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   From: nobody@dizum.com   
      
   On 14 Oct 2025, rbowman  posted some   
   news:ml8iroF4s9U1@mid.individual.net:   
      
   > On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:43:02 +0200, Stefan Claas wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >> I strongly believe that people will upgrade to Windows 11, even if a   
   >> lot of them will to have buy new hardware, because many people are   
   >> used to commercially licensed software, they use. And wine is no   
   >> option, under Linux for that, me thinks.   
   >   
   > The hardware people certainly hope so.   
   >   
   >> Installing Linux, with the help of online tutorials, shoud be easy   
   >> enough for Windows users. I think the majority is using Ubuntu and   
   >> not Mint.   
   >   
   > Ubuntu certainly is an easy install, particularly if you're going to   
   > nuke Windows, point the installer at the drive and say 'do your   
   > thing'. I'm running Ubuntu on this box. GNOME isn't my favorite DE   
   > though. The Fedora box has KDE which I think is much closer to the   
   > Windows experience.   
   >   
   > I fired up a Mint Live with Cinnamon but didn't see any compelling   
   > reason to prefer it. MATE is similar as far as I can see.   
   >   
   > I have Xfce on the Debian box but I don't think it's as newbie   
   > friendly. It doesn't have the animations and stuff that I dislike   
   > anyway. I don't know how many Win10 users use the Aero derived stuff   
   > like shaking title bars, snapping, and so forth and would miss it.   
      
   I'll keep W10 as a VM, run W11 as the host, Kali and Mint as VMs or from   
   USBs.  It's been working fine.   
      
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