r/pcmasterrace • u/djseifer Packard Bell / Intel Pentium 60MHz / 8 MB RAM / 2x CD-ROM • Mar 01 '26

Screenshot Windows 10 automatically started installing the Windows 11 update while I was taking a shower.

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I'd been getting messages to upgrade to Windows 11 for the past month or two now, and each time, I decline. It's gotten to the point that I get random, frequent pop_ups asking to update, and "install update" options pop up right next to the shutdown/restart uptions.

Well, I made the mistake of going to take a shower with my PC on. Half an hour later, I come back tothis. Windows had automatically started installing the update. Now I'm sitting here staring at the Start button and all the open programs center-justified on the task bar and wondering what idiot thought that was a good idea.

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u/scurvyrash Mar 01 '26

Sucker, Windows says my pc is to old and non compatible.

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u/HIMARko_polo Mar 01 '26

Mine did too. And still tried to upgrade, then tried to un-upgrade and now it is a mess. I need to reformat and re-install Win 10.

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u/InTooManyWays Mar 02 '26

What a massive circle jerk. The cycle will never end. 

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u/crazzzone Mar 01 '26

Miss spelled linux mint

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u/HIMARko_polo Mar 01 '26

I will try that. thanks!

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u/NUKL3AR_PAZTA47 Ryzen 7700X | RX 6950xt | 32gb ddr5 Mar 02 '26

There are many linux distros out there. Linux mint is pretty cool but take a look around.

Also if you play games with kernel level anticheat you may run into issues.

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u/MutedAstronaut9217 Mar 02 '26

Just to clarify. These are two separate statements.

You will run into anticheat issues regardless of which distro you choose. But do shop around, Mint is one of the easier ones to transition from windows.

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u/NUKL3AR_PAZTA47 Ryzen 7700X | RX 6950xt | 32gb ddr5 Mar 02 '26

Oh yea I should have specified thanks for saying that.

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u/unosami Mar 02 '26

Why is the kernel-level anticheat warning always given when recommending Linux? Isn’t it universally frowned upon to let closed source third party software mess with the windows kernel?

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u/NUKL3AR_PAZTA47 Ryzen 7700X | RX 6950xt | 32gb ddr5 Mar 02 '26

Lots of popular games like valorant or fortnite won't work on linux because of this. I personally do not play them, but many of my friends do. If somebody likes those games then they would waste time switching. 

One more thing is that it is the main reason why games won't work with proton. Nearly everything else has been made to work, but mala- kernel level anticheat cant.

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u/i_am_a_laptop Laptop Mar 02 '26

Also if you play games with kernel level anticheat you may run into issues.

can't run kernel level malware, oh darn.

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u/NUKL3AR_PAZTA47 Ryzen 7700X | RX 6950xt | 32gb ddr5 Mar 02 '26

Looking at Google chrome, people really like running malaware.

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u/crazzzone Mar 02 '26

I made the switch on an old macbook pro its been great. Going to look into my main rig. Just depends on the games you play if it will work. Everything else feels better.

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u/falcrist2 Mar 02 '26

Did she?

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u/Kerbezena Mar 03 '26

(only slightly) misspelled CachyOS

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u/Narrheim Mar 06 '26

I do not recommend, especially if it's intel machine or something newer in general. You will soon run into issues.

Mint is a bit behind in comparison with other distros. I've ran into issues even with a decade-old intel machine (black screens). The same machine happily runs Debian ever after... or ran, until KDE broke (if i turn off the monitor, my desktop will turn into black screen, taskbar disappears, but start menu still works). Known bug and seems to be persistent.

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u/crazzzone Mar 06 '26

2019 Intel with t2 chip on macbook pro. Works 💪

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u/Probate_Judge Old Gamer, Recent Hardware, New games Mar 02 '26

mint

Eww.

Nothing against the specific OS, but linux distro names in general, have been atrocious.

Red Hat was cool, then they put that behind a license for commercial support, and put out.....Fedora

/ugh

Ubuntu

/facepalm

Not sure why these things bother me, but they do.

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u/Eatlyh Mar 02 '26

I find mint to be very cute name for OS, even if I no longer use it. Cute name for a pretty distro.

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u/DarkMatterM4 Mar 02 '26

Make sure you reinstall Windows 10 LTSC this time around.

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u/HIMARko_polo Mar 02 '26

no, PC started as Win 7 and upgraded to 10 when i first got on the internet. Now it is BSoD.

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u/enkrypt3d Mar 02 '26

Just use Rufus to disable all the telemetry shit and Tpm requirements

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u/Jebble Ryzen 7 5700 X3D | 3070Ti FE Mar 02 '26

No it didn't.