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Re: About the upcoming discontinuation of windows 10 support...
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2025 4:48 pm
by izzytizzie
Windows 10 LTSC should be more than serviceable, something like massgrave would help you immensely on that end. Mint is an extremely beginner friendly distro, Cinnamon should feel enough at home for you to not really need to hugely adjust to new UI design. Fedora is also not awful, though support for it is finicky...
Arch is actually quite easy to use and customise, installing is usually the worst of it but archinstall helps quite a fair bit. The Steam Deck's release has made for a lot of perfect 'for dummies' guides for Arch overall.
The only distro I would really not recommend is Ubuntu, the software manager is rather terrible and you'd just be better off going with pure Debian at that point, lol.
Re: About the upcoming discontinuation of windows 10 support...
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2025 8:35 pm
by Patachoo
izzytizzie wrote:Windows 10 LTSC should be more than serviceable, something like massgrave would help you immensely on that end. Mint is an extremely beginner friendly distro, Cinnamon should feel enough at home for you to not really need to hugely adjust to new UI design. Fedora is also not awful, though support for it is finicky...
Interesting ! I take notes, because I'm not really familiar with Linux distros lmao
Re: About the upcoming discontinuation of windows 10 support...
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2025 8:29 pm
by lakes
patachoo wrote:Windows 10 LTSC should be more than serviceable, something like massgrave would help you immensely on that end. Mint is an extremely beginner friendly distro, Cinnamon should feel enough at home for you to not really need to hugely adjust to new UI design. Fedora is also not awful, though support for it is finicky...
Arch is actually quite easy to use and customise, installing is usually the worst of it but archinstall helps quite a fair bit. The Steam Deck's release has made for a lot of perfect 'for dummies' guides for Arch overall.
The only distro I would really not recommend is Ubuntu, the software manager is rather terrible and you'd just be better off going with pure Debian at that point, lol. Interesting ! I take notes, because I'm not really familiar with Linux distros lmao
Basically Mint & Ubuntu are both based on Debian which means that both can install deb files. You can install flatpaks, tarballs & appimages too which can be installed on basically any distro. However there are differences between them. For one, Ubuntu lets you install "snaps" from the snap store by default which are closed source & like flatpaks, run the risk of being bloated. Ubuntu's also come under fire because the company responsible for snaps, Canonical is partnered with Microsoft Azure & Google Cloud. They also use different desktop environments. Ubuntu has more desktop environments listed in the download options. While Mint opts for fewer default DEs but only using ones that'll ease windows users into linux.
Re: About the upcoming discontinuation of windows 10 support...
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2025 1:57 pm
by bluelace
If I were you I'd switch to Linux if you have a lot of experience with tech, If you still stick with Microsoft, I'd recommend you either install a TON of antivirus programs and stay in 10, or suffer through it and get windows 11 (If you absolutely have to).
Re: About the upcoming discontinuation of windows 10 support...
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2025 7:43 pm
by Patachoo
lakes wrote:Interesting ! I take notes, because I'm not really familiar with Linux distros lmaoBasically Mint & Ubuntu are both based on Debian which means that both can install deb files. You can install flatpaks, tarballs & appimages too which can be installed on basically any distro. However there are differences between them. For one, Ubuntu lets you install "snaps" from the snap store by default which are closed source & like flatpaks, run the risk of being bloated. Ubuntu's also come under fire because the company responsible for snaps, Canonical is partnered with Microsoft Azure & Google Cloud. They also use different desktop environments. Ubuntu has more desktop environments listed in the download options. While Mint opts for fewer default DEs but only using ones that'll ease windows users into linux.
That's super interesting ! Thanks for sharing it
Taking notes
Re: About the upcoming discontinuation of windows 10 support...
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 4:44 pm
by izzytizzie
patachoo wrote:Basically Mint & Ubuntu are both based on Debian which means that both can install deb files. You can install flatpaks, tarballs & appimages too which can be installed on basically any distro. However there are differences between them. For one, Ubuntu lets you install "snaps" from the snap store by default which are closed source & like flatpaks, run the risk of being bloated. Ubuntu's also come under fire because the company responsible for snaps, Canonical is partnered with Microsoft Azure & Google Cloud. They also use different desktop environments. Ubuntu has more desktop environments listed in the download options. While Mint opts for fewer default DEs but only using ones that'll ease windows users into linux.
That's super interesting ! Thanks for sharing it
I would heavily recommend using Mint given Ubuntu's issues, plus Flatpak offers a lot more apps than Snap does in my experience. Again, if it's an option you prefer, Windows 10 LTSC should be more than serviceable since it receives extended support. Once an OS is old enough too, the worst of the exploits stop becoming an issue because a lot of Remote Code Execution exploits require someone hosting something, which isn't a reality anymore on OSes Win 7 and before. So maybe just wait like a decade :P
Re: About the upcoming discontinuation of windows 10 support...
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2025 8:21 pm
by luchitrox__
i will use windows 10 until i get my new laptop, i won't change to linux because I use incompatible programs (fl studio, paint.net, and most importantly adobe animate since i'm an animator, and no i'm not taking other alternatives to animate since they are all trash) and because it's uncomfortable for me in general
Re: About the upcoming discontinuation of windows 10 support...
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2025 5:35 pm
by lakes
liamphonix133 wrote:i will use windows 10 until i get my new laptop, i won't change to linux because I use incompatible programs (fl studio, paint.net, and most importantly adobe animate since i'm an animator, and no i'm not taking other alternatives to animate since they are all trash) and because it's uncomfortable for me in general
that's fair. at the end of the day, you use what operating system you want. i think this person was just asking because windows 10 won't be receiving security updates soon which would make it vulnerable to hackers. but if it gets old enough, it'll probably stop being as much of a problem, since it won't be as "useful" to attack those systems. plus windows 11 is kinda like a virus itself
Re: About the upcoming discontinuation of windows 10 support...
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2025 10:12 pm
by Huwitto
Btw just wanna add that in Europe, support for Windows 10 will be extended for an extra year. I don't remember 100% why but I think the EU forced Microsoft to do this
Re: About the upcoming discontinuation of windows 10 support...
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2025 12:02 am
by lakes
huwitto wrote:Btw just wanna add that in Europe, support for Windows 10 will be extended for an extra year. I don't remember 100% why but I think the EU forced Microsoft to do this
I'm not surprised. From what I hear, the EU has better privacy protections than the US on average. I think they also made it so that Microsoft allows local accounts on Windows 11 in the user is from the EU if I'm not mistaken.
