XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: dan@djph.net   
      
   On 2025-10-27, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > On 2025/10/27 12:14:46, Alan K. wrote:   
   >> DistroWatch had what I think is a pretty good q&a here this week.   
   >> Kinda hits home with recent events in Windows 10 EOL.   
   >>   
   >> Short read.   
   >>   
   >> https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251027#qa   
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   >>   
   >>   
   >> Advice for new Linux users   
   >>   
   >> Roll-out-the-welcome-mat asks: With all the new Linux users coming over   
   with the End of   
   >> 10, any advice for the Linux newbies?   
   >>   
   >>   
   > "With Linux, almost every application you are going to run is provided   
   > by your distribution. … Windows and macOS users are accustomed to   
   > browsing the web, looking for applications, clicking a download link,   
   > and running an installer. With Linux we skip all of that. We can open   
   > the software centre (or "app store") and find just about anything we   
   > need."   
   >   
   > Sounds very Mac- (or modern-Windows-)like to me. (I don't _want_ to   
   > "skip all that".)   
      
   You can still build from source ;)   
      
   Half of the discussion there reads a bit like regurgitated thoughts from   
   previous EOL events from whichever Windows version.  Not that it's   
   necessarily "bad" advice or anything, but may miss some advances MS has   
   made to their product.   
      
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