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

[Matt Damon]

So this is a thing now. They are displaying watermarks to users who bypassed the system requirements to install Windows 11.

Microsoft has warned that it will disable updates on unsupported systems

So it'll be automatically configured the way I had to manually set up Windows 10? Wow, the first customer-friendly decision Microsoft has made in years!

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Actually the fact that you picked like the only relatively widespread distro that isn't even Unix-based is pretty impressive. Even iOS is a unix distro at the end of the day.
But BSD enthusiasts are their own strange animal. I've only met 2 in my life who tried to use it as their daily driver, and they were bizarre dudes. It's primarily used as the development base for switch/router OSes. It's weird af when they plug a GUI into it.

Which reinforces the fact that I find it absolutely hilarious that someone tried recommending this to me as a good systemd-less setup.

 

[Pee Cola]

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Pictured: An actual distro site the people seriously think is a fine example of fine web design.

Do you have any idea which platforms are supported by *BSD? Hint: some of them date back to the '80s.

This site is obviously designed to work on any browser from Lynx upwards (even if you do miss out on the snazzy graphics when using Lynx).

Even for those of us using modern platforms, I'd much rather use a site that looks like this than the absolute fucking cancer-ridden AIDS that current year Web has foisted upon us.

BSD enthusiasts are their own strange animal. I've only met 2 in my life who tried to use it as their daily driver, and they were bizarre dudes. It's primarily used as the development base for switch/router OSes. It's weird af when they plug a GUI into it.

These are the guys who'll unironically use a MIPS or DEC Alpha machine as a daily driver, just because they can. And yes, they usually smell just like you imagine they would.

 

[Aidan]

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Pictured: An actual distro site the people seriously think is a fine example of fine web design.

Listen here you lil' shit.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Listen here you lil' shit.
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I can't read Arabic

 

[seri0us]

Do you have any idea which platforms are supported by *BSD? Hint: some of them date back to the '80s.

PlayStation!

 

[The Heartthrob]

Windows 11 has hardware requirements that aren't even based on performance. It's based on having a TPM 2 chip which is used to spy on you more and take more control away from you. They are literally forcing you to buy a new computer to have a less free machine, just to run Windows 11.

Microsoft are niggers.

Late but I was wondering what that shit was about. Windows Update keeps telling me I don't meet the hardware requirements for 11 on a fucking gaming PC and it never added up.

 

[Never Scored]

Which reinforces the fact that I find it absolutely hilarious that someone tried recommending this to me as a good systemd-less setup.

It's hilarious because they were trolling you and you're too autistic to pick up on it.

 

[The Ugly One]

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Yeah, what kind of retard just puts all the resources I would need right there in a side bar, or links keywords to things I might want to see? I expect to see some meaningless glyphs, some kind of scrolling animation that takes 2 GB of RAM, and a picture of a thin, frizzy-haired black woman sitting at a laptop. This reaches me, the user, with a feeling of empathy.

Was talking to a manager about how many computers we're gonna have to trash because of microshit's bullshit (basically everything below gen 8 intel chips) and he said the CTO is considering switching to redhat over this.

The redmond faggots are about to destroy their corporate marketshare.

End of long-term support for Enterprise Win 10 is 2029. 7th gen intel came out in 2016. If your CTO is planning to use 14-year-old computers as the backbone of your enterprise in 2030, there's no way you are a big enough customer to matter to anyone.

 

[Baguette Child]

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Pictured: An actual distro site the people seriously think is a fine example of fine web design.

Unironically miss when the internet looked like this. Simple and to the point. No unnecessary fluff or garbage to scroll through. Easily navigated sidebar for links. Cosy.

 

[Matt Damon]

a picture of a thin, frizzy-haired black woman sitting at a laptop

You're living in the past, grandpa. Diversity quotas have evolved.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

I was more specifically comparing the site to Mint's:

Glad to see Mutt's Law already infecting this thread.

 

[888Flux]

The motivations for this become far more sinister when you realize that the Windows operating system (non-commercial, non-enterprise) only accounts for 11% of Microsoft's total sales. And these numbers don't exclude Windows Embedded / Windows IoT. It's just a way of getting people on the latest version of the botnet.

 

[byuu]

I was more specifically comparing the site to Mint's:
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Glad to see Mutt's Law already infecting this thread.

Wow a photo of a screen with the Linux Mint logo on it. That's so useful I'm glad it takes up half the screen.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Wow a photo of a screen with the Linux Mint logo on it. That's so useful I'm glad it takes up half the screen.

The point of it is advertising. If you think a shitty Dr. Seuss rip off of some fish makes me want to try an OS, then I guess you win.

 

[Baguette Child]

The point of it is advertising. If you think a shitty Dr. Seuss rip off of some fish makes me want to try an OS, then I guess you win.

If you're choosing your tech based on advertising and not performance, you need to take a hard look at yourself. Modern consumerism practices do not necessarily select for the most capable product.

 

[888Flux]

Wow a photo of a screen with the Linux Mint logo on it. That's so useful I'm glad it takes up half the screen.

Because retards need bright flashing colors, buggy JavaScript scrollbars and corporate memphis flat art people in wheelchairs on the landing page otherwise they'll go insane.

Lesson in web design:

Not a single person reads this shit. No one. All the text in this image can be compacted down to 2-3 sentences that fits on a single line. Instead, it takes up an entire scrollbar worth of space on the page. Now compare this to the OpenBSD website. While it may not look as aesthetically pleasing the information is presented in a organized and minimal format which allows the user to quickly navigate the page and find what they are looking for. 95% of the page is information. Not bullshit icons or godforbid this nonsense:

Look at how much space is used to display a single quote from some random person. Imagine if books were written like this. Half the page is blank space while the other half is text crammed in the middle. Modern websites have abysmal design and no regard for what the actual purpose of a website should be - communicating relevant information to the user.

 

[Never Scored]

The point of it is advertising. If you think a shitty Dr. Seuss rip off of some fish makes me want to try an OS, then I guess you win.

I'm quite certain the Open BSD crew doesn't give a flying fuck if you want to use their OS or not.

They are not Microsoft or even a Linux distro like Ubuntu. Their end goal is not widespread adoption.

What you're doing is like going to a garage that is owned by some non-profit classic car club where anyone can go work on their classic car, standing on a chair, and loudly yelling about how the classic car club is not doing enough to get you to join.

 

[moocow]

>be me
>see thread title
>oh boy, a thread for shitting on Microsoft and Windows! I love those!
>forty fucking pages of Windows fags sperging about Linux
Damn, all that Microsoft FUD in the 90's and 2000's against Linux really paid off for them.

And BTW, you never "win" OS flame wars and they're not worth joining. Use what you need and ignore the endless screeching and trolling. And don't forget to shit on Microsoft and Apple -- just on general principle -- because they're both vicious cunts.

 

[Samuel Hyde]

The motivations for this become far more sinister when you realize that the Windows operating system (non-commercial, non-enterprise) only accounts for 11% of Microsoft's total sales. And these numbers don't exclude Windows Embedded / Windows IoT. It's just a way of getting people on the latest version of the botnet.
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I don't know if it's true/true anymore but in the old days it was pretty widely discussed that microshaft lost money on windows releases. The strategy being that additional income from retraining boomers and new sales leads for enterprise software and services would offset the costs of producing windows. I don't know if I ever looked into the numbers but seems pretty accurate going off that pie chart and how much microshaft pushes windows it probably isn't too far off.

In a similar vein microshaft gives software away to students and universities so that when students graduate and enter the working world they would need to be retrained to use products from a competitor. Of course companies don't want to pay to retrain so they end up buying some microshaft licenses. Literally creating a heard of digital chattle to weaponize against any alternative