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

Hugger Brother said:
anecdotally, I know some people who were early adopters of the OS for home use, and based on what I heard from them, the bugs/compatibility issues were worse than normal this time around, but I do believe that period has largely passed.
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This just doesn't track for me. The XP -> Vista and 7 -> 8 transitions were big because there was a lot of novelty being added to the OS. What's new in 11? Centered start menu? YAWN. Not saying there aren't significant backend changes, but compared to these elder transitions, Microsoft really has noone to blame but themselves.

On the upside, it's never been easier to pirate Windows. Had to reinstall OS for my parent the other day. Grabbed a pirate ISO off of PrivateTorrentSite. Install, disable antivirus, run activator, done.
 
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Been daily driving Linux now for.....something like a decade. Lost count. Personally and professionally.

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Idk what to tell you man, all the games I play work great inside the Steam Flatpak. Doom. Meme Thunder. Turn on Proton Experimental for each game that isn't Linux native and you won't notice a difference. Now granted I haven't tried Flight Simulator in that yet. If you have some game that you simply cannot live without AND that absolutely requires a bare metal install of Windows.....have fun with dual booting I guess. For me, getting rid of almost all of Microsoft's bullshit was well, well worth it. Give it a month to adjust to how things are done differently in Linux, and your life will just be better.

Distro wise, personally I dig EndeavourOS, because their base xfce install is gorgeous and minimal without being autistic. And they have an excellent nvidia-inst utility that basically handles Nvidia's bullshit perfectly. YMMV.
 
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It doesn't help that Windows 11 doesn't work with a lot of video games without playing in admin mode or patches as well as some older software and unlike with Windows 10, the devs have been really slow at fixing these issues. Going as far as getting upset with beta testers who have to deal with them and their terrible coding skills. Never had this issue before Microsoft fired the old batch of devs. If there was a problem there would be a few devs wanting to check and see what's wrong. Now? "We're looking into it" (dev speak for "don't care") or "working as intended. It's up to that developer to fix their issues" dev speak for "too lazy, do it yourself".
 
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I bought a new laptop and I am at a loss for words about how retarded everything is in Windows 11. It's like they tried to make everything less user-friendly and as difficult as possible to find or use. There isn't even a start menu! Pressing the Windows key does nothing!

Like you can't even fucking right-click and select "paste". You have to find the tiny little icon that does it which you'll only know means paste if you use Excel regularly.
 
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Illuminati Order Official said:
2000 was in the NT vein, not the 95/98/Millenium vein if I remember correctly.
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People talk about 2000 having poor compatibility. While it wasn't perfect, it was pretty decent. Yes, 2000 was the sequel to NT4. It was one of a couple ISOs I spent a week downloading via 33.6 off KaZaa, IIRC.

And yeah, 2000 was one of my favorite Windows. It was 98SE if 98SE traded compatibility for stability.
 
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YE24 said:
This just doesn't track for me. The XP -> Vista and 7 -> 8 transitions were big because there was a lot of novelty being added to the OS. What's new in 11? Centered start menu? YAWN. Not saying there aren't significant backend changes, but compared to these elder transitions, Microsoft really has noone to blame but themselves.
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basically, lol. the UI changes are pretty comprehensive, but other than that? everything is backend shit, and the rampant bugs and issues I think come from MS basically settling on using the first year of release as a public beta test. there's barely any gain for the user which is why MS has to do dumb shit like gate DirectX versions by OS, lol.

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Idk what to tell you man, all the games I play work great inside the Steam Flatpak. Doom. Meme Thunder. Turn on Proton Experimental for each game that isn't Linux native and you won't notice a difference. Now granted I haven't tried Flight Simulator in that yet. If you have some game that you simply cannot live without AND that absolutely requires a bare metal install of Windows.....have fun with dual booting I guess. For me, getting rid of almost all of Microsoft's bullshit was well, well worth it. Give it a month to adjust to how things are done differently in Linux, and your life will just be better.
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same. it's really fantastic how far Linux gaming has come in the last several years, due in no small part to Valve's investment in Linux development. there was a time when you could argue that game compatibility was a significant road block to transitioning from Windows, but that time has long since passed. even cursed anti-cheat spyware suites like EAC are working these days.
 
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So contrary to popular belief I'm not a huge piratefag. What is the best source for Windows 10 now?
 
YE24 said:
People talk about 2000 having poor compatibility. While it wasn't perfect, it was pretty decent. Yes, 2000 was the sequel to NT4. It was one of a couple ISOs I spent a week downloading via 33.6 off KaZaa, IIRC.

And yeah, 2000 was one of my favorite Windows. It was 98SE if 98SE traded compatibility for stability.
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I mean that's the thing. Going from the old 95/98 series to an NT base in 2000 was a massive leap technologically speaking, but MS kept a normal, sensible looking UI. Once you turned off the themes service on XP that looked fine too.

Wheras 11 with each update just continues the trend of breaking stuff in the control panel that has worked perfectly well for literally decades. Even Windows 10, with the latest patch, completely broke my audio output until I turned off 'audio enhancements' (hah). 11 is even worse.

It used to be possible for any mildly technically competent people to technically support their relatives remotely by telling them where to click, with a bit of patience. Now the only way to get anything configured in 11 is to search up how to do it in Powershell. Good luck talking your mom through that.
 
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Sniperwoof said:
So contrary to popular belief I'm not a huge piratefag. What is the best source for Windows 10 now?
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If you're just looking for Pro licenses, I'd go with Newegg - as of right now they still have it, anyway. If you want LTSC, SoftwareMedia, Newegg Business, and Provantage are all fine.

Are third-party sellers even stopping Win10 sales at all, or was this original article just about the Microsoft Store?
 
IamnottheNSA said:
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.

In an earlier post I made ITT I wrote that list.
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A lack of DirectX 11.2, 11.3, 12, & 12 Ultimate are major limiters on Win 7 as well.

CoolFool said:
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?
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Depends on the processor. If you have a 12th or 13th generation Intel processor, or the latest AMD, you really shouldn't. For the Intel processor you will end up disabling at least 1/2 your processor. Windows 11 is the first version of Windows that understands how to deal with the asymmetric cores in the 12th and 13th generation intel processors because it is able to understand a new layer called the thread director. If you install Windows 10 it doesn't understand the smaller of the two types of asymmetric processors and just ignores them, so they are idle all the time. If its that important to you that you are willing to sacrifice 1/2 of your processor, and potentially other functions, in order to run Windows 10, you can, but I would highly recommend against it.
 
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AmpleApricots said:
These kinds of threads always crack me up. If people would invest the energy they use to go through insane hoops to keep windows usable into getting into linux, they'd be proficient linux users in no time.
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Becoming proficient with Linux is trivial. The issue is software - it's irrelevant how much better an OS is if I can't run my most-used programs on it.
 
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Manul Otocolobus said:
A lack of DirectX 11.2, 11.3, 12, & 12 Ultimate are major limiters on Win 7 as well.
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I recently looked into getting DX12 applications running on Win7 for a friend, figuring there's some kind of hackjob way of doing it since AFAIK there's no actual technological reason why the two would be incompatible. it turns out there's a small community of Win7 dead-enders who have gotten around the DX12 restriction by using vkd3d, the DX12 to Vulkan translation API, developed for Linux gaming, lol. as a Linux gamer (i use arch btw) that gave me a Sensible Chuckle
 
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Pee Cola said:
I already know how to use Linux, but I choose not to because Linuxfags are some of the most insufferable cunts this side of Teslafags. It's only gotten worse since the troonification of FOSS movement.

Anyways, I'd rather actively stick it to the man by taking the time to set up the cleanest possible Windows experience in current year.
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Why not stick it to the men (troons) by using foss software like the various flavors of linux that way you can piss of both the big corpo man and the men larping as women? Two birds one stone and you get a lighter more usable OS.
 
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George Floyd said:
Everyone is a professional photographer + CAD designer when looking for excuses to keep running Windows
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I've used both darktable and rawtherapee for editing raw photos on linux. Both work great for the fundamentals and I have had few photos edited in that manner accepted as stock photos.
 
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