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Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users (www.techspot.com)

submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ha. No worries. List of distributions...

Pop!_os Arch derivative. Popular. Quite easy
Debian One of the first distributions. Medium to hard difficulty
Ubuntu Very easy, but they are a bit corporate. Usually considered a good beginners distro
Slackware (beginners guide). One of the first distortion. Can be considered hard mode :)
Manjaro Arch derivative. Easy to medium
Arch Arch (not a) derivative. Hard mode
Redhat Enterprise mode

I would try them out as either live usb tests or in virtual box first to see what tickles your fancy. In the mid to late 90's I was using slack and Debian. Debian is generally used as a base in docker images for its stability, so getting to know that to get into herding containers can be a good thing.

Many others out there, that's just a small list off the top of my head.

List of distros
'nother list
distrowatch used to be my go to when hunting fun distros.
Have fun!
Break shit!
Learn how to fix it (almost every catastrophe is recoverable)

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! I realized that I will need a backup PC to use for my work if my work laptop goes down. Is there some fuckery that can allow me to boot from both OS's somehow? Like choose before anything loads

[–] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh yes!

If you have a big enough hard drive then you can install Linux alongside Windows. You will get that option when installing. When you boot, you will be able to choose...

Caveat, win11 requires secure boot which I haven't dealt with, so you may have to research if that's the case. There will be lots of info online though - it will depend upon your distro though

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Awesome! Thanks!