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Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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get linux if you haven't already
if you don't know how, ask, Lemmy is covered in Linux users
I ran linux mint for a couple months. It was nice. Very few problems.
Unfortunately, when I tried to install it on this newer desktop it was a shit-show. No wifi or ethernet, no hdmi, it crashed when I tried to play elden ring. I should try another distribution, but I was so distressed after two days I just rolled back. The people in the mint discord were helpful, though, and got some of the problems fixed.
Windows sucks though.
Since Mint is based on a stable distro, it'll be running older software that won't support your newer hardware well, and you're experiencing that firsthand.
Try Fedora, Bazzite, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, or anything else that's more bleeding edge – they're still very usable and reliable, it's just that stable distros like Mint and Debian are "stable and reliable" overkill.
Edit: and if you're wondering why this wasn't mentioned to you from the start, the answer is likely that these distros tend to be: