This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
for anyone afraid to make the jump to linux do it, now is the time. especially if you have an amd gpu unless you absolutely need software/games that does not support linux (and I dont mean the millions of windows games proton supports effortlessly, just a handful with kernel ac, and some pro software)
too daunting to research and learn? try in a vm and use llms to help you understand how things work
took me a week to get comfortable in arch linux after around two decades of windows
WINDOWS MENTIONED.
#!/bin/bash
DEPLOY LINUX ARMY
Even I, a long long long and ooooold ms-fanboy finally ditched win11 in fear of the copilot shit hole that's coming.
And now I regret not having switched years earlier. Everything is a lot better now, and those things that are worse are just worse because companies hate Linux (looking at Logitech et al).
And when even I left windows (I do have every certificate from them, sold hundreds of thousands of licenses and whatnot) that tells something 😔 sadly so, I might add.
Long story short: fuck copilot.
Copilot is not the problem. If Copilot was just one more program (like Notepad or Paintbrush), I wouldn't have an issue with it. But Microsoft (and other companies) insist in putting it every-fucking-where. Like in Notepad? WHY?! So yeah, fuck Microsoft.
Like in Notepad? WHY?! So yeah, fuck Microsoft.
It's the equivalent of a drugs dealer that starts throwing their product in people's faces just to get more people hooked, but the product is so nasty almost everyone runs away screaming.
Yes totally. They're a company, they want to make money. Sure, fine. But if things stop being optional (or at least uninstallable like fucking onedrive) then I get pissed.
When I want AI, I start one. But in settings? In notepad? In my coffemachine and nutsack-warmer? Noooooo.
Windows is being re-written from the ground up to be 'agentic'. This means that Copilot is not going to be a feature of Windows, Windows is going to be a feature of Copilot.
Oh, and Copilot is going to be writing the code too. Microslop brags that 30% of their code is AI.
Hey hey, let's be honest here, bragged, it's been 9 months or so by now. Who knows how much of windows is vibecoded at this point, it might be as high as 50%.
Maybe the new stuff. The Windows NT core has 22 years' worth of code.
By the way microslop is doing emergency patch after emergency patch, vibe coding windows isn't the brag they thought it was.
Windows is being re-written from the ground up
I know they say that but you know there's still Windows 95 code still in there so I don't believe them at all. It's just smoke and mirrors for the shareholders.
If only there were some kind of alternative... I would call it "Linux"
Mac is going to shit too, which is so sad since that transition to ARM was a huge success. Their OS is ridiculously janky dogshit now. It’s not Microsoft level bad but it’s heading in the same direction.
I’m glad I finally started switching. The Linux stuff is more annoying in some ways but in predictable and therefore manageable ways. Mac=there is no war in bag sing sei. Windows=I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it further.
Damn, that sucks. When does my Arch support end?
Nuance
Okay if you wanna get technical, some folks define support as meaning some sort of official paid support process, in which case there is none at all. But I feel like a funnier joke would be that Arch "support" lasts until there's any sort of update to any package you have.
I'm migrate my notebook to Linix Mint, perform way better than Windows 10.
I'm trying to figure out a way to transport my modlists from MO2 in Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim to run on Linux, once this is done, i goodbye windows forever on my personal devices
My office jumped ship at XP, it was that bad. We went to Linux because getting work done was actually more important.
So many things finally caught up, we did a lot of server client things with the Linux stack for field offices.
Now they call it the cloud. Which means it isn't your server.
XP started the enshittification and it continued year after year...
Use Linux, get freedom
I've got till 2032 I'm good. Then I'll switch to Linux which will hopefully by then be better than windows at running windows games.
It already is actually. Proton driver's are great.
Mandatory reference to Protondb, which lists how well every game performs on Linux. 84 % of the top 100 games on Steam are rated as gold or platinum.
Yeah, it's very well done. Only issue is anything with kernel level anticheats, need windows. Fuck that, so many great games besides gtav and call of duty.
Some games with Kernel level anti-cheat still have linux support, though. It‘s always worth checking because some game devs actually care about Linux when you would expect the don‘t.
Dude. American here. FUCK Windows 11 and fuck Microsoft for being what they are. Damn unethical pushy creepy bastards.
I just installed Linux Mint last weekend. Working great so far!
People aren't just rejecting it and staying on 10. They are actively downgrading (going back to windows 10) or leaving the windows ecosystem entirely for Linux. Someone actually went out of their way to tally up and explain all the shit MS broke over the course of the last year. It's a ridiculous number of things.
Microsoft removed my quick access links to my desktop folder today
why? I don't know. I guess they want to force me to use the OneDrive desktop folder. which I do use, for shit I want synced to OneDrive. but I also have a local desktop folder I use for temp files, and fuck you very much Microsoft left me fucking use my computer how I want to
side note, I had a little program that would export a file that a user had open to their desktop in a specific format. great program, super useful for the application we were running it in, it made a multi-step process of navigating menus into a single button click. I've been using it for the past few years at this company. cue my surprise when some new people inform me that the button doesn't work for them and so they haven't been using it - BECAUSE MICROSOFT TOOK AWAY THE LOCAL USER DESKTOP FOLDER LMFAO. it blew my mind that people had to go manually create a desktop folder, I had never thought to add checking if that folder exists to the code.
Yeah, OneDrive became an instant uninstall for me because of how it works. I have 2TB of empty cloud storage that I would love to use, but refuse to completely rework my file structure. I am not going to move literally everything. I'll let you read my boring ass work shit, I don't care, I let Google do it probably when I upload shit to drive, I just want to organize things the way I have them, because that's how they work.
Get off American monopoly tech. The desktop is the easiest.
A GNU/Linux desktop has endless advantages and doesn't include the anti-features.
Linux, in some form, runs a lot of your life already, even if you don't know it.
If your a tech, you really should deeply know Linux/UNIX anyway.
I just use Wine and feel good. Feel good!
Not every applications runs in Wine. For example I didn't get USB devices (not storage, connection to a special device) running in Wine. And I can imagine that old serial connections and so are even more tricky.
Hopefully SteamOS Desktop is released some months before then, so that people have a comfy Linux to welcome them.
Been daily-driving Linux for several months now. There are literally zero critical workflows that I can't do just because I'm not on Windows.
40% of things I use my PC for are browser-based. 40% have an equivalent FOSS app. 10% are Windows apps that run fine using Wine. The other 10% I can live without.
The entire article is based on a false premise:
With ESU, you can still get security updates and minor fixes or improvements, but the catch is that extended support ends on October 13, 2026.
Not true, there are three years of ESU updates available.
Do you have a source for that? Everything including Microsoft itself I find tells me that free ESU support for private users will end in Oct 26. Do you mean some paid feature for companies or so?
Im on the WIndows 10 Extended support. I'm either going to risk staying on 10, or move to linux. The big problems for me are 1 ) Visual studio doesn't run on linux so I'd either have to learn a new editor or do a VM... I suppose 2) Gaming. A lot can happen in 8 months for improvements. But this might be the thing that holds me on Windows for a while. Saw a video of native Dota2 on linux runs like shit. 3) A solid remote desktop replacement. One that's as good or better than what I'm using.
There is currently an ongoing isssue with Chromium/Electron rendering being almost-unusable with VRR. It was first reported almost a year ago. Microsoft doesn't care enough to fix it. But hey, at least you get Copilot so it can tell you what registry tweak you have to add to fix it yourself!
Mmmmm, not according to massgrave. You get 4 years more.
2032 is the cutoff for IOT LTSC, so 6 years actually.
I think people hate win11 outside of Germany too. Lookup how to switch win 10 to iot ltsc (aka alphabet soup) I did this quickly and easily with the only issues being desktop icons rearranged (take a screen grab reference Prior if you care) and unfortunately my automatic updates don't work for some reason (I've seen rumors about drive parti on issues maybe being the reason) but I can download and install updates manually still until 2032.
