This is just funny.
You expect them to work for you for free?
Install Linux today. Stop making excuses.
Oh yeah, nevermind, I'll use the free operating system made by people who are working for me for free. Or wait, is that entitled, I'm confused.
Pick a fuckin lane, dude.
Yeah, nobody's paying me so I don't have the time or effort to be everyone's tech support for Linux. If they can't figure out how to type in their password to install updates, it means most people are way too fuck stupid to handle Linux. No offense, but I mean really. If Linux still needs me to manage their system for them, it's by definition NOT friendly to the non-computer-savvy.
I've gotta be like one of the few Linux users who still sees it as too much for the average user, mostly because average users are fucking whiny crybabies who hate learning anything new ever. See also Bluesky vs. Mastodon.
Even Mint you have to jump through hoops to not have to put in your password every time there's updates. Hoops that are too complex for a newbie on their own.
Most Linux users don't want to admit that a huge thing that makes people hate Linux is having to type in their password every time there's updates (and there's always updates.)
It's seemingly such a small thing, and as Linux users, we know the why behind it so we don't question it, but the average user doesn't and they hate typing their password over and over to get into the computer, let alone to update it.
To them, Windows is easier since the updates happen silently in the background, and aren't in the forefront because Linux expects you to know what the fuck you're doing.
Every Linux box that I didn't fuck with to make sure updates happened silently in the background that I gave to anyone else would always be wildly out of date the next time I touched it because they just... don't install updates instead of typing in their password.
Often, they've forgotten the fucking password, if you've made it so they don't have to put a password in when they log in (my mother has done this one countless times).
Until we figure out a way to make Linux secure and straightforward for end-users, people will stick with Windows.
DO NOT PAY FOR WINDOWS 10 UPDATES.
They're pushing this plan to make people pay to continue to get support for 10 very hard.
Don't fucking do it. Make them eat this loss of a shitty invasive OS that nobody asked for. This trend is evidence that we're in control in this situation, not Microsoft.
Force their hand and make it so they have no choice but to keep supporting Windows 10 for free for five more years.
Look, I'm a Linux user primarily, but that doesn't mean you should just let these corporate fuckholes walk all over you. Windows 10 is ride or die. Make Microsoft pay for trying to fuck you out of a cleaner operating system that is less infested with spyware and actually works half the time.
Not everybody has the time or energy to figure out Linux, but either way, the best way to fight Microsoft is by hitting them square in the pocketbook.
Uhhh Donald Trump managed it.
Boris Johnson for that matter.
Javier Milei? Jair Bolsonaro?
I could go on, seems like it happens for lots of folks who are totally shameless.
You can run it on a Pi via Box64. Source: I did it.
I've been able to control a consumer-grade CyberPower UPS for just my modem/router via a Raspberry Pi using Box64 to emulate the linux command line software for communicating with the UPS. I've never had any issues, and it had pretty okay documentation. You just connect it to a host PC via USB.
https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/standby/st625u/
This is the one, nothing special.
As you can see though, source, rpm, and deb versions are available. If a low-power consumer grade one like this has Linux support, I'd daresay most of them do. Like I said, I never had trouble.
Oops actually now you have to upgrade to a new speaker, because since the old ones are no longer supported by The App™ Elite Edition, we have done you a "favor" and remotely bricked the device so now what was once repurposable electronics must basically be "recycled" (read: burned to release tasty toxins) because we hate you and the environment and ourselves.
Don't even get me started on something as simple as a bluetooth speaker.
Quick press to turn on and off. Short hold to get into bluetooth pairing mode. Long hold to get into stereo pairing mode.
What's the fucking problem with having more buttons??
The good thing is that thanks to how GOG works, as long as some pirate purchases a copy, they will always be able to keep a current update available to the pirate community.
Thanks GOG, for being against DRM in games.
Man you gotta stop making assumptions about other people.
I have numerous computers and only one of them has Windows on it, and even that one is set up to dualboot with Linux. I live and breathe Linux daily, friend.
I live and breathe Linux so much that I set it up so that I don't have to touch my phone, because I fucking hate phones. I guarantee you I spend way more time on the PC than on a phone.
I have network-level blocking to prevent a massive amount of data entering or leaving my phone and PC.
I'm a Linux user by default, and I think what Microsoft is doing is anti-consumer so I don't really give a shit if they make money off it or not.
Taking a financial loss because you fucked over your customers is how capitalism is supposed to work. All this talk of entitlement forgets that I paid for my fucking OS. It doesn't matter if the OS isn't their moneymaker: if it isn't that's more reason for them to stop fucking their customers for a quick buck.
Also, finally, if Microsoft really cared about their OS and licensing, maybe they should have updated how their licensing activation works at some point in the last 20 years so the massgrave exploit would stop working.