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Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 8 months ago by catch22@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Microsoft, doing it's part to make the world a better place.

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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hm, also an IT professional with over 2 decades of experience. Most of your points were true except GPU shit is easy now. I've been daily driving arch for the past 9 years, and gaming on it. It's not perfect but it works well. Even some games work better in it. There are certain software categories that will be problematic, such as CAD, but you can do most anything else easily enough. For 80% of the population that needs it's for some games and just a web browser it works fucking great. It's been an awesome web browser OS since forever too. Most people just use what comes with their computer and don't want to figure out how to install something. Most people are used to a thing and they don't like change.

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

Ok, well, I was planning on trying again in a few months, as is my yearly ritual.

If you are fucking with me and I end up stuck because whatever the fuck distro I picked out of a hat doesn't like my northbridge firmware or whatever, I will come back and in painful detail explain just how wrong you are.

Most people are used to a thing and they don’t like change.

I'm pretty sure a fucktonne of people are eager to jump ship from windows, but the fact that linux (os and community) is still user hostile is a stronger motivation for them stay with their abusive proprietary binaries.

I know for a fact that is the case with me.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Are you sure the Linux community is the one that hostile? Because in these threads, your comments come up as overly combative and dismissive, like inviting people to pick a fight with you. Even your comment above has an air of entitlement, like the guy you replied to owe you something.

[–] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well maybe that's what happens when you try and get support from a community for two decades and get nothing but arrogance and elitism.