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More like the child is microsoft and the firefighters are linux users
that’s more usually how things go
Thank you thank you thank you for reminding me about the lack of windows 10 security updates.
Literally just got myself a “new” laptop about 25 minutes ago.
Thanks Microsoft!
I took the opportunity to “downgrade” to Windows 7. My old HP laptop (which is specifically for a few specialty Windows-only apps) feels double as fast now compared to Windows 10 before. And with the help of LegacyUpdates.net and VxKex-NEXT (provides the very few Windows 10 API calls so you can even run most Win10-only apps on Win7) you get a pretty nice and lean system.
You may create a bootable/live USB with Mint [1] installed on it, and try it out to see if its works perfectly for you - from functional and performance POV.
With Linux, at least you will continue to get security patches. For Win 7 and 10 are out of support now.
[1]https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/burn.html
Read my text again. This is my only Windows laptop - and it needs to be actual Windows for all the obscure firmware update tools of some devices I have flying around.
Everything else in my household is either Linux or MacOS.
Sorry, I just noticed that now.
I’ve just been ignoring it all, did something happen, my windows is still windowing
MS ended support for it, so it won’t get security updates or fixes going forward.
If you can get your hands on the LTSC edition, that should have you covered until 2032
Looks like archive.org is hosting this version. Haven’t installed yet but I will work on it soon.
Oh, and here I was thinking we had 3 more years:
https://massgrave.dev/#how-to-activate-windows--office--extended-updates-esu
Yeah the end of security updates severely exaggerated.
Huh, and I thought I needed a Microsoft account, but this way I could maybe even use for the computers at work. Thanks!
Windows 10 is the last Microsoft operating system you will ever need.
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows
Ironically? it lasted 10 years. I wonder if 11 will last 11 years? Back in the 95/98 era it seemed like each subsequent version of a MS OS (major updates of 95, 98, 98SE, ME) seemed to be lasting about 0.95 to 0.98 years each.
I expect my Windows 10 machine will continue to do the things I need it to do. If it stops for some reason I’ll just reformat.
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
CD-ROM was turning
If you weren’t checking tech news regularly, shit like this just passes right over your head as a regular Linux user sometimes. I keep forgetting about the EoL thing.
Also having a clean frame of reference, if you have been a user for a long time now, you are definitely able to remember occasionally using a Windows machine and seeing the downhill slide literally happen before your eyes as everyone else is unaware of the growing pile of shit and getting slowly boiled like the frog in the pot.
The last version of Windows I’d consider clean of all this modern horseshit that’s in those OSes now would be Windows 2000. Even XP started pushing the telemetry shit hard and started getting sketchy towards the end.
Honestly, macOS is going the same way too. They really got their act together with the hardware but the software is so much worse. This last round seems to have absolutely no QA. It’s like they outsourced the entire process.
So guess who just built a Linux PC?
Completely agree, MacOS is turning into a dumpster fire. They keep adding features nobody asked for, and making the whole thing more bloated and flaky in the process.
Well they have that fancy new SoC and all it’s horsepower they get to be irresponsible with now.
I’m really amazed that it’s been half a decade now and nobody has made a comparable SoC using ARM or RISCV tailored to Linux.
I haven’t kept up with the latest minor updates to Tahoe, but I’ve been staying back on Sequoia because while Tahoe looks very pretty and I’m glad to finally see a potential end to Material design, the readability issues with Tahoe are legitimate and rolling back to Sequoia has been a breath of fresh air.
I jumped over to the Mac world from Linux only this year (although I still keep my X260 with LMDE around) but perhaps it was the worst time to do so - I’ll see how I feel once Sequoia support ends and whether Asahi Linux would be more viable.
