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Leave Windows 11 Idle For 24 Hours, It Sends Over 3000 Telemetry Pings To More Than 100 Different Servers. (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 1 point 4 months ago (6 children)

I got a new laptop for work, i could use linux for it, everything i do is within a browser, but it took me an hour tops to set up in windows 11 (well maybe a couple while i fiddled with settings, fuck you windows 11), jumping over to linux seems like an impossible task for me, who has never done it before

but i am planning to get a linux os running on my old laptop (8gb ram) that i use for torrents and streaming (browsers), i ran proton vpn. Give me a recommendation, maybe a tutorial i can follow, if you're so determined, give me the nudge i need :p

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    There are so many options, but since I assume it would be your first linux, I'd start with something that just works at once and does everything you say you need in your comment. Zorin OS will just work at once (I might not prefer this dist myself, but I'm 20 years in the linux game.. this is a distro that just works really well for first timers, and it's a good distro).

    1. Download the free Zorin OS Core version (it's the full OS with no limitations).
    2. Download Etcher.
    3. Put a USB drive (min 4GB) in your computer, start Etcher and select the Zorin OS file (image) you downloaded and select the USB you put in your computer, press "Flash!". Wait for it to finish.
    4. Restart computer and boot from the USB drive (usually, right after your computer restarts, you press F9 repeatedly)
    5. Fallow instructions and when done installing, restart and; you're free from Windows!
    6. Enjoy!
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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    As the other user said, get Mint Cinnamon on a USB. I moved to Linux last year (now on Bazzite KDE) and it wasn't the leap I expected, more just a small shuffle. Everything is roughly where you expect it to be and works how you expect it to, but like actually where you'd expect and working how you expect. Like if Windows 10 had been designed just for usability without corporate interests clogging everything up. The only reason it may take a while to customise to your liking is that you can customise far, far more of it straight out of the box.

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