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I upgraded to Windows 11 beta. I get green Blue Screens of Death. The right click button (contextual menu) does not cover all previous functionality so it has a 'show old menu' option to bring back what is lacking. Edge and Teams are installed by default. It feels like an UI refresh and not much more.

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The new contextual menu is great in places like the desktop, where after choosing ‘show more options’ you get… the exact same options, in the old style.

I was semi interested in a native Teams (wishful thinking that it may be a little less resource intensive) until I found out it’s the ‘personal’ version only.

I mean I’m not sure I could have come up with a better transitional design that has to keep the old UI around for compatibility.

It's only a matter of time before we find out how much extra user spying they added in Windows 11, in exchange for having icons in the middle of the taskbar.

Seriously, switch to Pop OS now. Windows is not going to get better, only worse.

Will Pop OS run Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020? That's literally the only thing I use Windows for.

It runs fine on Arch Linux, so it shouldn't have problems with Pop OS or other distros.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgPjOh_zPx0

Check also:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/

https://appdb.winehq.org/

https://www.protondb.com/app/1250410 is the best source to find out how any given Steam game will run on Linux.

You can also use Proton to run Windows games and apps outside of Steam.

Yes. Linux run most games now. In practice there are a few small bugs here and there so Windows is still prefered for some games but I can play 90% of them on Linux with no issues at all.

Consider a distro that uses Plasma Desktop instead of GNOME.

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