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I took psychic damage just from seeing both of their names in a headline together
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I took psychic damage just from seeing both of their names in a headline together
IoT is supported until January 2032, while standard LTSC is only supported until January 2027, which only, like, an extra year or so of support over regular Windows 10. I’ve never heard anything about IoT being less secure but I’m far from being an expert lol.
Am I having a stroke, or is this headline horrendously written?
This. I swear, some people in the FOSS community seem to be convinced everyone who uses a computer is a developer.
I’m also on NVIDIA, I tried the Plasma 6 Alpha last night (on KDE neon unstable) and to my utter shock, Wayland was pretty goddamn close to flawless.
It has the brand recognition of being “the” Linux distro, even though it doesn’t deserve that title these days (if it ever did at all).
The biggest advice I can give is to start with something like, as has been mentioned, Linux Mint, but also, don’t buy into the idea that you eventually need to move to a more “advanced” distro. If Mint, or wherever you wind up, works for you, and you have no compelling reason to switch, then don’t. All Linux is Linux, so to speak, the only things that distinguish distros are packages/package managers, default settings/configurations, and pre-installed programs. There’s nothing preventing you from eventually becoming a power-user on a “noob-friendly” distro, if that’s something you desire in the first place.
OP when they try Debian and it’s exactly what it advertises itself as: