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Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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Wtf is this a reasonable comment to discuss a nuanced topic where a person who never used Linux and has no desire to can maybe find options to adjust and keep my windows from enshittifying?
Inb4 get linux
I get it. I just don't want to learn a new operating system. And to make it work for most of what I use my computer for.
What did you learn about Windows that makes your knowledge about it so in depth that you can't separate from it any longer?
Besides using it since Windows 95, I've done everything on it. Warez, making shady software work, learning the ins and outs to keep it my way.
I thought about switching since I've dabbled in dual boot before, but I just f don't want to be restarting my computer to keep switching between OS when one can do all I want with some baggage, and the other can do less without it.
Mainly for me it's compatibility. Discord, MW3, networking between my main PC and HTPC. Online gaming with friends. Full steam support.
It just works. Switching to Linux, finding a distro that will encompass what I do, running into problems, having to fix them, or worst case scenario finding out that I can't do the thing (mw3 or any game that has denuvo) without having to switch back to windows anyways in a dual boot I just don't see why having Linux to do anything that I'm already doing on windows is worth it. Why have dual boot. Removing the annoying windows baggage is just not enough for me to switch.
I just now switched from chrome to Firefox because they finally implemented the removal of anti ad extensions. It was an easy switch. The UI is a little different. But I hate nothing more than ads. Despise them. And paying to remove them isn't an option because it means I'm giving into the hostage situation.
If windows becomes unmanageable, I can't find ANY software to remove ads, even remove windows features that I can't live with, then I'll consider sacrificing the few things I can't do on Linux and move to Linux.
I just feel like a fool for buying win10 and then upgrading to the Pro license a couple years back for something like $300 in total, only to keep getting completely irrelevant ads shoved down my throat. Buy Xbox game pass (never cared about it), MS365 subscription (I already had it, why do I get ads for it?), One Drive (I already had this as well), etc. And I've been with MS since DOS days and then the whole shebang as well. It's just unacceptable to me.
I've also been dragging along data from one old hdd to the next as I kept upgrading, with some files still being retained from the 90s. I have a lot of demo scene material and what not, and one day when exploring the directories, I've noticed that a lot of them had now missing executables. Defender removed them without as much as a warning. Rummaging through some other directories, I've noticed that some of my late father's files are gone from his personal directory (from when we shared my PC on occasion). It included some silly stuff like the Terrorists' Handbook. But wait, there's more.
These just work under Linux perfectly fine. Except for maybe MW3. The fotm shooter sponsored by the genocidal US army. But not sure what you even mean by full Steam support. Steam IS Linux. And I'm using Datcord instead of Discord, to avoid electronJS (Chromium).
I've only switched end of August, after trialing another distro on a laptop during the summer to see if I can do studies and work stuff on it (no gaming). Everything worked there out of box. Once I had axed my C$300 copy of windows from my main PC (lol sunk cost fallacy) my distro of choice took a bit more time to set up, but I haven't had this much fun with tinkering on something since the 90s. And if something doesn't want to work right away, the answer is usually one search or LLM prompt away. I understand now why "man" is not even included in a lot of distros by default nowadays.
Oh. Maybe I shouldn't share this but I never paid for a windows product. Even office when it went to 360 I stopped trying to pirate earlier versions and just switched to free open source office tools.
Windows 8 I think got authenticated when it went to 10 and I've just been riding that install. Still got my handy USB stick whenever I reinstall.
The shooter game is just a time killer for me. Dopamine memories from better times. The problem with using compatible apps is not all my friends will. Is datcord communicate directly with discord users? We already have a technologic dichotomy with half my friends on iPhone other on Android. Xbox vs Playstation vs pc gaming. It's tough to get people on the same page.
Datcord is just a Firefox based wrapper for Discord, instead of electron (which the Discord thick client uses). But you could just use a flatpak discord probably.