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| From | RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months |
| Date | 2025-04-01 06:00 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vsfver$2atsp$3@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <m504tbF5mspU1@mid.individual.net> <4QBGP.1425333$eNx6.554698@fx14.iad> |
On 2025-03-31, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote: > On 2025-03-31 14:23, rbowman wrote: >> https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/heres-why-you-should- >> reinstall-windows-11-every-two-months-no-im-not-kidding >> >> He's gotta be kidding... > > Ah, it looks like I was doing the right thing in switching to Linux > every so often and going back to Windows. It ends up being every two > months or so. > > Seriously though, that's a pretty good advertisement for Linux and a > defense of its 6-month window for major distribution updates. I have an old Latitude D430 that started out (when I got it) at either Linux Mint 17 or 18 (can't remember which). This computer maxes out at 2GBs of RAM. Just to see how it would work, I updated it (step by step) to Linux Mint 22. And it did this successfully — it took forever, but I was still amazed that it would 1) Even work with the newest Linux Mint and 2) That it actually updated four or five full versions (two steps for each major point update). (The Latitude D430 was first released in 2007.) -- “Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
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reinstall Windows 11 every two months rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-03-31 18:23 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-03-31 15:13 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-03-31 15:14 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-01 06:00 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-01 08:48 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-01 17:29 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-01 14:40 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-01 22:49 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-01 20:19 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-02 01:09 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-02 01:06 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-03-31 15:59 -0500
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-03-31 14:24 -0700
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-03-31 17:30 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-01 08:44 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-04-01 01:23 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-01 02:19 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-01 04:38 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-04-02 12:57 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-04-02 13:27 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-03 07:42 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-03 05:31 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-04-03 12:04 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-03 16:44 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-03 14:06 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-04 01:34 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-03 21:39 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-04-04 08:51 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-03 20:38 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-03 13:41 -0700
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-03 23:18 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-04 01:30 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-09 19:20 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2025-04-10 11:44 +0300
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-11 00:22 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-10 19:39 -0700
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-04-11 08:26 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-04-04 19:05 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-04-04 15:19 -0500
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-04-05 16:35 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-04-05 17:50 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-04-05 16:09 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-04 21:47 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-04-05 16:37 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-04 18:38 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-05 00:54 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-05 02:15 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-04-04 22:21 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-04 20:11 -0700
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-04-03 06:40 -0500
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-01 05:52 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-04-01 09:49 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-01 16:35 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-01 17:22 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-01 14:39 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-01 12:41 -0700
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-01 22:34 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-01 20:19 -0400
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-02 00:56 +0000
Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-04-02 07:25 -0500
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