Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months

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
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He's gotta be kidding...

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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.
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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.)

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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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