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Are there any of us who has Windows 10, but currently won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11? What are you planning on doing about that? Windows 10 support is scheduled to end in October, right about at the start of next season.

It seems the Linux-heads are steering those people towards Linux Mint.
 
I think I can update my desktop PC but I have to turn on secure boot and TPM which I've been too scared/lazy to do. I have a laptop that can't update at all but I barely use it any more anyway since I got a MacBook.
 
Hoek said:
I think I can update my desktop PC but I have to turn on secure boot and TPM which I've been too scared/lazy to do. I have a laptop that can't update at all but I barely use it any more anyway since I got a MacBook.
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I had to turn TPM on. It's not too bad. Look up some tutorials on YouTube and just follow the instructions. If you mess something up in the UEFI menu, you can still go back and set everything to default.

I'm still using Windows 10 for now.
 
I still kinda think Microsoft is gonna blink and extend security patches just because there's too many 10 machines out there
 
Hoek said:
I still kinda think Microsoft is gonna blink and extend security patches just because there's too many 10 machines out there
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I've got Windows 11 installing on my machines right now because YOLO. Windows 10 is doomed either way.

edit: it's okay. I haven't done much with it yet, but it's like if Windows 10 got a service pack, or Windows 10.1.
 
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Hoek said:
I still kinda think Microsoft is gonna blink and extend security patches just because there's too many 10 machines out there
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Especially since the Win 11 version 24H2 update is such a shitshow, our IT Coordinator told us not to run the update... 5 months ago. That's with a compatibility hold since
 
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I have a cheap little computer hooked up to my TV with Windows 11 for streaming stuff that isn't on an app. I don't hate it but nothing about it has me excited to upgrade, and since all games still work great on 10 nothing has pushed me except for this end of support.
 
Hoek said:
I have a cheap little computer hooked up to my TV with Windows 11 for streaming stuff that isn't on an app. I don't hate it but nothing about it has me excited to upgrade, and since all games still work great on 10 nothing has pushed me except for this end of support.
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There are probably some security upgrades. The TPM that was off by default on our motherboards at least gets used now (I assume).

The only real feature of Windows 11 I cared about (and there weren't many) was being able to use Android apps on Windows, but that's already sunsetting. Microsoft will drop support of that feature March 5th. The Wikipedia page about Windows 11 improvements basically is at a loss. Visual changes, some tweaks around the edges, and that's about it.

I always read that Microsoft was shoving ads and telemetry everywhere in Windows 11. I use O&O ShutUp10, to just switch all the telemetry off, and haven't seen any ads so far.
 
Felonious Python said:
Are there any of us who has Windows 10, but currently won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11? What are you planning on doing about that? Windows 10 support is scheduled to end in October, right about at the start of next season.

It seems the Linux-heads are steering those people towards Linux Mint.
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Mint, Elementary, Ubuntu - no chance 10 actually goes away though, MS is still working through supporting XP in various capacities.
 
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Mint, Elementary, Ubuntu - no chance 10 actually goes away though, MS is still working through supporting XP in various capacities.
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I'm just wondering how much the extended support updates will be pirated.


I've had Windows 11 for about a week now, so I think I can comment a bit on it. It's okay. I haven't had any issues, and things are pretty much the same as they've been.

I like the centered start menu more than I thought I would (it can still be moved to the bottom left.) With wider monitors, it's sort of laborious to go all the way to the corner.

Maybe the biggest changes to 11 I've found are that it's easier to edit photos, and presumably video, from the built-in tools. If you wanted to crop a picture, or do some very basic editing, you had to know how to work the outdated feeling MS Paint, or use a 3rd party program like Paint.NET. You can just do that in the Photos program now. Phones showed how intuitive photo editing can be.

A newer feature, generative erase is quite interesting as well, and it's all done locally, on my PC.
 
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I'm just wondering how much the extended support updates will be pirated.


I've had Windows 11 for about a week now, so I think I can comment a bit on it. It's okay. I haven't had any issues, and things are pretty much the same as they've been.

I like the centered start menu more than I thought I would (it can still be moved to the bottom left.) With wider monitors, it's sort of laborious to go all the way to the corner.

Maybe the biggest changes to 11 I've found are that it's easier to edit photos, and presumably video, from the built-in tools. If you wanted to crop a picture, or do some very basic editing, you had to know how to work the outdated feeling MS Paint, or use a 3rd party program like Paint.NET. You can just do that in the Photos program now. Phones showed how intuitive photo editing can be.

A newer feature, generative erase is quite interesting as well, and it's all done locally, on my PC.
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Yeah, i'm not in love with it but its certainly fine. They really have come a long way with out of the box compatibility of things, especially for supporting about 30k different hardware configs. The built-ins are actually decent now, snip tool is excellent in my line of work - I haven't messed much with connecting phones to it, though I did dynamic lock which is pretty cool.

The store is still a bit of a mess though. Also, OneDrive... i'm actually a fan of. It was a month of pain to get end users sold on it and use it properly, but once they understood autosave and versioning and all, it was all good.
 
New state of matter surprise drop:


But is it also the new grift?

Is Satya Nadella going to get the Mark Zuckerberg makeover, hoping to attract Twitter tech bro evangelists?

They can't seem to name any current applications for their new chip, and we know that in tech, if you don't have it working, you don't have anything. I can buy a treadmill, but that doesn't mean I'm going to get in shape. (I won't)

5G was supposedly going to allow surgeons to operate on people on the other side of the "globe". All it got us was the jab.
 
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