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Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0, meaning that most computers that are not within 5 years old will not be able to run it. But TPM 2.0 carries with it some privacy challenges that take away more control over your computer to hand it to the tech companies who seek to control us. So when Windows 11 comes, will you be buying new hardware to replace a computer that works just fine, or will you just switch to Linux?

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/06/windows-11s-strict-system-requirements-might-benefit-linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module https://web.archive.org/web/20110629082333/http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html https://epic.org/privacy/consumer/microsoft/palladium.html

Installing Linux from Windows 10: https://www.bitchute.com/video/VnYh37KK7kJ9/

# Description Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0, meaning that most computers that are not within 5 years old will not be able to run it. But TPM 2.0 carries with it some privacy challenges that take away more control over your computer to hand it to the tech companies who seek to control us. So when Windows 11 comes, will you be buying new hardware to replace a computer that works just fine, or will you just switch to Linux? https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/06/windows-11s-strict-system-requirements-might-benefit-linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module https://web.archive.org/web/20110629082333/http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html https://epic.org/privacy/consumer/microsoft/palladium.html Installing Linux from Windows 10: https://www.bitchute.com/video/VnYh37KK7kJ9/

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Linux. I'm learning with Ubuntu for a bit and will eventually migrate to Arch once I have a great foundation. It's a relief that computers do what you tell them to under Linux instead of Windows where you tell them fifty times that you don't want to perform updates, but they throw it on their anyway. Plus, I fucking hate Microsoft accounts. Fuck that.

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Manjaro is to Arch what Ubuntu is to Debian.

I'd just start off with Manjaro if your goal is to eventually use Arch. I've been using Manjaro for 6 years. It's great and not difficult.

[–] • 0 pt

Okay. I'll give Manjaro another shot. The packages kind of confused me, but I have plenty of other machines to test this stuff out on. Ubuntu and CentOS seemed like good directions considering how enterprise systems tend to utilize them. Career path was another thought when choosing. What do Ubuntu users end up gravitating toward?

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What we need is trustless computing.

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linux mint is banging tbh, windows is shit.

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Fuck odd versions superstitions. Windows 10 is clearly the good one and I never heard of Windows 9. 11 ain't even out yet and already sounds like a stinker. What I am saying is: I'm sticking with the devil I know. Silent updates do suck tho

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10 is clearly the good one?

No, 7 was the good one. 10 was a cobbled together piece of ass.

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Well 8 was the suck which is why no one uses it. I know that people didn't want to stop using 7 because it works for them, but I didn't realize it was a problem. I didn't switch right away like most people, so that probably colored my experience. The main thing about Windows 10 that sucks, which I think is unfortunately permanent, is M$ trying to force various things on you -- shitty weather app, Cortana, shitty search bar, trying to make you use Edge, trying to force you to use M$ account instead of local login. Like I say I don't think that's changing because Google does the same thing.

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I just replaced my windows 7 media server with Ubuntu. The installation was really easy.

Some annoying minor bugs.

Some missing features.

Some shortages of apps like a torrent client or acceptable packet sniffer.

But overall very happy with it and the price was right.

My main pc is win10. My last windows install

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There’s torrent clients in every linux distro I have ever seen. Most come with Transmission, but it is rather simple and limited. Deluge is a more full featured torrent client (free and open source too!) that is on most distro repositories.

on debian based systems you can type: sudo apt install deluge and it will download it for you.

Linux has always been way more open to the idea of p2p file sharing, since most distros offer a torrent download for their OS.