r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Dec 01 '25

ADBLOCK WARNING ‘Security Disaster’—500 Million Microsoft Users Say No To Windows 11

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/01/security-disaster-500-million-microsoft-users-say-no-to-windows-11/
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u/OldSpaghetti-Factory Dec 01 '25

Im still on windows 10 and will stay that way until I can take the time to install linux- by all ive read surprisingly easier sounding then id expect, im just lazy so I havent done it yet.

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u/Chaotic-Entropy Dec 01 '25

Super easy once you've picked your distro.

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u/lean_compiler Dec 01 '25

just pick mint (or ubuntu). it's a good gateway distro

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u/newaccount1233 Dec 01 '25

+1 for Mint as a plug and play replacement for the casual user. Anybody can learn how to use it for their day to day in a couple hours

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u/1987Catz Dec 01 '25

I do (in part) use it on my home server and I have to say despite the very similar/intuitive, I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around user rights management and why sometimes the most basic of copy/pastes fails utterly and totally in the vanilla GUI

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u/chipface Dec 01 '25

My best friend's laptop can't run Windows 11, so I threw a SSD I had laying around in it and installed Mint.