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

[Manul Otocolobus]

remember when they claimed that windows 10 would be the last windows? lmao.

I'm still bitter about that.

 

[Tactical Neural Implant]

2000 was great and not buggy at all.

Yeah, sorry I always equate 2000 and Me. Forget that they're totally different. Actually I remember using Windows 2000 during my work experience to play Thing Thing Arena. Great times.

 

[DarkSydeHyde]

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.

Would you recommend any list that can walk me through this process of the de-retardation of windows 10?

 

[Toolbox]

Imagine if they'd done this with Windows 7 and XP when Windows 8 came out.

For anyone who wants to keep using Windows 10, I recommend this fine website: thepiratebay.org

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I wouldn't recommend linking to the pirate bay anymore, any attempts at screening content that may have existed in the past no longer do. The one useful subreddit in existence is r/piracy. Their megathread, the one they link to on there is full of good info and the new one is kept up to date on sites that won't spit viruses onto your os.

 

[Table Country]

Maybe if 11's interface didn't suck they wouldn't have this problem.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Would you recommend any list that can walk me through this process of the de-retardation of windows 10?

Very short version:
1. Install Windows 10 without a Microsoft account
2. Go through the Control Panel privacy settings and turn everything off (and don't forget things like the spell checker) The only privacy settings you'll want to leave enabled are "Allow apps to use microphone" and "Allow apps to use camera", if you are doing anything that uses those. Be aware that video capture devices count as "cameras" for this purpose, and audio interfaces as "microphones".
3. If you have bloatware because you're not using LTSC, go through and manually uninstall as much of that as it'll let you.
4. Use ShutUp10 to turn off things that don't have convenient control panels. Their recommended settings are pretty good, but I like to disable OneDrive and "background apps" on top of that.
5. Install Open-Shell Menu if you want a Windows XP or Windows 7-style Start Menu back
6. Install Winaero Tweaker if you want to adjust UI/windowing settings like getting back the old-style Alt-Tab, getting the old volume control, changing the window borders, and so on.

 

[IamnottheNSA]

Remember when Windows 10 came out and every retard said they would pry 7 out of their cold dead hands then those same retards started praising Windows 10?

They are still yet to pry it out of my cold dead hands. It's still my main OS on my laptop, and is the latest Windows installed on my main desktop machine.
As for why other people moved on - now there are lots of tools available that let you rice 10 to look and feel like 7. Combine that with virtually nonexistent driver support for 7, and as a result people just don't see a reason to hold on anymore.

Would you recommend any list that can walk me through this process of the de-retardation of windows 10?

In an earlier post I made ITT I wrote that list.

 

[Aidan]

I seriously urge Windows users who are tired of this shit to have a hard look at Linux. It's consequence-free these days with virtual machines. Try it and you will find that a lot of the basic shit you do is the exact same. Most of you are just using a browser 90% of the time anyway.
For the Microsoft Office Suite you can still have that in a Windows virtual machine if you make the switch, use it in the browser where it's the exact same as on Windows in a browser, or try one of the open source versions such as LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, OpenOffice, etc.

For 99% of people using MS office, LibreOffice is just as good but the buttons aren't the exact same. Really only MS Excel stands out as hard to beat if you're using advanced features, in my opinion.

Linux Mint is made for Windows users to make the move and is one of the easiest ones to use.

Maybe if 11's interface didn't suck they wouldn't have this problem.

This has really pissed off older people more than any other update as far as I know. With Windows 8 they just didn't use it but a lot of them are being forced into Windows 11 at home and work and everything is in different spots so they feel like they have to relearn the operating system.
It's like Microsoft forgot that the interface familiarity is important to their userbase.

 

[BoomerSperg1922]

I seriously urge Windows users who are tired of this shit to have a hard look at Linux. It's consequence-free these days with virtual machines. Try it and you will find that a lot of the basic shit you do is the exact same. Most of you are just using a browser 90% of the time anyway.
For the Microsoft Office Suite you can still have that in a Windows virtual machine if you make the switch, use it in the browser where it's the exact same as on Windows in a browser, or try one of the open source versions such as LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, OpenOffice, etc.

For 99% of people using MS office, LibreOffice is just as good but the buttons aren't the exact same. Really only MS Excel stands out as hard to beat if you're using advanced features, in my opinion.

Linux Mint is made for Windows users to make the move and is one of the easiest ones to use.

This has really pissed off older people more than any other update as far as I know. With Windows 8 they just didn't use it but a lot of them are being forced into Windows 11 at home and work and everything is in different spots so they feel like they have to relearn the operating system.
It's like Microsoft forgot that the interface familiarity is important to their userbase.

As an old retard I am still mad about the start menu progams list change from 7 to 10 all these years later.

It's fucking stupid and awful looking.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

I miss Windows 7.

 

[Aidan]

As an old retard I am still mad about the start menu progams list change from 7 to 10 all these years later.

It's fucking stupid and awful looking.

7 was it for me. I've used 8, 8.1 and 10 but not as a "daily driver." I figured things were only going to get worse and really hated the "OS as a service" notion and took a look at Linux as a home OS and never looked back.

The only thing I personally gave up were some PC games due to their anticheat being Windows only. My take on that is if a game is anchoring you to an OS your priorities are fucked and you probably have some sort of addiction. It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine as I have plenty of friends and acquaintances who bitch about Windows periodically and when I recommend checking out Mint or something they say they can't because of some specific online game.

While I'm on this topic, I equally think the retards who fancy themselves extremists (usually right wing) that use Windows are exceptional. They're effectively using a glowy-approved OS with heaps of telemetry that consolidates everything about them and think they're somehow going to coast under the fed radar with their guns and outings they can't help but take pictures of... Don't be that guy.

 

[Argon]

Windows 10 LTSC IoT Enterprise is the true successor to Windows 7 and it's what Windows 10 should have been out of the box - no bloat, no candy crush, and the telemetry is easy to disable. Plus it's getting updates until 2032.

 

[WonderWino]

I noticed last night I got an update icon on my computer with a blue dot saying it was ready to upgrade to windows 11 tonight while sleeping, glad I saw it and disabled it so it wouldn’t pull that shit like they did years ago with windows 8

Err.....didn't microsoft get into serious shit and sued by a bunch of people and companies over that incident and explicitly forced by court order not to try to pull a forced low key OS update like that again? Cause that was all over the news here

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Reminder that Windows is Nadella's shitting street.

 

[teriyakiburns]

2000/Me, hated and notoriously buggy.

Don't lump 2000 in with ME. They're completely different systems. 2k was a dream of an OS, compared to the 9x series, and only improved further with each service pack. Not surprising, given it was written from the ground up by the same people who wrote VMS.

Just a shame what they did to the NT line after XP.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

I seriously urge Windows users who are tired of this shit to have a hard look at Linux.

I could (and have) sperg all day about my woes regarding Linux. All I'm going to say is that the community needs to take a look around and figure out what the fuck the game plan is. When I go to a program dev for tech support and they tell me NOT to use the flatpak and that I'm better off compiling the thing myself, then something is wrong with the whole fucking thing.

 

[Aidan]

I could (and have) sperg all day about my woes regarding Linux. All I'm going to say is that the community needs to take a look around and figure out what the fuck the game plan is. When I go to a program dev for tech support and they tell me NOT to use the flatpak and that I'm better off compiling the thing myself, then something is wrong with the whole fucking thing.

Yeah, I remember. The flatpak, snap, etc autism is something you could ignore. One of the main problems with Linux is the moronic community that insists their way is only way. Anyone who tells you to compile something yourself can be safely ignored unless you're trying to get max performance or do something very specific.

I remember you had some really out there issues but don't remember if you were running it on old hardware or what. For pretty much any modern laptop, Linux Mint should work out of the box, the user just needs to check the box to install proprietary drivers.

 

[Pee Cola]

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

Kinda like how everyone forgets that Windows XP was dogshit until SP1 came along. Thankfully SP1 was so good that it completely turned XP's rep around, and by SP3 XP was unquestionably the Windows GOAT... until Windows 7 came along.

That being said, if you're one of those folks that maintains that XP (or even Win2k) is still the GOAT, I'm not going to argue. Even though I'm on the side of GOAT = W7, I understand why XP and Win2k still get so much love.

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

This is still true of pleb-spec W10. LTSC isn't quite as good as W7, but it's still decent. If M$ sold LTSC versions of Windows to individuals - even if they were priced like MS-DOS and Windows 9x used to be (i.e. not cheap) - I'd seriously consider buying a legit copy. It'd be worth it just to avoid the spyware and generally cucked nature of the SaaS model that M$ is aggressively pushing.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Yeah, I remember. The flatpak, snap, etc autism is something you could ignore. One of the main problems with Linux is the moronic community that insists their way is only way. Anyone who tells you to compile something yourself can be safely ignored unless you're trying to get max performance or do something very specific.

I remember you had some really out there issues but don't remember if you were running it on old hardware or what. For pretty much any modern laptop, Linux Mint should work out of the box, the user just needs to check the box to install proprietary drivers

I remember you tried to help me, thank you again for that.

Right now I just installed Mint 21.1 in VMware17 and it's running like complete ass. I don't know what I'm doing but the only way Linux works for me is on the damn Steam Deck lmao

 

[CoolFool]

My current laptop is about to implode. I bought a new laptop over a month ago and was forced to install Windows 11. I tried searching how to avoid this, but found no solution.

Anyway, I have tried really hard to just suck it up and deal with it, but I absolutely hate it. I really hate how the scrollbar is so skinny, even after reading a bunch of articles about how to customize this, I still can't get it to look and act like I want it.

I'm currently still using my piece of shit laptop most of the time, but it's going to die for good soon, and then my new laptop is all I will have.

Is there a way for me to get Windows 10 on my new laptop, or am I stuck forever with this garbage?