Raising this dead article as Microsoft now delivers extended support pricing details for those who choose not to migrate to the newer version of Windows. The one they were told they’d not ever have to migrate to

I must be in the minority that actually prefers 11 to 10

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My PC is 10, my laptop for work is now 11. It’s the same. I guess I’m just not a power user but it operates exactly the same for me. I wouldn’t update from 10, but I wouldn’t not buy 11.

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Technically both are 10, but I do like the new UI on 11.

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Are you saying 11 is just a reskinning? Or are you saying my laptop is 10?

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I honestly don’t care between 11 and 10, since switching there hasn’t been an impactful difference for me.

I will however revel in the memery that Microsoft has brought upon itself.

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I had to upgrade to Win 11 today ;(

Hyper-V configuration version 9.3 and above is not available on Win 10.

And yes I know about Linux, my laptop runs it. But I’m not in the mood of migrating a fuck ton of stuff to another OS. I have around 20 TB of storage on my PC and redoing everything should be a pain.

I also don’t want to forget my Windows knowledge overtime.

I will absolutely disable as much bullshit as possible though. I didn’t even have web search in the search bar in win 10 (because it broke the search bar, but still).

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Had to use win11 yesterday.

It was completely unusable fucking trash and even the ux was terrible.

If it helps, my media drives transferred straight over to Linux when I cleaned by last windows device.

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It was completely unusable fucking trash and even the ux was terrible.

How do you say this with a straight face. I know, just know, you want to push Linux, it’s a must here on Lemmy, but to say it’s unusable trash does more to denigrate my opinion of your opinion than my opinion of the OS. It functions substantially similar to W10.

I want to truly know what you mean. What did you try to do but were 100% prohibited doing due to W11?

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Read what I wrote, dear. I answered literally all your questions.

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Yeah, I actually liked the start menu in Win 10. Very customizable and usable if you actually spend some time to set it up.

Now the start menu is barebone bullshit.

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Even the visuals; no contrast, no style, no visual economy, no virtue of any kind.

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Should still make the switch imo lol

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Yeah, I guess. It’s just too much work.

Maybe when I can finally afford to offload all the Plex and piracy tools and especially the media content from the PC to a server. I could also migrate all the services to docker but docker on Windows is a bit annoying to use.

Another factor is that I’m honestly pretty good with Windows and I can fix most issues easily so Windows just works.

Linux mostly just works out of the box, but fixing issues is more complicated for me on Linux and issues have been comparatively common on my Linux laptop.

I also like to do stuff on my PC which can be more complicated to Linux due to a lack of support. Gaming primarily but that is getting much better, I also like to try some professional software occasionally and those often don’t work on Linux.

But all things considered I really like Linux, I just won’t migrate my main PC any time soon.

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The last [good] version of Windows.

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That would be 7. With 10 Microsoft went heavily into the snooping business.

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The LTSC version of Windows 10 is pretty good, relatively. No bloat or ads.

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8.1 is a faster version of 7 that also has some compatibility with apps that are said to require 10. Just disable those metro things and use your favorite app for start menu.

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I’m glad I have finally seen someone else who appreciates windows 8 (or at least is willing to admit it). People just lose their shit when there are any changes to the start menu, but the best start menu is to not have one at all.

Windows 8 has way better hotkeys (limit seaeching to files, programs, or applications) compared to the unified search in newer versions.

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The telemetry of Windows 10 back in 2015 ain’t got jack shit on the adware craziness they got years later

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Yes but then vanguard and blackrock (they control about 15% of m$ shares) saw that their investment in AMD (again, with 15% they’re the biggest institutional shareholders) and their investment in Intel (more billions in shares) needed a way to increase CPU sales, so they told Microsoft to add artificial CPU requirements in order to send to the dumpster any computer produced before 2018

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send to the dumpster any computer produced before 2018

You mean send into the arms of a frugal Linux enthusiast ;)

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Windows 10 is the last version of Windows (that I am going to use)

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I had to use windows yesterday. Public computer at a print shop.

Everything was shades of white, the scroll bar was barely visible, when I enlarged a window the ux elements scaled up, and there was already tons of dead ui space, so I assumed there weren’t any more to show. Also, every program, even though they were all Microsoft, gave a different screen when I hit control p.

I couldn’t figure out how to adjust paper size. Ive been using computers since 199(2/3), when I could barely talk. Ive used legacy systems older than me-for industrial shit, for novelty. I grew up mostly a MS-DOS then windows girl. I’ve installed arch. Ive run arch successfully as a daily driver, then moved to qubes for a few years. I have systems so hacked together, I need to lick a bit of wire I connected poorly to trigger a thing (3v, its fine) I currently have a dead bug soldered project sitting half finished next to me (the hardware is done, works, I’m just bad at code), in a room that could mostly pass for the set of a live action ‘serial experiment lain’ remake.

And I couldn’t adjust print settings on modern windows. Because it’s just that garbage. Two days ago I wasnt a fanatical Linux partisan. I think I am now.

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I replied to your other post and this was below so don’t feel compelled to type it again up there.

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Right sorry saw this in the other screen assumed you were responding to this one.

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I’ll be the guy in this thread, I switched to mint for everything except CS2 (Wtf valve fix your native client) and will not be looking back.

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