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Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline (www.express.co.uk)
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Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline::If you're still using Windows 10 and don't want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

ive finally settled on arch.

What are you, some kind of Linux prodigy?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

arch is basic. It's just minimalise by default.

It has an amazing wiki, extremely active and helpful user forums, and an installer (i think now) or at least a massively helpfully customised shell for initial setup.

you can install arch and make it look like mint or whatever easily, then the only difference is pacman and the amazing AUR

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It's not like he's compiling Linux from scratch on day one. Arch is pretty well supported and has a package manager.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol i hear this alot about arch users and as a newbie i dont get it. It has been the easiest for me to understand, maybe its the documentation idk i started with endavourOS as well which is a great beginner OS for arch IMO

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

EndeavourOS isn't pure arch. (I don't mean this in an elitist way. Use whatever is best for you.) Pure arch doesn't come with a desktop, so it sucks for new users.

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

I would agree but most people dont even know that a DE is different then an OS. I do plain arch now i was just saying it was a good starting point

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

EndeavorOS has been a great experience for me as well. Also KDE Plasma and now Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I started with an Arch-based distro and haven't looked back (EndeavorOS. Though I guess it's kind of like Arch easy mode). I have a family member that has been daily driving Linux for over a decade, so that was very helpful during the transition. But after a week or two, I haven't needed his help at all.

My laptop that previously ran Windows 11 is faster than ever.