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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by jackstraw14 on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:20AM (#35324568)
> I can't imagine having to deal with this kind of things on a daily-basis while trying to actually get stuff done.

I switched from Windows to Arch Linux on Thinkpads for about 15 years and had a great time and learned a lot, but dealing with things on a daily basis was why I switched back to Windows 10 a few years ago, along with a new gaming habit during the pandemic. Gaming on Linux with Steam is wonderful these days, but the daily overhead of random stuff to deal with was too much when sometimes I just want to play games.

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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by Lewton on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:55AM (#35324747)
You specifically chose a high maintenance distro?

I'm running linux mint and I haven't had to fiddle with anything for years

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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by jackstraw14 on Monday March 27, 2023 @12:59PM (#35329129)
> You specifically chose a high maintenance distro?

I guess so? Overall Arch was pretty easy to maintain, I just got tired of bailing on friends because I needed to spend hours figuring out some random issue.

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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by nunodonato on Monday March 27, 2023 @04:15PM (#35331823)
yeah... bad choice :) if you wanted the Arch ecossystem without all the manual work you could have picked Manjaro or other arch-based distro
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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by jackstraw14 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @02:09AM (#35336597)
I did try Manjaro, it was definitely more user-friendly. Still not what I was looking for, unfortunately.
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