Good point. The English civil war and the French revolution both went the way they did because the ‘rebels’ had armies which equalled or exceeded those of the government. Same with the other regicide that comes to mind, Nicholas II of Russia in 1918. So much depends on whether the military remains loyal.

Yes, similar here. Windows 10 had been telling me I needed to upgrade to 11 but that my PC (a Lenovo X1 Carbon with a pretty decent spec for 5 years ago - i7 and 16GB of RAM) couldn’t support it and would have to be replaced. I had run Linux Mint for many years on a Samsung from around 2010, which still works, so I thought now is the time to dump Windows. Installed Mint 22 and everything just works.

Absolute monarchies tend to come to a very sticky end, as happened in England in the 17th century and France in the 18th.

Yes, I’m new to Lemmy, ex-Reddit, and now I’m looking at what else I can do. I ran Linux Mint on an old laptop for many years, but that was when I was still working and I also had a company laptop on Windows if I needed it. So now I’m retired and currently I only have a refurbished Lenovo with Win 10, which goes out of support soon. I suppose I could do dual boot on that machine, but I’d rather have Windows in a VM for the rare occasions when I can’t get something to run in Wine. I have no idea where I’d buy a copy of Win 11, but presumably Microsoft have a store.