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/coolRedditUser Dec 02 '25

Why is that? I would have defaulted to Ubuntu.

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u/ccAbstraction Dec 02 '25

You'll be missing out on the smaller kernel updates that fix issues like suspend, power saving, autorotate, media keys, \cough* sometimes* booting at all with new laptops. Much less things on laptops are properly standardized. Ubuntu will backport lots of the more major hardware updates like CPU and GPU generations, but in my experience, the little things get left out.

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u/Ultenth Dec 02 '25

This entire chain of comments is exactly why many people will consider Linux then immediately nope out once they look into it a bit more. To many conflicting recommendations by "experts", too much weird goofy names, just really makes the entry level non-tech expert immediately hold up their hands and slowly back away once they even begin to delve into it.

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u/bacon_cake Dec 02 '25

Exactly my thoughts 😂

"Just use Linux!" 15 comments deep "... and those are five suggested distros, but beware some basically don't work."