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Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery (www.theregister.com)
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[–] nightlily@leminal.space 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The only time I’ve booted into Windows in the last month is for the Battlefield beta and my work’s annoying proprietary VPN. Other than that I’d say Linux is finally ready for the desktop. Proton was the straw that broke Microsoft’s back for me.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

i had an annoying proprietary vpn for work that was unwittingly compatible with the openvpn client

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What OS do you recommend for desktop Linux. I’m mostly into protecting my data.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago

I use Linux Mint, which supports AppArmor or SELinux if you need the extra security, as well as allowing full disk encryption to be setup during install. Cinnamon (its default desktop environment) is very usable, especially if you’re used to Windows.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That really depends on you, keep in mind a lot of distro’s like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali Linux are based off of Debian just using different repositories and with system files in different locations.

I personally went with Debian and have had little to no complaints, definitely BASH/Shell/Terminal heavy so if you’re not willing to learn BASH I would probably use an immutable distro that you can’t easily break like Bazzite.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I’m mostly into protecting my data

Debian. Not Ubuntu - just Debian. Or Linux Mint Debian Edition (Debian with Cinnamon on top).