11? Fuck that, I’m not sidegrading to 8.
I ain’t even joking. My media PC is still on 7, everything else is on Linux now.
Isn’t it insecure to run such an old version tho? (Since it stopped recieving updates years ago)
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It’s insecure (in more ways than one) to be running Windows in general. If you value security to a high degree you probably shouldn’t be using Windows.
Well, security doesn’t matter for a media device like that. The exposure is so minimal that it might as well not exist.
Hell, considering I really only use it to pirate shit maybe once a month nowadays, my main desktop PC isn’t even on enough to matter; I could keep any old OS on it.
If it is connected to your router it’s a point of ingress.
The risk of getting a attack via the router is very low these days
Lol! You’re an idiot
Why not run a minimal distribution like Alpine if you’re just torrenting?
embedded editions can get you extended time on older windows versions
I’ve been forced to install Windows 10 on my brand new build because it doesn’t support W7.
But Steam is also dropping W7 support by the end of this year anyway. Yes, there are native Linux games on Steam and there’s also Proton and WINE, but it’s not a 100% solution.
Why would it support a 14 year old OS whose final release was 12 years ago and mainstream support ended 8 years ago?
Well, I was hyped for Baldur’s gate 3, and I may still end up getting it, but I’d have to upgrade too much hardware to play it, and there’s really no other games that I’m interested in.
Musicbee is the main reason I’m still running 7 on that pc rather than some flavor of linux. If it ever gets a port, or actually starts working right via wine, bye bye windows for me.
MusicBee is excellent, but I gave up on it to switch to Linux. Also, I’ve started to fall in love with simple players which depend on folder structure rather than a database, although I suppose one might miss the customisation with MusicBee
windows 8 made me switch to linux
I recently upgraded windows 7 to mint
Bill said Windows 10 was the last one, so…
True story: I had been consistently telling my laptop not to upgrade to Windows 11 for literally months. I left it at home for like 3 days and when I came back it had upgraded itself anyway. That was the day I completely deleted Windows from my laptop. Formatted the entire hard drive and haven’t regretted it yet. Never even logged into Windows 11.
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all Linux memes communities have been like this
Linuxmemes: the ultimate hub for Windows memes.
Does win 11 still require physical hardware to run? Why I have to sacrifice one of my motherboard slots for a worthless authentication chip that might stop working and brick my computer - ya I’ll stay with 10.
The TPM is either built into your CPU or plugs into a dedicated header on the motherboard.
Strange, I thought it was a standard header. Why I bought 10 instead of 11 when building my computer.
It’s either the LPC header or it’s soldered onto the board directly. LPC header doesn’t have any other *official uses so it’s not sacrificing functionality. Though I can understand why somebody wouldn’t want to have a TPM module on their board. It’s pretty easy to bypass that requirement in Windows (over and over) though.
It’s built into my CPU but for some reason MS doesn’t trust the Intel Core i7 chips.
You’re not sacrificing a slot. TPM chips are typically either soldered onto the motherboard, built into the chipset, or (in the few instances that they are optional) go in a special port just fir them.
There are plenty of reasons not to move to W11 without making up new ones.
Technically it’s an artificial requirement, it’ll run just fine without secure boot and TPM, you’ll just need to do some work around to install it that way.
I have to say I really like windows 11. It’s more secure and it runs well for me. It’s very similar to 10 still with some more refined existing features, and even some cool new ones like live captioning and OCR snipping
Yeah people are just circlejerking. It’s not that different than 10.
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Yep, that sounds exactly like every other windows version. It’s the same thing
So why are people so hellbent to not upgrade? I’m not a Windows thumper. But I use it every day and it’s not a horrible experience for me at least.
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It told me that too. Which was fine because like nobody asked? But then it did it anyway. Quietly in the night like the sneaky little hoe that it is. I’m still pretty salty. I thought I was safe 😔
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You spelled downgrading wrong
Windows 11 sucks
windows 11 end of support
Oh, right. Microsoft is still at it with their “Windows” thing.
‘Upgrading’.
some of us have still PTSD from moving from XP to vista, or even worse, from win 7 to 8.0
Like Patrick Henry said: “Give me Arch or give me death!”
I moved to Linux (Arch btw) and I haven’t looked back.
The lack of bloatware and the snappiness of Linux just beats any other OS.
