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French protestors grieved Windows 10 with a mock funeral outside Microsoft HQ, complete with a coffin (www.windowscentral.com)
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French activists staged a funeral for Windows 10 to protest Microsoft’s push toward Windows 11 and planned obsolescence.

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 37 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Standard Windows is fully enshittified, but Windows 10 IoT Enterprise is free, supported until 2032, relatively debloated, and won’t randomly encrypt your hard drive.

Of course, you can always try out Linux.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Wait.

You need no license???

[–] Codilingus@piefed.social 23 points 9 hours ago

Massgrave.dev is your friend for that.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You can obtain a license by running the activation script after Windows installation, including a permanent hardware license if desired. The easiest way is to use PowerShell and select the HWID option:

irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex

Technically this registers your hardware and key with the MS activation server, but you never have to worry about it again.

If you use Rufus to write the ISO to a bootable USB drive, it has options for disabling the user-level telemetry and MS account requirement.

Been running it for years with no issue.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

Rufus is cool. If you want to customize the install more, including slipstreaming drivers and updates, there is also NTLite. Back in the day we used it to add the Intel hard drive drivers to XP installers to downgrade Vista machines.