Winux arrives dressed like Windows 11, but underneath the glossy theme and bundled conveniences there are real, verifiable risks that make it a poor choice for anyone who values privacy, long-term stability, and transparent engineering.
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Winux is a third‑party Linux...
Microsoft has set an immovable deadline: on October 14, 2025, mainstream support for Windows 10 ends — and with it the routine security updates, feature and quality patches, and standard technical assistance that have kept billions of PCs running safely for a decade. For consumers and small...
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Winux arrives wrapped in sleek Windows 11 styling, a glossy demo video and a promise of a familiar desktop — but beneath the theme and the marketing, this distro resurrects the same trust issues, questionable licensing and security baggage that followed its predecessors LinuxFX and Wubuntu, and...
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WINUX is, in practice, Ubuntu with a very convincing Windows 11 costume — and that disguise is the point: for many Windows 10 users facing the October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline, WINUX (also marketed as Linuxfx/Winux) promises the familiarity of Windows while running entirely on Linux...