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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 01:06:34 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-04-01, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-04-01 02:00, RonB wrote:
>> On 2025-03-31, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2025-03-31 14:23, rbowman wrote:
>>>> https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/heres-why-you-should-
>>>> reinstall-windows-11-every-two-months-no-im-not-kidding
>>>>
>>>> He's gotta be kidding...
>>>
>>> Ah, it looks like I was doing the right thing in switching to Linux
>>> every so often and going back to Windows. It ends up being every two
>>> months or so.
>>>
>>> Seriously though, that's a pretty good advertisement for Linux and a
>>> defense of its 6-month window for major distribution updates.
>> 
>> I have an old Latitude D430 that started out (when I got it) at either Linux
>> Mint 17 or 18 (can't remember which). This computer maxes out at 2GBs of
>> RAM. Just to see how it would work, I updated it (step by step) to Linux
>> Mint 22. And it did this successfully — it took forever, but I was still
>> amazed that it would 1) Even work with the newest Linux Mint and 2) That it
>> actually updated four or five full versions (two steps for each major point
>> update).
>> 
>> (The Latitude D430 was first released in 2007.)
>
> I only did a major upgrade once with Linux Mint and it was a total 
> disaster on my dad's laptop. It technically worked once the process was 
> done, but all the graphical elements were suddenly borked. I imagine 
> that I could have fixed it if I really wanted to, but I wasn't willing 
> to spend a whole day there to fix a computer that's used exclusively to 
> post useless content on Facebook.

I didn't have that issue at all but, again, I was using an Intel GPU, so 
maybe that was the difference.

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