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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Remember when Microsoft said Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I 'member.

Twas Dickity 14 or so, and I plan to make good on Microsofts words.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

The herd keeps me secure

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

Still cheaper than my Arch Premium membership

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

Thank you for your service to Linux adoption o7

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 hours ago

Wait. They want me to pay for something I already paid for?

Well guess my $2.5k new windowless machine is looking better everyday.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Considering that when people paid $100 for that OS they were told that it would be the "last Windows to be released", shouldn't there be a class action lawsuit?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

They weren't told that, that was an off-hand comment by an employee (not even a spokesperson) that the media took and ran with. Source:

Right now we're releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we're all still working on Windows 10.

I think they meant "latest" not "last."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

For what it's worth

"Recent comments at Ignite about Windows 10 are reflective of the way Windows will be delivered as a service bringing new innovations and updates in an ongoing manner, with continuous value for our consumer and business customers," says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge. "We aren’t speaking to future branding at this time, but customers can be confident Windows 10 will remain up-to-date and power a variety of devices from PCs to phones to Surface Hub to HoloLens and Xbox. We look forward to a long future of Windows innovations."

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

Windows will be delivered as a service

Which is largely true, there have been a number of "service packs" that were released as regular updates throughout the Windows 10 lifespan. So it definitely seems they want people to not think about the specific Windows version they're on. From that article:

Microsoft could opt for Windows 11 or Windows 12 in future, but if people upgrade to Windows 10 and the regular updates do the trick then everyone will just settle for just "Windows" without even worrying about the version number.

Windows 7, for example, had one major service pack, with a few isolated updates, whereas Windows 10 had a major update about every 6 months, and each one of those checkpoints was supported for about a year and a half. The final update was at the end of 2022, and it's support runs 3 years.

So yeah, I think they met what they said, but the messaging wasn't particularly clear how long that support would be provided for.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (4 children)

This is like people complaining about how Ubuntu 16.04 LTS support ended not long ago (2021-04-29)

Or macOS 10.9 Mavericks (2016-12-01)

Or Android 6.0 (2018-08-01)

Or Debian 8 "Jessie" (2018-06-17)

Or Linux Mint 17 (2019-07-01)

Or Fedora 23 (2016-12-20)

Or Slackware 14.1 (2024-01-01)

Of all of these, not even Slackware comes close to how long Microsoft has supported Windows 10 post release (2015)

[–] Feyd 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

To my knowledge upgrading to the newer release of any of those linux distros was not blocked by having only slightly old and perfectly serviceable hardware.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 58 minutes ago)

To my knowledge upgrading to the newer release of any of those linux distros did not cost any money to the users, either.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Windows XP. 2001–2019. If 10 beats that I'll be impressed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

2014.... the POS edition (basically LTSC) was 2019

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I migrated someone running mission critical software off of CentOS 6 this year.

People hate upgrades.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Yes, but you don't migrate to Windows 11 from those.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (5 children)

I like all the comments ready to take a fisting in the ass from Microsoft just to keep Windows 10.

If you raised a fucking stink instead of taking this shitty deal, they may be forced to keep supporting it for free anyway like they did with Windows 7.

They've really got you guys cowed into paying for the convenience of getting fucked, don't they?

This is a company with a market cap of $3.04 trillion and you guys are just gonna bend over and take it for $30 bucks? Wew lad. They don't need your fucking thirty dollars, and you fucking know it. It's a god damned shakedown.

Microsoft: Wouldn't it be a shame if your computer was somehow insecure and got hacked?

Sounds like a Mafioso showing up for protection money to me.

EDIT: There's still about 700 million Windows 10 PC's still on the market. If every single existing Windows 10 machine paid for this service, Microsoft would make $21 billion dollars next year off this alone. It's a shakedown, do the fucking math. (700,000,000 x $30 = $21,000,000,000) Even if only half do it, it's still a cool $10.5 billion.

EDIT II: This also normalizes the practice of paying for security updates for consumers. You really want to take us down that path where every security update is paid?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

It would make sense if Microsoft was liable for any security faults. I’d actually pay for something like that but of course you’re probably paying for some nebulous promise of something between security at best effort basis and whatever they feel like.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (4 children)

Why l would pay 30$ to dumpester fire OS to use it securely for another year when l could install Linux for free with more than 7 year security?

And consumers can only pay for single year.

It just shows how M$ doesn't care about their costumers treating them like lab rats.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I switched to Linux myself but can we please stop lying about Linux being a drop-in replacement? There is enough sofware that does not work.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

A lot of Linux users here think the conversation begins and ends with game support. A lot of us use our computers for work and there is a lot of productivity and creative software that does not play nice with Linux. I've probably said this a dozen times here before but I'll say it again: Not all of us use our computers solely for gaming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Honestly I figure "work computers" are often overlooked because many companies force windows for their ~~spying~~ "productivity monitoring" apps.

That said, there's always "having a work computer and a separate secure personal computer." The linux machine doesn't even have to be particularly powerful, it could be whatever old used machine (w/o nvidia) you can get your hands on.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

theres also a lot of productivity and creative software that does. linux for work is way better than linux for gaming and id bet 80%+ of people can work off it much better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Whats the best replacement for Excel? LibreCalc is ok but it lags really far behind Excel in intermediate features. My close friend in analytics switched back to Excel recently because he got so tired of dealing with LibreCalc.

Also do you know if the Affinity suite works well in Wine? Ive messed with a lot of software paid and libre for its purposes but just vibe with Affinity best

Im not asking to sound rude im asking because im genuinely looking down the barrel of this OS change and I do a lot of computer based hobbies and work that are going to be uprooted by this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

both affinity and photoshop run well on wine for me. there are native tools like krita that work well for less complex use cases.

as for office i use some basic macros and calculations and libreoffice works for me, but there are many choices that may or may not work for your friend.

admittedly, software discovery on linux is awful. the app store isnt that good on some distros and theres basically no promotion.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm a Linux user and I think the conversation should be:

More than half (over 60% ackshually) of Windows PCs in service are still Windows 10. Windows 11 barely cracks 34%.

People should boycott this and demand that Microsoft offer long-term support for Windows 10 like they did Windows 7 and stop trying to force Windows 11 on consumers through dark patterns like this. We have a year to make a huge about this deal in public spaces. This is the kind of thing the reddit userbase used to excel at getting word out about. Enough public outcry over a year could force the issue.

They made their own bed with the arbitrary TPM 2.0 requirement. They can drop that and they'd probably have more adoption of 11 overnight. These are business choices Microsoft is making, while ignoring the reality on the ground for a lot of people who never upgraded to something with a TPM 2.0 chip. It's a choice to and a dark pattern to push them to upgrade.

I am kind of sick of the Linux users acting superior instead of being helpful to people stuck with Windows due to work environments, too.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

“Enrolled PCs will continue to receive Critical and Important security updates for Windows 10; however, new features, bug fixes, and technical support will no longer be available from Microsoft,” explains Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 hours ago

Anyone who's had to open a Microsoft support ticket can assure you technical support is already not available from Microsoft.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

Fuck me harder, Daddy Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 12 hours ago (18 children)

$30 to not have to deal with Windows 11 for another year feels like the deal of the century.

I love how they're like 'but you won't get new features!'. They may have still not figured out that nobody cares about 'new features' being stuffed into the OS, but I guess you can't have everything.

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