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[–] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

The only people that will really suffer from this is businesses. They will have to buy W11, and they will need to get supported hardware. However, businesses usually have rolling upgrades in place in the IT and have probably rolled out many already.

As for home users, with each newer generation, they become more tech savy. I can tell you now, this won't affect as many people as you imagine.

  • 1: W11 is free to download from M$. You can choose whether or not to buy a licence. W11 cracks already exist, M$ is still using key management services, so something like KMSpico still work. There are also tons of activator scripts on github (lol, since M$ owns this!).
  • 2: Grab a copy of RUFUS. Use it to take the W11 image and remove all restrictions, and dump it to USB.
  • 3: ???
  • 4: Profit.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Or, you know, finally just start switching to Linux, get rid of the Microsoft shit, finally. It'll take you a while, but in the long run it'll be cheaper and more reliable.

[–] caustictrap@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

How will they run adobe apps and play popular multiplayer games like cod, valorant, siege, finals, league of legends, EFT? How will they subscribe to game pass? How can they watch netflix 4k?

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 points 1 year ago

Not everyone need to run those adobe apps and multiplayer games. If you don't, you're in luck and should try linux right now. If you still want to run adobe apps and want to try linux anyway, you can install windows in a vm inside linux, even with graphic acceleration too if you have the right hardware. If what holding you back is game pass, then you're already balls deep into microsoft ecosystem and probably won't ever switch anyway.

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