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I use Arch
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I USE ARCH BTW
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Windows 10 won't take screenshots of everything I do on my computer, sooooooooooo
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Starting to think 8.1 might be the most viable windows version...
I actually really liked it when I used it. It was kind of the windows 7 to eights vista.
Happily on Linux now, tho.
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11 isnt even a decent sidegrade, its just a controlgrab trying to take away what little self definition a user has.
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Neither.
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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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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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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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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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Windows 10 is as bad as windows 11. The problems with windows run so deep in the Microsoft design philosophy that they infect everything Microsoft touches.
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I'd say 10 doesn't literally take screenshots of your actions every second but would anyone be surprised if it did?
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Windows 7 😆
I do have a Win7 machine still running, it's a trooper. Doesn't need anything newer for what it does.
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Extended support for security upgrades for Windows 7 ended on Jan. 10, 2023. So "what it does" should probably not include any connectivity to a public network.
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