Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?
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Just in case anyone reading doenst know - the free tool Rufus can write a Win 11 ISO to your usb drive md remove all the silly soft requirements.
Windows updates don't work correctly a lot of the time if you've bypassed the requirements. My predecessor at work installed 11 on some ancient systems and it's been a hassle.
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The hurdles windows users are willing to put up with is nothing less than amazing. That's not a good thing.
Or look at it the other way: they hate Linux so much they'd rather deal with that than deal with Linux.
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eli5? people can continue using windows 10 but becomes insecure?
No, the police will show up at your door on October 11th and arrest you on the spot.
If you're in the US you'll be sent to El Salvador. If you're anywhere else you'll be sent to the US, receive a few tattoos, then El Salvador.
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Just in case anyone reading doenst know - the free tool Rufus can write a Win 11 ISO to your usb drive md remove all the silly soft requirements.
Yeah, but will updates work? And even if they do, what's stopping Microsoft in disabling them somehow?
Nowadays if you want to have usable Windows installation you need to use a bunch of 3rd party scripts that might break on next update. Learning Linux is easier than this shit.
I can't wait for someone to ask me how to solve some shit in Windows, and me saying that I don't have patience for this crap.
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Windows updates don't work correctly a lot of the time if you've bypassed the requirements. My predecessor at work installed 11 on some ancient systems and it's been a hassle.
I’ve had no issues on the machines i’ve done this with, aside from having to do an upgrade in place with a major update (used rufus, write the latest iso, did the upgrade from the bootable usb.
regular windows updates work without hassle. perhaps your predecessor didn’t use a complete solution
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I installed linux on my PC a couple months ago. The other day I wanted to log back into my windows partition for the first time in a while in order to clean up some of the files on that partition (even though the drive is mounted in linux, the windows "fast boot" option apparently leaves it in a state that linux considers read-only). Windows apparently wouldn't let me log in without a microsoft account, instead of just using my regular windows username.
So yeah, that partition's gone now. No going back!
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Yeah, but will updates work? And even if they do, what's stopping Microsoft in disabling them somehow?
Nowadays if you want to have usable Windows installation you need to use a bunch of 3rd party scripts that might break on next update. Learning Linux is easier than this shit.
I can't wait for someone to ask me how to solve some shit in Windows, and me saying that I don't have patience for this crap.
updates work.
MS won’t disable them - they want people to move to Windows 11.
Congrats on migrating to Linux! it’s what i’ve been pushing friends and family towards for decades, and thankfully Ubuntu is in a position right now to be a fine desktop OS, esp for the average user who lives in a web browser.
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Or better yet, windows 10 LTSC. Which will be supported for another 2 years. 4 if you subsequently switch the product key to the IOT LTSC version.
IOT version is supported until 2032
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Or look at it the other way: they hate Linux so much they'd rather deal with that than deal with Linux.
I would love to learn and deal with Linux, unfortunately the software I need for work only supports Mac or Win
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Trade in their PCs to who? Fucking Aquaman?
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Let's get all IT people together and fight through the hassle to help friends and family switch to Linux
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updates work.
MS won’t disable them - they want people to move to Windows 11.
Congrats on migrating to Linux! it’s what i’ve been pushing friends and family towards for decades, and thankfully Ubuntu is in a position right now to be a fine desktop OS, esp for the average user who lives in a web browser.
I am using Debian stable, since I no longer care about having latest stuff and the whole Debian-like ecosystem is what I am the most familiar with. As for Ubuntu I never had good experience with it, with random crashes all the time last time I used it (about 10-12 years ago), and when I tried it last year, I encountered random crashes in GNOME apps just after finishing setup.
Linux Mint (regular or LMDE) is what I'd probably install on other people computers though. Literally never had problems with it (used it about 10 years ago on a netbook).
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Is that Sam Reich in a penguin suit!?
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I would love to learn and deal with Linux, unfortunately the software I need for work only supports Mac or Win
It's possible you can run it through wine, might be worth a try
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Trade in their PCs to who? Fucking Aquaman?
That excellent gag is how I discovered hbomberguy some years ago
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The hurdles windows users are willing to put up with is nothing less than amazing. That's not a good thing.
Oh, I already have Linux on my laptop. It's my desktop that still has some blockers preventing a full Linux transition.
Primarily the Pimax headset. Once I get a suitable replacement, I'll actually be able to start testing and transferring stuff. -
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DoN't YOu gUyS hAvE TPM?
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It's possible you can run it through wine, might be worth a try
Much business oriented software just hasn't had the work done on it to work on Wine. Really the only reason I have to run Windows now is the 3D CAD software I use and my best option at this point is running it in a Windows VM on my server. And no Freecad and Fusion360 aren't suitable options, they both suck.
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I am using Debian stable, since I no longer care about having latest stuff and the whole Debian-like ecosystem is what I am the most familiar with. As for Ubuntu I never had good experience with it, with random crashes all the time last time I used it (about 10-12 years ago), and when I tried it last year, I encountered random crashes in GNOME apps just after finishing setup.
Linux Mint (regular or LMDE) is what I'd probably install on other people computers though. Literally never had problems with it (used it about 10 years ago on a netbook).
sure sounds like you have some funny hardware configurations with all these issues you have across OSes.
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Translation: "Install Linux."
I really want to put Linux on my gaming PC, but I'm doubtful I can get my Rift S working on there.
Apparently there is an openxr driver for it, though, so I suppose I should at least give it a shot.
There's absolutely no way I'm going to win11, though.
