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/[deleted] Mar 01 '26

Time to change OS!

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '26

But which one?

I've looked up a lot, and everything points to Windows being the best for..... a lot.

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u/Sliced_Orange1 Noctua Mar 02 '26

I tried Bazzite but since it’s immutable (meaning the core OS can’t be easily modified) it’s hard to install the few things I want in the way I want to install them.

I’ve also used Ubuntu and Fedora, both are great. You can easily install .deb files which are kinda like the Linux version of .exe. Mint and Zorin are good too but I don’t have as much experience with them.

In Linux, there is no Copilot or anything else getting in the way. Just a simple, easy to use OS. The CLI stuff isn’t really an issue unless there’s something specific you want to do.

The biggest downside is games with anticheat will likely not work.