BTW
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Windows 10 is usable, so linux, I choose linux.
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Anyone who thinks Windows 10 is better: Have you tried installing the current version recently? There's like a dozen screens full of bullshit where you have to click "maybe later" or "yes, I want the limited experience", while Windows hits you with messages such as "setting up some stuff" or "relax and let us take care of everything".
Then after installation you have to go through all the settings and deny, deny, deny some more.
Hide the annoying mouseover "news", the search field, remove Edge from desktop, taskbar, standard app settings and favorites, ...Shit, forgot to install updates first.
So you update. Now the privacy settings are changed again, Edge is back everywhere (it's your standard browser again), "news" are back, the search field is back. But only after you clicked through the blue screen asking you all the questions from the installation again.
Not to mention the urgent security notifications telling you you'll lose all your data if you don't set up OneDrive and your PC isn't safe without an MS account...-
I think windows 10 is better than windows 11, absolutely.
Have I tried installing the most recent version recently? Fuck no. I hate windows. Last time I installed it, it was for work and it was a server OS. That doesn’t change the reality of differences between 10 and 11.
However, your complaints apply to Win 10 and 11 equally.
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Are you saying windows 11 somehow isn't a similar horror show with even more privacy invasion?
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no
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I have actually reinstalled recently. I've never had updates re-add or re-enable anything I've uninstalled or disabled. And the setup guide (all the things you deny, deny, deny) hasn't changed much in the last few iterations of Windows. It can also be totally automated to disable or not install pretty much any of those features when you create the installation media, and then you don't even have to manually do anything during setup.
The last thing that just appeared after an update was Copilot. And that was a super simple setting to get rid of.
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Anyone who thinks Windows 10 is better
The fundamental difference between 10 and 11 is that in 10 I still remember how to turn off all these features while in 11 its that much more difficult to do so.
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Ah, yes. Windows 11 is better because since 11 came out MS made 10 worse.
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