While I agree this is a shit thing to do, I am looking forward to the influx of cheap hardware.
The OneDrive plug at the end is *chefs kiss*
Just switched to Linux Mint. So worth it
Isn’t Windows 10 suppose to be the last Windows release? We changed our minds.
Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux
Yeah just who exactly out there can you go to, to simply ‘trade in’ a computer? It’s not like a car where you trade in a car for another car.
I don’t really see an awful lot of computer trade-in programs, they aren’t just going to give you a beefy PC with Windows 11 on it for a computer you’ve ran a good 5 or more some odd years with Windows 10.
I’m trying but the girlfriend refuses. She watches YouTube on the TV and does everything else on her phone; literally only uses the laptop to play The Sims 4 (which her 1080ti can handle just fine), yet she’s convinced that she will need a brand new gaming machine with a 4090/5090 as soon as Microsoft dumps WIn10. She’s afraid that she’ll completely break the OS if she switches to Linux. (Which is plausible, though unlikely.
I’m hoping she’ll change her mind as soon as she realizes just how much more GPUs cost these days, especially mobile ones.
Create a live USB stick and demonstrate it to her, without deleting Windows. Bonus points if you rice the fuck out of it with some kawaii shit for your GF and make Sims 4 work with Wine.
I mean, what do you expect them to say?
“Time to install Linux, here’s how you chose a kernel:”
On the one hand, rare Microsoft w to help users transition to their competitor.
On the other, they kinda yadda yadda over probably the biggest and most important part: choosing which of the billion distros is best for your needs and preferences…
Weird hill to die on perhaps; but I’ll never forgive Microsoft for arbitrarily deciding to not support my Core i7 6700K 4Ghz CPU on Windows 11.
Simply because: I cannot find a single actual technical reason why it wouldn’t be compatible (yes, my mobo also has TPM). It’s even higher specced than many other ‘supported’ chips.
MS apparently just decided I hadn’t spent enough money lately. Well now I won’t - on your products - ever again, while this i7 will continue to run Win 10 for games and Linux for all else.
Gaming is great on Linux nowadays btw. I installed Fedora a few weeks ago and haven’t had a single problem with any of my games - I’m getting better framerates, too.
Any reason you went with fedora? I’ve been partial to fedora for a decade, but last I knew it wasn’t recommended for a daily driver given the upstream fuckery from redhat.
Asking cuz I’m about two weeks from kicking win10 in the dick and moving to alma or something.
I’m actually using Nobara, but it’s not very popular so I just say Fedora in day-to-day conversation. From my understanding, Fedora-based distros play better with Nvidia GPUs.
Best of luck to you my friend. Like I said, fedora was my go-to for years, and I regularly fought against the Nvidia drivers and kept going back to windows.
I’m running AMD now, so I’m hoping my experience is better than it was when I was using nvidia
I’m responding to you, but this is more for others to see since you moved to AMD.
I used Nvidia cards for many years on Linux and only recently switched back to AMD. The main issues I ran into with Nvidia were related to driver updates breaking things rather than things not working in general. So, I eventually found that holding Nvidia drivers to versions that worked without issues was the best bet and only updating them on occasion after they had been out for a bit and the consensus was that they weren’t breaking stuff.
Just to make things easier on others (or myself if the AMD drivers have similar issues), how would one go about holding the driver at a specific version?
Just to make things easier on others (or myself of the amd drivers have similar issues), how would one go about holding the driver at a specific version?
Everyone should use the most polished, solid and up to date distros. Opensuse and Fedora. There is no fucked up. Fedora is a serious project that Red hat uses to base their distro on. And Opensuse is German engineering. Serious is not even the correct word here, they are state of art distros.
Good to know, thanks! Like I said, I’m going to be diving back into Linux in the near future, so I’ll be looking into the best distro to try.
Browsing from a 12 year old laptop running Win7 … what’s the issue?
Malware. All the malware 🪲. That thing better be airgapped.
Please explain how malware would get on my laptop now in a way that it didn’t, oh, say, in the last 12 years?
Considering you stopped receiving security updates years ago, any kind of malware developed since then is going to have a field day with you.
That’s amazing, it’s had years to have its field day. Where is it, please?
You guys understand you have to actively install malware and viruses, right? It’s not like on TV with a skull and crossbones appearing on the monitor.
You’re just making yourself a target. People go after low-hanging fruit, and people who haven’t had security updates in a decade are top of the list.
Again, how will this happen? This is just technical illiteracy, my friend.
I don’t know what the fuck you do on the internet… Are you really trying to suggest people don’t get hacked like this? People have lost millions in crypto from shit like that. I know you don’t care about crypto or whatever, but it doesn’t make the situation less real…
Some people have things of value on their internet-connected devices. It’s just foolish to not stay up to date with security updates.
Trade it in to who? Who’s buying PCs that can’t be used? I mean there’s the retro market, but AFAIK they aren’t buying anything after Windows XP.
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I upgraded to Windows 11 it’s not that bad.
Bro, my win11 family gaming machine can’t even properly display the game icons or open the file explorer
I dunno what to tell you mate I haven’t had any problems gaming on Windows 11.
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Use Linux. And dont listen to zealts who say its not a viable option. Its actually way ahead than Windows or Macos
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Microsoft finally embracing the Apple model of upgrading
Windows 11 is the most secure Windows ever built
They’ve been saying that about every single one since that notoriously insecure one. ME, I think?
Also, I’m pretty sure that Tiny11 or the like is more secure if you consider data privacy important, since a lot of the privacy issues of Windows 11 are coming from the unnecessary parts of Windows itself…
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I mean, Tiny11 both is and isn’t Windows, depending on whether you count “Windows 11 with everything but the bare essentials optional” as “Windows” 🤷
I mean, one would hope that whenever there is a new version it’s more secure than the last one. Not that it’s true, but that’s how it should be, so nothing weird about the claim.
that’s how it should be, so nothing weird about the claim.
As long as you consider every claim Microsoft makes to be either a lie or inherently unprovable until the opposite is proven, that is. Which you should tbh.
