Upgrading from windows 7 to Linux is still free
Linux, the only thing Lemmy loves more than beans and the proletariat.
linux users build and run this shit
What about bean users?
What do you think powers shitposting?
Linux users build and run...everything at this point. Internet basically runs on Linux.
This needs to be best of lemmy shit 😂
God I love beans
and Linux and proles too I suppose
That's what's awesome about Linux and in my opinion there are more options for what you can do with Linux.
Wait what's Linux, never heard of it
Honestly, why do they care at this point? Do they really think someone's going to buy an upgrade to Windows 11?
Probably Grey Market keys being taken from old Business Win7 machines that are getting wasted in bulk if I had to guess.
I enjoyed my time with Windows 7. I even remember the Windows 7 launch party marketing. Never upgraded to 10, certainly not upgrading to 11. Happy with my adventures in Linux.
10 is way better for games than 7. I’m never touching 11, it’s awful. 10 is great when you debloat, use OOSU10, and use ClassicShell (or the updated version I cannot remember the name of) to bring back the 7-style start menu.
I’m excited to make Linux my daily driver for most things, but for a heavy game-player, a backup Win10 install is a must. Especially for VR.
I loved Windows 7. The reason I ended up switching to Linux is (ironically) that I felt like the KDE desktop was closer to Windows 7 than the tiled start menu that Windows 8.0 had.
I remember having Windows 7 Beta. Good times
10 LTSC is the last tolerable version of Windows.
Does LTSC have NVidia drivers for RTX cards? My LTSB partition doesn’t and now I can’t use it for games. I’m using… 10… home. ugh
I’m going to get a new SSD and dual-boot something like Mint for a daily driver, and 10 pro or LTSC for games that run better (and VR games.)
Not who you replied to but I haven't had any issues with a 3000 series card and LTSC, but I only used it for a whooping 12 hours since I got the card (I do 99% of gaming directly on Linux) so take my answer with a grain of salt.
I might be missing something but can't you just manually download the drivers from the Nvidia website on LTSB?
Thank you so much, good to know!
Alas, on LTSB now, the DCH drivers do not work. The last standard game ready driver that works with even GTX was back in 2021. Nothing works with RTX :c
It does. The normal Windows 10 driver works on LTSC.
Fuck, awesome. Thank you.
You mean 2000 was the last tolerable version of Windows.
Everything since has been just the irritating pile of trash anyone doing anything decent with has had to put up with. Linux is nice to play around with but I sure the fuck have a long list of shit that isn't going to magically work on it.
Just updated a Windows 7 box to Windows 10 the other day. So apparently this only applies to Windows 11. No idea if it lets you use Windows 10 as a stepping stone between 7 and 11 but don't care. I have no plans to use Windows 11 anywhere anytime soon, so as far as I'm concerned if this means it will stop nagging me to upgrade, so much the better.
Downgrade*
Last version of Windows I used was XP, Switched to Linux in 2005.
Boy it was a cool period to buy premium 2nd hand hardware when Vista came out. Because the hardware wasn't supported on Vista.
Who cares when you have the github script.
And Linux..
MAS was actually using this method for activation. Now that it doesn't work, this particular activation method within MAS also doesn't work.
What github script?
HWID or whatever is dead, but KMS lives on. I used this script for the first time recently and it’s magical. Best of all, you can just access it via powershell!
HWID is temporarily dead.
I am completely confident they'll get it working again.
That was a very long year!
I want to run win 10 (or 11 if supports) on a VM with a GNU/Linux host. I have heard about ltsc and ltsb, and now this post has mentioned oo shutup 10. So which one is better to make my win machine lightweight and privacy friendly? I am planning to run only certain specific program like SPSS. No heavy gaming. Thanks.
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