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Windows 10 kept throwing up full screen ads for whatever bullshit they were trying to get me to sign up for while also telling me my computer wasn't good enough for Windows 11.
And that's how I ended up with Mint on my desktop and laptop a couple months ago.
I have to use Windows for work, but my personal machines are Linux and macOS at this point, and I have zero intention of buying another windows license.
Just moved my parents onto Mint, they were hesitant at first but now doing great. MS is digging it's own grave.
My 80 yr old mother got a laptop recently, W11. I downgraded to W10 LTSC, and dual boot with Mint, and ran Chris Titus' win util to decrapify. Two weeks later she had allowed windows to trick her into upgrading to W11 again.
She's been using computers since the 70's, and owned PCs since the DOS era, but she just doesn't want to bother with anything but using her PC in autopilot mode. Couldn't care less about exploring Mint.