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Re:Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call thei... by fallinditch on Saturday October 18, 2025 @09:26AM (#45627182)
I have a 7 year old mini 'NUC' PC that ran Windows 10. I installed Windows 11 and used a popular Debloat program [1] - this produced a very nice operating system that suits me well and performed well.

I also tried to install various Linux distros on a partition but all of the installations failed towards the end of the process, causing various boot loader and other problems that required a lot of uncomfortable fixing in terminals and BIOS.

I would have liked to be using Linux but as it turned out a de-bloated Windows 11 experience is very good for me.

[1] https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat?utm_source=perplexit...

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Re:Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call thei... by d3Xt3r on Saturday October 18, 2025 @10:30PM (#45631714)
That's odd, usually older computers, especially NUCs are very well supported under Linux. I've got a 3yr old NUC-like Mini PC (from Minisforum) and it everything worked OOTB (with Fedora and Arch).
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