There is no easy way to say it, Jow Forums, and I feel utterly embarrassed and angy...

There is no easy way to say it, Jow Forums, and I feel utterly embarrassed and angy, but I upgraded Windows 10 yesterday and got fucked. All of my very important work files seem to have been deleted and are gone now. I got fucked by Windows 10 and Microsoft real hard... I should have listened to you Jow Forumsentoomen here and installed Linux years ago. I hope I'll be able to recover my files and then migrate as fast as possible. What is the best Linux distro for someone who has run Ubuntu several years ago in a VM out of curiosity and also considers himself as someone slightly above the average user in terms of tech skills?

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>upgrading
>not using ltsb/ltsc
fucking retard kys

This didn't happen to you. Stop lying.

>All of my very important work files seem to have been deleted
What are you thinking NOT backing up IMPORTANT files

This. You let it happen to yourself OP

>slightly above the average user in terms of tech skills
>updates windows
>with no backups

yeah, that was terribly stupid and I understand now
fuck off...

A lack of backups is not an excuse for the OS to fuck the filesystem. Assuming OP isn't just lying, that is.

Install Manjaro
A lot of people like the KDE edition, but you're not bound to the Desktop Environment that's prepackaged anyways
You can use the Manjaro and the Arch Wiki
Yes, it's not arch linux but a lot of the same tricks from the Arch Wiki applies to Manjaro aswell
Both Wikis have lists of recommended applications for the tasks you need

backuping costs money

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System partition should not be the same as the data partition

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If you really upgraded to Windows 10 when all your files should be in the Windows.old folder

That's exactly why you should have backups in the first place. You can never tell what will happen to your data.

if you've run Ubuntu in a VM for quite a while then you're probably familiar with it so my advice would be to stick with that.

This being said, trying a Linux distribution is free. And your files are apparently gone anyway. If you have the time then you just just try a variety of distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint and Debian and see which you like the most. There really is very little difference, though, you can install various desktops on all of them and for your day to day experience it'll probably matter more if you pick Xfce, GNOME or KDE as your desktop. You can run all of those on any distribution.

I didn't upgrade TO Windows 10... The latest Windows 10 update nuked my files... I'm one of the victims of what you can read in the news since yesterday

Even if that is so, that's still no excuse for the OS to junk it.

Dude, didn't you read all the fucking threads on Jow Forums complaining and warning about this? You should've disabled Windows Updates and made a backup before upgrading manually.

I'm currently delaying updating because I'm too lazy to wait for my files to be copied to an external disk.

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>best Linux distro for someone who has run Ubuntu
Ubuntu

Unless you've got terabytes of data, a backup disk would cost you 50 bucks for an external disk.

If you don't have 50 bucks then you probably don't have much valuable data anyways, so just make a password protected 7zip and upload it to a free Google Drive account, or beg for money and buy a flash drive.

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>loonix
ahahah get fucked tranny

heh, nothing personnel kiddo

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>disable windows update, set internet to metered connection, edit gpedit.msc
>windows still updates automatically
fuck this shit

things that never happened

Things that happened so much that microsoft pulled the update.
Get fucked.

>he actually uses Documents/Pictures/etc. folders to store his files
>he doesn't have Windows on its own partition and his files somewhere else

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are you sure you set the correct GPO entries?

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There were multiple reports of the update erasing Linux partitions, so don't feel too smug about that. I agree it's generally a good idea.

Erase the partition or the bootloader? Cause the latter is a common thing with Windows updates and easily fixed. I really doubt the former happened.