Windows installer is slow, reboot-heavy, ad-filled and forces online accounts and privacy toggles. Linux installs fast, reboots once, skips ads and online accounts; local accounts are default. Most ...

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We originally published this install guide for Windows 11 shortly after the OS was released in October 2021. To keep it current and as useful as possible, we updated it in October 2024 to cover ...

Windows 10 was launched in July 2015. It was supposed to be the last major operating system (OS) upgrade, but Microsoft released Windows 11 in October 2021, and now Windows 10 has reached end of life, ...

The better choice is to dual boot both versions of Windows. In this case, you would use a computer that already has Windows 10, then install Windows 11 on its own volume. Each time you boot up your PC ...

If you’ve ever had a bad Windows update or a system corruption, you’ll know it can be paralyzing for your OS, or operating system and render it useless. That’s why you need to create a restore point ...