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Microsoft is trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade with full-screen prompts
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this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2024
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Yep. The other day it rewrote a registry key that prevented these pop ups. I'm out. Debating which Debian distro to go to now.
Debian is the slow reliable. Go with mint for easy, Debian for completely foss, pop! OS for eaay nvidia drivers, or Ubuntu for.... Uh.... Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is good for if you want Snap packages forced on you. It is a shame, Ubuntu was my first distro, but I don't think I would ever use it again.
I recommend OpenSuse Tumbleweed if you want stuff to be very up to date (we got the xz backdoor first! yay!) but also easy and stable. And KDE Plasma is pretty good these days. Linux Mint is also good but it's a bit slower with the updates.
I tried a few, Fedora, LMDE(Linux Mint Debian Edition), and EndeavourOS.
I'd say LMDE if you want a rock solid system, being fundamentally Debian Stable with Mint treatment for user friendliness, or Endeavour if you want bleeding edge updates (and of course bragging rights to join the meme by saying "BTW I use arch")
I gotta say, I've distro hopped a lot over the years...finally caved to try EndeavorOS and it's my new favorite, if only for the AUR.
Same! I started with Ubuntu back in the days and was shocked how weirdly bad it is nowadays when I was forced to use it at my current project with the client's laptop. I mean the happy path is still all fun and easy but after having Ubuntu installed, it's almost like a Windows experience trying to get stuff installed vs. having AUR available :D
Debian 12 itself isn't bad
I like Mint
This is what drove me away. There are like 7 people that figured out how to make these pop-ups disappear and Microsoft invested money to "patch" that "error" to ensure they were forced to continue seeing these ads.