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Save your computer from Microsoft's Windows 10 end-of-life planned obsolescence (www.neowin.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Glad to hear about 0patch being an option.

[+] [email protected] -28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

I honestly get so sick of this cult on Lemmy. Your PC is running slow? Install Linux! Some company does something shitty? Try Linux! Sprained your ankle? Have you heard of Linux?

I have Linux installed, I still end up on Windows most of the time because I don't have the time and patience to manually set up and configure every single thing I do on my PC, also, I like to play a lot of games and use a lot of programs that all become a choir to run if they even do on Linux.

I'm with the other guy you're downvoting, I'm staying on 10.

Edit: I'm not going to respond to you all individually, a lot of really dumb shit has been said to me, but in particular I want to address the reccuring theme of my "being here" and "leaving". I'm not here, I just browse All and see a ton of these posts. I don't really subscribe to anything on Lemmy. Also, I don't even hate Linux, I just hate your cult like mentality and the way you guys shoehorn it into every discussion, as stated previously, I have Linux installed and have used several different distros over the years.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Go ahead, also the [email protected] community is this way for complaints.

W10 has gotten to a point to where it's alright but not amazing (particularly because SSDs are more standard as OS drives, and can handle the constant read/writes Windows 10 does to it). Feel free to stay but we'll still be here to support you, when you're ready to dive in fully, when Microsoft inevitably leaves you behind in support.

W11 is a spyware riddled mess. People need to be made aware of alternatives so they think it's not the only option when W10 support is dropped.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

You never really jumped in both feet, if you really make the switch you only used open source software that runs native on Linux, also you start programming instead of playing games.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is a post in the Linux community. Why are you here if you hate the content?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

To be totally fair, I don't mind people being critical about Linux in our Linux community. And he brings up a few good points, but loses in some other. And so the arguments he has are muddied with his tone as well, that it comes over as a toxic comment rather than a critical comment pointing real issues.

I'm a Linux fanboy, but even I realize there are problems. And its okay to talk about problems. But its not okay in the tone he did. In my opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Did you get lost and forget that this is a Linux community? Where it's expected that people are pro-Linux?

If you like Windows, that's fine, but I dunno what you expected from [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sir this is Wendy's

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

No, this is Patrick.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

You make the excellent point that expressing enthusiasm for using Linux to solve problems is entirely inappropriate for an online Linux community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

it is not easy because there are critical software that people used to work that are not available in Linux such as MS Excel, solidworks, Adobe Suites.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

If people need Adobe software for "critical" use cases, then maybe Linux just isn't for them? Why do we have to behave as though Linux needs to be a perfect glove fit for everyone for it to be a valid option? Lemmy is a reddit alternative. Its not for everyone and that's fine. Same goes for Linux.

What irritates me most are people that are square pegs complaining they don't fit in a round hole. Either choose to adapt or stick with the square hole and get over it.

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

Excel definitely has alternatives on Linux that are great, but there's absolutely nothing even close to the Adobe Suite, no matter how hard people want to try and cope, nothing compares.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Macros on excel especially with vba are very important and that is why Excel is an industry standard for spreadsheet software. BYW, no alternatives with strong compatibility with that.

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

Sometimes the best thing to do to a Window is leave it closed, forever.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Didn't they say at one point that windows 10 would be the last windows version as they are switching to a rolling release model?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That was just the tech weenies with their 'architecturally sound strategy' or whatever, before the business side ~~beat~~ talked some sense into them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which MS didn't deny until they announced they were working on Win 11.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Well, they actually always had an End-of-Life date slated for 2025. But yeah, it wasn't clear, if that was there just in case, or if they never expected to go through with what they'd been telling people.

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