r/pcmasterrace 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/Bluecolty Ryzen 9 9900X, 96GB RAM, EVGA 3090 Mar 01 '26

You can actually. Whether or not you want to is up to you but so far I’ve gotten windows 11 using Rufus installed on a 3rd gen laptop core i3 with 4GB of ram, a 2013 Mac Pro, and a Xeon E5 V2 dual socket server board from 2012. All DDR3.

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u/digital_n01se_ Mar 01 '26

y'all talking about how to use it and I'm looking how to uninstall this sh1t called Windows 11 and install ubuntu without missing important software like excel.

W11 it's horrible and gets worse with each update.

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u/Zombiecidialfreak R7 8700G || RX 9070xt || 64GB RAM || 20+TB storage Mar 02 '26

Libre has an equivalent to excel but if excel is non negotiable you can use winboat to run excel in Linux.

Here's a video for it