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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Newbies

https://linuxmint.com/

https://ubuntu.com/

Experienced

http://fedoraproject.org/

http://www.debian.org/

Advanced

https://www.kali.org/

http://www.archlinux.org/

Or just shop around. Its free and its better than windows

Also a raspberry pi with raspian is a great place to start for cheap. https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/

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[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago
[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago

Y'know, if that's true… I can't afford a new computer. I just got one last year after almost a decade of using my last box. I was lucky that this one runs 11 - I'm not anti-Microsoft - I like Linux and Windows...... but I've been perfectly happy with 11 (maybe just lucky, but none of the problems I've heard others having).

But yeah, if this box won't run 12, I will be staying on 11 until I can't, and then that'll push me to Linux. I could switch now, jsut about, but a few little things that run better with Windows for me. But I could survive under Linux if I needed to.

Basically, I've never been a big Microsoft apologist, but man… that would kill it for me.

Not that they care. They care about corporate uses, not home users. Which is why you can find any number of ways to get your Windows for free these days. They gave up on the consumer market.

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