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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 110 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

If you’re not ready to switch to Linux:

Windows 10 Enterprise IoT is supported until 2032, works great, contains almost no bloat, and is free to download and activate.

You can configure just about anything else you want or need using Chris Titus’ Power Shell Windows Utility.

Rufus is simple and easy to use for extracting the ISO to a USB drive, and has built in options for setting up a local account and automatically disabling telemetry options during installation.

Microslop is rabidly, desperately, sprinting-on-fire towards a closed mobile-style system paradigm, frothing at the mouth and glowing radioactive iridescent green with envy at Apple and Google’s silicon to application device and software ecosystem control. They want you to purchase the edge tensor hardware they need to run and train the LLMs and machine learning algorithms that will be used to analyze everything you do on your computer, perform deep learning recognition on every photo, video, and file on your hard drive, and securely export that model to themselves, advertisers, and the government at a premium, paid for by our tax dollars.

They’re burning down their own company to do it, that’s how bad they want it.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 29 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Be warned though that some installers will yell at you for not having a "compatible version of Windows". Its rare, but some apps don't like the enterprise editions.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Iv already started seeing games with older versions of BE and EAC say consumer windows 10 isn't supported any more and not working.

Trying to stay on windows 10 and be a gamer is quickly going to become a nightmare with more compatibility issues then Linux.

[–] D_Air1@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

My brother used to use enterprise windows 10 until he started having that vary issue with trying to play COD.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Damn, I guess he can't play the same game that's been rereleased annually for 20 years then huh. What a bummer

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 18 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I'm banking on the world ending before then. Or I get an incurable cancer. Either way, fuck Microsoft.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Or I get an incurable cancer.

So you are planning to upgrade?

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I know, right! How can they expect to die from incurable cancer when we've got all the world's compute devoted to curing it?

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Damn dude... Cancer over Linux?

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I got Linux, but like I have some OSs that rely on ancient shit I can't get my addicted ass off of

[–] lmr0x61@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, a somewhat disenshittified Windows that still has support??

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 hours ago

It's the barest of bones. I use it for one of my consulting machines in the times I'm forced to run windows.