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Windows 11’s push for mandatory Microsoft accounts is hitting a nerve with users who say the change complicates setup, privacy, and basic PC ownership (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] 45 points 5 months ago (43 children)

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC is supported until 2032 and free to activate.

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  • [+] 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (40 children)
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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    It gives you 6 years to transition to a better OS. Or to become CEO of Microslop and improve things.

    It's honestly great, even for me who only boot into windows once every few months.

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  • [+] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Great in the sense I don't have to bother for 6 years for a partition I will use less than 24 hours over that period of time haha.

    So far I've used it to scan once (for some reason that day skan decided to not work) and to make a windows install USB for my SO.

    I tried Expedition 33 thinking performance issues were a Linux thing by no, it's just like that.

    So it's a long term unlikely to be used OS, and for that long support is great.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (13 children)

    It delays the problem for six more years, and it also gives me the satisfaction of pirating testing the only decent version of Windows free of Microslop bloat and vibe coded react.

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

    the only decent version of Windows

    Please stop romanticising Win 10 just because it's less shitty than 11. There is no decent Windows.

    Reminder: Win 10 introduced

    • mandatory telemetry (you can only choose between some telemetry and firehose telemetry)
    • a built-in keylogger
    • built-in advertising
    • aggressive nag screens containing dark patterns trying to trick users into "upgrading"
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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (8 children)

    The last good Windows was Windows 98

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (7 children)

    For people with a BSOD fetish? Definitely!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Don't yuck my yum

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    I'm not. It's just... why can't you play with penguins like the other boys?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    turns out it was a gateway drug to another kind of blue screen, btw:

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Thank GNU! You doin daddy proud, son!

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    What you're referring to as GNU, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    Gives 6 more years for Adobe and my online games to start supporting Linux D: (or the Adobe alternatives to become more suitable for professional use)

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    I can’t help you with the games. You could vote with your wallet and just not play those specific ones. Start hitting that backlog of games you got on sale and never opened.

    Regarding Adobe suite in a professional manner, I’m pretty sure they work on MacOS.

    You always have choices. They may not be perfect but they do exist nonetheless. These companies will never stop being invasive if users keep giving in. Until “number go down” in board meetings, nothing changes.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (11 children)

    You could vote with your wallet and just not play those specific ones.

    Oh I'm not paying for them, but still one of my main daily drivers is Genshin, and I haven't found such an enjoyable open world exploration in any other game I've tried. (I'm PC-only so haven't tried Breath of the Wild.)

    Regarding Adobe suite in a professional manner, I’m pretty sure they work on MacOS.

    I would never touch a Mac, it's way more of a walled garden than Windows.

    Also I was talking about Adobe alternatives like Inkscape for Illustrator or Scribus for InDesign. From what I've read they are really not there yet. (Tried Inkscape a few times, but the UI is so unintuitive for my brain used to Adobe's UI/workflow 😭)

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Genshin is playable on Linux? I play it on my Steam Deck.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks, that's good to know! From what I've read a few months ago when I last looked into it, it only worked with a fan-made launcher that posed a ban risk and also broke every few updates.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I just add the official launcher as a non-steam game and ran through the install as normal.

    Granted I haven't done it in a couple of months, so not sure if that method still works...but I don't see why not

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    Thanks, I'll check out Where Winds Meet! :)

    (Edit: according to their Steam page they use genAI dialogue and art, so that's a pass :/ )

    Dunno about current adobes, but don’t they also run fine via wine? Have only one single tool so far that makes a bit trouble (mediamonkey).

    From the reports I see on WineHQ, they are all various levels of broken, though the last versions tested were from 2024.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Oh I’m not paying for them, but still one of my main daily drivers is Genshin, and I haven’t found such an enjoyable open world exploration in any other game I’ve tried.

    Genshin Impact works on Linux: https://lutris.net/games/genshin-impact/

    (I’m PC-only so haven’t tried Breath of the Wild.)

    I'm Linux only and I've played Breath of the Wilds (works on Windows too).

    Go to your favorite torrent site (1337x to) and search for Breath of the Wild. It'll be packaged with the emulator so you don't need to do anything. It's a better experience, higher framerate, antialiasing, 4k upscaling and reverse tonemapping (Windows calls this autoHDR) (and basically anything that you can do with ReShade)

    Also I was talking about Adobe alternatives like Inkscape for Illustrator or Scribus for InDesign. From what I’ve read they are really not there yet. (Tried Inkscape a few times, but the UI is so unintuitive for my brain used to Adobe’s UI/workflow 😭)

    A few months ago someone made a patch which makes the Adobe CC 2021 and 2025 installer work in Wine.

    https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-finally-got-the-adobe-cc-installers-working-on-linux-with-wine/

    Come on in, the Linux water is fine :)

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (1 child)

    I always thought of Macs as not a good value before, but nowadays for laptops at least they seem to be relatively good.

    I still find them annoyingly unintuitive, but that's probably due to lack of experience. At least they come with some (old) version of bash and support standard stuff like ssh out of the box from my understanding.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I still find them annoyingly unintuitive

    Haha yes, when I had to use a Mac once in uni it was like they made a point of doing everything just different enough from Windows to be annoying, like why are the window close buttons on the left?!

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