• HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Oh no!

    Anyway, think how great gaming on Linux will be in 2 years.

    My only holdback is modding - it’s tougher to do without dancing among wine configs. Really hoping for some innovation there.

  • spiderkle@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    German Government is still paying for XP and Win7 Updates, because some software just isn’t available on newer OS’s.

  • Don Escobar@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    This is the best news Linux could ever get, it’ll speed up development by 10 or 11 fold!

  • spyd3r@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    I’m going to flip that back on them, Microsoft will have to pay me to update my OS.

  • Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    Still not updating until you let me keep my taskbar where it is.

  • TDCN@feddit.dk
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    2 years ago

    Good. That’ll be the day I finally update to windows 11 Linux

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      2 years ago

      That’s one way to force people to update to the up to date secure windows 11 linux

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        2 years ago

        They don’t, they just stay on W10

        If someone was going to switch for that then they would have already switched

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          2 years ago

          Yeah the average person wouldn’t know what TPM was if they found one in their coffee. If Microsoft says they need a newer PC to run Windows that’s all she wrote. But most of the time they never even think about it, they just pay the Windows tax for whatever version when they buy their next laptop.

  • Laurel Raven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 years ago

    Is this news? This is expected, it’s what they did with 7 and XP after those reached full EOL, which happened on the day they said it would for 7 at the time 7 launched, and a few years after the date they said when XP launched.

    The 2025 date has been known since 2015 when 10 launched and is the standard Microsoft ten year support cycle for operating systems.

    And yet, in spite of this, every single time the tech media published these breathless and shocked articles about how horrible it is that Microsoft is suddenly dropping support for their ten year old systems.

    These articles are like clockwork. I’d say we’ll be getting them for Windows 11 in about seven or eight years, but they have a new “modern” lifestyle they’ve adopted for it that’s more based on last major update release or something and it’ll probably come sooner than that this time around.

  • Jorgelino@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    That’s great! Means it won’t update randomly without my permission anymore.

  • M500@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I live in a 3rd world country and I can promise you that this is going to lead to a large percentage of the population using an insecure version of Windows 10 or just using mobile devices.

    I doubt many people here will switch to Linux, but I can only hope. Maybe businesses will do that instead of buying new hardware. Recently, I saw a shop using Banana Pis as their checkout terminal.

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    2 years ago

    Gonna be a lot of unsecured PCs about then, thanks to that ridiculous TPM requirement.