I saw someone mention that if you find an old installer for windows 10, you can upgrade to that and continue on to upgrade to w11 still and keep the activation.

ymmv

[–] dumnezero@piefed.social 62 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, but why? Windows is horrible.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even worse. You'd get from Windows 7 to Windows 11.

Why, indeed?

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

7 is quickly going down as the best version of windows of all time. 10 was alright too but it was the beginning of the end

[–] imrighthere@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

best version of windows of all time

That thing was solid.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I'm hoping we'll get past 5% on the steam hardware survey this year. Very possible given the trend.

Too many of my younger friends are obsessed with bf6 or a handful of other live service stuff that will not come to linux any time soon, or refuse to because they think they'll run an ai model or don't want to figure it out for their dev projects.

I moved over a few months ago and don't miss it.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

i don't think an old win10 installer would work, microsoft blocked the w7/8/8.1 upgrade path on their servers

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or you could update to a modern Linux build, most of which are just as easy as windows and 90+%of apps can run through wine so you don’t miss out on anything

Yea I use Arch BTW bitch! (Just kidding about the bitch part, it sounded funny in my head, I’m sure you are a wonderful human being and I hope you have a marvelous day)

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Totally agreed.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I looked through your stats and saw your disk storage and had a dyslexic moment and thought the 250gb was your ram.

I was about to hate you for that :D. Like at today’s prices that would be some Billionaire level crap hehe

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh hell no lol. I splurged on 64gb of ram a year ago because it was about $200. It's overkill, but I do run VMs and game servers from time to time for friends and 32gb is kind of the base for ddr5 anyway. I swapped the work system standard for users over to 32gb around a year ago, and I try to keep my personal at home stuff to about double that since I use the stuff for a long long time.

The / partition is a bit too big, but this was my first time splitting out home after a migration from pop_os. Learned a lot from that. Also have a bit of unpartitioned space.

I have to swap bootloaders from systemd to limine or something since I have heard a lot of people mention at this point that it's better btrfs recovery. Haven't had the motivation yet.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

lOpensuse is systemd and btrfs, never had an issue with btrfs recovery. But if you have deets I'd be interested.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or just use the free github script to activate windows 11

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Or bury the bodies in a mass grave

if you know what I mean

I use linux though. Cachyos right now.