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  • astrsk
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    23 hours ago

    I have been off windows at home for almost 10 years now, I’m really dreading the day when our office computers have to be “upgraded” from 10.

  • kubica
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    23 hours ago

    I’m in the process of porting some scripts to linux, don’t pressure me goddamit.

  • @zer0bitz
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    24 hours ago

    It’s been close to 10 months since I fully switched to Linux. I am running Arch on all of my devices. Server, laptop and desktop. Desktop I have borked few times, but no worries since I dont store any critical data on the drive. Only OS because of this. I know I will bork it in future too, but I like to learn new things and Linux is the best choice for that.

    Convinced my gf to also switch to Linux, but we are still trying to find a more stable distro for her. I feel like installing Fedora or MX Linux for her.

  • @taiyang
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    77 hours ago

    Wimdows 11 broke my laptop’s built in screen support, so it’s long overdue for a Linux upgrade. I just can’t decide which-- I like what Steam did with Arch, but I tried Manjaro and it was kind of ok until I borked it messing around as one does. Once I can decide a distro though, fuck Windows.

    • @[email protected]
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      76 hours ago

      Manjaro is notorious for getting borked. If you feel you’re able, pure Arch is way better.If you want arch based OS, but with less hassle, I hear endevourOS is good. As for Debian flavour, Linux Mint is a good choice for begginers, many people also stand behind PopOS. Ubuntu used to be the top choice, but people should probably avoid it now, as Cannonical makes some controversial choices.
      Good luck!

  • @AgaveInMyAss
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    259 hours ago

    Installed Linux last month so I think I’m safe

  • @satanmat
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    149 hours ago

    Only 11??

    Then I’m fine; I’m running 2000.

    • Possibly linuxOP
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      48 hours ago

      Well my organization uses Windows 11 with exchange 2008.

      Just kidding but I’ve heard of dumber things.

      • Davel23
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        58 hours ago

        I once had a client who didn’t want to buy new Office licenses for their brand-new Server 2008 terminal server, so had us install an old copy of Office 97 they had lying around. Surprisingly, it worked.

  • @The_v
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    119 hours ago

    I upgraded from Windows XP to Vista after the 2nd servicepack fixed most of the shit. By that point it was a tolerable OS.

    I am currently hoping for a major service pack next year to fix all the stupid shit they did in Windows 11.

    You know kind of like when they fucked up windows 8, attempted a quick fix in 8.1 and finally fixed it in win10.

    Of course they are at 4 major updates with win11 and it’s still shit so the hope is very thin.

    • Possibly linuxOP
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      58 hours ago

      I can understand if you would want to delay on a personal machine. That’s your call. However, I am of the opinion that you should not gamble the business on it. You should not have any EOL devices in use, period. (Unless it is properly airgapped)

      • metaStatic
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        88 hours ago

        You should not have any EOL devices in use, period.

        every business still running custom software on XP machines, press X to doubt.

        • @[email protected]
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          25 hours ago

          What do you mean? We just migrated that software to a Windows XP VM running on Windows 7! That was just 15 years ago, it’ll be good for another 15 for sure.

    • @[email protected]
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      179 hours ago

      You don’t get security updates.

      You can get something new, install Linux, or you can also just choose to not care.

      • @kn33
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        249 hours ago

        I recommend against that last one heavily

      • @[email protected]
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        38 hours ago

        I’m using Linux now for a long time as my daily driver and for all the important stuff.

        Games though I still end up using windows 10. My cpu doesnt support 11 and there’s all that crap of copilot recall and whatnot that I’m not interested at all to have on my pc.

        Hopefully playing the occasional game won’t be a massive issue because I’ll have to go windows 10 with no security updates then.

        • sylver_dragon
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          37 hours ago

          Gaming under Linux is getting better and better. With all the work Valve has put into Proton, the list of games which don’t run has been shrinking.

        • @SendMePhotos
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          27 hours ago

          Same boat. Linux as DD and w10 for games. Without respect to windows fuck w11. I’m not interested in their macOS-like system.

    • @[email protected]
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      109 hours ago

      You just stop getting updates.

      And we all know how secure Windows is, so I really don’t recommend that.

    • Possibly linuxOP
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      38 hours ago

      No secure updates never lead anywhere good. Will it be doomsday? No probably not. However, the malware authors are going to target Windows 10 as much as they can because it will become an easy target the longer it goes unpatched.

    • Davel23
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      18 hours ago

      If you really want to stick with Windows there are methods to bypass the CPU/TPM requirements of Windows 11.

  • @[email protected]
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    7 hours ago

    My current job is just now kicking on RTO for no good reason, so I’ve found the best upgrade path of all:

    Leaving.