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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago

You mean “fullscreen ads for Linux”

[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Hey Microsoft, if you want me to upgrade to Windows 11, you could start by removing the completely arbitrary requirement to have TPM 2.0.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sadly, Microsoft doesn't need to do anything to have you to upgrade to Windows 11: you just need to buy a new device in the mainstream market. Aside from building your rig from scratch, of course.

SteamDeck is a good example: Microsoft didn't do nothing to promote the handheld PC gaming industry, even if Valve shown that their free and licenseless OS proved to be the best one... most OEM deliver Window's only PC handheld, because they are afraid to lose the market segment of those who pirate PC games.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think when the time comes I'll give Windows 11 ltsc a look which has tpm be optional. Less bloatware too.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Why do we even need a toilet paper machine 2.0 to use windows 11?

Joke aside, yeah what's up with that? People been able to bypass it and have no problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

The toilet paper machine is to mop up all the shit they keep dropping on us.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Rumour is it's literally only there as an olive branch to hardware manufacturers to force people to buy new hardware. There's literally no technical reasons for it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (11 children)

it's one of those things where it does legitimately improve security, but for them to require it the way they did when almost no hardware at the time has it is pretty transparent.

there are plenty of other hardware requirements that could improve security if they arbitrarily decided to require them. they did this for the rain you describe, but have the plausible deniability of saying that it's for security.

basically, the same bullshit line that's used to justify half of the bullshit unpopular changes that anyone pushes anywhere.

"it's for security" - no it's not, as a for profit company chances are pretty good we can prove you don't actually give a shit about customer date if we look close enough at your practices. it's for profit.

"it's for the environment" - admirable thought, too bad that's not profitable. I don't believe you mr. for profit company.

"for the kids"- it you have ever tried to talk to a parent after the subject of their kids safety comes up you'll see why they always do for this in. it's the deepest, most primal, and least logical part of our brain. most parents become slovering fucking cavemen the second you disagree with whatever they've been programmed to believe will protect their kids. it's just too easy to manipulate people with. if you say you're great to protect kids I'm instantly skeptical and need a lot of proof.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hopefully this nonsense doesn’t affect the LTSC version. Using that has been a breath of fresh air - still Windows, less crap. Not even the store is installed by default.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It doesn't. I doubt it will in the future, but its possible.

I still would recommend moving to another solution though.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Long Term Service Channel. It's a branch that is used by devices that may not be recommended to be on the latest version of Windows, for example ATMs. When the device needs to essentially be consistently reliable and not received feature updates that could potentially break it.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes, but the entirety of windows is crap.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

In my opinion, not entirely, the underlying NT kernel seems better designed than Linux.
Windows 7 was very good, later versions were turned into crap.

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