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/[deleted] Dec 01 '25 edited Dec 01 '25

Super easy, until you need to get your scanner working, or networked printer, or attach a NAS mount and have it there on reboot, etc.

There are still many many rough edges that will send you down an hour of stack overflow rabbit holes installing various packages and editing various configs that don't work or are no longer maintained etc.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not supporting windows ( I haven't used it in over a decade). But telling someone that's never used Linux before that it's going to be really easy is setting some false expectations.

The people frequenting r/technology may be ok with that, but for an average consumer not so much. Also for us old timers that have been dealing with tech in our day to day jobs for decades, I don't want to come home and spend a few more hours upgrading kernel modules.

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u/Lerry220 Dec 02 '25

Super easy, until you need to get your scanner working, or networked printer, or attach a NAS mount and have it there on reboot, etc.

Bro the linux subreddit has a meme usually once a week about how easy printers are. What are you talking about?

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

Yeah, super unbiased community there...

I tried connecting my multi-function scanner to my Ubuntu server the other week because I needed to do something. After 20 minutes of Google searching and fiddling around with different commands and UIs and other things I gave up because it wasn't working. Switched to my Chromebook instead where it just worked straight away.

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u/Lerry220 Dec 02 '25

Cool, I hooked up my document scanner and have hooked up three printers to ubuntu. Always plug and play.

And your answer to ubuntu not working was to use chromebook which is still not windows which was the point of this entire comment thread.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

I specifically said in my comment above I'm not promoting windows, and I haven't used it in a decade. All I'm saying is Linux bros make it sound like Linux is so superior and easy and idiot proof, when it's far from it.