I mean… It’s not being turned off. You can still use Windows 10 if you want to, it’s just Microsoft don’t want to keep pushing security updates to it, and they’re like “Well if you want continued security updates you’re gonna have to sign in and pay for them”.
You can always go without those updates.
Right and MS will not lose nothing cus if that
Ages ago I suggested installing Linux on my partner’s parents old desktop. It’s still running win10 but it’s pretty slow, likely from a decade of bloat. Probably a HDD too which isn’t going to help. Saying Linux scared them.
Recently they were told it is no longer supported and can’t update to win11. Or some kind of popup like that anyway. They asked if it’s time to replace the machine. This time I said I could put a lightweight OS similar to what a Chromebook has and they are much more interested. Probably also look at sticking a small SSD in there, it’s only used for web browsing.
🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧
Luckily Linux Mint still allows local accounts. In fact there is not other option besides just a local account.
Thankfully cachy and bazzite exist as well. Us gamers enjoy our convenience and performance along with privacy!
Installed Bazzite on my main gaming rig two weeks ago. Haven’t booted win10 since, fantastic distro.
Totally agree. Which variant? KDE or GNOME?
KDE
Microsoft is no longer permitted on my PC
The fact that the extended coverage is locked behind the windows account paywall is known for a pretty good time already…
They said you could get the account, and 300 good boy points
OR Pay $30
Fuck Windows. Most overrated OS.
OSChromeOS wannabe.
“Install Linux, Problem Solved.”
Bazzite is pretty close.
Sad that you get downvoted for such a basic request.
The Linux techbros can suck a fat one.
Easy for them, but not everyone else. I’m saying this as someone who’s into PCs, used both OS, fixing them for a very long time, and seen a lot different kinds of userbases – some who don’t have formal PC use training. That in my part of the world, while Android is pretty prevalent for smartphones and gaming on them, pirated Windows is still being used for PCs because it’s so familiar for a lot of people, it’s almost the default, but for how long that’s gonna last as Windows is being made more like locked with DRMs and shit like that.
It is now. If someone just uses the browser, they wouldn’t really notice if it was Linux. Well, they’ll notice because it would be faster. I have my entire Steam and GOG library setup on Linux and every game I want to play regularly works just fine. Yes there are instances where I’d need to get on the terminal but that’s quite rare.
I’ve used nothing but vanilla steam for windows games in Linux for a few years.
I think there’s the misconception that, because you can use other things, you HAVE to use other things.
Steam and lutris for non steam games. You literally need to learn one program and navigate one singular menu is another and voila every computer game just kinda works, at least in my experience.
So use anything but Windows? Got it.
What is Pete Davidson doing to that poor soul?
Yeah I mean how are they going to verify you paid without an associated account
A key, exactly like they did it for decades? Same way they verified you paid for that copy of Windows?
As someone who has actually never bough a Windows key even though I started with Win 98, and I before this Win 10 installation have never genuinely activated any them, I quite easily understand why they don’t do it that way any more. I also do remember back when Windows 7 was going through this exact same thing how trivially easy it was to get those updates without paying - so easy in fact that most people assumed MS did it on purpose just so that people would rather pirate them than run an unpatched installation for three years.
It’s not an assumption, it’s the reality. They made it easy so they could obtain marketshare, same shit every company does before they bend you over.
Don’t you need a Windows account to buy a key?
Back in the days of Dinosaurs and AOL CDs, you could just go to Best Buy and buy a CD with the Windows software and a key was printed on a scratch-off panel.
You could even just buy a key electronically from some grey market websites.
Right, well, its not 2003 anymore
What’s your point? Is it now somehow no longer physically possible to sell product keys in store due to some higher decree?
Because it doesn’t prevent piracy. Are you dense ?
Why yes, our bodies, and our brains, are designed to be as dense as possible to be more efficient! This is why our brains’ gray matter has a lot of crevices so it can fold onto itself.
You can prevent piracy using a stronger keygen algorithm and online activation.
Valve sells product keys all the time, you don’t hear about them having a keygen problem. People just bypass the authentication altogether and simply torrent the software, which is something people still do with Windows 11.
It was still like that up until Windows 8, at least.
I mean… I have valid keys for various Windows versions I never paid for 🤷♂️
Oh well. I’m just glad I can access all my files on NTFS so I don’t even have to migrate anything.
Maybe reinstall some games, and say no more to others, but that’s the way things be.
Oh well. I’m just glad I can access all my files on NTFS
Shhh! Don’t give them ideas…
They’ve already been pushing their idea to prevent this for years. It’s called OneDrive
My wife has finally agreed to let me install Linux on her laptop after all the shit MS is trying to pull.
This kinda stuff just further cements her decision tbh
