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[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 48 points 1 year ago

Bill said Windows 10 was the last one, so...

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago

11? Fuck that, I'm not sidegrading to 8.

I ain't even joking. My media PC is still on 7, everything else is on Linux now.

[-] hameru@lemmy.blahaj.zone 60 points 1 year ago

Isn't it insecure to run such an old version tho? (Since it stopped recieving updates years ago)

[-] jsnc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 year ago

Stockholm syndrome windows users trying to justify their toxic relationship to microsoft (colorized circa 2020).

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It's insecure (in more ways than one) to be running Windows in general. If you value security to a high degree you probably shouldn't be using Windows.

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[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I've been forced to install Windows 10 on my brand new build because it doesn't support W7.

But Steam is also dropping W7 support by the end of this year anyway. Yes, there are native Linux games on Steam and there's also Proton and WINE, but it's not a 100% solution.

[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Why would it support a 14 year old OS whose final release was 12 years ago and mainstream support ended 8 years ago?

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Well, I was hyped for Baldur's gate 3, and I may still end up getting it, but I'd have to upgrade too much hardware to play it, and there's really no other games that I'm interested in.

Musicbee is the main reason I'm still running 7 on that pc rather than some flavor of linux. If it ever gets a port, or actually starts working right via wine, bye bye windows for me.

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

MusicBee is excellent, but I gave up on it to switch to Linux. Also, I've started to fall in love with simple players which depend on folder structure rather than a database, although I suppose one might miss the customisation with MusicBee

[-] catlover@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

windows 8 made me switch to linux

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

I recently upgraded windows 7 to mint

[-] ass_destroyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 year ago

True story: I had been consistently telling my laptop not to upgrade to Windows 11 for literally months. I left it at home for like 3 days and when I came back it had upgraded itself anyway. That was the day I completely deleted Windows from my laptop. Formatted the entire hard drive and haven't regretted it yet. Never even logged into Windows 11.

[-] YonatanAvhar@programming.dev 26 points 1 year ago
[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 11 points 1 year ago

all Linux memes communities have been like this

Linuxmemes: the ultimate hub for Windows memes.

[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Does win 11 still require physical hardware to run? Why I have to sacrifice one of my motherboard slots for a worthless authentication chip that might stop working and brick my computer - ya I'll stay with 10.

[-] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago

The TPM is either built into your CPU or plugs into a dedicated header on the motherboard.

[-] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's built into my CPU but for some reason MS doesn't trust the Intel Core i7 chips.

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[-] Burninator05@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

You're not sacrificing a slot. TPM chips are typically either soldered onto the motherboard, built into the chipset, or (in the few instances that they are optional) go in a special port just fir them.

There are plenty of reasons not to move to W11 without making up new ones.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Technically it's an artificial requirement, it'll run just fine without secure boot and TPM, you'll just need to do some work around to install it that way.

[-] starman@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago

You spelled downgrading wrong

[-] Demdaru@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

TIL that you can be coerced into win 11 upgrade. I have immunity, tho! My PC is too shitware ;-;

[-] Misconduct@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It told me that too. Which was fine because like nobody asked? But then it did it anyway. Quietly in the night like the sneaky little hoe that it is. I'm still pretty salty. I thought I was safe 😔

[-] Demdaru@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa. But...if your machine is too weak to run it...isn't this simply damaging your machine at that point?! The hell?!

[-] Misconduct@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I dunno it's an older surface too lol. So it already wasn't super great. If I'm being honest I haven't noticed much of a difference other than having to move the start button because I'll be damned if I'm gonna have that thing in the middle of my screen like some kind of crazy person

[-] proflovski@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Windows 11 sucks

[-] spaceape@lemmy.nrsk.no 11 points 1 year ago

Oh, right. Microsoft is still at it with their "Windows" thing.

windows 11 end of support

[-] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

'Upgrading'.

[-] KuroJ@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I moved to Linux (Arch btw) and I haven’t looked back.

The lack of bloatware and the snappiness of Linux just beats any other OS.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

Like Patrick Henry said: "Give me Arch or give me death!"

[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
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[-] ApfelstrudelWAKASAGI@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I had to upragde my computer because I couldn't upgrade to 11 lol.

4790 gang represent

[-] b3an@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have to say I really like windows 11. It’s more secure and it runs well for me. It’s very similar to 10 still with some more refined existing features, and even some cool new ones like live captioning and OCR snipping

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[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

where linux

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