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

[Not A Tranny Or Am I?]

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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Bad advice, avoid downloading software from thepiratebay at all cost because of high risk of getting infected by malwares, even from skulled users.

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Folks out there who want to keep installing Windows 10 on your systems or your loved one's computer for free. All you need to do is to download the official ISO from Microsoft and install it like normal, then run this script(MAS_AIO.cmd, link below) as administrator after the installation is completed to activate your OS. Please note that this script doesn't work if yours requires Volume License.

GitHub - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts: A Windows and Office activator using HWID / KMS38 / Online KMS activation methods, with a focus on open-source code and fewer antivirus detections.

A Windows and Office activator using HWID / KMS38 / Online KMS activation methods, with a focus on open-source code and fewer antivirus detections. - GitHub - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Script...

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[MugolEx]

Just say today that windows update was about to upgrade to windows 11. Good thing I caught it. This shit is unacceptable. Why can;t microsoft just accept Windows 11 is shit?

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

Bad advice, avoid downloading software from thepiratebay at all cost because of high risk of getting infected by malwares, even from skulled users.

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This guy made a classic mistake, he allowed indiscriminate access to the internet by his programs. If the dropper hadn't been able to download the payload from the internet it wouldn't have been able to access the ransomware module.

This is why I highly recommend using a hardware firewall. You sit it directly behind your hard connection to the internet. You tell it to literally block everything as the first rule. Next, you make rules for everything you have that needs to get through the firewall all the time (browser, etc...) and when you have something that needs to connect, but doesn't need a connection all the time, you give it an expiring permission where it is allowed to connect for now, and then that permission auto-expires after a certain amount of time (I usually set them to 5 minutes). You do this so you don't have a TIA and as a result forget to revoke its permission manually. You always have to remember not to trust yourself.

Using this model absolutely nothing talks to the internet that I don't explicitly allow. Windows can't send anything I don't want it to. nothing updates unless I let it, nothing calls home unless I allow it, and no random crap gets to contact whoever the fuck it wants anywhere in the world. Controlling your connection to the internet is key to your system security.

 

[verymuchawful]

I'm glad my motherboard doesn't have TPM 2.0. No matter how hard they try they can't force me onto 11 if they want to keep that requirement.

 

[byuu]

and naively thinking the "Turbo" button on the front of the computer would actually do something.

The Turbo button does do something.

 

[Smar Mijou]

The Turbo button does do something.

Well yeah, but my 5 year old mind thinking that it would allow me to finally outrun that damn abominable snowman in SkiFree, and still getting eaten every time says otherwise!

 

[IamnottheNSA]

If anyone ITT legitimately considers moving over to Linux, install it in a VM first and make sure all your favorite software runs on it, through Wine (here you'll find all the information you'll need), or maybe it has Linux versions. Maybe you'll have to downgrade to an earlier version. If the result satisfies you, do a hardware install.
>what distro should I use?
Mint or Xubuntu are good choices for Windows refugees. Maybe Debian with Xfce if you want something less hand-holdy. Don't go into rolling release distros, at least not straight away.

 

[Weed Eater]

Still won't stop me from using my pirated copy of Win10.

If anyone ITT legitimately considers moving over to Linux, install it in a VM first and make sure all your favorite software runs on it

Microsoft may be cucked, but being a Linux fag? You cannot seriously expect me to get down on such levels of cuckery.

 

[AmpleApricots]

I would actually never recommend people to switch to Linux just expecting things to work and to just continue as-it-was like with windows. In my entire time of using Linux I only once actively advised a person to use Linux instead. That was a while ago and it was a mistake. I never did it again.

I said it often before in various places on this forum but Linux userland is at it's absolute worst when it tries to be a poor man's windows. It is really bad at it, and I say that with about (has it already been? wow) ~20 years of linux eperience. The end goal always needs to be to get away from "ignorantly" using the computer without a care how anything works and actually become at least somewhat proficient in understanding what is happening and handling things yourself, in a way liberating yourself from the decree of others. (and I mean that, some of the tranny janny distro maintainers in Linuxland are literally the worst and I do not trust them to make good decisions) The open nature of the Linux and *BSD ecosystem actively supports and encourages this, while Windows/MacOS absolutely does not and will even actively prohibit you from knowing or changing what's going on on your computer. (See: the OS trying to sneakily update to Win11) For me personally that is unacceptable, but for you maybe it is not. If you don't care about basically being dominated by your software and being told what's best for you with regards to your own computer, and don't want to learn things, you might as well stay with windows and I'd recommend you to do so, as it will probably be easier because windows is made with such users in mind. Of course when then microsoft just completely changes everything in ways you don't like and then also shoves it's telemetry-dildo up your ass, you cannot complain. You didn't want to learn anything and leave the man-hours of actually figuring out the way you use your computers to others, so don't be surprised there are trade-offs and these others use that to their advantage. No such thing as free lunch.

 

[Citron]

Forgive the conspiracy sperging but I'm thinking this is tied to Agenda 2030, ID2020 and the WEF's 'global goals'. Digital ID based on irremovable biometrics is at the center of the WEF platform. They want to create a world where this ID is required to do absolutely everything, including access to the Internet. In conjunction with upcoming CBDCs this would create essentially an all-encompassing surveillance and control structure where your transactions are surveilled, your facial biometrics are followed in the real world by CCTV networks and your online behavior is scrutinized.

Covid served many purposes like the destruction of fiat and the transition from QR codes to digital IDs, pushed forward by Young Global Leaders such as Ursula von der Leyen, Justin Trudeau and Tony Blair in the UK. Bill Gates was also one of the first inductees in this program (formely Global Leaders for Tomorrow) back in 1993. Recently the G20 adopted a resolution to force digital vaccine passports inside a unified WHO database as a requirement for international travel, most likely a trojan digital ID. It won't be dystopian to start off with. They need people to suspect nothing until they're done building the walls of the digital prison. When people are so enmeshed into the system that they cannot possibly disengage from it is probably when shit will hit the fan, they'll turn on the switch so-to-speak.

In any case, they've been conditioning people to give their biometrics and think nothing of it for quite some time, with smartphones for example, and Windows 11 is another step in that conditioning until presumably some other version of windows down the line requires it. It's another brick in the prison wall.

 

[Rozzy]

I need Windows at home for my music recording set-up. I have a very specific use case for Windows and none beyond "oh neat" for any Linux distro - it doesn't make sense to have a whole other computer just for shitposting.

Same here I need Windows for work so I run Windows on one machine and Linux on the other, for anyone interested in trying Linux I would suggest obtaining a used laptop or desktop PC and trialing Linux to find out if it's right for you.

 

[习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想]

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

My naive ass actually fell for it at the time

 

[seri0us]

If you don't care about basically being dominated by your software and being told what's best for you with regards to your own computer, and don't want to learn things, you might as well stay with windows and I'd recommend you to do so, as it will probably be easier because windows is made with such users in mind. Of course when then microsoft just completely changes everything in ways you don't like and then also shoves it's telemetry-dildo up your ass, you cannot complain. You didn't want to learn anything and leave the man-hours of actually figuring out the way you use your computers to others, so don't be surprised there are trade-offs and these others use that to their advantage. No such thing as free lunch.

It's interesting how far I've gone from the "Windows way" of doing things originally just because I highly disliked the telemetry and how dubious the options of somehow taking it out of Windows were.

 

[SilentDuck]

I would actually never recommend people to switch to Linux just expecting things to work and to just continue as-it-was like with windows. In my entire time of using Linux I only once actively advised a person to use Linux instead. That was a while ago and it was a mistake. I never did it again.

Same. If someone can handle linux, then odds are they can research it, demo it and install it themselves and use google to figure out whatever issues need figuring. Support, tips and recommendations are incredible time savers but the plunge into non-windows is a journey every tard must take on their own.

I say to anyone who asks just get pozzed with a Mac. The only time I ever installed linux for a outwardly reasonable, interested party they immediately devolved into a toddler and broke the installation twice a day for a week (reinstall record) and then just gave up and went and got a Mac anyway. Lesson learned. Many people if not most are just not autistic enough to properly wield this kind of power and choice. It creates a huge responsibility to know your shit, and people do not want it - they'd rather get spit-roasted by TPM and Bill Gates or the ghost of Steve Jobs.

 

[Sniperwoof]

Forgive the conspiracy sperging but I'm thinking this is tied to Agenda 2030, ID2020 and the WEF's 'global goals'. Digital ID based on irremovable biometrics is at the center of the WEF platform. They want to create a world where this ID is required to do absolutely everything, including access to the Internet. In conjunction with upcoming CBDCs this would create essentially an all-encompassing surveillance and control structure where your transactions are surveilled, your facial biometrics are followed in the real world by CCTV networks and your online behavior is scrutinized.

Covid served many purposes like the destruction of fiat and the transition from QR codes to digital IDs, pushed forward by Young Global Leaders such as Ursula von der Leyen, Justin Trudeau and Tony Blair in the UK. Bill Gates was also one of the first inductees in this program (formely Global Leaders for Tomorrow) back in 1993. Recently the G20 adopted a resolution to force digital vaccine passports inside a unified WHO database as a requirement for international travel, most likely a trojan digital ID. It won't be dystopian to start off with. They need people to suspect nothing until they're done building the walls of the digital prison. When people are so enmeshed into the system that they cannot possibly disengage from it is probably when shit will hit the fan, they'll turn on the switch so-to-speak.

In any case, they've been conditioning people to give their biometrics and think nothing of it for quite some time, with smartphones for example, and Windows 11 is another step in that conditioning until presumably some other version of windows down the line requires it. It's another brick in the prison wall.

I think your tinfoil hat is on too tight.

 

[Matt Damon]

for anyone interested in trying Linux I would suggest obtaining a used laptop or desktop PC and trialing Linux to find out if it's right for you.

Or just run it in a VM. I make a new one every few months just to keep vaguely abreast of what's going on in Linux world.

 

[BrieLarsonFan2004]

Reminder that the hardware requirements for Windows are total bullshit and you can literally just circumvent them when you make a virtual machine.
Having to circumvent these requirements actually make Windows a more difficult OS to make into a VM. Fucking kikes.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Lesson learned

The thing is, as soon as they make the switch everything that happens on that system from then on is your/linux' fault. Two seconds longer boot for some random reason? Your fault. That youtube video has bad sound? Linux broke my computer. And help you god if they want to play a video game and it runs somehow differently than in windows. Absolutely and utterly hopeless. They need to want to or you just adopted the person and their computer. If the make the switch by themselves and ask you for help, by all means, help but I strongly advise against advertisting for it and also don't understand people proselytizing Linux for normies. I kinda don't want Linux to catch on in the normie-sphere because the little, every-so-slighty degree it already catched on with that sphere was just a net negative for the entire culture so far. If you don't know what I mean, look at /r/linux.

Thankfully, as a linux user I literally do not need to care what soy garbage software some ubuntu webdev redditor runs. That's the freedom I talked about.

I would make an exception for some complete and utter computer-illiterate relatives who need an OS for their google/email machine. Might as well install a lightweight and iditot-proof linux on that (usually incredibly low-end) thing and make your life being the admin of that machine easier. You're already responsible for them anyways. Re: UI changes coming from windows my advice is to just throw them into the cold water like Microsoft does it. If they want to use the computer, they'll figure it out and usually are happier for it too because a good, stable Linux distro maintained and carefully updated by you doesn't have the tendency to just completely bork their computer out of the blue like windows likes to do.

It's interesting how far I've gone from the "Windows way" of doing things originally just because I highly disliked the telemetry and how dubious the options of somehow taking it out of Windows were.

Just set the registry key WeWontSpyOnYouWePromise to 1 and all is dandy. I never got that either. I always had the theory that microsoft spreads that shit itself and people who activate it probably get some additional telemetry targeted at more advanced users. The vast majority of processes on my Linux machines aren't even able to see/talk to the network, let alone the internet. Because they don't need to. So I don't let them.

 

[Matt Damon]

The thing is, as soon as they make the switch everything that happens on that system from then on is your/linux' fault. Two seconds longer boot for some random reason? Your fault. That youtube video has bad sound? Linux broke my computer.

Young computer guys tell everyone "I can do that for you!"

Wizened old computer guys feign ignorance of anything remotely technical.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

I may be a boomer at heart or a turbo autist for this, but in response to all of the XP and 7 worship; I didn't like XP when I first got it, I spent a bunch of time making it look like windows 2000. I didn't like 7 when I got it, I spent a bunch of time making it look like my windows XP turned 2000. When I couldn't do that anymore on 10, I relented. My windows 10 installs look as close to classic (Pre-XP) windows as it is possible for me to do without a ton of third party tools. I need to get my hands on an ISO and a method of generating keys for win10 because I'm building a new computer soon and will not install 11.

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.

See this is why normies hate linux people, you're so goddamn smug. hurr durr just install linux and learn to use it bro. No. You aren't going to recruit people by being pricks all the time. I don't have time to learn how to use a completely new OS that requires a bunch of poweruser level knowledge just to do normal shit and all for nebulous benefits. I am not a programmer, I don't want to learn programmer shit. It's bad enough that I had to learn how to create excel macros and use matlab and simulink. Plus, I am going to be that guy: I use solidworks and do FEA for my hobbies I have an old pre subscription basis copy of photoshop that I will not give up. I only learned the bare minimum linuxfag shit so I could use arduino and raspberry pi, and I wrote it down and created a manual so I could keep using those things when I inevitably forget the stuff. I do use darktable though.