Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users
The lengthy advertisement for Windows 11 was highlighted by Windows Latest after it installed the optional January update (in preview) on a Windows 10 machine.
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More and more happy I left Windows behind a couple of months ago. I'd been on Windows since version 3. I dual-booted for a few weeks, then took the plunge. Windows is completely gone from my life.
I'm on Ubuntu at the moment, but I'm planning a move to LMDE, I think that's a better distro for me.
Thought about regular Linux Mint too? It has some of the Ubuntu benefits but not the parts people don’t like.
I am considering switching one of the computers at home away from windows, so I have been looking at the latest on some of my options.
At this point I know of two Ubuntu features that would make a difference to end users: PPA support, and the Device Manager.
PPAs are/were Ubuntu's answer to the question "What if the software I want isn't in the repository?" "Well the vendor will host a personal package archive, you can just add it and then still use APT." From where I'm sitting, Flatpak and/or Appimage have completely invalidated any use case for PPAs, I haven't installed a package from a PPA in years.
The Device Manager is handy if you have an Nvidia GPU, open Device Manager and click the one that says "Recommended." IIRC this is an Ubuntu-derived feature not available in LMDE and as soon as I own an AMD GPU I'd have less reason to not use Debian Edition.
Informative, thank you!
I may need to try regular Linux Mint first on this particular machine.