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The jokes are becoming reality, I swear…

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It’s just too easy to dunk on MS these days. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.

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It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.

Twice. At point blank range. To the back of the head. With an elephant gun.

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Or a mortar. Point blank.

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Well, since the fish are just laying there, at the bottom, motionless and dead it’s pretty easy.

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/me Laughs in Windows 10.

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I’m still on windows ten. Currently trying to switch to Linux. What are your plans when end of life /support comes to Windows ten?

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Im in the same boat, I’ll either move to some cracked version of windows without the recall bs, or more likely some linux distro.

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There’s no reason to trust any homebrew or cracked Windows ISO. Just go with Win 10 LTSC. All the bullshit is removed and it has support until 2027. MAS flawlessly activates it. Linux is indeed the better option, and I’ll be heading that way soon enough.

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What are your plans when end of life /support comes to Windows ten?

Switch to Linux and run virtual machines when I need to use Windows.

Right now I don’t quite have the drive to do it, but an end to support for Windows 10 would push me over the edge. I just can’t stand Windows 11, not even because of all the bullshit but just the way it mandates the UI structure - last time I tried it my dealbreaker was that you can’t just have it always display all taskbar icons, you have to manually force each one to show. If a new icon comes up, it will be hidden.

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this one drove me nuts.

let me use the damn computer the way i want to. its mine, i paid for it. let me use small taskbar icons. let me remove the ads.

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That doesn’t even make sense… that’s actively antagonistic UI design right there. Goddamn.

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If you don’t have prior experience with Linux, I’d advise making the switch before the end of win10 support. I made the switch a couple of months ago with no experience in Linux, and while it wasn’t a horrible experience it also wasn’t the easiest thing to do. Having the safety net of a Windows partition was really useful during the month or two as I got used to Linux, which I wouldn’t have wanted to do with Windows not in support anymore.

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I might try to setup Win 10 LTSC which has support until 2027, but I mostly use Mint these days. Would still like to avoid Win 11, even if I only use it for gaming.

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/me Laughs in Linux

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I’m sure I’ll be there with you soon enough.

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It is so strange to see people flexing $PREVIOUS_WINDOWS when $PREVIOUS_WINDOWS itself brought in egregious anti-features that are now normalized and accepted by average users as “not malware”.

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Yeah, but most if not all of those antifeatures can be removed very easily.

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I find it much easier to start with a minimal canvas, and then to add only the things I want or need. Than to try to tear down aggressive features until something sane begins to appear from beneath.

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Altogether now children “It’s a bug until…it’s a feature!”

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it’s not for the end user, it’s for the end user’s boss who wants to monitor all their worker drones’ productivity

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They have better tools for that.

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office boss using tools LOL good one

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Hey, Steve and Drake are some of the bosses favorite tools!

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It’s not for the end user’s boss, it’s there to collect data for the future Microsoft user behaviour analysis tools that will be sold to the end user’s boss’s boss.

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it can be for 2 things

but it’s definitely not for the benefit of anyone who’s forced to use it

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Why measure performance metrics in terms of output when we can just 1984 everyone’s workstation.

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Because that would, at one point, imply a full process audit, which will inevitably lead to some shit-stirring, especially in terms of management’s contribution to said output, making it much easier for the worker to see just how underpaid they are and probably hurting some manager’s feewings. We can’t have the truth! Better to Love Big Brother and blame the Drone!

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Im pretty sure that’s illegal in EU (or at least in Germany).

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