Buuuut I’ve been on Debian for the past year with absolutely no issues. I think that, for 99% of computer users, the whole “rolling release” design for an OS is more trouble than its worth. Give me a stable release that I can get used to for a couple years, then one big update at a time - little updates every day that unexpectedly change and sometimes break things just make the experience of doing things more finnicky and unpredictable.
That was also the final straw that made me leave Windows, for the record.
I followed a guide on YouTube to install windows 11 without an account. It also helped me disable a lot of crap.
Despite what people tell you in here Linux isn’t an amazing alternative if you don’t want to spend time setting it up to be a replacement.
I’m a software engineer and when I leave work I don’t want to be solving more problems.
I am the furthest thing from a techie but I have been using Linux for several years. Never in a million years could I return to windows.
Linux doesn’t break often in my experience
My fedora install nuked itself after an update
Corrupted the btrfs filesystem and would only mount as readonly. Trying some “fixes” completely fucked it.
Meanwhile had zero issues with windows updates and even was able to get the machine booting fine to an older windows install on the drive
The same thing happened to me on Pop OS.
Buuuut I’ve been on Debian for the past year with absolutely no issues. I think that, for 99% of computer users, the whole “rolling release” design for an OS is more trouble than its worth. Give me a stable release that I can get used to for a couple years, then one big update at a time - little updates every day that unexpectedly change and sometimes break things just make the experience of doing things more finnicky and unpredictable.
That was also the final straw that made me leave Windows, for the record.