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Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time (www.techradar.com)

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A new patch is being quietly pushed to Windows 10 (and 11) PCs

It’ll force upgrades in certain circumstances to keep the PC in support

This update will mean more nag prompts coming to your PC

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's not a bad shout for beginners by any stretch, but it has a massively overdone reputation for beginner-friendliness that is not really deserved

Cinnamon, for one. Yes, it looks kind of like Windows. But the similarity is surface deep, and it's also pretty janky- by far the biggest resource hog of all the main DEs, lots of weird snagging bugs and stability issues. I've always found it very unsatisfying.

I personally use MATE quite a lot and I enjoy it, but I wouldn't really be recommending that to Windows users either; it's pretty old school at this point.

Keep recommending Mint to people by all means, though. If you like it and it's what you use, that's still a great recommendation. There is fundamentally no reason why beginners shouldn't use it as their first distro.