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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Windows Pro doesn't have these issues, only Home. Home doesn't have group policy, so lots of this can't be managed easily. Pro has GP, which is where all this stuff gets controlled by Enterprise organizations.

Even better, LTSC has even less nonsense and only gets security updates (no feature updates, so nothing odd happening).

Get Win10 LTSC. It gets updates 2x/year, has very minimal bloat.

Then get O&O Shutup to reduce bloat even more.

And you can permanently license it using Microsoft's own scripts.

Scripts on Gituub.

This all applies to Win11 too, if you just have to use it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

Come on, man. Let them come to us. Linux needs more adoption.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can you get security updates more often than 2x a year doing this method?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yes you do. I get monthly security updates on mine and I think it is feature that are twice a year.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No, clearly switching to an entirely different operating system is the easier option.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Worked for me, but until there’s a consensus on how to onboard the layman on Linux, we need to stop bitching that the layman doesn’t use Linux.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What Linux is missing is a "just works" distro like Mint, that isn't based on Debian Stable or Ubuntu LTS but on something with newer packages and kernels, with >50% market share so you can easily ~~google~~ duck distro-specific issues.

Basically what Ubuntu was, 18 years ago. Nowadays, Ubuntu is still a good beginner's distro, but every beginner asking what to start with is confused by all the experienced Linux users shouting at them about how the most popular distro is evil and shit, for reasons a beginner doesn't understand.