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

[byuu]

It's either very centralized, automated convenience or a tedious clusterfuck and little in between. I mean, just look at this shit. This is commercial, paid software.

I just went to the website, downloaded it, unpacked it, went to REAPER/, and clicked on "reaper", and it just opened without problems.

Maybe just try it before visiting weird NordVPN shilling sites written by some pajeet?
I have no idea why that site tells you to compile libSwell. The official readme inside the tarball states that's only needed if you want to make a headless install, or want to use an older version of gdk for some weird reason.

 

[Cat Stew]

only gripe i have with windows 11 is the taskbar has the start and search bar. the start already exists as a key on your keyboard so its no use having a second one but this time on the screen, and the search bar already exists in start which is right next to it and super redundant.

id just really like the option to remove these to cleanup my taskbar and replace them with a power button.

 

[Dread First]

Bruh I spent my teen years and half of college fucking around with Linux. To this day, it’s a fucking pain in the ass.

Even as an adult, I prefer Windows because it’s far less of a pain to get shit done on.

 

[Plumber's Kokoro Wish]

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

My comp was molesting me at the start up screen with the equivalent of a power point presentation to upgrade, I hate it.

 

[SaltyFanta]

My comp was molesting me at the start up screen with the equivalent of a power point presentation to upgrade, I hate it.

I hate how much Windows 10 tries to goad me into installing 11, one of these days I'm going to open my pc in the morning to the horrific sight of that centered task bar. If having Internet Explorer pre-installed was enough for an anti-trust suit way back, surely packing your OS with office, Edge, Xbox App, and a million pieces of junk software, all while pushing the user into free new versions is surely some sort of grounds. But hey, I'm not a lawyer.

 

[Aidan]

I hate how much Windows 10 tries to goad me into installing 11, one of these days I'm going to open my pc in the morning to the horrific sight of that centered task bar. If having Internet Explorer pre-installed was enough for an anti-trust suit way back, surely packing your OS with office, Edge, Xbox App, and a million pieces of junk software, all while pushing the user into free new versions is surely some sort of grounds. But hey, I'm not a lawyer.

Back in the day Microsoft didn't lobby too hard. The anti-trust suit was their wake up call.

 

[Am I Very Wrong]

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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for the love of god do not use the pirate bay. ever. i recommend 1337x (or rutracker as a second choice).
besides everyone has been downloading windows 10 from the official website for ages now. you just need to activate it with kmspico (get it from mydigitallife)

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I have TPM turned off so I don't have to worry about Windows 11 sneaking up on me.

 

[Ted Kaczynski]

Microsoft forced me to update my laptop to windows 11. I don’t even fucking know how they did it but I woke up one day and logged on and I got the “we installed some updates ))” bullshit screen and boom, windows 11. I must have accidentally let it update.
Safe to say that I’m switching entirely to my fedora Linux boot and repartitioning my hard drive so that it takes up more than 75%. I’ll keep windows around for the rare program that I can’t use on Linux or find an open source thing for.

 

[ZMOT]

I have TPM turned off so I don't have to worry about Windows 11 sneaking up on me.

until microsoft quietly drops that requirement when they see win11 adoption sucks, and one morning you're greeted by the shiny new apple-style centered taskbar.

the nagging to get people onto win10 was already bad enough, even when they tried to sell it as "the last windows ever" (lul), get ready for the 2023 version of that.
only "pro" this time is that people who are able to run win10 should've no issue with win11, compared to going from win7->win10. and with everybody using win10 (remember, which was sold as a good thing) it's much easier to migrate them to 11 too!

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

until microsoft quietly drops that requirement when they see win11 adoption sucks, and one morning you're greeted by the shiny new apple-style centered taskbar.

Dammit. My plans have been foiled by Nadella yet again!

 

[Pissmaster]

i Use LiNUX.

Hahaha, you guys use the same OS as @BoxerShorts47. Windows chads just keep winning

 

[byuu]

Hahaha, you guys use the same OS as @BoxerShorts47. Windows chads just keep winning

And he's even using the same distro I'm using. Fuck.

 

[Matt Damon]

until microsoft quietly drops that requirement when they see win11 adoption sucks, and one morning you're greeted by the shiny new apple-style centered taskbar.

I just tell Windows 10 my LAN data limit is 1 meg per month and it effectively becomes a manual update system. I don't have to mess with group policies or any of that gay shit.

Works perfectly unless you connect to new networks frequently.

 

[The Ugly One]

I just got done playing a game on my Windows 11 laptop. What an incredible operating system! My favorite feature is how it supports all my laptop's hardware, including the NVIDIA GPU.

Most of those files have to be explicitly set to self-execute by the user. There's usually a checkbox in the file properties or you can use the terminal because you're a h4rdc0re 1337 ha><or.


Because Linux is disastrously unstandardized between distros and new versions of libraries regularly break backward compatibility even from one version of a distro to the next. There are so many versions because they have to be compatible with so many different target configurations. It's one of the core, foundational problems with bringing serious commercial development into desktop Linux - even dedicated Linux lovers say this, so it's not just me bashing.

Few businesses are willing to spend serious time and money putting out software that breaks every time there's a system update.


Flatpaks bundle libraries with the executable, rather than using the system's libraries in an attempt to deal with the aforementioned problem. Snaps and AppImages and probably others I can't remember work according to a similar principle

I didn't know the term, but yeah, we distribute a flatpack. It's absolutely fucking massive. Linux system libraries are a joke. The only thing they're useful for is other software distributed by the same package manager. Otherwise, you can't even assume system printer drivers will work.

 

[Matt Damon]

I didn't know the term, but yeah, we distribute a flatpack. It's absolutely fucking massive.

That's what I see a lot of complaints from Linux users about when talking about Flatpak and AppImage. I'd counter that a pocket calculator application that uses 300 meg of disk space is still better than a 50 kb one that doesn't run.

 

[Fascist Kirk (Yoja)]

I still rocking windows ME and I don't care.......

 

[ZMOT]

I just tell Windows 10 my LAN data limit is 1 meg per month and it effectively becomes a manual update system. I don't have to mess with group policies or any of that gay shit.

Works perfectly unless you connect to new networks frequently.

that only works if you trust microsoft enough to not conveniently reset or ignore it, depending how much they want you to have windows 11.

what you gonna do, reinstall 10 or stop using win11?

 

[White Devil]

that only works if you trust microsoft enough to not conveniently reset or ignore it, depending how much they want you to have windows 11.

what you gonna do, reinstall 10 or stop using win11?

This. Windows 10 Updates would reset a lot of my settings and disable my Corsair mic and headset EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.

 

[Never Scored]

This. Windows 10 Updates would reset a lot of my settings and disable my Corsair mic and headset EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.

Windows 10 updates raped my wife and my son looks like Clippy.