Microsoft is fucking butthurt no one wants Windows 11 so they're stopping the sale of Windows 10 licenses this month

[Breadbassket]

No step on Window.

 

[Absolutego]

Makes sense. MacOS feels (and even kinda looks) like the world's most polished Linux distro.

Hop around in its terminal for a little bit and you'll instantly realize it's Unix but with a better UI and some parental figure keeping you from doing literally anything.
Microsoft's infamous hand-holding might be more permissive than Apple's.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

I once made the mistake of recommending Manjaro to a non-technical friend. Then one day he brought his laptop to me and told me that he bricked his laptop by installing VLC. Never again will I recommend any Arch-based distro. Mint is solid but Fedora Silverblue is my distro of choice these days, even for my own use.

Yeah after I posted I realized that your average normie really is something else which is why I edited to recommend Mint instead as a starter.

 

[Pee Cola]

Hop around in its terminal for a little bit and you'll instantly realize it's Unix but with a better UI and some parental figure keeping you from doing literally anything.
Microsoft's infamous hand-holding might be more permissive than Apple's.

Yep. MacOS definitely feels like Baby's First Unix.

 

[Super Dilator Duel 3D]

fuck you microsoft, ill stay on my uncucked windows 10 install til my pc shits itself and dies. just out of stubbornness

ill keep it short and probably bitch about this later in one of the other "modern tech bad threads" but i know the answer for this kind of thing is "just use linux". the thing is, i use a lot of old and obscure software that linux refuses to run properly not to mention windows is just generally easier to use. i wish microsoft would just make a functioning OS and leave it alone instead of making an okay OS and giving it AIDS like they've done with 10.

 

[tehpope]

Fake and gay. Windows 10 is FREE

You can't even get the ISO from MS' website anymore. You have to download a tool to do so.

 

[Miller]

Based on leddit comments I've seen, Windows 11 keys are still technically Windows 10 keys and use the same activation service, so one could just buy an 11 key and install 10 on it. Or use old 7/8.1 keys as well. Hell there's even open source activation scripts that's been out in the wild for awhile.

MAS

Why not just download the Windows 10 iso from the Microsoft website and install Windows 10 without a key? Sure there's a cringe watermark but it's still usable.

 

[Stoner Metal]

It's the Windows way, every second OS release is garbage and reviled by most:
98, great; 2000/Me, hated and notoriously buggy.
XP is still used in a lot of PCs today; Vista was so bad even garbage TV shows like The Big Bang Theory made fun of it.
Windows 7 is the greatest OS ever made, then 8 is the same but worse with an awful, AWFUL tablet UI shoehorned in.
10 is just 7 again, 11 is another ugly redesign no-one asked for ala 8 with stupidly high requirements ala Vista.

Basically wait til Windows 12.

Windows 2000 was hated and notoriously buggy?!

 

[innocent jogger]

ill keep it short and probably bitch about this later in one of the other "modern tech bad threads" but i know the answer for this kind of thing is "just use linux". the thing is, i use a lot of old and obscure software that linux refuses to run properly not to mention windows is just generally easier to use. i wish microsoft would just make a functioning OS and leave it alone instead of making an okay OS and giving it AIDS like they've done with 10.

Unless you need to run resource heavy games/etc., you can just set up a VM to run those Windows programs in Linux. I made the big switch to Linux years ago and have never looked back. I have VirtualBox installed with a couple different Windows versions just for that purpose.

 

[Absolutego]

Windows 2000 was hated and notoriously buggy?!

Everyone kinda forgets about 2000 because ME was so notoriously bad anything that looked like it got tarred by the same brush

 

[innocent jogger]

Really everybody should just drop all these bullshit systems and switch to TempleOS.

If it aint in Holy C, it ain't for me!

 

[Picklechu]

I have 10 on my main PC with all of the dumb shit turned off. It asks me to upgrade to 11 every few months, but that's not going to happen.

We have 11 on the shitty plastic laptops our department provides us, but we can't really fuck around with it - I literally only use it to submit grades and other stuff related to sections I teach - so I can't develop a full "hands-on" opinion of it, just what I read online and what I actually get to experience when using it in the extremely limited way that I do.

 

[Lone Wandering Courier]

Thankfully I have a haswell Xeon so I'm probably safe from any stealth upgrades since it's a safe bet they'll never lift their silly TPM and CPU requirements (even though doing so would've helped 11's adoption). I pretty spend most of my time in Debian, only really booting into Windows 10 for some games.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I remember when everyone said Windows 10 was a piece of shit compared to 7 lol

For some reason, the update thing says my computer can't handle Windows 11 but apparently it's because I turned some sort of setting off? Fuck it, I'll update in another 5 years when I build a new PC.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

"WAAAHHH!!!!! WHY WON'T THEY INSTALL OUR LATEST OPERATING SYSTEM?! I WANT MY DATA MILK NOW!!!"

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

In one of the other "bitch about Windows 11" threads someone posted a registry change that would permanently disable the forced upgrade to 11. Of course, because I'm a big dummy, I didn't bookmark that and now I can't find it anymore.

Anyway, the reason why I'll switch to Linux when the time comes is that a while back Microsoft floated the idea of running ads... in Windows Explorer. At that moment I decided never again, fuckers.

 

[The Great Milenko]

I'm an IT Janny so I have to switch over 1300+ laptops to this garbage.

I fucking hate my life.

Kill me.

I guess it depends on industry. More technical jobs require stability and will not simple switch over. My personal laptop keeps asking, and I REJECT.

 

[Absolutego]

Anyway, the reason why I'll switch to Linux when the time comes is that a while back Microsoft floated the idea of running ads... in Windows Explorer. At that moment I decided never again, fuckers.

As an extra bonus, those ads also frequently break other features like the start menu and every app's task bar. Gotta love the orwellian hell of your OS fundamentally breaking because of a new ad rollout. Very on brand for Microsoft.

 

[cybertoaster]

The only reason more than 5 guys got into win10 in the first place was the free upgrade from 7/8.

Afaik there's no free upgrade to 11, so microshit can get fucked.

I pray linux devs get their shit together by 2025.

The linux desktop scene has been hollowed out in no small part by the idpol faggotry from ex-microshit employees who "for some reason" decided to move to open source and start a shit flinging contest about gender and race crap there, classic divide and conquer, which has driven the actual contributors out, cemented shitty ideas and defunded many of the non-profits involved.

Its almost like microshit knew nobody was going to rush to buy a mac and linux, specially with proton, was becoming a real threat.

It's the Windows way, every second OS release is garbage and reviled by most:
98, great; 2000/Me, hated and notoriously buggy.
XP is still used in a lot of PCs today; Vista was so bad even garbage TV shows like The Big Bang Theory made fun of it.
Windows 7 is the greatest OS ever made, then 8 is the same but worse with an awful, AWFUL tablet UI shoehorned in.
10 is just 7 again, 11 is another ugly redesign no-one asked for ala 8 with stupidly high requirements ala Vista.

Basically wait til Windows 12.

98 was also shit.

 

[Drkinferno72]

Go Linux or go home