My sons will be receiving a Windows 11 gaming PC for Christmas. It has been a very long time since I’ve dealt with Windows so I am completely out of the loop.

Is malware still a concern with Windows 11? If so, what would you recommend we do about it?

Are there any other recommendations you’d like to offer?

Thank you for your time and expertise.

  • @vekku@sopuli.xyz
    4•2 years ago

    I’d also recommend installing Linux on it, although with the caveat that if the hardware is very new, you might want to postpone that decision for half a year or so. Then again, these days it’s not that clear – my gaming laptop (Asus Zephyrus G14) keeps hard crashing on Windows, and works just fine on Linux. And these days Linux/Proton plays all Windows games almost as well as Windows, some even better.

    Fedora or Ubuntu are both rather easy distros.