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Microsoft wants 2025 to be the "year of the Windows 11 PC refresh." They want up to 400 million perfectly good computers running Windows 10 to become e-waste. Why? So Microsoft can have their cake ($140-$200 for a Windows 11 license) and eat it (your data) too

It's time to switch sides, and break away from this cycle of endless upgrades. Our new guide walks you through installing a Linux-based operating system—keeping your computer secure long after Microsoft walks away

ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Instal

installing mainstream Linux distros isn't arcane knowledge, if you can take a covid rapid test you can install Linux. Nerdy misogynists on the internet just want you too think its harder than it is, too inflate their own egos.
There is a windows program style installer and step by step instructions on the distros website. the most complex part is putting the install file on a thumbdrive which is fixed by ventoy

my day was kinda fucking shit, so I'm drinking mezcal and pineapple orange juice. there is a lot of mezcal in it 😐

@lynn Im bisexual but identify as just a lesbian and I'm not a girl or even perisex. i sleep with alot of fags and men. I also don't use she\her pronouns at all but also I'm mommy. so send em my way I'll blow their minds

@cthos this isn't an update, just corpo damage control with nothing changed

re: starting a Linux distro argument probably 

@madewokherd I can't seem to find the announcement that was put out last year and seem to find probably the same noncommittal conversations in forums that you did. idk what is up with it at this point.

re: starting a Linux distro argument probably 

@madewokherd I'd say stay away from Debian and its children just cause of their use of ai coding. openbsd is very stable and easy to install f you are of the tech people. Fedora's ai contributions rules seem to still be up in the air but for now one of their spins is what I would recommend for a it just works Linux install for people who maybe are coming from windows. the rest I agree with and I think gentoo can be put in the tinkering section as well

It's very strange how covid exposed a lot of things - like how governments could just spend without having the money, or how that money then flows to the wealthiest in society, or how work (and life) can slow down but won't collapse society - but we seem to have chosen to have not seen all that and gone back to the way it was and then turning the dial to 11...

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