Again: install Linux. Yes, there are a few edge cases left where you’re screwed and must rely on Microsoft (and even there, most of yhose can run in a VirtualBox environment) but most work you can get done under Linux. Why suffer I der Microsoft bullshit?
meanwhile you can run linux on a potato
rpi can be a good potato ; also runs freebsd
I think this is the year. One of my long time Windows friends has recently decided to install Manjaro GNU/Linux after being fed up with forced reboots, updates that seem to overwrite settings, and constant bluescreens of death.
I’ll keep 10 then.
Devices running an unsupported version of Windows will still function, but Microsoft doesn’t provide the following: Technical support of any issue
Oh, you mean the support forums? I don’t think those have ever helped anyone
Literally no one in those forms ever actually works for Microsoft anyway so you’re just talking to people who you could talk to anyway on any other forum.
they helped me learn how infuriating it is to try and go back in my browser history after visiting a microsoft help link
Oh man, fuck that shit into the sun.
You mean running sfc /scannow isn’t the solution to all life’s problems?
Just run DISM afterwards and it’ll be fine…
have you tried reinstalling? /s
Man I really don’t want to switch to Linux but Microsoft has ended things forever with Recall. There’s just no way to stay with microsoft long term.
I just installed Windows and never saw anything about recall. Use at least 3 different Windows machines a day and never seen recall. Maybe I’m just a lucky one?
Its not fully released yet and also, it will only be on a select set of PCs to start. But eventually over the years it will be on most new windows PCs.
I switched, it’s magic on fire with Linux.
Except for a couple if things, so I also now have a game-box running windows.
Best of two worlds IMO. It also shows how hellish windows is.
If a game won’t support Linux I won’t support it. There are thousands of games out there.
Hit me up with a Diablo 2 on linux, photoshop & 3dsmax 😭😭😭
Lutris works for Diablo 2. At least on my system.
why dont you?
Effort
Just go for it! Did it recently and the overall experience is actually getting impressed multiple times.
If I upgrade my machine, I am keeping TPM disabled. I don’t want Windows 11.
Don’t TPMs just deal with cryptography code the same way a SIM card does for a phone? If you have one, What’s wrong with using it?
Platforms like Windows and Chrome can also use it for remote attestation, i.e., verifying you haven’t bypassed security controls and locking you out if it thinks you have.
First thing I did when I heard it was required for win 11.
My PC met everything except processor. Did a registry hack and updated anyway. All is well, for now. I don’t feel like building another PC at the moment.
Microsoft recommends you remain ignorant about how awesome Linux is.
… And FreeBSD! Hardware support is rather fine except for wifi, and that can be set up using
wifiboxpackages (technically it’s running a lean Linux VM with wi-fi passthrough, but by today’s measure the footprint is negligible).So clean, orderly and patient.
I can’t use facts and logic on what is optimized for what, but it feels more responsive than Linux too, with the same desktop setup. I guess Linux with a different scheduler would solve that.
Linux sounds good but I never see it discussed on this website. How am I suppose to use Arch if nobody else does?
Ppl that still use Windows even after all this shit has been rammed down their throats will not have a good time on Linux. You still need to be able to do basic trouble shooting. I installed win 11 a few months back and it took me three tries on installation to get all the garbage out of it.
I think the best bet is an entirely new system from the ground up that has an open architecture that every company can equally implement that from the ground up and is as simple as possible. Like the computers we had in the 80s, but with better graphics. You want to play a game, you boot into it and it’s the only thing running. No anti cheat needed.
Yeah no thanks, a PC that can only run one program at a time? that’s just a console but worse lol. almost entirely useless as a computer.
I think the best bet is an entirely new system from the ground up that has an open architecture that every company can equally implement that from the ground up and is as simple as possible.
This keeps getting said by people who don’t understand operating systems. Even if you build something from the ground up, you still end up with an operating system very much like Linux and Windows. The choices that were made for each OS were not random. The principles of I/O, user input, graphics display, filesystems, etc, are more or less universal concepts across all OSes.
What you will accomplish is making an OS that no one will use. Linux, Windows, and macOS already fill every market that can be filled. Microsoft tried to become a third player in the mobile market and their product died pretty quickly.
Google has been trying to build Fuschia into a new OS and they’ve asked back their ambitions (from what I recall reading).
If only someone was here to tell me something by the way, it arches my back not knowing.
You’re on the wrong part of the Internet for that. Try Facebook or Instagram to learn more about Arch Linux.
Rejoice. I’ve installed Arch on my home PC a few days ago. Haven’t booted Windows since.
As long as you tell everyone you use it. That’s what counts.
FUCK LINUX AND EVERYONE SHOVING IT DOWN OUR THROATS
wine harder we like it
Username doesn’t check out. Angry alright, but nothing autistic here, just your average boomer-level rage.
You have NO FUCKING RIGHT TO POLICE MY DISABILITY ASSHAT .
Fuck your mother with a rusty chainsaw
Now it’s just edgy teenager level.
My mom’s alright, thank you.
Eat my ass and beg for seconds, ableist.
Open wide, bud. You will take it and you will like it.
I will beat you to death with your grandmother’s bloody uterus
I still for the life of me can’t figure out what’s so great about secure boot and tpm. All it’s ever done for me is prevent me from booting a legitimate OS, or a bootable flash drive with iso images on it (like ventoy). It’s also pretty good at giving me a headache trying to figure out how the keys work and how to register them.
I just turn them both off and live in ignorant bliss.
Not everyone only uses their PCs jsut for games, friend.
Your experience isn’t a baseline, cope
Secure boot and TPM are tools for (among other things) making sure nobody (E.G. a virus or worm) has tampered with your OS and bootloader. You can for instance use both on Linux, it’s just by default they come preloaded with Microsofts configuration for loading Windows, and the technical knowledge for how to reconfigure it is a bit arcane.
It’s an excellent security tool, it’s just abused by Microsoft to discourage competition.
Until the next security hole you can’t fix with an update.
It greatly raises the cost of exploring competing software for the average person.
It’s not for you, it’s for them. Secure boot means it only runs their operating system, not yours. Trusted enclave means it secures their DRM-ware from tampering by the user who owns the PC.
Secure boot means that only the intended bootloader runs, it can be any one, but it just needs to be the intended one.
Secure boot works with Linux.
It works for now on x86-64, yes. For now. As always, we are one “think of the children” crisis away from lobbyists taking that option away.
What? I think you maybe just don’t know what purpose secure boot serves.
It’s not a tool to vendor lock computers, it’s a tool to establish a chain of trust to protect the boot process by only allowing cryptographically signed images from executing. Anyone can sign things for secure boot by simply creating an x509 certificate and importing it. If vendors wanted to prevent you from running a different operating system, they would just lock it down completely as is done in many devices like mobile phones and proprietary electronics.
^ this People are very ignorant about what secure boot actually is.
Do you enjoy just making shit up on the internet?
What do you mean? I remove all vendor keys and enroll my own secure boot keys. This way only my install with my bootloader signed by my keys will boot.
Last week, I installed Debian on a 20 year old 32-bit IBM Thinkpad and it’s going strong.
Bullshit. Absolute fucking bullshit for clout.
Fuck you and fuck the mods who are going to ban me instead of this outrageous liar.
I once ran the windows Troubleshooter to get an old scanner working, and the final page told me to but a new scanner!
I plugged it in to a mini PC I use as a backup server and the scanner worked fine with Linux.
And another recommendation issue: I noticed that my Windows laptop has a “reduce your carbon footprint” settings section that tells me to reduce power settings, screen brightness etc. but it’s completely lacking a “stop giving me AI search results in Bing” section.
Are you saying you use Bing for searches? If you don’t want that then why not use a different search?
Win11 also says that showing seconds in the taskbar “reduces battery life”/“increases power consumption”
While it sounds ridiculous, there is a reasoning for this even nowadays:
Any periodic activity with a rate faster than one minute incurs the scrutiny of the Windows performance team, because periodic activity prevents the CPU from entering a low-power state. Updating the seconds in the taskbar clock is not essential to the user interface, unlike telling the user where their typing is going to go, or making sure a video plays smoothly. And the recommendation is that inessential periodic timers have a minimum period of one minute, and they should enable timer coalescing to minimize system wake-ups.
Found 1 test that seems to confirm battery life is slightly worse (2%) with seconds enabled. But this is true only when nothing is going on on screen. If you would actually work on PC, I imagine difference would be practically nonexistent.
All that said, I use seconds on my private and work PC. Was pissed when MS initially removed this as an option.
The only time that would make a difference is if you’re staring at a blank page and the only thing causing the screen to update is the clock. Theoretically the GPU could go completely to sleep, except for having to draw the updated clock every second.
But there’s a reason battery life is commonly measured as “hours of video playback”. If the laptop’s not actually doing anything you may as well turn it off and get weeks of battery life.
My god. It really does!
Oh no! I left notepad.exe open. That cursor was flashing on and off for hours! I’m sorry everyone!
Switching from Windows to Linux on my Framework laptop makes my battery last 2-3 times as long. They should just have a switch to Linux recommendation to reduce your carbon footprint.
Are you using a framework 13? While I find the battery life to be usable, if it’s that much worse on Windows I’m not sure I would have gotten a framework if I used windows lol.
Yeah. 11th gen Framework 13, so one of the first ones. Since I got it I had to use Windows exclusively because of some client work, and battery life was pitiful. 2-3 hours perhaps? Once that project finished I swapped out the SSD and put on Ubuntu with KDE. I was expecting the batter life to be worse, but it is demonstrably better. I now get more like 6 hours, albeit with my power plan on efficiency.
I have one of the newer AMD models and I find it has about 2-3 hours of batter life, though it spends most of it’s time suspended for my use case. I use Fedora and have the “balanced” profile selected. I don’t mind the poor battery life since the processor is leaps and bounds better than the 6th gen 2 core Intel I was using before.
Atleast windows 10 still gets security updates for 1.3 years
Did they add a few months? I thought protection ends in October, 2025 unless you pay to extend it.
Ohh yeah, forgot you need to pay for it.
Big company recommends users turn functional hardware into e-waste so they can boost quarterly profits.
when microsoft feels threatened by the recycling community being noticed, they add more technical constraints. Chromebooks are the gold standard for an intentionally non recyclable machine, neck and neck with apple.
The bullshit of chromeOS to be capable of running on the shittiest hardware but having an artificial lifetime for devices is stupid. To google’s credit, they did increase that limit to 10 years, but that was only recently.
It’s still functional hardware though…
Yes, and they’re encouraging people to throw it out. At least some users think to sell on the secondary market, but third party buyers can only get so much out of EOL Windows machines and there are only so many linux users with an interest in buying up old hardware.
I myself have a couple of used laptops, but don’t need any more hardware for a while, so it’s not like I’m able to buy up any. I fear much of it will rot in a landfill.
if they were selling the eol computers for a few dollars I would probably buy a dozen.
yup, its an “oh, you concider it garbage? oh well, more for me then!” situation.
How is it an upgrade of you need to replace the hardware?
