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Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time (www.techradar.com)

submitted 1 week ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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A new patch is being quietly pushed to Windows 10 (and 11) PCs

It’ll force upgrades in certain circumstances to keep the PC in support

This update will mean more nag prompts coming to your PC

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[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Don't you want the best tool for the job?

[–] interurbain1er@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yup, that's why I got a Mac. It works perfectly out of the box, no rugged edges apps, no drivers/hw concerns, excellent battery time. Best UNIX laptop for the time being.

I give you as main flaws the cost and the irreparability of the hardware and maybe missing out on a few games but that is probably a tie with Linux, since it runs the same emulators/transcoder if needed.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

maybe missing out on a few games but that is probably a tie with Linux

As some one who runs both: no, not even close. Mac has more direct ports than Linux true, but proton vastly outweighs that. I have dozens of games that show up on steam on my mac as unplayable where as I dont have any that wont run under proton.

Five years ago you'd probably have been right, but Linux is far superior to OSX for gaming now.

(E: assuming you're talking about an apple silicon macbook, IDK the status of proton on x86 macs maybe it works there?)

[–] interurbain1er@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I'll give you that as I honestly don't care much about games so I don't know much. I've read somewhere that apple has a game porting toolkit similar to proton and whisky was good enough the one time I wanted to launch a windows one but I don't know if it's any good.