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For our opensource friends stuck on MS for various reasons, this makes me happy, but requiring me to update to Windows 11 for fixes and features that were devel

For our opensource friends stuck on MS for various reasons, this makes me happy, but requiring me to update to Windows 11 for fixes and features that were developed on Windows 10 was the last straw for me. I'm now on linux 100% as my daily driver with macos for my work machine. Video games be damned, the ones I care about right now work on Linux and going forward if it doesn't, it doesn't get my money.

ajvs 5y ago
With Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye having recently announced they're supporting Proton/Wine, there will be very few games that won't be able to be run on Linux in the near future.
dandotway 5y ago
> macos for my work machine When has Apple ever supported a computer for 10+ years like Windows routinely does? I have a 2012 iPad I can only use as a Kindle and PDF reader because the ancient Safari version on it doesn't support modern Javascript features like the "let" keyword that websites now use, and this is exactly what Apple wants: if I can't install Firefox on my iPad and if Apple won't update Safari, my only choice is to buy a new device. But I never again bought a new iPad, I learned my lesson. My old iPad can still run the original Flappy Bird. New $1000+ iPad Pros can't do this, because Apple deliberately breaks old apps on new devices, to encourage developers to charge customers for an updated app that continues to work on new devices, which Apple gets its mandatory 30% cut of. Apple also ties Xcode releases to the most recent macOS releases. Apple doesn't want you being able to run the newest Xcode on a 10 year old Mac so that you can keep your old iOS game you wrote in college still working, oh no, you have to buy a new Mac for that, and keep paying your $99/year membership dues. Microsoft lets you run Visual Studio on very old computers, unlike Apple with Xcode. High-profile ransomware attacks have made the news this year and so MS decided Win 11 should only be on computers that can secure the boot process so that ransomware can't encrypt your hard drive until you send bitcoins to Ukraine.
- zigzag312 5y ago
  How does secure boot prevent ransomware from encrypting user's files? I'm genuinely interested in ransomware prevention.
  - dandotway 5y ago
    Secure boot is necessary but not in itself sufficient for ransomware prevention. The worst ransomware hijacks the boot process. It can encrypt the entire hard drive. But even with uncompromised secure boot, a ransomware program can still encrypt valuable filesystem directories, just not the entire OS install.
phendrenad2 5y ago
Clearly it cost a lot of money, in developer salaries, to develop WSLg. Microsoft needs to recoup that cost, and I suspect that if they give it away for free to everyone who has already paid for Windows 10, they won't break even. So. They have two choices. Either sell an addon, or bundle it with the next Windows version and try to hide the cost. I'm guessing both would be unpalatable to folks like this, who want everything for free.

ajvs 5y ago

With Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye having recently announced they're supporting Proton/Wine, there will be very few games that won't be able to be run on Linux in the near future.

dandotway 5y ago

> macos for my work machine When has Apple ever supported a computer for 10+ years like Windows routinely does? I have a 2012 iPad I can only use as a Kindle and PDF reader because the ancient Safari version on it doesn't support modern Javascript features like the "let" keyword that websites now use, and this is exactly what Apple wants: if I can't install Firefox on my iPad and if Apple won't update Safari, my only choice is to buy a new device. But I never again bought a new iPad, I learned my lesson. My old iPad can still run the original Flappy Bird. New $1000+ iPad Pros can't do this, because Apple deliberately breaks old apps on new devices, to encourage developers to charge customers for an updated app that continues to work on new devices, which Apple gets its mandatory 30% cut of. Apple also ties Xcode releases to the most recent macOS releases. Apple doesn't want you being able to run the newest Xcode on a 10 year old Mac so that you can keep your old iOS game you wrote in college still working, oh no, you have to buy a new Mac for that, and keep paying your $99/year membership dues. Microsoft lets you run Visual Studio on very old computers, unlike Apple with Xcode. High-profile ransomware attacks have made the news this year and so MS decided Win 11 should only be on computers that can secure the boot process so that ransomware can't encrypt your hard drive until you send bitcoins to Ukraine.

zigzag312 5y ago
How does secure boot prevent ransomware from encrypting user's files? I'm genuinely interested in ransomware prevention.
- dandotway 5y ago
  Secure boot is necessary but not in itself sufficient for ransomware prevention. The worst ransomware hijacks the boot process. It can encrypt the entire hard drive. But even with uncompromised secure boot, a ransomware program can still encrypt valuable filesystem directories, just not the entire OS install.

phendrenad2 5y ago

Clearly it cost a lot of money, in developer salaries, to develop WSLg. Microsoft needs to recoup that cost, and I suspect that if they give it away for free to everyone who has already paid for Windows 10, they won't break even. So. They have two choices. Either sell an addon, or bundle it with the next Windows version and try to hide the cost. I'm guessing both would be unpalatable to folks like this, who want everything for free.