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

My specific usecase though, I don't want a PC. I want the small form factor of the Chromebook so I can just toss it on my nightstand, and still have keyboard functionality and run faster than a tablet.

Shit, I was even considering a Nextbook Flex 11, but one in a non piece of shit state is like $100 and I don't want to spend that much on something I'm essentially just going to use to shitpost on KF or maybe watch hockey streams on in bed.
Well if you like the form factor there are cheap options that have some documentation online. I was able to find the Acer C720 on ebay as well so it isn't that old of a system.

 
Gosh, I love Microsoft products. I never leave home without my Windows phone, my Surface tablet, and my Zune blasting all my favorite mid-2000s tunes.
I record all my songs from the radio onto a tapes and then use a bluetooth transmitter to stream them from my Walkman to my car stereo, completely DRM free. You can literally do the same thing as a Zune on a Walkman, but most people lack the intelligence to take the time to learn how to untangle their tapes with a pencil when the 40 year old head in their Walkman eats them.
 
Another point to bring up... I dont see how sperging about the multiple Linux distros and VMs and emulation software all to make it work or look "just like Windows!" is a legitimate argument. Its like the New Coke™️ debacle from the 1980s all over again. If your product is so good and far and above beyond everything else, you shouldn't be trying to emulate a competing product, your product should stand on it's own.

Right, see, I've only ever used SLES for what it's for, which is an enterprise-grade server OS to host various heavy-compute applications, and it's really good at that. I don't have a pile of shit tacked onto it to try and make it work like a half-broken replacement for Windows.

Its like you can't read sarcasm. I'm very convinced you have an 8th grade reading comprehension. Obviously that was an insult. We've been calling each other dumb for the past two days. The next question is how fucking retarded do YOU have to be not to read my post and see it as the obvious sarcasm that it was. Again with the Windows users that are too spergy to have a conversation.

Constant strawmanning from your side is very funny to watch though. Please continue to insist I said things I didn't say.
lol calm down
 
Another point to bring up... I dont see how sperging about the multiple Linux distros and VMs and emulation software all to make it work or look "just like Windows!" is a legitimate argument. Its like the New Coke™️ debacle from the 1980s all over again. If your product is so good and far and above beyond everything else, you shouldn't be trying to emulate a competing product, your product should stand on it's own.
The popular Windows user-friendly distros don't try to emulate Windows, they try to provide a familiar interface and design that makes it easier for someone only familiar with Windows to make the switch.

This is why it is weird that Microsoft seems to be trying very hard ever since Windows 8 to get away from what has worked for them for decades. I mentioned it previously but I know an old lady that complained about Windows 11 and decided to just use an old Windows 7 computer that she's had for years because she can't figure 11 out. Microsoft is alienating people like her who have used Windows since Windows was a thing.
 
The popular Windows user-friendly distros don't try to emulate Windows, they try to provide a familiar interface and design that makes it easier for someone only familiar with Windows to make the switch.

This is why it is weird that Microsoft seems to be trying very hard ever since Windows 8 to get away from what has worked for them for decades. I mentioned it previously but I know an old lady that complained about Windows 11 and decided to just use an old Windows 7 computer that she's had for years because she can't figure 11 out. Microsoft is alienating people like her who have used Windows since Windows was a thing.
I think the gist is that Linux distros want what Microsoft has and Microsoft wants what Apple has.
 
Wasn't the whole point of Windows 10 that it will be the "last major Windows version" and everything after that will just be gradual updates?
Yes it was stated by MicroShaft several times. Considering how poorly Azure has performed financially in the past couple of quarters I wouldn't be surprised if MicroShaft resurrected the subscription idea either too

 
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I think the gist is that Linux distros want what Microsoft has and Microsoft wants what Apple has.
I don't think so, I think some of them just want to make Linux more accessible to non-techies.
No clue what Microsoft wants at this point but they're so dominant they can afford to fuck around.
 
Wasn't the whole point of Windows 10 that it will be the "last major Windows version" and everything after that will just be gradual updates?
Officially it's security:
Security. Windows 11 raises the bar for security by requiring hardware that can enable protections like Windows Hello, Device Encryption, virtualization-based security (VBS), hypervisor-protected code integrity (HVCI) and Secure Boot. The combination of these features has been shown to reduce malware by 60% on tested devices. To meet the principle, all Windows 11 supported CPUs have an embedded TPM, support secure boot, and support VBS and specific VBS capabilities.
But there have been rumors that pressure was put on Microsoft to cut off support for old PCs to spur hardware sales for the lagging Laptop and Desktop markets. PC sales have dropped by a good third over the last decade thanks a combination of a migration to mobile phone and the fact that there has been a lack of any kind of technological paradigm shift that would require most users to upgrade their PCs for some time. A decent laptop from 2012 running Windows 10 is still perfectly functional and usable for most applications today. Windows 11 kind of puts a stop to that.

Consider this, Microsoft had been offering a 32-bit version of Windows 10 until relatively recently. That's how far back Windows 10 hardware support went.
 
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It doesn't have single digit adoption. This statement is perhaps the single dumbest thing said in this thread. In addition to powering the majority of smartphones
smartphones don't count
(which make up the majority of internet users) Linux is also the defacto choice for servers as well.
The best Linux distribution, Chrome OS, only has about 3% market share, with other Linux distributions making up perhaps another 3%. Not even close to say Mac OS X.
 
smartphones don't count

The best Linux distribution, Chrome OS, only has about 3% market share, with other Linux distributions making up perhaps another 3%. Not even close to say Mac OS X.
I have very different stats from you. Plus "It doesn't count!" only seems to apply when people accurately point out that Linux isn't some obscure topic.

 
Oh, more Linux fanfiction like "Wine isn't an enormous pain in the ass that doesn't work as often as it does" and "FOSS replacements are just as good". Wonderful.

You do realize that you do more damage to your cause than good by lying to people about this stuff, right?
As much as I hate flatpak, use bottles. There's even an aur repo for the fucking thing.

But I will agree with a post earlier, that the repository system with Linux is fucking garbage and stupid. The Mint/Ubuntu repositories are always so fucking out of date with the versions of programs they have and then you have to hunt down the ppa or repository for the program you want, add it, update, then install. Installing programs on Windows using an exe is something Windows does better than Linux and the godawful repository system since none of these faggot OS repositories want to keep shit up-to-date. I guess the equivalent is getting a .deb installer but not all programs offer that so then you have to use the repository option. I'm also ok with appimage but Docker can go straight to hell.
I find the arch stuff to be fairly fine. I've had a fairly consistent & good experience with arch based distros vs whatever the fuck ubuntu likes to do. I still miss antergos.
 
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Has anyone tried Tiny10? A few years ago there was some stripped down win10 version I tried that wouldn't let you run anything as an admin so I wiped it after 5 minutes.
 
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