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Microsoft is trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade with full-screen prompts
(www.theverge.com)
Installed Zorin OS the same day I got the full-screen prompt.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2024
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“We tried asking. We tried begging. We tried bullying. We even tried tricking people into upgrading. We tried everything short of actually making a usable OS!”
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I see they're getting desperate. One year and half to eol, and still, according to statcounter, 69% of the world uses windows 10.
...nice
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I would gladly upgrade to W11 if MS just let me on my old hardware (which is still fast enough for my daily tasks)
Microsoft has 18 months to convince folks to upgrade.
They'll be lucky if I boot my Windows 10 partition between now and 18 months.
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At least in the EU until now no such PopUps, but it's hilarious, that I can't update to W11 in a 3 years old Laptop, at least not without cheats, only because my Graphic Card, AMD Radeon with 2+1 GB isn't in the MS list, not for other reasons.
yet again
Got to say they convinced me at last and I finally upgraded.
...to linux
Never.Going.Back.
Yep. The other day it rewrote a registry key that prevented these pop ups. I'm out. Debating which Debian distro to go to now.
Debian is the slow reliable. Go with mint for easy, Debian for completely foss, pop! OS for eaay nvidia drivers, or Ubuntu for.... Uh.... Ubuntu.
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I tried a few, Fedora, LMDE(Linux Mint Debian Edition), and EndeavourOS.
I'd say LMDE if you want a rock solid system, being fundamentally Debian Stable with Mint treatment for user friendliness, or Endeavour if you want bleeding edge updates (and of course bragging rights to join the meme by saying "BTW I use arch")
I gotta say, I've distro hopped a lot over the years...finally caved to try EndeavorOS and it's my new favorite, if only for the AUR.
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Debian 12 itself isn't bad
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Alternative for those which want to use still Windows, but without all its crap and spyings
you should NEVER use "builds" like that.
All you need is available via GPO, also you MUST use Enterprise edition in order to turn the telemetry down to "Security", all other builds can only go down to "Required"
No, I currently have all telemetry and other crap disabled on W10 22H2 Home without any problems. I need to use Windows for several reasons and because of this debloat it was the first thing in the new PC. Anyway in the future I'll use it in dualboot, maybe with Mint or Q4OS
you physically cannot do it, the option is just ignored unless you have enterprise. best you can do is block by ip
I wish I wasn’t a vr gamer sometimes so I could unsubscribe from this os permanently
Quite curious, I'm a VR gamer (and developer) and so far I've just had no problem with Proton and SteamVR, including for officially non supported games.
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