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[TKN_Lurker]

Microsoft has been practicing this at least since XP when their OS have reached end of life, this is just the first time they have offered it to consumers instead of only businesses.

They truly are absolutely shameless in their greed. "Hey buddy, do you hate our over bloated and shitty OS? For 30 goddamn dollars you can revert to the slightly less crap version as a premium subscription guys. What do you mean it's overpriced? That's the standard fare for the big corpos poorfag."

 

[El Rrata]

They truly are absolutely shameless. "Hey buddy, do you hate our over bloated and shitty OS? For 30 goddamn dollars you can revert to the slightly less crap version as a premium subscription guys. What do you mean it's overpriced? That's the standard fare for the big corpos poorfag."

I think you are misunderstanding my point. The normal process for them was to cut consumers off of updates entirely after a Windows OS reached EOL, like they had been doing for over 20 years. Now, they are at least giving them some agency while still trying to move people into Windows 11 by not making it totally free. This isn't offering people to revert to Windows 10 and they aren't forcing anyone to update.

Windows 10 is at the end of its lifecycle as a software. You can continue to use it without paying a dime, they just aren't offering security updates to it unless you pay. Before this, you didn't have the option at all to get updates for one of their EOL versions of Windows unless you went through avenues meant for business. Normal consumers were cut off cold-turkey. Anyone who pays is an idiot, anyway. If you aren't completely retarded online, you really don't need the updates.

 

[TKN_Lurker]

I think you are misunderstanding my point. The normal process for them was to cut consumers off of updates entirely after a Windows OS reached EOL, like they had been doing for over 20 years. Now, they are at least giving them some agency while still trying to move people into Windows 11 by not making it totally free. This isn't offering people to revert to Windows 10 and they aren't forcing anyone to update.

Windows 10 is at the end of its lifecycle as a software. You can continue to use it without paying a dime, they just aren't offering security updates to it unless you pay. Before this, you didn't have the option at all to get updates for one of their EOL versions of Windows unless you went through avenues meant for business. Normal consumers were cut off cold-turkey. Anyone who pays is an idiot, anyway. If you aren't completely retarded online, you really don't need the updates.

Yeah, I can see your point. I'll admit I jumped the gun a bit. Regardless, I'm not exactly changing my mind over Microsoft for this. I still feel that is this just another way to grift some more cash from those who refuse to update to their even worse Windows 11. Don't want to clog up the thread anymore with tech discussions unless necessary so I'll end it here.

 

[El Rrata]

Yeah, I can see your point. I'll admit I jumped the gun a bit. Regardless, I'm not exactly changing my mind over Microsoft for this. I still feel that is this just another way to grift some more cash from those who refuse to update to their even worse Windows 11. Don't want to clog up the thread anymore with tech discussions unless necessary so I'll end it here.

It's okay, Microsoft are still fags.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

They truly are absolutely shameless in their greed. "Hey buddy, do you hate our over bloated and shitty OS? For 30 goddamn dollars you can revert to the slightly less crap version as a premium subscription guys. What do you mean it's overpriced? That's the standard fare for the big corpos poorfag."

it is the standard practice when the only game in town is microsoft.

anti monopoly laws never heard of em.

 

[PassiveUnaggressive]

I'm well aware this is a supremely terrible question, but I'm going to ask it anyway.

What's everyone's favorite Linux distro? I haven't tried to daily-drive it since Slackware more than twenty years ago, and now seems like a good time to give it a try again. I would say that gaming remains a concern, but with all the big studios pumping out tranny-infested garbage turns out it's very much less important than it used to be.

I would give Linux Mint a spin. It's a Ubuntu/Debian based distro, and I found it pretty user friendly. I sort of miss having it installed on my main PC actually (switched to Arch/KDE), and I still have it installed on my laptop.

As far as gaming is concerned, I believe there are some distros with the bells and whistles included already, but I haven't looked much into running them myself. I've mainly tackled it case by case and enabling proton on games in Steam, which usually works well enough. I feel like I have extra overhead when running chromium based browsers when gaming, though, and wayland was not fun to get setup for Nvidia. I desire an AMD GPU for this reason. I still have dual boot into Windows because of a few games and hardware that doesn't have a linux driver also.

 

[agility_]

Selling operating systems isn't even pajeetsoft's main source of revenue anymore

 

[Nenélove]

Have another reason to despise Microsoft as a company.

Is 11 even functional yet? Doesn't it run like shit and break randomly?
Everything microsoft makes lately is dogshit. The new Office programs are dogshit, the UI is fucking atrocious and they have removed features from all of them and bundled them into 360 or whatever the fuck it is now, I just use the google versions which are the same but actually normal and not laggy like hell, also they don't have miniscule "cloud storage" that fills up after like 20 documents and then it pesters you endlessly to get you to buy some overpriced slow as fuck storage shit. Outlook is fucking bullsemen, it's laggy, shitty for users and also bundled into endless account management systems and the cloud or whatever, I wish death upon the countless governmental orgs and businesses that use that as their institutional email system because I guess Gmail is too simple to use. Fuck microsoft, fuck their shitty integration, optimization and user interface. I can't believe a company run by fucking DEI hand-wringing heebs like google can make better fucking programs than you fuckers.

 

[Saturnus]

Is 11 even functional yet? Doesn't it run like shit and break randomly?

AFAIK, no. It's still on-par with Vista for worst Microsoft OS IMO.
I honestly do think that going forward unless Microsoft manages to walk back the abhorrent ideas they're doing with current day Windows, the future will slowly be trending towards using Linux-distros for people that are terminally online and use desktop computers. I'm an AMDfag and will be considering dualbooting between Win10 and Manjaro KDE (don't hurt me) sometime next year.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Selling operating systems isn't even pajeetsoft's main source of revenue anymore

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misleading. how much of its server products and cloud services are from people who use windows? same for the other categories.

selling the OS is just the first purchase.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

I can't believe a company run by fucking DEI hand-wringing heebs like google can make better fucking programs than you fuckers.

It's because Microsoft is a company run by DEI streetshitting pajeets. A lot of these tech companies exist solely due to inertia and having enough money to buyout new and upcoming competition as they would have fallen apart otherwise against any competent competitors. It's Google why started to panic because they realized they were super far behind their competitors on AI and their competitors are also enormously huge or just not selling to Google.

 

[TKN_Lurker]

Is 11 even functional yet? Doesn't it run like shit and break randomly?
Everything microsoft makes lately is dogshit. The new Office programs are dogshit, the UI is fucking atrocious and they have removed features from all of them and bundled them into 360 or whatever the fuck it is now, I just use the google versions which are the same but actually normal and not laggy like hell, also they don't have miniscule "cloud storage" that fills up after like 20 documents and then it pesters you endlessly to get you to buy some overpriced slow as fuck storage shit. Outlook is fucking bullsemen, it's laggy, shitty for users and also bundled into endless account management systems and the cloud or whatever, I wish death upon the countless governmental orgs and businesses that use that as their institutional email system because I guess Gmail is too simple to use. Fuck microsoft, fuck their shitty integration, optimization and user interface. I can't believe a company run by fucking DEI hand-wringing heebs like google can make better fucking programs than you fuckers.

Adding to that, the Copilot Ai crap is an absolute abomination. Unneeded. Unnecessary and fucking destroys my disk space whenever I try to do anything on my computer. Who the fuck approved these terrible goddamn ideas? Do they even test their own fucking products anymore?

 

[MerelyTourist]

Have another reason to despise Microsoft as a company.

Now we'll have to pirate updates too. No big deal.

What's everyone's favorite Linux distro? I haven't tried to daily-drive it since Slackware more than twenty years ago, and now seems like a good time to give it a try again. I would say that gaming remains a concern, but with all the big studios pumping out tranny-infested garbage turns out it's very much less important than it used to be.

Start with Mint. Or Manjaro if you want all latest wayland stuff.

AFAIK, no. It's still on-par with Vista for worst Microsoft OS IMO.

Nah, it's same as 10 was before freezing feature set. Disable autoupdate, only install semiannuals and you'd be fine.

I honestly do think that going forward unless Microsoft manages to walk back the abhorrent ideas they're doing with current day Windows, the future will slowly be trending towards using Linux-distros for people that are terminally online and use desktop computers. I'm an AMDfag and will be considering dualbooting between Win10 and Manjaro KDE (don't hurt me) sometime next year.

I'm switching from Mint/Cinnamon/x to Manjaro/KDE/Wayland.

Adding to that, the Copilot Ai crap is an absolute abomination. Unneeded. Unnecessary and fucking destroys my disk space whenever I try to do anything on my computer.

Just kill it, no big deal. Welcome to ye olde times, you gotta actually understand how to do shit again.

Who the fuck approved these terrible goddamn ideas? Do they even test their own fucking products anymore?

you are testing it for corpo clients

 

[Gintoki]

These political ads are getting crazy.

 

[GOD'S STRONGEST BUILDERBEAR]

Have another reason to despise Microsoft as a company.

Id recommend kaspersky or dr.web, but one costs 48 doler per year, and another costs fucking 31!!!
These mofos really need to drop their prices to 15 per year next year as an option to stick it to the fagman

Doesn't it run like shit and break randomly?

Thats every windows ever

 

[MerelyTourist]

Id recommend kaspersky or dr.web, but one costs 48 doler per year, and another costs fucking 31!!!
These mofos really need to drop their prices to 15 per year next year as an option to stick it to the fagman

kaspersky been spyware for many years now

 

[Brosnan Pierce Brosnan]

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