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As unsafe as it may be, I plan to just keep using Windows 10 past the EOL date this October. I practice reasonable discipline in regards to online security and
by BitwiseFool 1y ago
As unsafe as it may be, I plan to just keep using Windows 10 past the EOL date this October. I practice reasonable discipline in regards to online security and I will just handle all of my sensitive accounts and login activity on my Mac. I just really don't want to use the mess that is Windows 11 unless absolutely necessary. The way I see it, that's probably a few years away.
Edit: I am also comfortable using Linux, and I may end up spending a lot of time searching for the best distro that will work for me as a daily driver. I'm certainly open to that, but for now I plan to just keep chugging along with what I've got until I build a new PC.
- throwaway48476 1y agoI'm just going to run LTSC in a VM.
- haiku2077 1y agoI've been looking into this. Any app that currently works should keep working, but new versions (especially new games, or new patches for games) may not. New versions of GPU drivers, DirectX and so on were a particular area of issue. Good choice for a machine built for a particular purpose that doesn't need to run any new software.
- WarOnPrivacy 1y ago>> I'm just going to run LTSC in a VM. > Any app that currently works should keep working, but new versions (especially new games, or new patches for games) may not. New versions of GPU drivers, DirectX and so on were a particular area of issue. To be clear, you're looking to game on a VM? ftr: Posting this from my Firefox remote app. Host VM is not LTSC however.
- haiku2077 1y agoI was looking at it for a racing simulator rig specifically. I basically wanted to install some simulators on it and never have to do any maintenance. From my research it seemed like it would work for any legacy offline sims but not online stuff like iRacing. I might end up dual booting LTSC for offline simming and Win11 for iRacing.
- throwaway48476 1y agoGPU pass-through is easy enough for a gaming VM. Whether you can still use LTSC is up to the game developer.
- xeonmc 1y agoYou can in-place upgrade to the IoT LTSC edition using MAS, which is supported through 2031
- mhb 1y agoWindows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC Value - license - 1 license $110 https://www.cdw.com/product/windows-10-iot-enterprise-2021-ltsc-value-license-1-license/7712444?pfm=srh https://www.cdw.com/product/windows-10-iot-enterprise-2021-l...
- greenavocado 1y agoI met a guy using Word on Windows 95 in 2008. Only found out because he put in a support ticket.
- coldpie 1y agoArch Linux if you're comfortable using a terminal and doing your own admin work; Linux Mint if you'd rather not.
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoI'm a long time Linux user. I think the first version I installed was 0.11 back in the early-mid 90s. I worked in IT for most of my career until I retired a few years ago. After all that, I still don't have the patience to migrate to Linux. Between the games I enjoy and the music production software I'm used to using, is not worth the amount of time it requires fiddling with stuff. I wish it were different.
- Lammy 1y agoFor me it's all the good piracy software, especially the ones like DVDfab Passkey which operate as a Windows driver. My Windows box is a machine that turns DVDs and BDs into an ISO (for my own backup) and an x265 MKV (to share).
- Wojtkie 1y agoGaming in Linux is massively easier nowadays due to Proton. I haven't ran into an issue yet playing any of my games. One caveat to that is most of the large online competitive multiplayer games (CoD, Fortnite, etc.) won't work due to how they implemented their anti-cheat softwares.
- justinrubek 1y agoThis is what drove me to Linux. Managing and fiddling with a windows machine is too time consuming, error prone, and not fun. It's the last thing I want to spend my time doing.
- sho_hn 1y agoAs a non-Windows user, can someone neatly summarize what the problem is? I recently used Windows 11 a bit to port an app, and while it's a horrible OS to dev on, the UX just seemed like any other Windows.
- dayvid 1y agoThey moved the windows icon to the center
- Lammy 1y agoAnd you can't drag the taskbar to the left or right side of the screen any more which is a deal-breaker for me. Leftsyde krew
- doubled112 1y agoI'm not a fan of advertisements from my OS. I paid for it. If I'm running Windows 11 Professional, I don't need the Windows Store to tell me I should check out Avowed Premium Edition in a meeting. Or is somebody going to tell me it's my fault for leaving notifications on?
- crtasm 1y ago>check out Avowed Premium Edition I'm getting this on Windows 10 now :(
- Macha 1y agoThe TPM requirements rule out a lot of computers older than 5 years old. With the pace of modern hardware development, a lot of these computers are still perfectly serviceable. People are unhappy at being told to buy new hardware when they have working hardware. (Other things that have concerned people: Further attempts to force people to microsoft accounts, more invasive copilot promotion, recall, A/B tested ads in explorer, etc.)
- FirmwareBurner 1y ago
- neepi 1y agoWindows 11 LTSC looks and works almost exactly the same as windows 10 did. I can’t complain and I’m an expert at complaining.
- Ao7bei3s 1y agoWindows 11 recently pushed an update to discontinue Windows Mixed Reality (WMR), bricking my <5 years old, $500 Reverb G2 VR headset, which I bought after Meta bought out Oculus and started requiring a Meta account, essentially bricking my Rift S. No thanks.
- throwaway48476 1y ago11 LTSC still has the awful new electron based start menu.
- neepi 1y agoThere hasn’t been a good start menu since windows XP.
- nipperkinfeet 1y agoThere is nothing wrong with that, as long as you are aware of the risks and know what you are doing. I still use Windows 7 with R2 patches, and Firefox ESR. I don't plan on changing anytime soon.