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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

im one of them ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Iโ€™m one of the many. Hate where tech is headed, I remember hearing about Microsoft wanting to turn windows cloud based with a subscription. Hell no

[โ€“] TheGoddessAnoia 1 points 4 hours ago

Or, like me, still on Windows 7, they could just no longer use Steam. Lots of games I can still play on this OS or in my browser. Maybe someday I'll go back to Linux, or maybe even React, just for the hell of it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I wonder how Iโ€™d be considered. I use Steam on Linux on one computer, Windows 10 on another, and Mac on another. Maybe I get counted thrice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

pretty sure it's based off of which clients of yours got prompted to do the hardware survey

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Both my windows and Linux client got prompted, but I declined the windows one. Most of my gaming happens on Linux nowadays

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Win 11 is downgrade to Win 10, and I expect Win 12 to be a downgrade to Win 11. I still didnt decide whether Mint or Kubuntu will be the next OS on my pc. I'm pretty sure Windows 12 has no chance.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

"Windows 10 will be the last Windows OS released!" - Microshaft

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 17 hours ago

Every single edition of Windows introduces new forms of bloat and new ways for MS to overreach and attempt to play corporate nanny over a user's system; why the fuck would anyone willingly upgrade Windows when they have the chance not to?

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 22 hours ago (10 children)

Yeah well Windows 11 fucking sucks. What do they expect? Maybe if you have to do all kinds of shady shit to get people to accept the newest version of your shitty product you should take a good look at yourself and evaluate why that is.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I stayed with XP until 7. I stayed with 7 until 10. I'll probably stay with 10 until the next Windows. Assuming it actually is decent again, and not just even shittier than 11.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

I only went to 11 for better HDR support. I'd definitely still be on 10.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (16 children)

MS can pry Windows 10 out of my cold, dead hands. I'll switch to Linux before Win11 and I don't particularly want to do that either.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)

I had to install Win 11 on my work computer and it is still total dogshit. One example - The search from the Start menu never works so you have to pin every app to start or go through the whole app list to find the one you want. Its been like this for a year at least. Things, like my speakers, just randomly stop working and I have to restart to get them to work again.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The context menu! The fucking context menu!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

The default context menu is So godawful, luckily you can get the old menu back with some mod applications

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Not on my company laptop sadly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Find out what IT likes and bribe them for a little GPO adjustment...

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah that sucks

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

My LTSC still has time but yeah, the rest of us should be switching to Linux.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

The other half is running linux, right?

Right?

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago

I'm surprised 0Patch hasn't been mentioned in this thread. There's really no reason to stop using Windows 10 after EOL if you can still get security updates.

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