Windows 11 upgrade - yay or nay?

[HiWire]

39 minutes ago, skullguise said:

I just upgraded my mom's mini-PC to Win 11 today, with Win 10 ending support this week.  You can pay $30 for one more year of security updates, which was my original plan.

But then you NEED to create an MS account, and use it to login to your machine.  That was a no-go for my tech-scared mom.  Upgrade went fine, though.  Machine is a bit slower, but it'll hold for a while.

I had a little fun with Ubuntu.  I got a Celeron-based Chromebox for $25 from a used Electronics store in Maine a few weeks ago.  I was able to download & install a new BIOS for it, upped memory and SDD drive ($50 total), and loaded Ubuntu on it.  Still a tiny bit slow, so TBD if I'll keep it like that.  It was just fun to play with the innards and BIOS of a computer again.....

 

Ubuntu 25.10 was just released (October 9), too - probably worth upgrading the test system eventually (in my experience, new releases are very buggy for the first 4-6 months) - alternatively, Ubuntu 25.04 or the older 24.04 LTS will be more stable:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/ubuntu-25-10-new-features

And of course, Flatpak doesn't work out of the gate:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/flatpak-broken-ubuntu-25-10-apparmor-bug

 

For what it's worth, I am tech-scared too.

Edited 2 hours ago by HiWire