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Re:The End of Windows 10: a toolkit for community repair groups by trinix912 on Friday July 18, 2025 @05:11AM (#44602671)
It's not like Linux is immune to UI changes during updates, Ubuntu has changed their DE a few times (which the average user could easily run into by just clicking Yes in an updater popup), Gnome has changed vastly from 2 to 3, KDE has changed quite a lot too.

Windows 10 has had the same UI for 10 years with a few minor changes.

But if you're comparing it to a non-updated Linux system, then it's no different than keeping them on Windows 7.

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Re:The End of Windows 10: a toolkit for community repair groups by joseda-hg on Friday July 18, 2025 @11:31AM (#44605840)
While I'm not an active user, I don't recall seeing much change in say XFCE or in Cinammon for that matter

In this particular regard, options are good to have, depending on how much you value that kind of stability you could even freeze only the DE and let the stuff around it update, which is a lot better than actually being stuck in any insecure OS

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