I said it with Windows 7 and it's a good thing to consider with Microsoft phasing out Windows 10 ~ a year from now (and currently pestering Win10 users nonstop to upgrade): Now's a great time to get friendly with some other operating systems if Windows is still your main thing. If you're new to Linux, e.g., Ubuntu is probably a good start. Install it in a virtual machine like Parallels or Virtualbox and just gradually start using it more for stuff.
There will be a learning curve while you navigate the various stuff you need to know at the command line, but that's a great stepping stone to creating shell scripts and becoming a lot more proficient at using your computer, as opposed to the other way around.
I will probably kick Windows to the curb entirely next year. It will help me waste less time killing random strangers on Halo.
@briankrebs I was up until 2 last night fixing my laptop. I have a win11 partition just for occasional games that struggle on linux. Despite having the registry key set to pause updates (or so I thought) I come home am greeted with looping BSOD at boot. Earlier, I put the machine to sleep and it never prompted me or informed me that it was going to do anything. But jammed through an update and broke everything.
After fixing it, I finally have have this fancy new copilot icon in the taskbar, just pathetic.
@L0G1S @briankrebs I feel you. Windows is always getting in the way of people who know what they're doing. (And to a lesser degree, people who don't)
